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Oh yeah Trauma Center never had a character in the contest ever
And it was one of the biggest DS games back then

FranzyvonKarma posted...

Given that Xenoblade has 3, I don't think Tales getting 4 is that terrible.

Especially since all 4 Tales characters would probably beat any of the Xenoblade trio.

The difference being that Xenoblade characters were technically untested and had a (extremely unlikely) chance at not being complete garbage. We've seen Fails characters in the contests for 8 years and they have been consistantly terrible (barring today's match I guess)
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Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite?
However, the Guru of the next decade so far is SuperNiceDog

Why doesn't anybody complain about CATS and Guybrush making it into most of the contests?
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coz CATS and Guybrush are both awesome
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CATS is a tradition, Guybrush is...

I dunno why we keep nominating him, he's really a "happy to be here" type who has been happy far too many times

we should at least have him swap with Manny Calavera every other contest if people HAVE to get classic adventure people in
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Guybrush gets as much heat as Tales characters.
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BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls
Points: 40/46 Today's Picks: Pikachu and Magus

Achromatic posted...

Karma Hunter posted...

My instinct is that Pika hurts Lloyd more and I'm inclined to keep siding with it. Big Daddy was just... very, very overrated.

Not overrated, he declined.

Overrated implies he somehow beat Ness randomly.

Or Ness was also overrated.

...But seriously, that's a good point. I can explain why his X-Stat value might be higher than it should be but not why he beat Ness.
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RIP GrapefruitKing and Emporer_Kazbar. You will be missed.

Bioshock 2 was released during the contest, that would be enough to beat Ness.
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BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls
Points: 40/46 Today's Picks: Pikachu and Magus

Then everyone played it after the contest and found out how disappointing it was
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ChenKenichiFan posted...

Oh btw, ExTha asked me last night what I thought about the potential "ass factor" or "booty factor" between Yuna and Claire.

Well, I love it. I think it's imperative that we try to get booty factor represented on the front page whenever possible because it's much more difficult to gain representation than TJF. Consider:

- You need the characters booty AND face visible in the same shot. Much harder.
- This means it needs to be almost a full-body shot, which once again limits options.

It's too bad that SBAllen already posted the rest of the R1 pics, because I really wanted to get Booty Factor into play for Jill and found a couple decent pics for it. Shame.

Well, what's the theme for R2 pics? Jill's the favorite in her match, so there will probably be another chance.
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RIP GrapefruitKing and Emporer_Kazbar. You will be missed.

Usually it's head shots, but we'll see what SBAllen says
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BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls
Points: 40/46 Today's Picks: Pikachu and Magus

It's just not worth it to complain about Guybrush in a 243 character bracket. If we're going to have a bracket this big and this full of junk, I see no problem with any given fanbase trying to get their 1 character in, tubofodder though they might be.

Actually, I'd like to thank the Monkey Island fanbase for showing restraint and not getting a second character from that franchise in (besides Rivalry Rumble) to be awful in contests. With how Guybrush does in seeding, they clearly would have the power to do so. Speaks much better of them than the Touhou freaks.
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Dalton Brooks from Fuse for the next character contest! The women would probably be too strong just based off being chicks.
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Oh btw, ExTha asked me last night what I thought about the potential "ass factor" or "booty factor" between Yuna and Claire.

Well, I love it. I think it's imperative that we try to get booty factor represented on the front page whenever possible because it's much more difficult to gain representation than TJF. Consider:

- You need the characters booty AND face visible in the same shot. Much harder.
- This means it needs to be almost a full-body shot, which once again limits options.

It's too bad that SBAllen already posted the rest of the R1 pics, because I really wanted to get Booty Factor into play for Jill and found a couple decent pics for it. Shame.

Glad you answered. Like I'm said I'm worried now that it will have an ass LFF overlap (mmm) between Yuna and Claire, causing MC to be able to win.

But I think I'd be able to firmly grasp that defeat if we could literally mark it down to ass LFF being something that happened in a contest.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

You know, next contest we may get stellar next-gen characters such as "Delsin Rowe" and "Aiden Pierce" in the contest like we got Nathan Hale when the PS3 came out, ESEPCIALLY if it's newcomers only

if you thought Cole MacGrath was an unlikable turd, watch out!

Oh, believe me, it'd be far worse than that. This contest finally proved that it is possible to get a character from a Japan-only series into a contest. Can you imagine how many of them would be polluting a bracket with no contest veterans?
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RIP GrapefruitKing and Emporer_Kazbar. You will be missed.

ExThaNemesis posted...

Oh btw, ExTha asked me last night what I thought about the potential "ass factor" or "booty factor" between Yuna and Claire.

Well, I love it. I think it's imperative that we try to get booty factor represented on the front page whenever possible because it's much more difficult to gain representation than TJF. Consider:

- You need the characters booty AND face visible in the same shot. Much harder.
- This means it needs to be almost a full-body shot, which once again limits options.

It's too bad that SBAllen already posted the rest of the R1 pics, because I really wanted to get Booty Factor into play for Jill and found a couple decent pics for it. Shame.

Glad you answered. Like I'm said I'm worried now that it will have an ass LFF overlap (mmm) between Yuna and Claire, causing MC to be able to win.

But I think I'd be able to firmly grasp that defeat if we could literally mark it down to ass LFF being something that happened in a contest.

Yeah, that scares me, too.
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RIP GrapefruitKing and Emporer_Kazbar. You will be missed.

What we need is a 243-entrant 3-way contest of quotes by female villains who have never appeared in a contest before, divided by generations of course.

we could literally be seeing the infamous 3 toolbag on the front page

http://i.imgur.com/p49cXQH.jpg

I have NO IDEA what they were thinking when they settled on that design/name

"Delsin Rowe" what the hell at least "Cole" is a real name

http://i.imgur.com/2UJ6Rmg.png

literally wearing a denim vest

I CANNOT GET OVER HOW UNLIKABLE HE IS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNfJvFnzc8#t=1m15s
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hylianknight3 posted...

What we need is a 243-entrant 3-way contest of quotes by female villains who have never appeared in a contest before, divided by generations of course.

http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/6/c/3/gfs_46868_1_20.jpg
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I just woke up to see Magus has the highest percentage that he's had in like eight years

holy christ these guys must suck
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Fight like dragons, have no fear, swords are made of STEEEEEEEEL~

Jade almost has 30% on him. What do you think

I want to see Jade Vs. Luca Blight
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I gotta learn to stop making late changes, I would've gotten 3 less wrong.
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Man, F*** THAT, let's play some s***ty ones!" - Angry Video Game Nerd

LOL get cranked people who thought that Otacon was a worthwhile character
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Hey man, LlamaGuy did encrypt the passwords.
With what? ROT-13? -CJayC

From: GloryChaos | #403
Why doesn't anybody complain about CATS and Guybrush making it into most of the contests?

CATS is the original CB joke character.
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Hey man, LlamaGuy did encrypt the passwords.
With what? ROT-13? -CJayC

Ahahahahaha, I come back home and not only is Magus winning, but he's finding a way to make his win look terrible beyond belief. I cannot, seriously cannot believe that JADE CURTISS is going HAM here. It boggles the mind! Way to go, Janus! Now you just need to somehow not score 0 votes in a poll against Crono and let Pikachu win and we're golden!

CATS is our Commander.

And he more than doubled Nathan Drake so he's earned his spot.
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oh god heart-shaped box is basically delsin's theme that's horrendous
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Luster Reloaded (10:03:31 PM): I don't know why.

Yeah, Magus unable to crack 50%+ on Jade Curtiss and 'guy who is failing to double Jade Curtiss and is coming close on occasions to being cut by him' is not exactly inspiring confidence here.

But it's Magus, so whatever~
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Achromatic posted...

The following contest he beat Luca in a way only strong characters can before losing to Crono. People lose strength sometimes.

For the record, measuring Magus through Villains Contest Luca projected a loss to Knuckles in 2005.

Luca Blight was just that bad, man.
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TsunamiXXVIII posted...

Well, what's the theme for R2 pics? Jill's the favorite in her match, so there will probably be another chance.

We should petition for The Ass Round
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Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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Also, Link is not immune to people overperforming on him (Hello 2008 Snake), so I'm not sure why you're arguing so hard for that performance to be legit.

Not that it particularly matters. But there was a lot of evidence based on data in the first few contests before Knuckles beat Magus that he wasn't as strong as that performance on Link suggested. I made several long-winded posts about it in my Squall > Magus campaign that year!
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Any chance of Scorpion beating Sora?
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Always move fast, you never know who's catching up!

Slim to none. Sora has dat KHIII hype and all those freaking spinoff games.

Also he may be confused for a cute girl
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is SHINE making a Kobe Battle pic for the match pic?
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Score-Brackets-% Right
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Another easy match... for first place at least. Everyone in the top 171 gets it right and only one person in the top 777 got it wrong. A single -4 (41 points) bracket got the match wrong. Things will get tougher in the second half of this division.

No one fell off the Top 49.
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Jakyl25 posted...

TsunamiXXVIII posted...

Well, what's the theme for R2 pics? Jill's the favorite in her match, so there will probably be another chance.

We should petition for The Ass Round

Snake overperformance guarenteed.
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Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite?
However, the Guru of the next decade so far is SuperNiceDog

welp i lose another point
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LeonhartFour posted...

Achromatic posted...

The following contest he beat Luca in a way only strong characters can before losing to Crono. People lose strength sometimes.

For the record, measuring Magus through Villains Contest Luca projected a loss to Knuckles in 2005.

Luca Blight was just that bad, man.

Hey, give Luca more credit. He broke 40% on Wesker. A weaker Wesker then (but also underrated in the stats then), but hey, it's a moral victory!
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TRE, do you know if anyone is keeping track of the expert scores of the people on the leaderboard or has the expert leaderboard for each day saved so it can be calculated?
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LeonhartFour posted...

Also, Link is not immune to people overperforming on him (Hello 2008 Snake)

Heyheyhey, Snake's percentage on Link in 2008 and 2010 are nearly identical! No explanations required!

...now he also went from 43% to 48% against Cloud between those years as MGS4 sold something like 5+ million copies in the interim, but are you suggesting Snake got a massive boost from MGS4 hahaha don't be silly
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lightsout06 posted...

welp i lose another point

This division might very well be the revenge of the early losers. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw guys like B_T come storming back to the top of the leaderboard. There's an enormous bunch of upset picks riding on the next few matches. I'm pretty sure Division 6 is where we will see our first Dead gurus.

Karma Hunter posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

Also, Link is not immune to people overperforming on him (Hello 2008 Snake)

Heyheyhey, Snake's percentage on Link in 2008 and 2010 are nearly identical! No explanations required!

...now he also went from 43% to 48% against Cloud between those years as MGS4 sold something like 5+ million copies in the interim, but are you suggesting Snake got a massive boost from MGS4 hahaha don't be silly

In a SHOCKING TWIST, Link stayed constant, Cloud went down, and Snake went up. HOLD DAT

Haste_2 posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

Achromatic posted...

The following contest he beat Luca in a way only strong characters can before losing to Crono. People lose strength sometimes.

For the record, measuring Magus through Villains Contest Luca projected a loss to Knuckles in 2005.

Luca Blight was just that bad, man.

Hey, give Luca more credit. He broke 40% on Wesker. A weaker Wesker then (but also underrated in the stats then), but hey, it's a moral victory!

Well, for sure, Knuckles probably wasn't quite on Magus 2k3's tier - some weakening likely made up the rest of that gap. But there's nowhere you can reasonably place Villains Wesker/Luca without making Magus's percentage on Link look absurd.
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Karma Hunter posted...

Haste_2 posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

Achromatic posted...

The following contest he beat Luca in a way only strong characters can before losing to Crono. People lose strength sometimes.

For the record, measuring Magus through Villains Contest Luca projected a loss to Knuckles in 2005.

Luca Blight was just that bad, man.

Hey, give Luca more credit. He broke 40% on Wesker. A weaker Wesker then (but also underrated in the stats then), but hey, it's a moral victory!

Well, for sure, Knuckles probably wasn't quite on Magus 2k3's tier - some weakening likely made up the rest of that gap. But there's nowhere you can reasonably place Villains Wesker/Luca without making Magus's percentage on Link look absurd.

And I still don't understand how he got that percentage, really. We can say Magus got weaker since 2k3 all we want, but it's a really long way to fall to go from being a Noble Nine breaker to losing to Knuckles. It's way too big a jump to simply be weakness.

LeonhartFour posted...

Also, Link is not immune to people overperforming on him (Hello 2008 Snake), so I'm not sure why you're arguing so hard for that performance to be legit.

Not that it particularly matters. But there was a lot of evidence based on data in the first few contests before Knuckles beat Magus that he wasn't as strong as that performance on Link suggested. I made several long-winded posts about it in my Squall > Magus campaign that year!

"Evidence" being "things Leon can cling to to make his fanboy pick seem plausible."

Not saying there's anything wrong with that, I've been there a few times myself.
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And I still don't understand how he got that percentage, really. We can say Magus got weaker since 2k3 all we want, but it's a really long way to fall to go from being a Noble Nine breaker to losing to Knuckles. It's way too big a jump to simply be weakness.

It's easy. That match just has to be the outlier. Caused by momentum/sprite round/a weak incarnation of Link/whatever.

You have to throw out Magus getting 35% on Link for everything else to make sense.
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Die young and save yourself.
Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work.

KanzarisKelshen posted...

Karma Hunter posted...

Haste_2 posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

Achromatic posted...

The following contest he beat Luca in a way only strong characters can before losing to Crono. People lose strength sometimes.

For the record, measuring Magus through Villains Contest Luca projected a loss to Knuckles in 2005.

Luca Blight was just that bad, man.

Hey, give Luca more credit. He broke 40% on Wesker. A weaker Wesker then (but also underrated in the stats then), but hey, it's a moral victory!

Well, for sure, Knuckles probably wasn't quite on Magus 2k3's tier - some weakening likely made up the rest of that gap. But there's nowhere you can reasonably place Villains Wesker/Luca without making Magus's percentage on Link look absurd.

And I still don't understand how he got that percentage, really. We can say Magus got weaker since 2k3 all we want, but it's a really long way to fall to go from being a Noble Nine breaker to losing to Knuckles. It's way too big a jump to simply be weakness.

Overperformances happen. Magus 2k3 wasn't *ever* NN level, but he was a touch above Tidus 2k3. From Tidus's level you'd only need some slight weakening to get on Knuckles's level then.

The weakening *after* the Knux match is what's been really remarkable. Magus has clear wins against characters that I'd never take him over again. Who here wants to take Magus > Phoenix (who he blasted with 56% in 2007) or even Magus > Crash (who he 60-40'd in the same match). Hell he'll probably be losing to Otacon in a few years (NOT THAT HE EVER NEEDS TO COME BACK GUYS).
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Oh no, we need Magus in here every year because he's got a legacy to uphold and he invariably makes for interesting matches.
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Die young and save yourself.
Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work.

ExThaNemesis posted...

Oh no, we need Magus in here every year because he's got a legacy to uphold and he invariably makes for interesting matches.

I'm talking about Otacon, not Magus.

At this point I'll spend and trade noms to make sure Magus keeps getting in if I have to, if only to continue to chart his trajectory.
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Karma Hunter posted...

ExThaNemesis posted...

Oh no, we need Magus in here every year because he's got a legacy to uphold and he invariably makes for interesting matches.

I'm talking about Otacon, not Magus.

At this point I'll spend and trade noms to make sure Magus keeps getting in if I have to, if only to continue to chart his trajectory.

*gets stuck against Crono in a 1v1 round 1*