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I
just woke up.Okay this isn't even close.But after seeing Jak in his
poll,losing only thanks to the biggest rally in the contests I expected
that.I thought when making the bracket people wouldn't care about old
playstation characters but I was wrong.Oh well there goes my perfect
bracket. --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
People don't care about old playstation characters but they know who they are, which is enough. Spyro is going to get killed next round. I seriously don't expect him to break 15%. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Sephiroth has a decent chance of putting up a higher percentage in round 2 than round 1. --- "Hold on a minute! That testimony stinks!" "Witness! You can't just say 'Hello' and expect us to get anywhere! I want you to testify!" |
I
think so. Morrigan is the strongest of the four (debatable-- I know
some take Midna there but I don't) but Spyro's probably the weakest by
enough that Seph crushes harder. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
I just realized this'll be my first -6 of the contest. Aw yeah for having Clementine > Reyn > Spyro but only cowards bank apparently --- http://i.imgur.com/eqOQs.gif |
I didn't even realize you get negative points for wrong picks until the 6th match. I would I would have noticed sooner =/ --- A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. |
I
feel like I'm the only one who partially fills out predictions for
EXPERT mode. Like this match I only put Spyro down as #1 because I
figured the other two were gutter trash and it'd be a crap shoot. Good
thing too because gut said Reyn as #2 more than the unappealing looking
little girl. I almost always put a pick in but yeah I'd say about 1/3 of matches I've not filled out all three. Has saved me more points than not too! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
I was doing that at first, but then I realized I wasn't going to win anyway, so why not just go all out and pick everything? --- http://img.imgcake.com/nio/26leonpngat.png http://img.imgcake.com/nio/daigohadoupnguj.png |
How many perfects will be left?I believe Spyro will be the favorite despite having only half the gurus with him. --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
THE SPYRO/MORRIGAN 2002 REMATCH --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, Rest in peace Kazbar :( |
And just think, Spyro dominated this match in the night. Imagine how this would have went if the kiddies had been up. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! The artist formerly known as greatone10. |
I
have 78 after this match. Fair amount down but it only takes a couple
of correctly called upsets to make that up. Especially with the point
values doubling each round you just gotta keep kinda close! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Haha, keep dropping Clementine. I want to see Spyro hold two characters below 30%. This would be the best match/contest ever. --- Fine! I'll go to the store and get your Goddamn drain cleaner! Character Battle IX Tingle Victory Parade - the journey is over.... |
I've
been doing a lot of banking, though I don't think I'm doing any
better/worse than most other people. Considering how wrong I've been so
far, though, banking's probably helped me out. Speaking of being wrong, holy ever-loving s*** does Reyn f***ing god damn suck. He's either going to look god-damn abysmal in the final stats (like, second-weakest overall after Chester), or Spyro's going to break 45% on Sephiroth (or outright win) and Reyn will "only" look like bad fodder. Most likely answer is Xenoblade has a loyal bunch of voters but absolutely no appeal otherwise. I expect Shulk will get similar percentages to Dunban and Reyn despite his competition being between the two. Then again, I've already been wrong about Xenoblade twice, so yeah. --- Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy II - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3557012 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
I'm
just a contest noob, so bear with me here, but didn't they put together
all of the Guru's opinions in the past? I really liked reading those
(unless they're still organized somewhere and I'm just not seeing it). --- Call me Mega, Megaman, X, or any variation/combination of the previously stated names. Official Liu Kang of the PS3 Mortal Kombat board. |
I
wonder if I will be on the leaderboard after this match? Should be
close. Anyway Spyro is a beast. Makes the Crash>Wheatley pick look a
bit more realistic as well. |
So, I wake up expecting a Tharja-Juliet-Tina esque Spyro>Clementine>Reyn and what do I find? Spyro murdering everyone. My cousin would love this as she loves skylanders I voted spyo just for the memory of she showing me her syro figurine "This is a skylander. A new game" "No it's not! That's Spyro the Dragon! This Dragon is older than you!" Fun times...fun times But this poll is not exciting |
X195 posted... I'm just a contest noob, so bear with me here, but didn't they put together all of the Guru's opinions in the past? I really liked reading those (unless they're still organized somewhere and I'm just not seeing it). analysis crew thread |
scaryice posted... X195 posted...I'm just a contest noob, so bear with me here, but didn't they put together all of the Guru's opinions in the past? I really liked reading those (unless they're still organized somewhere and I'm just not seeing it). Thanks. --- Call me Mega, Megaman, X, or any variation/combination of the previously stated names. Official Liu Kang of the PS3 Mortal Kombat board. |
Xenoblade is basically Earthbound without Smash. Not sure why people thought it'd have any strength at all. --- "Hamas isn't really a terror organization." -Terran [Evil Republican] Play Der Langrisser. |
Yuri Lowell would beat all these Xenoblade characters right? Or at the very least, Lloyd and Kratos would. --- Hey, its that SuperNiceDog! Congrats to the Guru 2011 winner |
Ask yourself this, 31% on Ryu or 19% on Spyro. --- Zinsanity of the Helix Board |
So anyone think Spyro has a chance on Morrigan next round? I would've taken Clementine over Edgeworth, but that was before I knew she would flop. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Points: 18/20 Today's Picks: Clementine and Luigi |
I wouldn't and I expect it to be almost as lopsided as their previous encounter. --- Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time |
HELL YES SPYRO --- the guy has to go to church at 630am. he is already in hell ~ gumbyxcore99 |
Lopen posted... People don't care about old playstation characters but they know who they are, which is enough. Between the two matches there's been plenty of recognisable characters people could latch on to. I'm not sure what site you think you're on if you believe the average voter doesn't know anything about any of Persona, League of Legends, The Walking Dead or Xenoblade. Playstation characters are making a surge, like it or not. Maybe they've just entered the nostalgia zone instead of being anti-voted for being too mainstream/casual. It certainly happened for Pikachu for a long time. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic Fanboyism. |
^I'm
a fairly typical GFaqs voter type and IDK who Reyn and Clementine are
w/o looking at their descriptions. Sure I recognize their games, but I
don't recognize their names or images. Spyro is old and has recognizable
image. No way old Sony is surging. FFVII is proof of that. Also, we now have Spyro at 11337 votes and Reyn at 13.37%. Beautiful. |
charmander6000 posted... So anyone think Spyro has a chance on Morrigan next round? Personally, no. I don't see Spyro getting second on next round. Even if he managed to get a good result here, the competition was awful. |
--Smurf-- posted... Lopen posted...People don't care about old playstation characters but they know who they are, which is enough. I couldn't tell you one iota about characters from League of Legends, The Walking Dead or Xenoblade. My Persona knowledge is strictly limited to Persona 3 from when my wife played it. Persona characters aside, I could not have told you which game any of those characters came from without being told. I think you're overselling the above. LoL is the only one of the above which I problably live under a rock about. Xenoblade is well known but you actually have to play the game to know the characters which apparently most people have not. --- Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time |
Wow, what a surprisingly not close match. At one point I had switched my expert pick to Clem > Spyro, but at some point I switched it back. Definitely glad I did. Also feeling a lot better about that Crash pick now. Man, this division is going to delude me into feeling good about my bracket. And then we're going to get to Division 6 where for some reason I picked Gilgamesh and Lu Bu. --- Bracket Pts: 19/20 Expert Pts: 76 Today's Picks: Spyro > Clementine & Luigi > Balthier |
Match XXII: (2) Luigi vs. (17) Balthier Bunansa vs. (26) Jade Previous Contest Luigi 2010 65.70% against Meta Knight 59.59% against Amaterasu 64.84% against Weighted Companion Cube 28.87% against Link Balthier Bunansa 2010 31.03% against Ryu Jade 2006 24.11% against Ada Wong Analysis We have three characters with three different tiers of strength. While Luigi will have no problem winning this match his performance will be watched closely as he has a big match against Big Boss. He will need to look as impressive as possible as Ness will likely be in that match LFF him. Personally I feel Balthier is going to be weaker this contest, but he is lucky enough to be up against one of the weakest returning characters. Getting in due to the female bracket she was tripled by Ada Wong who at best is high fodder and with nothing new since that contest one can only imagine what her strength has been reduced to. I see Luigi breaking 60%, especially if Jade turns out to be as weak as she was back in 2006. Balthier should have no problem crushing Jade like Ada Wong did back then. While she will not be the weakest character of the bracket she will be among them. charmander6000s Bracket: Luigi > Balthier Bunansa and Jade charmander6000s Prediction: Luigi 63.45%, Balthier Bunansa 28.94%, Jade 7.61% --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Points: 18/20 Today's Picks: Clementine and Luigi |
Karma Hunter posted... BlAcK TuRtLe posted...Holy crap, I just noticed the Guru was split between Spyro and Clementine! Looks like my policy of "If I've never heard of this character they're probably not gonna win" pays off yet again. Spyro was such an obvious choice that I didn't bother posting about it. If I'd bothered to look at the Guru picks for this match, I would have made a bigger point of talking about it. --- Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite? However, the Guru of the next decade so far is SuperNiceDog |
Your comparisons to Ada reminded me of how Ada beat Balthier both times Good ole FF12 strength --- A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. |
Ada beat Balthier despite being in a poll with two other Capcom characters, including Dante. |
why did I say including Dante i'm stupid why can't low karma accounts edit posts this is stupid |
--Smurf-- posted... Lopen posted...People don't care about old playstation characters but they know who they are, which is enough. Of those games I've only played LoL, and that was long before Draven was added. You need to approach these polls with common sense. Xenoblade is the new Tales, a game that in the isolation of Board 8 seems really popular, but most people that visit the site proper have never heard of. Sony macots always seemed so weak because they were put up against mainstream recognizable characters, but match them against characters from a game with <10% playrate on the site, and its a no-brainer. --- Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite? However, the Guru of the next decade so far is SuperNiceDog |
BlAcK TuRtLe posted... Karma Hunter posted...BlAcK TuRtLe posted...Holy crap, I just noticed the Guru was split between Spyro and Clementine! Looks like my policy of "If I've never heard of this character they're probably not gonna win" pays off yet again. Spyro was not an obvious choice. Maybe a gut-feeling choice, but the Walking Dead was a well-liked game that was based off a popular TV series. The only reason I went with Spyro was because I didn't think adventure game characters did particularly well in these contests (see Guybrush). I think very few people were comfortable with their pick this match before it began. And Karma's post was sarcasm. --- Bracket Pts: 19/20 Expert Pts: 76 Today's Picks: Spyro > Clementine & Luigi > Balthier |
Clementine wasn't in the TV series though. I don't think a huge number of people know who she is. Everyone knows Spyro. --- #twitterFAQs |
special_sauce posted... Clementine wasn't in the TV series though. I don't think a huge number of people know who she is. Everyone knows Spyro. Just because everyone knows who Spyro is doesn't mean that anyone likes him or will vote for him. Everyone knew who he was in 2002 and not so many people knew Morrigan. He still got doubled. In a 4-way in 2007, where he once again was arguably the most well-known character of his 4-pack (maybe more people heard of Leon Kennedy but unlikely, Spyro was pretty much a household name) and he got his tail handed to him. Recognizability does not translate to popularity. Spyro was pretty much our proof of that in the past. So while "common sense" might have dictated an easy win for Spyro here, actual knowledge of the contests should have made everyone very hesitant of that fact. |
Just
for the record, if you assume Spyro has the same strength level as in
2007, Clementine is on Agent J's level while Reyn is a huge step below
every single character from the 2007 bracket. --- Currently Playing - Super Metroid, MGS4, Brawl, FFVII, Wind Waker, RE4, SOTC |
LinkMarioSamus posted... Just for the record, if you assume Spyro has the same strength level as in 2007, Clementine is on Agent J's level while Reyn is a huge step below every single character from the 2007 bracket. I'll do you one better. Tanner is expected to get 20.38% on 2007 Spyro. Reyn has 18.97% on Spyro right now. |
Man, Reyn is only worth a couple Chesters. Who would have thought! --- i'll do rydia -Dante |
it
should have been pretty obvious Spyro's not as pathetic as 2007 stats
say. that number doesn't even make any sense. somehow "lol xstats" comes
up with 8.5, but using the 4-way calculator and some estimates for
Leon, Vivi and Ridley, Spyro ends up around 10-11. you can "lol 2002 stats" all you want but they always made more sense for this matchup. --- http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxkdr0uNc91qlu5jao1_r1_400.gif |
FranzyvonKarma posted... why can't low karma accounts edit posts this is stupid Low karma-accounts can. FranzyvonKarma-accounts can't. --- T H E S T A B L E - bring on Epona! http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg |
Yeah, Spyro's 2007 stats are likely not true now, Xenoblade may be weak, but they are not Tanner weak. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Points: 18/20 Today's Picks: Clementine and Luigi |
Yeah
we had no real basis for Clementine here, obviously should have went
with Spyro here in hindsight but eh, for a one pointer I don't mind
being wrong on a new IP. Good for Spyro, finally getting his win. --- Death is not to be feared, but avoidance never hurt anyone. http://i.imgur.com/hDIb02X.jpg |
Based on the current update right now, Sephiroth has to get 73.50% on Spyro in order to push Reyn down to 10% against him. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
What a horrible way to lose my perfect bracket. Oh well. --- Pts: 20/20 Today's Picks: Reyn & Luigi IX: Link-VV-BB-SS-Cloud-Sora-Samus-Mario-Zard |
YEAR OF LUIGI! 70%+ here we go! --- Hey, its that SuperNiceDog! Congrats to the Guru 2011 winner |
Luigi crushing fodder and fodder-er --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Points: 18/20 Today's Picks: Clementine and Luigi |
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