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ffmasterjose posted...

Sooo....I went to bed at 1am and Draven was getting curb stomped. Now he's in 1st place.

the hell happened

Minor rallying to put him ahead of Chie + Jak had thousands of stuffed votes removed.
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GameFAQS contests will never be the same again if this keeps up across the bracket.

Draven's rally strikes me as precisely the same kind of thing that turns me off of contests from sites like Gamespot or G4. The same cannot be said of things like L-Block or StarCraft, although I wasn't here for those.
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Jesus, this topic went to s*** really quickly when the comeback started. It's hard to decide who looks stupider, the people crying over LoL winning and calling it cheating, or the LoL idiots who won't shut up about how great their game and community is and how Link is now doomed.

A more on-topic thought: those Europe percentages are insane, I shouldn't be surprised, since LoL and Dota are so popular in Europe, but I really didn't expect any rally to be this big in round 1. I don't think this comeback happens in a day match, although the morning US vote might prove me wrong.
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LinkMarioSamus posted...

GameFAQS contests will never be the same again if this keeps up across the bracket.

Draven's rally strikes me as precisely the same kind of thing that turns me off of contests from sites like Gamespot or G4. The same cannot be said of things like L-Block or StarCraft, although I wasn't here for those.

Oh yeah, Starcraft. Probably was criminally underseeded back then in the first place.

Of course I stupidly thought Kerrigan would have been a serious player, oh goodness I was wrong.

-Tofa7- posted...

It's hard to decide who looks stupider, the people crying over LoL winning and calling it cheating, or the LoL idiots who won't shut up about how great their game and community is and how Link is now doomed.

Everyone that isn't me TBQH.
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Vincent vs Kerrigan was one of the funniest debates in hindsight.
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What...I...WHAT!??!?

This has to be the biggest comeback of all-time...never have we seen a %age shift of such epic scale! Holy crap!! And so quickly too!

And...Jak had stuffed votes removed?? Who in the holy hell stuffs votes for JAK?

What the hell would have been the betting line on *Jak* getting stuffed votes removed from this match and not Draven?

voltch posted...

Vincent vs Kerrigan was one of the funniest debates in hindsight.

I think I have a permanent dent in my head after facepalming so hard when I saw how that match ended up playing out.

creativename posted...

And...Jak had stuffed votes removed?? Who in the holy hell stuffs votes for JAK?

that part didn't actually happen.
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People whine because of their bracket.Contests should be about rally and making people vote for them.And Draven has an amazing rallying so that is.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/954437-league-of-legends/66704540

550+ votes
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Points: 6/6 Today's Picks: Draven & Ryu (SF)
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armitage999 posted...

voltch posted...

Vincent vs Kerrigan was one of the funniest debates in hindsight.

I think I have a permanent dent in my head after facepalming so hard when I saw how that match ended up playing out.

Never have I seen more seemingly knowledgeable, experienced contest vets make such a ridiculous pick as Kerrigan>Vincent.

It's as if they, for one single match, completely forgot what website they were at.

creativename posted...

What...I...WHAT!??!?

This has to be the biggest comeback of all-time...never have we seen a %age shift of such epic scale! Holy crap!! And so quickly too!

And...Jak had stuffed votes removed?? Who in the holy hell stuffs votes for JAK?

What the hell would have been the betting line on *Jak* getting stuffed votes removed from this match and not Draven?

Jak didn't have votes removed, he's pulling your leg.

But yes, Draven came back from over 2500 votes which we think is the biggest comeback ever.
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Wait what the heck? I knew people were underrating Draven, and I still thought he had a chance at 2nd, but I never expected a comeback of this magnitude. Did somebody run a massive rally somewhere or something?
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Oh, did Bacon/DM mention something? Didn't hear anything about Jak being vote stuffed.

Also, at least ExTha chose to have a meltdown during Snake/Sephiroth. Though if Kanz is representative of the LoL community, then they probably are all douchebags. They likely aren't, though, and I'm sure Kanz is an exception and most of the people are pretty chill.

On one hand, this is the kind of stuff that dominated the Gamespot contests, so it makes me wary. On the other hand, if there's no vote stuffing involved it's still legit and it's not like there's been rallies I didn't love before (Mario/Cloud, L-Block's 2007 run), so I can't b**** about this. I'd have preferred a Jak win, of course, but hey, if this is legit, kudos for Draven for making one of the biggest and most impressive comebacks in contest history. This is definitely a nice shake up that'll put later matches up to question.

Are there enough gamers to boost a disgruntled Mega Man to beat Link in hopes Capcom will love him again?
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Actually there is a rally.
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I'm in favour of Draven winning THIS contest over Link. If he wins another, then we have a problem.
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xp1337 posted...

creativename posted...

And...Jak had stuffed votes removed?? Who in the holy hell stuffs votes for JAK?

that part didn't actually happen.

OK, that makes more sense then...

I think this is fun. I mean if it was proxy vote cheating nonsense, augh, that would suck. But this seems like a genuine, fanbase-inspired rally. That's what these contests are all about.

Now if Draven actually manages to finish ahead of guys like Ryu or X, I will definitely be annoyed by that. But a huge rally in a completely and utter blowout match...I mean a rally of this magnitude...it's unprecedented, and I don't see how it doesn't add fun to the contest.

Absolutely no one here would have thought a rally like this would be possible on GameFAQs. It was always thought such things were limited to Gamespot and such sites, that nothing large scale could matter on GameFAQs because the vote totals were too big.

A huge twist like this is pretty neat. I mean considering the opposition anyway...as I said, if Draven starts doing this to legit characters, the hilarity will wear off quick.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/954437-league-of-legends/66707866
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Points: 6/6 Today's Picks: Draven & Ryu (SF)
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Draven has gained percentage in 68 consecutive updates and may continue to do so till the end of the poll.
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This sucks. I picked the last battle perfectly, and it looked like I was going to get this one, too. Then, I wake up this morning and now I'm going to get -6. Oh well.

So many records from this match.Draven will always be remembered in the contest history for breaking so many records!Beat that!
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Safer_777 posted...

So many records from this match.Draven will always be remembered in the contest history for breaking so many records!Beat that!

L-Block.
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So, next match:

Yuri Lowell > Tharja
Tiny Tina > Face McShooty
Tharja > Tiny Tina

Which must mean:

Yuri Lowell > Face McShooty

Right?
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Points: 6/6 Today's Picks: Draven & Ryu (SF)
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Where does Yuri > Tharja come from
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Yuri being the lead character of his game.
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Oh hey, I was smart enough not to pick anyone for this match! I definitely would've gone Jak > Chie > Draven, so I dodged a bullet there.

Oh yeah, and gratz to DQ8 Hero for making sure a s*** character got third place and trying to keep FF8 out of this contest. Nicely done.
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Not_Wylvane posted...

Oh hey, I was smart enough not to pick anyone for this match! I definitely would've gone Jak > Chie > Draven, so I dodged a bullet there.

Oh yeah, and gratz to DQ8 Hero for making sure a s*** character got third place and trying to keep FF8 out of this contest. Nicely done.

DQ5 Hero.
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Yeah but FE >>>> Tales

And Fire Emblem isn't even that strong. But it's still not tales
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XIII_rocks posted...

I'm in favour of Draven winning THIS contest over Link. If he wins another, then we have a problem.

Really?

I mean, L-block was funny, and a pretty iconic character when all is said and done. I'm not sure LoL fans actually care about Draven, let alone anyone else. Do you really want this guy to win?

Not going to happen though, yeah this is crazy but not enough to take Link, not even close, and I suspect people will be fed up after this match with the guy. I do wonder if he could take round 2 though.

Edit: Also, Tharja would beat Yuri pretty easily. Juliet would probably beat Yuri pretty easily. However, Yuri's still getting second because the difference between those two BL2 entrants is that people actually care about one of them, and I'm not sure most people who played BL2 will be able to say who Face McShooty actually is.
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DQ5 Hero wouldn't have had a performance like that, though. People voted for the DQ8 Hero.
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Anyone else than Link is fine to tell the truth.
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How much overlap is there between Ryu and X? If that's a close match up and the LoL rally comes again, I'd probably put money on Draven.

Also, that match will also be during the night, and Europe is not kind to the Mega Man series at all. It gets absolutely destroyed there. Ryu doesn't suffer as much there from what i can tell, but even so, those factors give more small advantages to him, and it might be enough.
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FE > Tales?

I don't know, I'd say it's pretty close. Plus, Tales of Xillia hype and all.
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My personal pick for "best" winner based on a combination of how much I like the character and what their chance of actually winning is is Solid Snake. He'd be a great winner.

I dislike repeat champs because it's a bit boring. Literally anyone could win every year and I'd be happy with it as long as they didn't recently win a contest already. I like variety.
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Also I dont' know if this Kanzaris Kelshen guy really manage to make this impressive rally but if he did it,kudos to him.
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Kanzaris didn't do anything today. He was bragging about getting Draven into the contest and that's it
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I posted a topic on the LoL message board here.

It got a good turn out and 550+ users voted in the poll.
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Hey Luster how many votes do you project this to finish up at, it should be 36k+ right? That's pretty good for a night match these days!

Not_Wylvane posted...

They likely aren't, though, and I'm sure Kanz is an exception and most of the people are pretty chill.

No. This is most certainly wrong.
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Link - 21,024 (N)
Raiden - 18,775 (D)
Yoshi - 18,306 (N)
Commander Shepard - 17,993 (D)
Aerith Gainborough - 16,445 (D)
Waluigi - 14,794 (D)
Tharja - 11,016 (N)
Tiny Tina - 10,753 (N)
Captain Olimar - 9,829 (D)
Juliet Starling - 8,651 (N)
Hero - 8,311 (D)
Solaire of Astora - 7,620 (N)
Rinoa Heartilly - 7,503
Kain - 5,491 (D)
Demi-Fiend - 4,561 (N)
Isaac (Binding) - 4,443 (N)
Alan Wake - 4,152 (D)
Tingle - 3,463 (N)

With 4 hours left in this match, can Draven take the #2 here behind Link? In a night match too.
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

KommunistKoala posted...

And if he dies he loses half the stacks I believe

And as mentioned before, it's called League of Draven. And has his face as the ability portrait IIRC.

Greyfeld posted...

Lopen posted...

Honestly more than the message Greyfeld is giving the most embarrassing thing is that this is what causes a man to snap? A random 1 point match between 3 fodders? Unless you're president of the Official Jak Fanclub of America I don't see what the huge deal is here!

Rather than making sweeping assumptions, why don't you ask for clarification of my stance if you don't understand it? Or is it just easier and more convenient to assume that I'm an idiot and keep the circlejerk going?

Why don't you justify yourself, whiny boy? Your position was summed up succintly before as 'new people don't deserve to vote'. Correct that, then. And don't give us crap about 'skewing predictions' and ****. Explain to us why people randomly deciding to take to the site and vote are worth more than people told to go there and vote, who still have freedom to choose between characters as they like. Go on, whiner. We're all ears.

To be fair, you are being a massive douche here man. Whiny boy? Go on, whiner? I want to punch you through the internet.
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LeonhartFour posted...

It's kind of sad that Chie is more likely to get successfully comeback-rallied than Draven is.

Good call, Ulti.

Also, I voted right when I got off work at 4:30. Jak was still winning and Draven was still losing to Chie. Quite a shock to see this when I get home! This is the weirdest trend chart I've ever done.

Lol'd at that
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Dilated Chemist posted...

FE > Tales?

I don't know, I'd say it's pretty close.

It's definitely not. Especially not after Awakening. Obviously we have no objective way to measure this yet since the three girls in that match have only ever faced each other at this point, but I'm confident saying Tharja soundly defeats Yuri.
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Well, if you believe Tharja defeats Yuri with ease then the Expert pick has to be Ryu > Face > Yuri.
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Points: 6/6 Today's Picks: Draven & Ryu (SF)
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KommunistKoala posted...

Kanzaris didn't do anything today. He was bragging about getting Draven into the contest and that's it

KanzarisKelshen posted...

I can't hear you over all those tears Lopen. This is just the Gamespot contest finals all over again, sorry!

ALL OF THOSE TEARS

ITT, Lightning Strikes getting mad that people are voting in polls. Literally butthurt over this, lmao.

Oh c'mon Greyfeld, stop being a whiny little loser already. It's been what, years and you've been the same in multiple sites? Nobody gives a damn. Man up already.

It's a rare day when literally Kanzaris has to step forward to call someone out and lay the smackdown, yeah. On the plus side, if he's gone, nothing of value will be lost!

There's a ton of idiots, but there's a ton of idiots everywhere. Look at Greyfeld, sharing space with guys like you, Rad Link, Ulti, XIII and all the others. Likewise, for all those idiots, LoL has guys like FD, Red13n, JC, and a ton of other good people, and that's without even getting into the many high-level players who crank out all the content for us scrubs to digest and learn. The only communities made up of mostly nice people are the dead ones, and LoL is full of great guys.

Though I'm being biased and included some of his comments to Greytears, who deserved to be mocked. And of course this doesn't include all the arrogant statements about how LoL players cure cancer with their love for Draven. I can only fit so much into one post.

e: The summary is that Kanz is taking this s*** just as seriously as Greytears, thinking he's done a great thing because he made a couple posts informing people about a rally-intensive character being in a match with Chie and Jak, thus thinking he's scored a huge victory for League of Legends. Thus the hilarious ego trip he's on, causing him to act over-the-top arrogant without really realizing what an ass he's looking like right now.
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Oh no I just meant he didn't do any of the rallying

Of course he was being Kanz in this topic.
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Dilated Chemist posted...

Link - 21,024 (N)
Raiden - 18,775 (D)
Yoshi - 18,306 (N)
Commander Shepard - 17,993 (D)
Aerith Gainborough - 16,445 (D)
Waluigi - 14,794 (D)
Tharja - 11,016 (N)
Tiny Tina - 10,753 (N)
Captain Olimar - 9,829 (D)
Juliet Starling - 8,651 (N)
Hero - 8,311 (D)
Solaire of Astora - 7,620 (N)
Rinoa Heartilly - 7,503
Kain - 5,491 (D)
Demi-Fiend - 4,561 (N)
Isaac (Binding) - 4,443 (N)
Alan Wake - 4,152 (D)
Tingle - 3,463 (N)

With 4 hours left in this match, can Draven take the #2 here behind Link? In a night match too.

If Draven maintains this pace he'll end up with 16k or so votes. He had a lot of strong competition from Jak/Chie though.

Dilated Chemist posted...

Well, if you believe Tharja defeats Yuri with ease then the Expert pick has to be Ryu > Face > Yuri.

Not necessarily since Face McShooty is likely several magnitudes weaker than Tiny Tina, but that's the Expert Pick I've had since Tina's performance, yes.
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KommunistKoala posted...

Oh no I just meant he didn't do any of the rallying

Of course he was being Kanz in this topic.

Welp, that was a few minutes I could have saved if I had some reading comprehension.
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