Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1062

#401 | tennisboy213 | Posted 7/13/2013 9:00:20 AM | message detail
Vote Accepted






Sonic the Hedgehog

59.09%

13 Votes

Your Pick





Fei Fong Wong

22.73%

5 Votes





Dan Hibiki

18.18%

4 Votes

Total Votes: 22
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#402 | MarquessLaus | Posted 7/13/2013 9:00:25 AM | message detail
Vote Accepted
Sonic the Hedgehog
60%
15 Votes
Your Pick
Fei Fong Wong
20%
5 Votes
Dan Hibiki
20%
5 Votes
Total Votes: 25
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#403 | Safer_777 | Posted 7/13/2013 9:00:55 AM | message detail
13th vote for Dan myself.Sonic to a great start.
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#404 | pjbasis | Posted 7/13/2013 9:00:55 AM | message detail
#405 | ZenOfThunder | Posted 7/13/2013 9:01:22 AM | message detail
Good job fei
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#406 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:01:30 AM | message detail
Sonic starting to rise now.
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#407 | XIII_rocks | Posted 7/13/2013 9:01:43 AM | message detail
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#408 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:02:05 AM | message detail
LOL XIII
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#409 | CrushDavis | Posted 7/13/2013 9:02:10 AM | message detail
And we got this guy in here instead of Ken, who would decimate Fei. Sigh.
#410 | XIII_rocks | Posted 7/13/2013 9:03:05 AM | message detail
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#411 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:03:40 AM | message detail
I'm laughing because I told you Fei had this on lockdown an hour ago when you asked.
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#412 | Crimson Dragoon | Posted 7/13/2013 9:04:03 AM | message detail
poor saikyo style
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#413 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:04:37 AM | message detail
Crimson Dragoon posted...
poor saikyo style


The Saikyo Style is being well represented tbqh
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#414 | TheKoolAidShoto | Posted 7/13/2013 9:04:42 AM | message detail
Mothaf****s not voting for Dan
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#415 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 7/13/2013 9:04:50 AM | message detail
ctesjbuvf posted...
creativename posted...
ctesjbuvf posted...
Crono would beat Pikachu and Zero no doubt. The only reason he can lose to Pikachu is because Magus is the worst possible anchor for him. If Otacon is there, Crono wins.

Nah, Frog is probably worse. Both Frog and Magus are likely weaksauce now, but Magus especially has become garbage, and he was always weaker than Frog IIRC.

I seriously don't think Magus even hurts him that bad - Magus is weak, plus he'd get SFF'd down to holy hell. It just so happens that this is likely enough to cost him the match, only because him and Pikachu are so close in strength.

I'd like to say Crono beats Pikachu straight up...but we don't know how much he's declined. I think Missingingno>Pikachu, so last contest Crono would have beaten Pikachu. This contest, it's much murkier.


It's not a matter of strength. The fanbase heavily prefer Magus above Crono. Crono will lose a good bunch of fanbase vores to Magus, which might just be enough for Pikachu to pulk through in the daylight.

If Otacon beats Magus, it's not up for debate. Crono wins.


Day match. It's already been acknowledged that Chrono Trigger has an awful day vote, and Pokémon's got a very good one. Also, I feel as though the board keeps making excuses, and I feel like this bracket setup may have been done to facilitate that.

There is, admittedly, no real way to gauge just yet how far Crono has fallen. In Rivalry Rumble, he was handicapped by the fact that the iconic antagonist of the series, Magus, is Frog's Rival. This got him put into the vote-ins, where he predictably crushed the various fodder, and then he was given to another Noble Niner in Round 1 allowing him to exit gracefully. 2010, he faced a "joke character" right off the bat, and the presence of Sephiroth so close by in the bracket meant that out of all the possibilities, few could lead to Crono looking bad. If Crono makes it to Sephiroth, Square overlap and a fellow N9er means Crono can't look bad no matter how awful his percentage is. If he loses to the newcomer, said newcomer only needs one more win to face another N9er, and even if Missingno loses, his strength is far from disproven. Crono merely lost to a newcomer that was stronger than expected (and again, day match between Chrono series and Pokémon.) 2009 Games Contest? Um...totally Square SFF with the more powerful FF7 that led to CT's third round exit against SM64, right? Wait, it lost to SM64 in R2, too, with another Mario game in the poll? Um...oh, but Crono was brilliant in 2008! Er, yeah, he did have a pretty favorable path, what with L-Block receiving venom for that upset championship the previous year and a Link-and-two-other-Nintendo-characters semifinal, but he managed to avenge his loss to Vincent the previous year in a situation where if anyone should've been getting SFFed, it would be Crono! (due to SNES overlap with Samus)

...You know what? Even that proves absolutely nothing. In the waning days of 1v1s, and even into the 4way era (in large part because he did beat Crono, shortly before L-Block proved that N9ers weren't as invincible in 4ways as in 1v1s), Vincent was christened the character that could break the Noble Nine. Look at Sephiroth-Vincent 2010. Now look at Sephiroth-Tifa 2010. Care to explain that? Vincent's weaker than he used to be, too. Heck, look at the seedings for this contest. Last time, Vincent and Tifa were both underseeded, an 8 and a 10 respectively. Tifa's a 7 this time, but Vincent's all the way down to a 23. He's been forgotten. Just like the CT characters.
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#416 | Nanis23 | Posted 7/13/2013 9:05:25 AM | message detail
TheKoolAidShoto posted...
These votals are sooooooo bad

RIP GameFAQs


This site is useless ever since Youtube became popular
I only come here because of the boards but they are dying as well (and hell,there is zero discussion about mobile games here,even for new games like Layton Brothers and Plants vs Zombies 2)
#417 | Disingenuity | Posted 7/13/2013 9:05:35 AM | message detail
From: CrushDavis | #409
And we got this guy in here instead of Ken, who would decimate Fei. Sigh.

Except Ken wouldn't be a 27 seed.
#418 | Crimson Dragoon | Posted 7/13/2013 9:05:36 AM | message detail
also lmao welkin didn't break 3k votes
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#419 | ZenOfThunder | Posted 7/13/2013 9:05:45 AM | message detail
I voted Dan and I feel good about it
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#420 | Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 7/13/2013 9:06:13 AM | message detail
Score-Brackets-% Right
8--------1204------95.18
7--------3248------90.46
6--------4921------87.77
5--------3288------81.08
4--------1666------75.63
3--------638--------63.79
2--------201--------45.27
1--------66----------33.33
0--------22----------9.09

The perfects and -1s both crack 90 this time and the perfects even stay above 95. The -2s were close to doing that as well. We still lost a few 0 brackets.

Only 1 person fell off the Top 49. al494 did not have Mega Man X winning the match.
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#421 | pjbasis | Posted 7/13/2013 9:06:34 AM | message detail
I think Missingno doing marginally worse on Yoshi is what you have to explain
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#422 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:08:38 AM | message detail
84.25% prediction percentage for MMX.
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#423 | XIII_rocks | Posted 7/13/2013 9:09:23 AM | message detail
GameFAQs is still popular, but nobody goes through the front page.

Whenever I have random questions about a game, the first or second results are always GameFAQs.
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#424 | CrushDavis | Posted 7/13/2013 9:10:41 AM | message detail
LMAO. Fei might still lose to Dan.
#425 | Nanis23 | Posted 7/13/2013 9:11:58 AM | message detail
Fei sucks
#426 | SubDeity | Posted 7/13/2013 9:12:19 AM | message detail
I think Wikis and better fansites are hurting GameFAQS more than anything. I used to get Fire Emblem info here; now I'm better off browsing SerenesForest.
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#427 | CrushDavis | Posted 7/13/2013 9:13:25 AM | message detail
I don't think I've actually used a FAQ here in almost 10 years. I'm not really a Youtube person but almost every game has wikis nowadays which are far more detailed and user friendly than those old text files.
#428 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:14:04 AM | message detail
I still use GameFAQs most of the time whenever I need help with a game.
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#429 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:15:31 AM | message detail
False alarm, Fei's got this.

Go Sonic go
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#430 | -LusterSoldier- | Posted 7/13/2013 9:15:50 AM | message detail
Oh, a good update for Fei again. I was concerned that Dan was going to attempt a comeback.
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#431 | Kibago | Posted 7/13/2013 9:16:34 AM | message detail
looking good, Sonic
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#432 | Dilated Chemist | Posted 7/13/2013 9:18:10 AM | message detail
Update: X > Jigglypiff > Tingle > Welkin

Round 1
Link - 21,024 (N)
Raiden - 18,775 (D)
Ryu - 18,348 (D)
Yoshi - 18,306 (N)
Mega Man X - 18,171 (N)
Commander Shepard - 17,993 (D)
Aerith Gainborough - 16,445 (D)
Draven - 16,081 (N)
Waluigi - 14,794 (D)
Jak - 13,191 (N)
Tharja - 11,016 (N)
Tiny Tina - 10,753 (N)
Chie Satonaka - 10,465 (N)
Captain Olimar - 9,829 (D)
Juliet Starling - 8,651 (N)
Yuri Lowell - 8,628 (D)
Hero - 8,311 (D)
Solaire of Astora - 7,620 (N)
Rinoa Heartilly - 7,503 (D)
Jigglypuff - 6,690 (N)
Face McShooty - 5,686 (D)
Kain - 5,491 (D)
Demi-Fiend - 4,561 (N)
Isaac (Binding) - 4,443 (N)
Alan Wake - 4,152 (D)
Tingle - 3,463 (N)
Welkin - 2,999 (N)
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#433 | XIII_rocks | Posted 7/13/2013 9:18:41 AM | message detail
Yeah I don't use FAQs at all, but message boards and answers I use all the time and are often the first google result for my query.
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#434 | isNotPerfect | Posted 7/13/2013 9:18:48 AM | message detail
I picked Crono over Pikachu without a second thought. I still think Crono holds his NN strength, and Pikachu has never been a reliable pick against legit contenders. Plus I remember looking at LOL X-stats and Crono just seems like the better pick. It also helps Crono that votals are low. The old timers on the site are more likely to vote for Crono.

That being said, anything can happen. But I think you guys are just looking for something where there's really nothing. Like usual.

P.S. I voted Fei cuz I have Sonic>Fei>Dan in my expert pick and I will NOT fall off the leaderboard.
#435 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:19:58 AM | message detail
Trend chart for the night match:

Time | MMX | Welkin | Jiggly | Votes
0:05 | 62.05% | 8.72% | 29.23% | 780
1:00 | 66.25% | 10.06% | 23.69% | 5547
2:00 | 66.50% | 10.08% | 23.42% | 3403
3:00 | 66.72% | 10.50% | 22.78% | 2629
4:00 | 62.46% | 13.07% | 24.47% | 1990
5:00 | 62.21% | 11.18% | 26.61% | 1736
6:00 | 62.77% | 11.42% | 25.81% | 1453
7:00 | 61.97% | 11.97% | 26.05% | 1328
8:00 | 62.02% | 12.18% | 25.80% | 1601
9:00 | 64.61% | 11.55% | 23.84% | 1766
10:00 | 65.41% | 10.63% | 23.96% | 2041
11:00 | 67.34% | 9.82% | 22.83% | 2168
12:00 | 67.88% | 9.74% | 22.38% | 2198

The dead of night Euro vote continues to be unkind to Mega Man characters, but MMX is very strong early and late. I guess Welkin can take solace in the fact that there was one hour where he didn't get doubled by Jigglypuff. Hey, you take what you can get.

X-Stats:

Mega Man X – 50.00%
Jigglypuff – 26.91%
Welkin Gunther – 14.17%
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#436 | LeonhartFour | Posted 7/13/2013 9:21:29 AM | message detail
And yeah, this one's done. Time to move on.

So, uh, anyone giving Lucina a shot against Dracula?
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#437 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 7/13/2013 9:21:53 AM | message detail
creativename posted...
ctesjbuvf posted...
Crono would beat Pikachu and Zero no doubt. The only reason he can lose to Pikachu is because Magus is the worst possible anchor for him. If Otacon is there, Crono wins.

Nah, Frog is probably worse. Both Frog and Magus are likely weaksauce now, but Magus especially has become garbage, and he was always weaker than Frog IIRC.

I seriously don't think Magus even hurts him that bad - Magus is weak, plus he'd get SFF'd down to holy hell. It just so happens that this is likely enough to cost him the match, only because him and Pikachu are so close in strength.

I'd like to say Crono beats Pikachu straight up...but we don't know how much he's declined. I think Missingingno>Pikachu, so last contest Crono would have beaten Pikachu. This contest, it's much murkier.


It's tough to tell where Magus and Frog originally were relative to each other. Frog made his debut in 2004, the year of the awful bracket where nearly every R2 match was an SFF match, and if it wasn't then the winner would probably face an SFF match in R3. Frog struggled to beat Liquid Snake, beat Master Chief by the smallest margin we've ever seen in a 1v1 battle (though there was a fourway in which the first- and second-place finishers were even closer, and far more meaninglessly, one where the third- and fourth-place finishers were just as close), and overperformed on sprite-round Solid Snake, while Magus got an easy win in R1 and then faced Crono, who pretty much killed him, but then made that look respectable by finally beating Mario and doing so fairly easily. With SFF an unknown, the adjusted X-stats basically just plugged in Magus's 2003 value, which was very high because he beat Ganondorf and performed unexpectedly well against Link. 2005, neither was impressive--Magus lost a close one to Knuckles, and Frog won a close one with Riku and failed to break 30% on Samus. Neither made 2006's split bracket, and 2007 saw both lose second-round matches with a N9er in first place. Magus's top 2 were Mario and Big Boss, each of which is probably stronger than their counterpart in Frog's, Samus and Scorpion. Frog's match probably had a stronger 4th place finisher, Midna as opposed to Phoenix Wright, but Midna would've been getting SFFed anyway. Their percentages were similar...I'd have to say Magus looked slightly better in 2007. Then 2008 happened, and while Frog didn't exactly beat anyone spectacular to reach R2, Magus lost in R1 to Sandbag. Advantage, Frog.
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#438 | Dilated Chemist | Posted 7/13/2013 9:27:41 AM | message detail
FEI FONG WONG!!!!
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Pts: 9/9 Today's Picks: X & Sonic
IX: Link/Vincent/Big Boss/Snake/Cloud/Sora/Samus/Mario/Charizard
#439 | Dilated Chemist | Posted 7/13/2013 9:28:33 AM | message detail | (edited)
Xenogears is a masterpiece!

Disc 2 blah blah blah. I still love it. Best cast of villains in a game too.
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Pts: 9/9 Today's Picks: X & Sonic
IX: Link/Vincent/Big Boss/Snake/Cloud/Sora/Samus/Mario/Charizard
#440 | pjbasis | Posted 7/13/2013 9:28:43 AM | message detail
How high will Sonic go
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#441 | SuorGenoveffa | Posted 7/13/2013 9:30:27 AM | message detail
lmao Dan

Rivalry Rumble was correct all along.
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#442 | Fou Lu | Posted 7/13/2013 9:32:37 AM | message detail
Who submitted those disgusting pictures for Alucard, Dracula, and Simon Belmont? They should have the Lords of Shadow versions, not the ones from IGA's Castlevania. SImon Belmont doesn't wear a gimp suit.

Well ok, Dracula is fine since Lords of Shadow uses the correct name, Dracul.
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#443 | Kibago | Posted 7/13/2013 9:42:36 AM | message detail
hey there's 66%
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#444 | BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 7/13/2013 9:49:50 AM | message detail
Man, I guess this just further proves that SF characters not in SF2 are junk.
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#445 | Dilated Chemist | Posted 7/13/2013 10:21:24 AM | message detail
Hopefully, the casual pick will be Dan > Fei.

So I get +6 and they get 0.
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IX: Link/VV/BB/SS/Cloud/Sora/Samus/Mario/Zard
#446 | Dilated Chemist | Posted 7/13/2013 10:22:45 AM | message detail
And Sonic looks strong. Is this performance better than Link's?
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Pts: 10/10 Today's Picks: Dracula & Barret Wallace
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#447 | Crimson Dragoon | Posted 7/13/2013 10:25:21 AM | message detail
Can we just ignore this and go back to laughing at Welkin failing to break 3k?

That was more fun.
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#448 | NM4 | Posted 7/13/2013 10:32:08 AM | message detail
Voted for Sonic solely because of how good that retro pic is.
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#449 | Ultimaphazon | Posted 7/13/2013 10:56:35 AM | message detail
Dan sucks and I'm happy to see him fail.
#450 | DoctorJimmy133 | Posted 7/13/2013 11:11:33 AM | message detail
If the Castlevania villain had any name but Dracula, his match would be more debated. Just like if Dan's name was actually Batman, he'd be close to Sonic. Dracula is the goddamn Dracula.

As is, Lucina will get second.
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