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granted I didn't have any personal investment in either character, but I
doubt being within reach of a prize would make me any more upset about
Squall losing. I've won my prize money in the past and I'm content if I
never win another dollar. --- "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!" |
4chan's stupid Sidekick Battle GameSpot, not 4chan there. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
LeonhartFour posted... Although Bacon getting it only makes setting up matches like Leon/Wesker/Oliver more egregious! If you're going to do something that silly, at least put someone in the match who can threaten to beat Leon! Or even just a 3rd RE character <_< --- Thank you, Eddie Guerrero. http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2013/07/wyatt07062013.gif |
Honestly we don't even have proof Bacon has a bracket. His "score" could just be some nebulous number designed to give people a goal to chase. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
ExThaNemesis posted... Jakyl25 posted...But would you cheer for John Cena to beat Link? Let's say it's a title unification match. WWE Champion John Cena vs Character Battle IX Champion Link for all the marbles. Main event of WrestleMania, with the results determined by a poll on the front page of GameFAQs that you can only vote in by browsing the site with the WWE App. --- Ace Detective for Hire http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1132/ss02b.jpg |
-LusterSoldier- posted... 4chan's stupid Sidekick Battle It might as well have been 4chan's. --- http://gifsoup.com/view/874243/big-boss-o.gif |
Argh, Pikachu is still crapping out percentage.... Still hoping he ends the match with 53%, though somebody like Big Daddy would be pretty good with the night vote, I think.... --- Drop it to the floor... |
Xuxon posted... Pikachu and Crono have already had a match and Pikachu got 46% on him. it isn't THAT absurd to think Pikachu could have won even without Magus there. i just don't think these performances show that. It should be noted that was in a match where Pikachu/L-Block was the only matchup that mattered, so Pikachu's %age against Crono should have been inflated. Rad Link 5 posted... To be fair to people debating Pikachu > Crono, the notion probably comes from how much the board talks about this idea that Chrono Trigger is dead. Crono barely loses a first round match to someone who goes on to almost beat Sephiroth, and all of a sudden he's clearly just an upper midcarder at best. It's silly, but I've even seen board regulars saying stuff along those lines, so it messes with people's expectations. The funny thing is that Crono would have clearly won both a 12 hour night match and a 24 hour match with Missingno. Circumstances just aligned perfectly against Crono. Crono has to be easily the unluckiest character ever - Ceej's handling of Mario/Crono II? Losing to a glitch under perfect storm conditions? The infamous Vincent/Crono trends match? He's has a rough road. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
Well, losing to Vincent wasn't a matter of being unlucky unless you're just saying he was unlucky that he
had to be the guy to break the Noble Nine when Vincent probably
would've beaten Sonic (or maybe even Mega Man) that year, then yeah. He got his revenge in spades the next year anyway. He combined Mario's and Frog's clutches into one. --- http://i.imgur.com/kCpvD.gif |
Rad Link 5 posted... ExThaNemesis posted...Jakyl25 posted...But would you cheer for John Cena to beat Link? "Charizard is cashing in his Money in the ? Block!" --- Thank you, Eddie Guerrero. http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2013/07/wyatt07062013.gif |
Eh,
Crono/Vincent II is one of the biggest instances of cheating we'll see
in these contests on Crono's part, so losing to a glitch the next year
was just desserts (not that I particularly like seeing the glitch in
these things). I wish the updater's graph was still working so I could post the illustration of when Crono's votes started spiking over Samus. --- sig |
Lopen posted... Honestly we don't even have proof Bacon has a bracket. His "score" could just be some nebulous number designed to give people a goal to chase. He's put it pretty high then. Unless it's some personal challenge to Board 8. It also doesn't make much sense given his whole side-bet with Devin unless you think they both don't have a bracket and decided who would "win" beforehand. Which really just seems like more trouble than them just setting up brackets. Because really if it's just a nebulous score, it's locking in their R1 picks right now. We could potentially catch them if they kept it up and did something inconsistent! --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
kinsho3 posted... Argh, Pikachu is still crapping out percentage.... Lloyd is crapping out more % though if Big Daddy comes back, do we revert to previous comparisons |
You
guys keep talking about raging about not getting prize money. Pfft. I
finished in a prize spot in 2006 and never received my prize! You know
nothing of suffering!! --- Ace Detective for Hire http://i.imgur.com/syEAJLe.gif |
SEISMIC TOSS THROUGH THE TABLE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GAAAAAAAAAAAWD. --- "When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet." |
creativename posted... The funny thing is that Crono would have clearly won both a 12 hour night match and a 24 hour match with Missingno. Circumstances just aligned perfectly against Crono. Wouldn't Crono have even won that match during the day had it not been for a rally? I vaguely remember there being tens of thousands of more votes than expected for a first-round match during that contest. --- Drop it to the floor... |
Karma Hunter posted... Eh, Crono/Vincent II is one of the biggest instances of cheating we'll see in these contests on Crono's part, so losing to a glitch the next year was just desserts (not that I particularly like seeing the glitch in these things). http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081118001341/board8/images/e/eb/Graph3301.png --- Pokemon VGC2013 BC Regional - 16th place Pokemon VGC2013 US National - 39th place |
xp1337 posted... LeonhartFour posted...I dunno. To me, it's not really that it's Pikachu. I just don't like the idea of a Noble Niner getting punked in the second round by a guy who's clearly weaker than him because Bacon doesn't understand the concept of LFF. Or he's among those who believe that Crono's weakened too much to really still "deserve" his spot among the Noble Nine and is giving him an "out". This is what I think has been happening--LFF opportunity here means that Crono has an excuse for losing unless Pika manages to take 50% outright; Crono faced Solid Snake in Round 1 in Rivalry Rumble and would've run into Sephiroth in Round 3 in CBVIII with a newcomer as one of the two foes he'd have to beat (so if he lost that match, it's still a closed circuit as long as Missingno. didn't lose to Yoshi in Round 2.) That's three straight contests where Crono can lose early and still not "look bad". If Crono really is weaker than a lot of the top midcarders now, the recent bracket construction allows for some plausible deniability. So, um...Lloyd > Big Daddy. This is an upset, right? --- RIP GrapefruitKing and Emporer_Kazbar. You will be missed. |
Lopen posted... Honestly we don't even have proof Bacon has a bracket. His "score" could just be some nebulous number designed to give people a goal to chase. I love this idea. Doubly when you remember he's got a bet with Devin Morgan riding on this. --- Ace Detective for Hire http://i.imgur.com/cQDhIpJ.gif |
xp1337 posted... Lopen posted...Honestly we don't even have proof Bacon has a bracket. His "score" could just be some nebulous number designed to give people a goal to chase. I'm just sayin keep an eye out for it. I don't trust Bacon to understand how contests work otherwise he wouldn't have designed the bracket how he did several times running. I also don't trust him to care enough to like, copy the board cookie or anything either. I mean it could just be a fluke, too. But Bacon making a good bracket legitimately doesn't add up to me. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Rad Link 5 posted... ExThaNemesis posted...Jakyl25 posted...But would you cheer for John Cena to beat Link? this got so convoluted I am now convinced it could only happen in TNA --- Die young and save yourself. Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work. |
Karma Hunter posted... I wish the updater's graph was still working so I could post the illustration of when Crono's votes started spiking over Samus. Trend chart should suffice for this one! Time | Samus | Vincent | Crono | Pikachu | Demographic | Votes EBV | 30.23% | 22.77% | 26.36% | 20.63% | (0:00-0:05) | 1449 PHV | 31.19% | 22.24% | 27.30% | 19.26% | (0:00-1:00) | 10538 FNV | 30.41% | 26.09% | 25.92% | 17.59% | (1:00-6:00) | 21153 BSV | 32.04% | 25.65% | 24.08% | 18.23% | (6:00-9:00) | 13534 DSV | 31.62% | 25.73% | 25.87% | 16.78% | (9:00-14:30) | 28315 ASV | 30.28% | 24.90% | 23.65% | 19.88% | (14:30-22:00) | 41821 SNV | 28.58% | 24.63% | 28.21% | 18.59% | (22:00-24:00) | 7828 And despite those extremely shady last two hours, Vincent was still leading by 3 going into the last two updates! And Crono won by 78. --- http://i.imgur.com/CbfFb.jpg |
Team Rocket Elite posted... Karma Hunter posted...Eh, Crono/Vincent II is one of the biggest instances of cheating we'll see in these contests on Crono's part, so losing to a glitch the next year was just desserts (not that I particularly like seeing the glitch in these things). yes, this, thank you no shady business going on at the end of this match that's for sure --- sig |
Rad Link 5 posted... You guys keep talking about raging about not getting prize money. Pfft. I finished in a prize spot in 2006 and never received my prize! You know nothing of suffering!! I finished in a prize spot in 2007 and got DQ'd for "vote stuffing!" Lopen, too! --- http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo22vfguji1qzxr43.gif |
Man I don't know what prompted me to take Crono over Vincent there, but I was so happy with the way it shook down. --- Die young and save yourself. Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work. |
xp1337 posted... Lopen posted...Honestly we don't even have proof Bacon has a bracket. His "score" could just be some nebulous number designed to give people a goal to chase. Maybe they've set it up so they tie at the end as an out so neither of them has to do it. Although since they should both have database access, one of them could stab the other in the back last second or something. --- Pokemon VGC2013 BC Regional - 16th place Pokemon VGC2013 US National - 39th place |
I was on the leaderboard for a prize spot after the main bracket in 05, only for Link to ruin me. Then in that infamous year, I was in 3rd with both Football and Palmer having picked Snake. All I needed was for Sephiroth to not choke and I would be the winner of the contest.... UGH. It gives me solace knowing that Snake > Sephiroth was literally not something I could have brought myself to pick and even if I'd taken it I wouldn't have won the contest anyway. --- Die young and save yourself. Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work. |
Exactly
why are we taking Pikachu's direct numbers on either one of these
characters as meaning anything? That's not really the way these things
work. For all we know, if you take one of those two characters out and
make it a 1v1, Pikachu could end up getting like 95% of that character's
votes--or he could only get 5% and end up looking even weaker. We don't know.
I for one have to figure that we're dealing with three separate
fanbases. I have no idea what proportion of Big Daddy's votes would go
to Pikachu in a Pikachu vs. Lloyd 1v1 or what proportion of Lloyd's
votes would go to him in a Pikachu-Big Daddy 1v1. --- RIP GrapefruitKing and Emporer_Kazbar. You will be missed. |
ExThaNemesis posted... Rad Link 5 posted...ExThaNemesis posted...Jakyl25 posted...But would you cheer for John Cena to beat Link? The Rock is in John Cena's corner! Cloud Strife is in Link's! --- Ace Detective for Hire http://i.imgur.com/ajBh1E7.gif |
I won prize money in 2008 because I decided to pick ToS to advance. I mean, there's also every other match in the contest to consider, but in my heart I consider that what pushed me over the edge. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
Team Rocket Elite posted... xp1337 posted...Lopen posted...Honestly we don't even have proof Bacon has a bracket. His "score" could just be some nebulous number designed to give people a goal to chase. I thought about that, but unless they took the time to only differ on meaningless matches and planned it out that they'd even it out this could backfire on them. They can't control outcomes. Well, okay, they could but that'd be taking this a bit too far! Really, I think the amount of planning they'd need to do to have scores this good so far, plus be able to come up with plausible differences that ultimately end up into a tie might actually be more challenging than just predicting it straight. I mean, at that level of effort they might as well just take the board cookie, it'd be faster. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
Tsunami is the master of knowing how things work. I mean this is the stats and discussion topic we are discussing stats. Would you rather us play checkers? Actually that doesn't sound too bad. --- "When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet." |
Achromatic posted... Tsunami is the master of knowing how things work. http://www.pogo.com/games/online-checkers It's the only way to settle debates around here. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
Also Vince McMahon and SBAllen have bet their hair on the results of the match! --- Ace Detective for Hire http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/2017/13772197m.png |
Real men settle things via rock-paper-scissors --- http://gifsoup.com/view/477513/red-vs-blue-road-rage-part-1-o.gif http://gifsoup.com/view/477534/red-vs-blue-road-rage-part-2-o.gif |
xp1337 posted...
You're assuming they actually have physical brackets. I'm saying they have a score there that means nothing and the bracket is being built post results off of where the points are going. I mean I'm not necessarily saying this is true, I'm just saying that it'd make a lot of sense! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
TsunamiXXVIII posted... Exactly why are we taking Pikachu's direct numbers on either one of these characters as meaning anything? That's not really the way these things work. For all we know, if you take one of those two characters out and make it a 1v1, Pikachu could end up getting like 95% of that character's votes--or he could only get 5% and end up looking even weaker. We don't know. I for one have to figure that we're dealing with three separate fanbases. I have no idea what proportion of Big Daddy's votes would go to Pikachu in a Pikachu vs. Lloyd 1v1 or what proportion of Lloyd's votes would go to him in a Pikachu-Big Daddy 1v1. Well... duh? That's how these things work, that's why multiways are often very fluky and unreliable, even compared to 1v1s. But it should mean something. The odds that Big Daddy would suddenly be crushing Lloyd if Pika wasn't here are very, very low indeed. Similarly, Pikachu's percentage on Lloyd is *probably* close to what he'd get 1v1. I'd use Big Daddy's percentages instead, but unless people want to estimate exactly how many Noble Niners Pikachu's going to decimate singlehandedly it's probably not worthwhile. --- sig |
Let's
say it's a title unification match. WWE Champion John Cena vs Character
Battle IX Champion Link for all the marbles. Main event of
WrestleMania, I'll save you the trouble of postulating this. Link taps out to the STFU in 8.8 seconds and Cena gets up holding his title as well as all of Link's titles in the air running around the ring like he hadn't of broken a single sweat . --- The Great GameFAQs Character Battle IX contest: 41/46 pts NP: Pikachu > Big Daddy > Lloyd Irving |
I'm pretty sure it would take a lot more effort to set up a fake bracket system than to just make a bracket! --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
I mean, I'll put it this way - Pikachu is currently scoring more on Big Daddy than Link is expected to get in 2010. --- sig |
Man
Cena jobs a lot more than Link does I think Link uses his creative
control to block that result if it goes down like that, brother --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Karma Hunter posted... I mean, I'll put it this way - Pikachu is currently scoring more on Big Daddy than Link is expected to get in 2010. And it's not even the sprite round! --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonhjpguz.jpg |
Xuxon posted... From: Rad Link 5 | Posted: 7/31/2013 10:49:56 PM | #017Kefka beating Solid S*** would be my second favorite contest result of all-time. No, Pikachu wouldn't win that because he'd be up against another Nintendo character in the match against Sora. We're more likely to see Cloud vs Kefka vs Fox because somehow Crono and Sora managed to Square SFF despite Crono being one of the only Square protagonists who hasn't appeared in a Kingdom Hearts game. ...Oh, right. Pikachu can beat Sora, but that requires Wolf to be strong enough to LFF Fox into losing to Blue despite Blue being weak enough that this stronger-than-expected Wolf could probably beat him in a 1v1, thereby allowing Nathan Drake to get past Blue due to LFF from Mr. Game & Watch and making Pikachu-Sora a fair fight. ...Given how convoluted that was, I actually think Crono and Sora somehow SFFing each other into losing to Fox is less insane. --- RIP GrapefruitKing and Emporer_Kazbar. You will be missed. |
LeonhartFour posted... Karma Hunter posted...I mean, I'll put it this way - Pikachu is currently scoring more on Big Daddy than Link is expected to get in 2010. Is Link going to be able to even break 40% on this electric mouse --- sig |
We could get Sora going up against both Sprite Pikachu and Sprite Blue. Sprite Blue to RSFF Pikachu on his way to first place. --- Demyx is better than Axel. http://www.last.fm/user/crazydom |
So Crono/Pikachu is going to be a Day Match. Is that an advantage for Pikachu? --- Hey, its that SuperNiceDog! Congrats to the Guru 2011 winner |
Bad Big Daddy stop cutting. --- Thank you, Eddie Guerrero. http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2013/07/wyatt07062013.gif |
Karma Hunter posted... I'd use Big Daddy's percentages instead, but unless people want to estimate exactly how many Noble Niners Pikachu's going to decimate singlehandedly it's probably not worthwhile. Lloyd would also then be a near-elite and poor Black Turtle would be trying to figure out whether to shoot himself with a shotgun or slit his wrists. (and with the hatred most of you have of BT, there would be much rejoicing) --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
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