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JustForFun1988 posted...

Is it me or are Link fans really boorish to the point, where they feel that there is a need to hog all the limelight. The moment someone is perceived as a legitimate threat, they will groan about such threat being a blight to the contest and how they are planning to boycott it.

As if Link winning for the next millennium isn't dooming these tournaments.

this has been explained numerous times at this point. Maybe I should make a topic and get it stickied for you guys.
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I don't know. I really think Kanz is believing the things he's saying, it's just... the things he's saying!

I think he sees this as some grand movement to transform these contests into something else entirely. Where winners are decided entirely on how effective you can rally them. It's just, that's not a place very many people want to see this go.

or maybe they do, i don't know.
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Updated Top 10

Top 10 Largest Night Vote Gaps
1. Draven – 56397 vs. Ryu – 12143 – Round 2 – 44254
2. Draven – 56397 vs. Mega Man X – 16238 – Round 2 – 40159
3. Mewtwo – 21525 vs. Chester – 924 – Round 1 – 20601
4. Mewtwo – 21525 vs. Zero – 3866 – Round 1 – 17659
5. Link – 21024 vs. Tingle – 3463 – Round 1 – 17561
6. Link – 21024 vs. Isaac – 4443 – Round 1 – 16581
7. Pokemon Trainer Red – 17631 vs. Sissel – 2426 – Round 1 – 15205
8. Mega Man X – 18171 vs. Welkin Gunther – 2999 – Round 1 – 15172
9. Cloud Strife – 17400 vs. Senator Armstrong – 2721 – Round 1 – 14679
10. Big Boss – 17337 vs. Peacock – 2685 – Round 1 – 14652

Top 10 Most Popular Night Polls
1. Draven vs. Mega Man X vs. Ryu – Round 2 – 84778
2. Draven vs. Jak vs. Chie Satonaka – Round 1 – 39737
3. Yoshi vs. Solaire of Astora vs. Demi-Fiend – Round 1 – 30487
4. Tharja vs. Tiny Tina vs. Juliet Starling – Round 1 – 30420
5. Link vs. Isaac vs. Tingle – Round 1 – 28930
6. Missingno vs. Tidus vs. Banjo – Round 1 – 28503
7. Alucard vs. Captain Falcon vs. Rydia – Round 1 – 28202
8. Sephiroth vs. Midna vs. Little Mac – Round 1 – 28199
9. Tifa Lockheart vs. Chun-Li vs. Cirno – Round 1 – 28140
10. Mega Man X vs. Jigglypuff vs. Welkin Gunther – Round 1 – 27860

Top 10 Highest Night Individual Votes
1. Draven – Round 2 – 56397
2. Mewtwo – Round 1 – 21525
3. Link – Round 1 – 21024
4. Yoshi – Round 1 – 18775
5. Mega Man X – Round 1 – 18171
6. Pokemon Trainer Red – Round 1 – 17631
7. Tifa Lockheart – Round 1 – 17408
8. Cloud Strife – Round 1 – 17400
9. Big Boss – Round 1 – 17337
10. Samus Aran – Round 1 – 17326

Top 10 Most Impressive Night Losers
1. Mega Man X – Round 2 – 16238
2. Jak – Round 1 – 13191
3. Ryu – Round 2 – 12143
4. Tidus – Round 1 – 11544
5. Garrus Vakarian – Round 1 – 11143
6. Tiny Tina – Round 1 – 10753
7. Chie Satonaka – Round 1 – 10465
8. Captain Falcon – Round 1 – 10139
9. Wheatley – Round 1 – 9702
10. Marth – Round 1 – 9699

Top 10 Least Predictable Matches
1. Draven vs. Mega Man X vs. Ryu – Round 2 – 9.20%
2. Yuna vs. Master Chief vs. Claire Redfield – Round 1 – 15.40%
3. Urdnot Wrex vs. Cecil Harvey vs. Pit – Round 1 – 23.71%
4. Mr. Game & Watch vs. Lee Everett vs. Meat Boy – Round 1 – 26.40%
5. Catherine vs. Neku Sakaruba vs. Vaas Montenegro – Round 1 – 30.43%
6. Pokemon Trainer Blue vs. Fox McCloud vs. Wolf O’Donnell – Round 1 – 32.98%
7. Rikku vs. ? Block vs. Lyndis – Round 1 – 35.60%
8. Draven vs. Jak vs. Chie Satonaka – Round 1 – 38.19%
9. Wario vs. Creeper vs. The King of All Cosmos – Round 1 – 39.12%
10. Yoshimitsu vs. Lu Bu vs. Groose – Round 1 – 39.13%
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JustForFun1988 posted...

Is it me or are Link fans really boorish to the point, where they feel that there is a need to hog all the limelight. The moment someone is perceived as a legitimate threat, they will groan about such threat being a blight to the contest and how they are planning to boycott it.

As if Link winning for the next millennium isn't dooming these tournaments.

I think while there is a bit of a double standard (there would be a lot more cheers and reveling by the board if, say, Cloud was lying in wait next round), it isn't that drastic. People are legitimately upset about Ryu/X losing even taking Link out of the picture, for instance.

...that being said, it's not completely removed from the truth. Cloud beat Link once and he's still paying for it a decade later.
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I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY AREN'T THERE 10K VOTES YET?
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IngmarBirdman posted...

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY AREN'T THERE 10K VOTES YET?

You seriously don't or are you just trollin'? I can't tell anymore with crazy the board's been lately >.>
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On a brighter note, I'd like to point out that the Draven match still ended up getting fewer votes than Crono/Missingno.
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I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY AREN'T THERE 10K VOTES YET?

For some reason the rallied people are not returning like it was predicted

>_>
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Kanz is Kanz. He isn't going to change, and I'm not quite sure what goes through his head.

My problem is that he is trying to shove some kind of ideal down our throat of "Well, it only takes one person to start a rally!" Well yeah, no s***. Then tries to act like there are site's or sub reddits that can compete with the LoL one...when there isn't, and he very well knows this because "THE MOST POPULAR GAME IN THE WORLD".

It's annoying.
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Karma Hunter posted...

TsunamiXXVIII posted...

OrangeCrush980 posted...

Barret wasn't able to beat Layton as badly as Isaac was.

Like I said, multi-way X-stats are flawed. Just within a single match, you take the first-place character's percentage on the second place character and the second-place character's percentage on the third-place character and the first-place character's percentage on the third-place character and you wind up with the first place character being projected to score something other than 50% on itself. And the percentages for that match are especially certain to be messed up because that was the one Touhou match where no votes were removed.

Barret came in first, there's no way to change his proportion to Layton.

And besides, the votes were ultimately removed.

No they weren't. And yes there is.

Layton got 62.40% on Reimu. Reimu got 27.31% on Barret. Ergo Layton is expected to get 34.08% on Barret.

Barret got 61.59% on Layton. Layton got 62.40% on Reimu. Reimu got 27.31% on Barret. Ergo Barret is expected to get 41.98% on Barret.

That's the problem with multi-way X-stats.
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I think it's quite funny...

It's like he's trying to rally people in a donation contest then turns around and gets Bill Gates to place a large donation for another group and tells the other people "you didn't rally hard enough."
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What happened with R1 Reimu's votes? Didn't SB determine the other two Touhou characters got stuffed and changed them, but Reimu was left untouched although there was probably stuffing for her too?
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I don't think we ever got a comment on Reimu's match.

And we never will either!
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Whoa.

9.20%? That's already #18 on our "25 most surprising results" list. And there are still three more rounds of this guy. If he wins it all, we have over a third of that list being taken up by just two runs (5 from L-Block's run and 4 from Draven's).
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IngmarBirdman posted...

What happened with R1 Reimu's votes? Didn't SB determine the other two Touhou characters got stuffed and changed them, but Reimu was left untouched although there was probably stuffing for her too?

Reimu's totals tailed off early and there weren't any obvious oddities in the vote map, so I think he probably ruled that it was a legit rally.
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In any case, if you want to fight fire with fire. I have a strong suspicion that bandwagoning Shepard, not Link(as mush as that pains my bracket) on /r/gaming would be the way to go. Plus in a 24 hour match, if it caught fire and got to front page of /r/gaming, it would have a great chance of being on the front page of reddit.

Votals would be trough the f***ing roof.
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Well, I'm going to second guess switching to Dracula for a while now. Probably will be a pain to get back on the leaderboard after this.
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I just realized there's gonna be no way to validate (or refute) Link's weakness, because next round we're going to be seeing the strongest Link we've had in years - if not ever. He's basically going to have all of GameFAQs on his side save the really weird holdouts.
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Wait, so, it was legit? There wasn't any cheating for Draven?

Someone point me to the page with TRE's stat post!
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Just noticed that Draven/Link (Shepard, lol) takes place on Sep. 1st, which is during the PAX 2013 NA LCS playoffs. That might help Draven... but it might also mean there's too much drama (these playoffs determine which teams go to the World Championships, and the one that comes last might be relegated to amateur status) on the subreddit for the rally to stay there permanently. It's also one day after the Korean OGN final, which will definitely have at least one thread occupying a frontpage slot.
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Kotetsu534 posted...

Just noticed that Draven/Link (Shepard, lol) takes place on Sep. 1st, which is during the PAX 2013 NA LCS playoffs. That might help Draven... but it might also mean there's too much drama (these playoffs determine which teams go to the World Championships, and the one that comes last might be relegated to amateur status) on the subreddit for the rally to stay there permanently. It's also one day after the Korean OGN final, which will definitely have at least one thread occupying a frontpage slot.

Oh wow. That will probably hurt Draven more than help.
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Link/Draven is September 2nd, not the 1st!
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...So are we not going to break the Kefka/Vercetti record after all?
Probably for the best.
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Sorozone posted...

Kanz is Kanz. He isn't going to change, and I'm not quite sure what goes through his head.

My problem is that he is trying to shove some kind of ideal down our throat of "Well, it only takes one person to start a rally!" Well yeah, no s***. Then tries to act like there are site's or sub reddits that can compete with the LoL one...when there isn't, and he very well knows this because "THE MOST POPULAR GAME IN THE WORLD".

It's annoying.

Kanz is the perfect representation of Reddit, f*** you got mine
take out reddit itself really, unless there really are LCS matches to draw away LoL drones on that day

Sorozone posted...

In any case, if you want to fight fire with fire. I have a strong suspicion that bandwagoning Shepard, not Link(as mush as that pains my bracket) on /r/gaming would be the way to go. Plus in a 24 hour match, if it caught fire and got to front page of /r/gaming, it would have a great chance of being on the front page of reddit.

Votals would be trough the f***ing roof.

Bandwagoning someone against Link and Draven? No way.

Save_us.Shepard





Save_Us.Snake
Save_Us. Zard
Save_Us.Megaman
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For the people discussing whether we should downvote Draven rallies or try to rally a character ourselves...

Why not doing both?

oh btw for people trying to counter-rally: actual gamefaqs strength is irrelevant, the one that draws the most rallied votes wins
sucks that it's come to this, but you're just gonna have to do it anyway

Yeah Link would probably break 70% on Shepard before a rally

3-way monster rally, 300,000 votes here we come.
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charmander6000 posted...

Yeah Link would probably break 70% on Shepard before a rally

3-way monster rally, 300,000 votes here we come.

first to 100k wins
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1337gamerpr0 posted...

oh btw for people trying to counter-rally: actual gamefaqs strength is irrelevant, the one that draws the most rallied votes wins
sucks that it's come to this, but you're just gonna have to do it anyway

Which is why I said Link is not the one we should root for but no one agrees with me!

Link is still the easiest to rally for without significantly sundering the effort. There are very few game communities out there where Link is not a Top 5 character at the least.
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I think a little Link rallying + sabotaging Reddit's rally is probably our best bet. Trying to take Draven's rallying head on with Mewtwo is too much of a stretch.
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OrangeCrush980 posted...

I think a little Link rallying + sabotaging Reddit's rally is probably our best bet. Trying to take Draven's rallying head on with Mewtwo is too much of a stretch.

why not both?

OrangeCrush980 posted...

I think a little Link rallying + sabotaging Reddit's rally is probably our best bet. Trying to take Draven's rallying head on with Mewtwo is too much of a stretch.

Well, it's our best bet for Round 3. But I think Mewtwo would be in a better position to pull this off. I wouldn't discard rallying him to win in Round 4. And of course, downvoting Draven's rally in both rounds.

xp1337 posted...

Link/Draven is September 2nd, not the 1st!

This. Battle Calendar is set to show the start time of a match, and when you initially go in it's set to Pacific Time. The match starts at 9 PM Pacific/Midnight Eastern and runs for 24 hours, so either way the majority of the match is on the second, and the entirety of it in some time zones. Heck, this being the western hemisphere, if you're in Europe, Asia, or Australia, the match starts on the 2nd and ends on the 3rd!
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You know, if Epona actually got to battle Draven at some point, I'd probably imagine she would fare better than Link. She's easier to rally for thanks to her half-joke status, will be empowered by Link fans who saw Link's massacre, and she's quite beloved all things considered. Heck, if you really wanted to go the extra distance, you could try rallying her with MLP fans, and that's quite a force right there that definitely wouldn't spare Draven any of its rallied votes!

ya go my epona stable 2013
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SnowZangoose posted...

You know, if Epona actually got to battle Draven at some point, I'd probably imagine she would fare better than Link. She's easier to rally for thanks to her half-joke status, will be empowered by Link fans who saw Link's massacre, and she's quite beloved all things considered. Heck, if you really wanted to go the extra distance, you could try rallying her with MLP fans, and that's quite a force right there that definitely wouldn't spare Draven any of its rallied votes!

ya go my epona stable 2013

MLP fans...

I can't believe we have come to this. May Link have mercy of our souls and protect us from having to deal with such evil.

also, rally popular youtube people to support Link/Pokemon/whatever

red sox 777 posted...

On a brighter note, I'd like to point out that the Draven match still ended up getting fewer votes than Crono/Missingno.

That match was still like 6300 votes away from reaching Crono/Missingno. And the Draven match happened at night. Had it happened in the day, it might have had a chance to beat Crono/Missingno. But hey, the Draven match got about 18000 more votes than Sephiroth/Missingno, making it the most popular night match in history.
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But if Link beats Draven, then we still have f***ing Link potentially winning the contest, especially considering all the strength he'd need to beat Draven.

I'd much rather have Draven sweep the contest than another Link win.
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Not_Wylvane posted...

But if Link beats Draven, then we still have f***ing Link potentially winning the contest, especially considering all the strength he'd need to beat Draven.

I'd much rather have Draven sweep the contest than another Link win.

LoL fans are probably hivemind enough to take out Link, which means we could easily see Sonic in the final (since I doubt they'd support Sephiroth)
I'd take that!

1337gamerpr0 posted...

also, rally popular youtube people to support Link/Pokemon/whatever

Pokemon probably has the best bet. It has a very vocal and broad fanbase, it saves us from Link Always Wins, and I think people care more about Pokemon than the relatively bland Mario or Snake.
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charmander6000 posted...

Anyone find the humor that the person trying to start a Link rally is also trying to get Riot to link to our contest?

What's humorous? At this point this has stopped being abotu the contest for me. It's a social media experiment. Best way to do that is to get a really good live test.

Karma Hunter posted...

Kanz has just whipped himself into a... well, it's something. It's just rebounding off of one contradictory proposal to another in an attempt to maintain interest in a foregone conclusion.

Just like Draven flopping was a foregone conclusion before his match, right?

SnowZangoose posted...

You know, if Epona actually got to battle Draven at some point, I'd probably imagine she would fare better than Link. She's easier to rally for thanks to her half-joke status, will be empowered by Link fans who saw Link's massacre, and she's quite beloved all things considered. Heck, if you really wanted to go the extra distance, you could try rallying her with MLP fans, and that's quite a force right there that definitely wouldn't spare Draven any of its rallied votes!

ya go my epona stable 2013

No she wouldn't. This isn't about an inflexible amount of joke voters, it's about bringing a massive influx of new votes in. For comparison, L-Block could barely get a third of the total vote in its fourway contest victory. Draven just doubled MMX and Ryu combined.

It's about raw votes, and Epona simply doesn't have enough people that will vote for her. It's Link or bust.
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1337gamerpr0 posted...

Sorozone posted...

Kanz is Kanz. He isn't going to change, and I'm not quite sure what goes through his head.

My problem is that he is trying to shove some kind of ideal down our throat of "Well, it only takes one person to start a rally!" Well yeah, no s***. Then tries to act like there are site's or sub reddits that can compete with the LoL one...when there isn't, and he very well knows this because "THE MOST POPULAR GAME IN THE WORLD".

It's annoying.

Kanz is the perfect representation of Reddit, f*** you got mine
take out reddit itself really, unless there really are LCS matches to draw away LoL drones on that day

It's funny that you say that, because I don't even use Reddit. So that means I am the perfect representation of it...in spite of not being a part of it. There's a joke to be made in there, somewhere.

KanzarisKelshen posted...

charmander6000 posted...

Anyone find the humor that the person trying to start a Link rally is also trying to get Riot to link to our contest?

What's humorous? At this point this has stopped being abotu the contest for me. It's a social media experiment. Best way to do that is to get a really good live test.

Karma Hunter posted...

Kanz has just whipped himself into a... well, it's something. It's just rebounding off of one contradictory proposal to another in an attempt to maintain interest in a foregone conclusion.

Just like Draven flopping was a foregone conclusion before his match, right?

It wasn't, and the pre-match nervousness concerning him completely invalidates your argument.

No one is nervous about your 'counter-rally'. No one. It's just tiresome theatrics.
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