Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1147

#301 | ZFS | Posted 9/2/2013 2:11:18 PM | message detail
Greatest of All Time
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#302 | Then00bAvenger | Posted 9/2/2013 2:11:24 PM | message detail
This is so ridiculous, hahaha
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#303 | Kibago | Posted 9/2/2013 2:11:32 PM | message detail
#trend!
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#304 | TheKoolAidShoto | Posted 9/2/2013 2:11:40 PM | message detail
Nothing about this contest makes sense anymore
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#305 | charmander6000 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:11:54 PM | message detail
Before Shepard was going up with Link, now he's getting crushed as badly as Draven now.
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#306 | Kotetsu534 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:11:57 PM | message detail
The Planet Namek is going to explode. They don't care.
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#307 | Achromatic | Posted 9/2/2013 2:11:59 PM | message detail
Link just refuses to lay down like a dog. He is going to lose, but he is going to lose like a god damn hero.
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#308 | DaruniaTheGoron | Posted 9/2/2013 2:12:09 PM | message detail
3 huge cuts wtf
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#309 | Averia | Posted 9/2/2013 2:12:15 PM | message detail
Wait for the Shepard comeback !
With 1000 gain updates !
#310 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 9/2/2013 2:12:18 PM | message detail
RRtexasranger13 posted...
Why would they do that?

Seriously, people aren't thinking rationally about all of this. Reddit won't produce a huge rally for somebody that nobody cares about from a random game, unless there's a bizarre trigger to it (being Reddit, it'd probably be something rape-related that allows the fedora-wearers to white knight).


"Why would they do that?" Have you SEEN the internet? All it is is people trolling each other. Heck, seeing how people are so up in arms about this will likely on egg them on because they know they can get a reaction out of it.

You are aware that this sort of trolling even occurs in real life too, right? Ever heard of "Vote for the Worst?" It's a website/community dedicated to picking the worst/most hated person on American Idol, and vote stuff for them so they stay in the show. They literally just did it for the lulz.


Whoa whoa whoa. That was a low blow.

VFTW wasn't trolling America; only the producers' blatant attempts to manipulate the show. You know, kind of like how we're fighting against Allen's corrupt Reddit-loving ways right now?
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#311 | xp1337 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:12:26 PM | message detail
Yeah, I checked back in for the first time since Bacon had his announcements.

shepard went down what is this
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#312 | LOLContests | Posted 9/2/2013 2:12:43 PM | message detail
Also, keep in mind that Link doesn't have to win the match. He just has to get within 1,000-1,500 votes and then the downtime actually becomes relevant, and a rerun becomes a possibility.

While I agree that a precendent for a rerun has been set, the way things are now, this really isn't the same thing. I would love for the poll to be rerun and I don't think it'd be unjustfied, but the previous two situations were clearly different.

A) The glitch in G/S/C Vs. Xenogears was thought to be eliminating 80%* of the normal votes of a regular poll. That's a pretty big discrepancy that Pokemon might have been able to make up.
B) Ryu H./Jill Valentine was a 50/50 match, and any small shift in votals could have changed the result.

*In reality it might have been more like 66-70%, but at the time we didn't know how much of an effect the bonus polls at the top of the page were causing.
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#313 | DoctorJimmy133 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:12:47 PM | message detail
Okay I really want to know what Bacon has to say about this

Where are all these votes coming from

If it's stuffing, that'd be the first time since the hot new anti-stuffing measures were introduced that stuffs actually got through
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#314 | Squirrelgate | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:11 PM | message detail
RRtexasranger13 posted...
Ever heard of "Vote for the Worst?" It's a website/community dedicated to picking the worst/most hated person on American Idol, and vote stuff for them so they stay in the show. They literally just did it for the lulz.


To be fair, you can vote as many times as you want on American Idol, so you can't really stuff. I may be biased because I found VFTW hilarious during its final years, though.
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#315 | MegatokyoEd | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:20 PM | message detail
Link is just spiking at ridiculous rates.

What the hell is this?
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#316 | Nanis23 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:23 PM | message detail
Link per Update
277
276
288
156
164
156
161
189
171

Draven per Update
198
175
218
220
232
205
235
246
277

This is glorious
This is like the vote stuffer is laughing at us
"OK,I stop do it for Draven,I do it for Link..make it closer..and then go back to Draven"
#317 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:31 PM | message detail
Haha, it's still coming! Quick, where else can we rally?
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#318 | Then00bAvenger | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:35 PM | message detail
LordoftheMorons posted...
Then00bAvenger posted...
Though funny thing is that he could continue this all the way to the end of the match and it still probably wouldn't be enough

At this pace Link would win. He can't afford to be doing that much worse than this on average, though.


I guess, but one single stall and it would be over. The odds of not having one single stall has got to be monumentally low.
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#319 | SubDeity | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:55 PM | message detail
What do fedoras have to do with anything?

It's a popular hat among hipsters and the 20-something angstheists who populate reddit's worst subs.
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#320 | ZFS | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:57 PM | message detail
MegatokyoEd posted...
Link is just spiking at ridiculous rates.

What the hell is this?


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#321 | tgs2 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:13:59 PM | message detail
TsunamiXXVIII posted...
RRtexasranger13 posted...
Why would they do that?

Seriously, people aren't thinking rationally about all of this. Reddit won't produce a huge rally for somebody that nobody cares about from a random game, unless there's a bizarre trigger to it (being Reddit, it'd probably be something rape-related that allows the fedora-wearers to white knight).


"Why would they do that?" Have you SEEN the internet? All it is is people trolling each other. Heck, seeing how people are so up in arms about this will likely on egg them on because they know they can get a reaction out of it.

You are aware that this sort of trolling even occurs in real life too, right? Ever heard of "Vote for the Worst?" It's a website/community dedicated to picking the worst/most hated person on American Idol, and vote stuff for them so they stay in the show. They literally just did it for the lulz.


Whoa whoa whoa. That was a low blow.

VFTW wasn't trolling America; only the producers' blatant attempts to manipulate the show. You know, kind of like how we're fighting against Allen's corrupt Reddit-loving ways right now?


There's voting for the worst, and then there's voting for Sanjaya
#322 | charmander6000 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:14:28 PM | message detail
If it's stuffing, that'd be the first time since the hot new anti-stuffing measures were introduced that stuffs actually got through

Honestly unless someone brings up new information to him any "stuffed" votes are going to look like normal voters to him.
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#323 | JJH777 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:14:35 PM | message detail
DoctorJimmy133 posted...
Okay I really want to know what Bacon has to say about this

Where are all these votes coming from

If it's stuffing, that'd be the first time since the hot new anti-stuffing measures were introduced that stuffs actually got through


No it wouldn't Draven has been stuffing every round.
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#324 | squall1981 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:14:42 PM | message detail
both need to be DQ ed obvious cheating going on from both sides
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#325 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 9/2/2013 2:14:45 PM | message detail
DoctorJimmy133 posted...
Okay I really want to know what Bacon has to say about this

Where are all these votes coming from

If it's stuffing, that'd be the first time since the hot new anti-stuffing measures were introduced that stuffs actually got through


Hey, yeah. Anyone managed to get in contact with zophar today?
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#326 | DaruniaTheGoron | Posted 9/2/2013 2:14:50 PM | message detail
Link the GOAT

He's the true ****ing champ even if Draven wins, only he could stand up against rallying this insane.
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#327 | Nanis23 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:14:57 PM | message detail
This is no way legit for Link,no way at all
I don't think anyone that supports Link actually believes that he can go from average 150 per update to 270 per update in the blink of an eye
#328 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 9/2/2013 2:15:44 PM | message detail
tgs2 posted...
TsunamiXXVIII posted...
RRtexasranger13 posted...
Why would they do that?

Seriously, people aren't thinking rationally about all of this. Reddit won't produce a huge rally for somebody that nobody cares about from a random game, unless there's a bizarre trigger to it (being Reddit, it'd probably be something rape-related that allows the fedora-wearers to white knight).


"Why would they do that?" Have you SEEN the internet? All it is is people trolling each other. Heck, seeing how people are so up in arms about this will likely on egg them on because they know they can get a reaction out of it.

You are aware that this sort of trolling even occurs in real life too, right? Ever heard of "Vote for the Worst?" It's a website/community dedicated to picking the worst/most hated person on American Idol, and vote stuff for them so they stay in the show. They literally just did it for the lulz.


Whoa whoa whoa. That was a low blow.

VFTW wasn't trolling America; only the producers' blatant attempts to manipulate the show. You know, kind of like how we're fighting against Allen's corrupt Reddit-loving ways right now?


There's voting for the worst, and then there's voting for Sanjaya


...Okay, I can't defend them for that one. Sanjaya was awful.

Still better than Lazaro, though. Ugh.
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#329 | ZFS | Posted 9/2/2013 2:15:57 PM | message detail
Draven has been pretty illegitimate himself. Bring on the wild Link updates!
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#330 | Sorozone | Posted 9/2/2013 2:16:37 PM | message detail
Link is awesome. This match is complete an utter nuts.
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#331 | Nanis23 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:16:40 PM | message detail
And Link dropped to "252"
What is going on? really?
#332 | ShatteredElysium | Posted 9/2/2013 2:16:49 PM | message detail
Yeah, I think the only way this could have looked any more blatant would be if it had been for Shepard.
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#333 | XIII_rocks | Posted 9/2/2013 2:16:59 PM | message detail
Not legit at all. Not. At. All.

But Draven's only going to die dirtily.
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#334 | charmander6000 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:17:04 PM | message detail
It's only okay if the character I like is doing it

>_>
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#335 | Denzokuken | Posted 9/2/2013 2:17:10 PM | message detail
Link is the only one who is stuffing. But this is the stats topic, who were convinced, for example, that Missingno was stuffing when it was Tidus doing most of it. Whatever the stats topic says on stuffing, the opposite is true.
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#336 | Scarlettail | Posted 9/2/2013 2:18:00 PM | message detail
Link will still be the strongest, nonrallied character.
#337 | charmander6000 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:18:00 PM | message detail
Assuming it is the same person it could give Allen a chance to catch it.
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#338 | Fr0zoN | Posted 9/2/2013 2:18:41 PM | message detail
Its painfully obvious at this point that the stuffing measures do nothing. This is probably someone screwing around just to show how stupid allen is
#339 | ZFS | Posted 9/2/2013 2:18:44 PM | message detail
charmander6000 posted...
It's only okay if the character I like is doing it

>_>


I'm of the mind that it's generally bad news, but if it's going to be one sided, then the other side might as well! Rallies, vote stuffing, whatever - it's gross when one side is doing it, but the 'best' matches usually end up with both.
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#340 | Nanis23 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:18:51 PM | message detail
charmander6000 posted...
It's only okay if the character I like is doing it

>_>


I hope it's sarcasm
This is not legit,we have been calling Draven vote trends "not legit" the entire match and I think we already know what "not legit" looks like

Unless there is a crazy rally topic for Link going on somewhere,this is in no way legit
#341 | SnoicFactor | Posted 9/2/2013 2:19:03 PM | message detail
Scarlettail posted...
Link will still be the strongest, nonrallied character.


what? People have been making rallies everywhere for him.
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#342 | hylianknight3 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:19:43 PM | message detail
Denzo, you're mistaken. Shepard is the only one stuffing!
#343 | TheOneAboveAll | Posted 9/2/2013 2:20:03 PM | message detail
It looks like a potential ridiculously exciting finish, but I can't get into it when I know both sides are cheating rampantly.
#344 | ZinsanityCraze | Posted 9/2/2013 2:20:03 PM | message detail
Scarlettail posted...
Link will still be the strongest, nonrallied character.


Non rallied? All of the lunatic Link fangirls are out there rallying/stuffing for him. Wake up dude.
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#345 | charmander6000 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:20:23 PM | message detail
I want to see Shepard cut Link now
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#346 | Nanis23 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:20:37 PM | message detail
Fr0zoN posted...
Its painfully obvious at this point that the stuffing measures do nothing. This is probably someone screwing around just to show how stupid allen is


If it turns on "lightning-02" was the true mastermind behind this contest and not just the one that rallied L-Block and Vivi,this is a pure gold Board 8 drama
He also got some kind of agenda against Allen,I believe that "this downtime was a coincidence" really annoyed him and he lost patience
#347 | Then00bAvenger | Posted 9/2/2013 2:20:37 PM | message detail
Link gonna run out of proxies soon!
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#348 | tgs2 | Posted 9/2/2013 2:21:20 PM | message detail
AHAHAHAH The stuffer is toying with Allen now
#349 | Sorozone | Posted 9/2/2013 2:21:27 PM | message detail
LMAO @ that last update. Jesus.
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#350 | ctesjbuvf | Posted 9/2/2013 2:21:29 PM | message detail
Sickest cut ever
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