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I was worried about Charizard in this match pre-contest, but the actual contest erased any doubts I had of him losing. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
1337gamerpr0 posted... Karma Hunter posted...But... Charizard is a fraud. At least to some extent. There isn't much else of a way to spin this! But it is flopping! In this match at least! Unless you mean later on, but it pretty much can't flop anymore. This is as far virtually anyone expected the Pokes to go pre-contest, Charizard aside (who is a massive flop as he is a popular FINALS pick). --- http://i.imgur.com/xiKRQ2F.gif Proud to share the same sig as Chen Kenichi's #1 Fan (also Yoblazer) |
KamikazePotato posted... All the major Pokemon being the exact same strength is actually looking pretty likely at this point. Even Magikarp might not be too far off. You mis-spelled DRONES --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
If anything, this is a strong argument for Zelda fans being bigger drones, if you ask me...! --- http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/8/22/2094c2de-bae8-4f5b-9f27-67eaff0aaeaf.jpg |
Fayt_Esteed posted... 1337gamerpr0 posted...Fayt_Esteed posted...Mario at least was being leeched by Ganondorf. What excuses does Charizard have? None! Zelda might go on to do the upset. The problem for Mega Man was Zero not making it a fair fight. --- Pokemon VGC2013 US National - 39th place Pokemon VGC2013 Worlds LCQ - Top 32 |
creativename posted... My jaw literally dropped and a warm fuzzy feeling of giddiness filled my body. Because how can you not love Vivi? Being there in the first five minutes was the best thing in the world. Haha, oh, look, Vivi is winning in the board vote. Good on you, B8. Huh, he's keeping his lead for a while. Oh, there, Mario took the lead back, time for him to rise to heaven...wait, no, Vivi took it back. Uh, this is close. VIVI. I was in complete disbelief. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
Team Rocket Elite posted... Zelda might go on to do the upset. The problem for Mega Man was Zero not making it a fair fight. ZeldaFAQs gonna push Zelda further than Link if they can you all know this to be true |
vcharon posted... Julian_Caesar posted...Fayt_Esteed posted...Julian_Caesar posted...Fayt_Esteed posted...After this debacle, I'd say turd of the round has Charizard's name all over it. That's why I put "leech" in quote marks, yes. OK, I do kinda see the point. I just don't think that it matters; the number of leech votes for Ganon couldn't possibly be high enough to explain losing to freaking Vivi. It'd be one thing if Mario lost to Zelda and Charizard lost to Vivi. Now that would be an interesting debate. But I feel pretty safe saying that Zelda would beat Vivi in a regular 1v1. Well. Kinda safe, anyway. I doubt Vivi would get rallied against Zelda like he/she/it did against Mario. --- Every day the rest of your life is changed forever. |
KamikazePotato posted... I was worried about Charizard in this match pre-contest, but the actual contest erased any doubts I had of him losing. Yeah same here...or at least, almost all my doubts, I still had some niggling doubt. Until the pic was revealed anyway, after that my confidence in Zelda dropped. Though obviously my notions about the pic were incorrect. LeonhartFour posted... If anything, this is a strong argument for Zelda fans being bigger drones, if you ask me...! DRONES, DRONES EVERYWHERE ARMIES OF THEM --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
creativename posted... KamikazePotato posted...All the major Pokemon being the exact same strength is actually looking pretty likely at this point. Even Magikarp might not be too far off. Pokemon has the ultimate ensemble cast. It's going to have a lot of characters with essentially the same strength because there is no obvious heirarchy. It's not the fans' fault. --- Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but you have died of dysentery. |
Chart from the day match: Time | Zero | Cube | Rikku | Votes 0:05 | 45.19% | 18.75% | 36.06% | 208 1:00 | 42.59% | 27.76% | 29.64% | 5205 2:00 | 40.28% | 29.74% | 29.98% | 3873 3:00 | 41.41% | 28.04% | 30.55% | 3388 4:00 | 41.08% | 30.01% | 28.91% | 2802 5:00 | 41.42% | 28.96% | 29.62% | 2721 6:00 | 40.20% | 30.46% | 29.34% | 2321 7:00 | 42.51% | 29.13% | 28.37% | 2115 8:00 | 42.27% | 30.47% | 27.26% | 1959 9:00 | 40.23% | 30.09% | 29.68% | 1735 10:00 | 43.39% | 26.51% | 30.10% | 1641 11:00 | 43.25% | 27.32% | 29.43% | 1614 12:00 | 43.69% | 27.51% | 28.81% | 1465 Not a lot of shifting, except for Zero doing well and Cube dropping off the last few hours. X-Stats: Zero 50.00% Rikku 41.36% Weighted Companion Cube 40.88% ? Block 39.24% Claptrap 37.16% Lenneth Valkyrie 35.97% Lyndis 27.68% Kratos Aurion 26.13% Boko 26.10% Zero's prediction percentage was 39.91% --- http://i.imgur.com/eqOQs.gif |
I
really hate that Vivi drew Squall next round. I have a feeling that
Squall just SFFs him - kind of a crap ending to a good story. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
KamikazePotato posted... I really hate that Vivi drew Squall next round. I have a feeling that Squall just SFFs him - kind of a crap ending to a good story. Sounds pretty swell to me. Unless Squall loses to Red anyway, then yeah, sucks. --- http://gifsoup.com/view/874243/big-boss-o.gif |
Karma Hunter posted... But... Charizard is a fraud. At least to some extent. There isn't much else of a way to spin this! No one's disagreeing with that. It's just that Mario losing to Vivi was way worse, by most standards. --- Every day the rest of your life is changed forever. |
Maybe people finally got tired of Pokemon domination...? Not sure. Wish they had started feeling that way in Red's match! --- Still smilin' :> |
I seriously doubt Squall beats Red even if Vivi gets SFFd. No way does Red drop that insanely good opportunity. Vivi catching fire again is the only real way anyone but Red advances from that match, and I very much doubt it happens again. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
Pic factor arguments DESTROYED Phoenix Wright > Vincent Valentine CONFIRMED Draven vs Solid Snake vs Zelda COMMENCING --- Ace Detective for Hire http://i.imgur.com/7KESZk8.gif |
Current X-Stats: Zelda 50.00% Charizard 49.05% Riku 33.13% John Marston 30.56% Donkey Kong 29.39% Lightning 26.83% Sackboy 15.42% Falco Lombardi 15.10% Nier 14.98% --- "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!" |
KamikazePotato posted... creativename posted...My jaw literally dropped and a warm fuzzy feeling of giddiness filled my body. Because how can you not love Vivi? I think I clicked sometime in the second hour when Vivi had already built a significant lead. So I right away knew he had a shot to win. Only later on after thinking about it did I become pessimistic because I remembered Mario's "clutch". That was almost (well...maybe not almost) as shocking as Vivi keeping it close - that Mario's clutch failed! Julian_Caesar posted... Well. Kinda safe, anyway. I doubt Vivi would get rallied against Zelda like he/she/it did against Mario. I don't know if the Vivi rally really had anything to do with Mario. It seemed to just be Vivi love. Plus again, it looked like the match would've been close anyway. The Vivi rally very likely boosted him over the top, but I think that would have been a complete turd performance by Mario no matter what. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
Quick question. Link/Draven/Shepard starts at midnight, correct? And is a 24-hr match? --- Every day the rest of your life is changed forever. |
Julian_Caesar posted... Quick question. Link/Draven/Shepard starts at midnight, correct? And is a 24-hr match? Correct. --- http://i52.tinypic.com/2zfiu09.gif http://i54.tinypic.com/10729w2.gif |
Julian_Caesar posted... Quick question. Link/Draven/Shepard starts at midnight, correct? And is a 24-hr match? Yes. We get Mario/Crono/MMX after this in the meantime. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
Just
wondering, what's the EU split votes? I know most come from the UK, but
what are the other generally relevant factors and of how many votes are
we talking about generally? --- SuperNiceDog won the Guru contest super nicely! |
Pic
Factor has been obviously, conclusively proven at this point. What
qualifies is subjective, but if you don't think VV's pic qualified the
bias on that side of the equation is pretty much hopeless. Zelda is probably doing a little better with her OoT look, too. --- http://i.imgur.com/xiKRQ2F.gif Proud to share the same sig as Chen Kenichi's #1 Fan (also Yoblazer) |
Vivi's
result actually didn't seem to upset many people. There were way more
celebration topics than complaint topics. You have to be a SuperGrinch
not to like Vivi, really. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
Vivi
match was gross. Bad result everywhere, worst in some time! Mario
dropping a bit makes sense, though, as does the gap closing between the
NN and the rest of the field. They are certainly not a step above
anymore, to the point where an overwhelming strength gap makes up for
LFF. --- tune in tokyo 142.94 |
KamikazePotato posted... Vivi's result actually didn't seem to upset many people. There were way more celebration topics than complaint topics. You have to be a SuperGrinch not to like Vivi, really. I saw a bunch of complaining in the stats topic(s) about how rallying is RUINING everything --- Want any VNs pre-patched? PM me. List of VNs can be found by clicking on my username. |
Mostly from the same people, though! Sup HM --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
superange128 posted... KamikazePotato posted...Vivi's result actually didn't seem to upset many people. There were way more celebration topics than complaint topics. You have to be a SuperGrinch not to like Vivi, really. Where were there substantial rallies? Thought Vivi just kicked Mario's ass due to LFF. --- FFIXOwner Character Battle IX Bracket: 121/159 |
superange128 posted... I saw a bunch of complaining in the stats topic(s) about how rallying is RUINING everything That's a general complaint about the contest, not about Vivi's match in particular. I don't think people were upset about Vivi himself (HM aside). The LFF is what makes me more nonplussed about a big upset like Vivi more than anything. Even big upsets are made less interesting when LFF is involved. --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonhjpguz.jpg |
creativename posted... Only later on after thinking about it did I become pessimistic because I remembered Mario's "clutch". That was almost (well...maybe not almost) as shocking as Vivi keeping it close - that Mario's clutch failed! That was such a nerve-wracking hour, right up until the 11:40 update when Vivi got a huge gain. I don't know if the Vivi rally really had anything to do with Mario. It seemed to just be Vivi love. I really can't help but think there was a huge swell of Mario anti-votes in that match. As much as Vivi seems to be a loved character, he/she/it has never really been all that amazing in contests. Though I agree, it made the win more memorable that way, just like Knuckles>Magus. Incidentally, 2005 was my first contest and I picked Knuckles > Magus because I didn't have a damn clue what I was doing. My bracket was awful and yet on that one day, I couldn't figure out why everyone was in an uproar. I basically said "uh guys Knuckles is a pretty cool guy, eh has spikes and doesn't afraid of anything" --- Every day the rest of your life is changed forever. |
Rallying
does ruin everything (<_<), but what's good for the goose is good
for the gander. Its disproportionately favored Nintendo this contest,
Draven aside, so someone like Vivi catching the right side for once,
especially against the sketchiest 'rally' artist in our contests (and I
say that with Mario as my #2 character!) is certainly not unwelcome. --- http://i.imgur.com/xiKRQ2F.gif Proud to share the same sig as Chen Kenichi's #1 Fan (also Yoblazer) |
Vivi
is basically the best character in these things to capitalize on Mario
anti-votes or whatever they were. He's not tied to Nintendo at all, and
is universally liked. You could run Mario/Squall/Ganondorf and I
wouldn't be at all surprised if Mario won with ease. What happened then
was the stars aligning, big time. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
I
wasn't complaining about the rallying, just to clarify. It was more the
result of the rallying. Not gonna pretend I wasn't hoping for an
opposite rally at the end! --- tune in tokyo 142.94 |
Eh,
I think you're overstating Vivi's universal belovedness. The guy nearly
lost to Tidus in 2007. Even among his own fanbase, he can barely beat
one of the most divisive characters in the series. --- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/Sensui22/1248835958206.png |
The Owner of FF9 posted... superange128 posted...KamikazePotato posted...Vivi's result actually didn't seem to upset many people. There were way more celebration topics than complaint topics. You have to be a SuperGrinch not to like Vivi, really. There were multiple 500+ reply topics on 4 chan. --- POKEFEAR |
cut --- nt |
Yeah,
this Vivi love-in is a bit much. If Vivi was so universally loved and
adored, he'd be much stronger to begin with. He had the advantage of not
being linked to Nintendo and standing out a lot, on top of a weird
contest and rally support.,Not that it wasn't unexpected, but yeah. --- tune in tokyo 142.94 |
Charizard is destroying Zelda in the UK and in Asia. People think she won't lose >_>? --- nt |
Yeah
I think we may just be in the midst of, like... UpsetFAQs is what I've
been calling it. All upsets, all the time, whenever it's possible! ...sucks even more for Snake! :( (a Squirtle, what's that) --- http://i.imgur.com/xiKRQ2F.gif Proud to share the same sig as Chen Kenichi's #1 Fan (also Yoblazer) |
Considering
how much weaker FF9 is than any of the others (and game strength
matters much more than the actual characters as a whole), Vivi is pretty
damn strong. Before Dissidia, he was the Auron to Zidane's Tidus. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
Vivi is well-liked, but at the same time, FFIX isn't exactly a force in these things. I mean come on the best character in the game literally lost to a glove what is wrong with you of course, Vivi also has one of the most likable designs ever, so I guess there's that --- "Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." |
good to see I was right about DK being pathetic bad to see I was not right about just how pathetic lightning was |
I
will say that Vivi's easier to rally for than most FF characters, but
that's because of the non-FF fans more than the FF fans. He's not a
universal hate magnet for the people who want to see FF fail, like Cloud
and Sephy are. So that's one thing he has in his corner that someone like Squall doesn't. --- "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!" |
13 vote cut --- nt |
SnoicFactor posted... Charizard is destroying Zelda in the UK and in Asia. People think she won't lose >_>? Your inane observations are not garnering you much favor, if you were wondering. --- http://i.imgur.com/xiKRQ2F.gif Proud to share the same sig as Chen Kenichi's #1 Fan (also Yoblazer) |
Zelda being able to RSFF Pokemon could possibly explain Majora > GSC and Midna almost beating Mewtwo! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] |
Karma Hunter posted... SnoicFactor posted...Charizard is destroying Zelda in the UK and in Asia. People think she won't lose >_>? dude, he already started.. People called this for zelda after 10minutes. --- nt |
Vivi's
strong relative to FFIX's base strength, yes, but Squall is so over and
above anything from FFVIII, he might even be more popular than the game
itself. He wouldn't have needed a rally to beat Mario. --- http://www.gifsoup.com/view/593815/frasier-and-niles-dance-o.gif |
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