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So how long does it take to find out how many fun/karma entries are above me >_> XIII is out, just need to knock off 4 more... --- Welcome to the League of raytan, 2013 Guru Champ ##Alec |
Nanis23 posted... red sox 777 posted...I have to side the LoL Reddit's view of this one. Board 8 was too scared of seeing Link lose to Draven again, so we chickened out. Sure...except no LoL champion would really be considered a trollish choice. Even the bottom tier champions have their fans. Even if you voted Teemo by a landslide, exactly nobody would care. LoL fans aren't going to get bent out of shape about a poll like it's a damn presidential election. |
Lvthn posted... Nanis23 posted...red sox 777 posted...I have to side the LoL Reddit's view of this one. Board 8 was too scared of seeing Link lose to Draven again, so we chickened out. With how they cared about this contest? Pffft I doubt And if Riot says the winner champion gets a new special skin that everyone gets? You can imagine just how much rage will be if Teemo wins |
Even
if you voted Teemo by a landslide, exactly nobody would care. LoL fans
aren't going to get bent out of shape about a poll like it's a damn
presidential election. You didn't see the beginning of Draven/Mewtwo did you? --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
To be fair most of us on the LoL board expected Teemo to lose. :p Keep in mind that he is the only champion with an official death count in our infographics. --- Common sense seems more uncommon. |
Nanis23 posted... Lvthn posted...Nanis23 posted...red sox 777 posted...I have to side the LoL Reddit's view of this one. Board 8 was too scared of seeing Link lose to Draven again, so we chickened out. If the poll were one to get a new skin, rest assured it would be on official forums, not reddit, and no invasion would even hope to overpower the internal vote. The winner wouldn't even be the most popular champion, but a newer champ with only two skins. There's a long list of champs that have yet to get skins beyond their release pair. |
AlecTrevelyan006 posted... So how long does it take to find out how many fun/karma entries are above me >_> Look at XIII's topic. I think you need one more guy at most Unfortunately this does mean that Greyfield won money despite being absolutely awful --- I don't know how much you know about women, but Dr. Pizza is an expert. - The Mana Sword Congrats to Raytan, CBIX Guru champion |
Greyfeld winning money is the most upsetting thing about a pretty bad Monday. --- Die young and save yourself. Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work. |
I didn't chicken out of seeing Link lose, because I still don't necessarily mind seeing Link lose But I did chicken out of the board remaining a cesspool for another day. --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. Raytan did pretty well. |
And
yeah the beginning of Mewtwo/Draven proved beyond a shadow of a doubt
how much that community cared about this thing. At least we're in a
community dedicated to them! --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. Raytan did pretty well. |
Karma Hunter posted... Characters need to be very, very wary of Kefka and GlaDOS. They carved their way to Round 3 without so much as breaking a sweat and put up nice scores on Snake. Agree on GLaDOS, but not so much on Kefka. I can't help but reiterate, his round 2 opponents seemed even weaker than his round one opponents - would you take Lara Croft or Altair to upend Zack or Ryu Hayabusa? And we know full well - Kefka's matches make no goddamn sense (the day he actually does something that makes sense is the day GameFAQs implodes). --- "Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia |
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either remove prizes or kick anything LoL out for the next contest actually both |
AlecTrevelyan006 posted... So how long does it take to find out how many fun/karma entries are above me >_> So far, Expert Challenge: #1. Fun #2. Fun #3. Karma #4. Prize #5. - #6. Prize #7. - #8. Karma #9. - #10. - #11. - #12. Prize #13. - #14. Prize #15. You --- Kept you waiting, huh? congrats to raytan, Guru Champ! |
Fayt_Esteed posted... Karma Hunter posted...Zack and Hayabusa indeed did better on Kefka than Altair or Lara Croft just like you would think so uh. Not sure what the problem is!Characters need to be very, very wary of Kefka and GlaDOS. They carved their way to Round 3 without so much as breaking a sweat and put up nice scores on Snake. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Nanis23 posted... red sox 777 posted...I have to side the LoL Reddit's view of this one. Board 8 was too scared of seeing Link lose to Draven again, so we chickened out. Yes, because they know you don't have nearly enough numbers to make a difference. --- "For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me." - Psalm 69:9 |
Link's
domination in the USA is weird sometimes. For example, in Link Vs.
Cluod last time, despite Link and Cloud both having parts of the USA
they do better in normally, Link won by roughly the same percentage in
almost every state. It's not quite as uniform this time, as Link appears
to be getting held down in all the big population states. Maybe city
people like Snake more? But if that's the case, why is he doing worse in
D.C. than he is in the country at large? --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. |
So if anyone doubts that Snake isn't the 2nd strongest non-LOL rallied character, here it is. Snake vs. Mario and Snake vs. Samus probably end in Snake's favor. Snake would beat both FF7 characters. Unfortunately, barring MG1+2 remakes to complete the cycle, I think Solid Snake's peak is here, similar to Cloud and Sephiroth's peak and Crono's peak a decade ago. --- Currently Playing: Persona 3 FES Currently Reading: Nothing Currently Currently Watching: Dr. Who |
VeryInsane posted... So if anyone doubts that Snake isn't the 2nd strongest non-LOL rallied character, here it is. there's this thing called mgs 5 --- Fast Falcon ate my bracket for dinner in the guru contest. |
I
don't Snake will beat Link going forward, if only because we're in a
down period for Nintendo and there's always a chance that reverses and
there's going to be another big Zelda game to fight off MGSV, but Snake
should be able to maintain #2 and stay pretty close to Link all the
same. The gap between #2 and the rest of the field is a lot smaller than
it was when Cloud was there, though. --- ZELDA |
dethfdddddh posted... VeryInsane posted...So if anyone doubts that Snake isn't the 2nd strongest non-LOL rallied character, here it is. That's not Solid Snake. He might still get a little stronger, but it's not gonna boost him like Brawl/MGS4. --- Currently Playing: Persona 3 FES Currently Reading: Nothing Currently Currently Watching: Dr. Who |
MGS3 gave Snake a healthy boost. --- ~War~ |
Espeon8 posted... Yes, because they know you don't have nearly enough numbers to make a difference. you may find that next time your "numbers" won't mean anything |
1337gamerpr0 posted... either remove prizes or kick anything LoL out for the next contest Actually I had jokingly thought of a solution on our board the other day, unfortunately I couldn't find the thread anymore. (more than likely deleted, since it was initially blatantly anti-LoL, most are archived) The thing is at this point I haven't seen any other suggestions that wouldn't otherwise just be unfair to LoL itself, so at this point I felt like letting everyone here hear about it. Essentially, one way to keep LoL players here happy would be to have another separate contest for LoL champions all together. Before anyone thinks this is a horrible idea, hear me out~ The main benefit of this would be two-fold; it would keep LoL out of the normal character battles all together and it would help board 8 understand the popularity hierarchy within LoL itself. At best LoL would only be represented in the bonus poll against the normal character battle champion after both contests are complete, in which case it shouldn't really matter too much since it is just a bonus poll. The LoL board/players would be content that they get a popularity contest of their own, and presumably board 8 would be glad to never again see any LoL-related characters/rallies in their future character battles. --- Common sense seems more uncommon. |
Don't
know if you've seen it but an r/lol moderator posted here earlier today
with regard the "gamefaqs staff member" contact during the Mewtwo
match. I've contacted him on Reddit and the guy listed as an r/lol moderator verified it's legit. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/67252264/758088679 The main point of note is the claim that the first person contacting them claiming to be a staff member and for the Draven rally to be taken down was SBAllen himself. They were contacted later (again by SBAllen) looking for the rally to be put back up. |
AxemRedRanger posted... Fayt_Esteed posted...Karma Hunter posted...Zack and Hayabusa indeed did better on Kefka than Altair or Lara Croft just like you would think so uh. Not sure what the problem is!Characters need to be very, very wary of Kefka and GlaDOS. They carved their way to Round 3 without so much as breaking a sweat and put up nice scores on Snake. And there's the rub - Lara and Altair aren't exactly contest stalwarts. --- "Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia |
Darkemaste posted... 1337gamerpr0 posted...either remove prizes or kick anything LoL out for the next contest Counter-point: The last contest was made to be unfair to fans of things that are popular on GameFAQs. LoL fans are in no position to complain about being treated unfairly. If you guys follow these things so much to know that OMG LINK ALWAYS WINZ, you should know that the admin doesn't like it when popular things do well. :) --- ~War~ |
It's
hard to tell if this is peak Snake, because I figured peak Snake was in
2010. The thing is... how does Snake get stronger? I mean, shouldn't he
be entering a FF7/Crono stage now? He is effectively no longer an
active gaming character, according to Kojima at least. He won't be the
focus of any Metal Gear "Solid" games regardless of the continuation of
the series. I mean the fact Big Boss looks like Solid Snake might be
helpful, but how much? I figure that if we do have another battle, Link will have had a new game out by then and should be pretty far ahead of everyone else. --- Still smilin' :> |
Do
you know what I wouldn't mind (that also would never happen)? If we
worked out a deal with reddit that in, say, 1 week, we have a final
rematch. We'll call it Link vs. Draven, but it will really be GameFAQs
vs. Reddit. Give each of us a week to prepare a rally. 1v1, 24 hours, no
holds barred. It would definitely be an interesting spectacle, that's
for sure. --- Raytan7585 is better than me at redditFAQs |
1v1
(and 24 hour matches) is our best and easiest solution. It is absurdly
harder to do this kind of thing in 1v1. We'd like to boost our votals
back up to their old levels, but that's hard. In the meantime, 1v1 can
help a lot. Draven is not an unbeatable tyrant in 1v1. Link might win,
and Snake would break 45% with ease. Mario might break 45% if he's
popular over on Reddit. Samus might even break 45%. Draven is almost
assuredly less dominant in a 1v1 contest than Link 2010, and that was
the least dominant Link we've seen since 2003 (and weaker than 2003 Link
to boot, there was just a stronger character there to capitalize in
2003 Cloud). --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
lightning-02 posted... Don't know if you've seen it but an r/lol moderator posted here earlier today with regard the "gamefaqs staff member" contact during the Mewtwo match. What the... Yeah you clearly got some kind of agenda against him so taking your theories seriously is a bad idea..but..we know for sure it was Allen that contacted them later so if it's really the same person then..uh But im not sure,we already know how stupid they are so maybe the whole "verified their identity" in the first time was actually a mistake they made? |
you should know that the admin doesn't like it when popular things do well. :) is that why he won't appear on The Show???? --- http://i.imgur.com/RHvCiY3.png |
Nanis23 posted... lightning-02 posted...Don't know if you've seen it but an r/lol moderator posted here earlier today with regard the "gamefaqs staff member" contact during the Mewtwo match. It's not my theory, read the moderators post. He clearly says both contact was from the same person, while Allen has admitted to contacting them the second time. For it to be a mod misunderstanding the context of his description of the second contact talks about a reversal of an error from the initial request, implying the first contact was the same person. Somebody is lying. |
vcharon posted... It's hard to tell if this is peak Snake, because I figured peak Snake was in 2010. The thing is... how does Snake get stronger? I mean, shouldn't he be entering a FF7/Crono stage now? He is effectively no longer an active gaming character, according to Kojima at least. He won't be the focus of any Metal Gear "Solid" games regardless of the continuation of the series. I mean the fact Big Boss looks like Solid Snake might be helpful, but how much? MGS is still an active series, though, and the lead character is always 'Snake' in some form or another. It keeps the whole series in people's minds and gets them excited about it, since it's all one continuous story. FF games are too different and diverse, not to mention dividing, to have that impact on Cloud. --- ZELDA |
Yeah
claiming Solid Snake will get weaker depsite new games is a tough sell
because the main part of the name is "Snake", and a guy called "Snake"
all the time who looks like Solid Snake is going to be the star for the
near-future. It'd be like if a guy named Strife who looked exactly like Cloud (except with an eyepatch) was the star of every post-FFVII Final Fantasy. There's no way that wouldn't help Cloud. --- ~War~ |
FranzyvonKarma posted...
Thats the thing though, there was previously no significant reason for the LoL board itself to have an investment in previous character battles. It wouldn't be that much of an exaggeration to say that most of us hardly knew anything about the character battle prior to this, or knew that b8 even existed for that matter. In the end I suppose I was just trying to find something both sides could agree on. *shrugs* --- Common sense seems more uncommon. |
lightning-02 posted... It's not my theory, read the moderators post. He clearly says both contact was from the same person, while Allen has admitted to contacting them the second time. For it to be a mod misunderstanding the context of his description of the second contact talks about a reversal of an error from the initial request, implying the first contact was the same person. Probably the mods who have been exposed as morons on multiple occasions? --- Congratulation to the 2013 CB9 Guru winner, raytan! But hey, at least I'm #4! Previous Let's Plays: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Not_Wylvane posted... lightning-02 posted...It's not my theory, read the moderators post. He clearly says both contact was from the same person, while Allen has admitted to contacting them the second time. For it to be a mod misunderstanding the context of his description of the second contact talks about a reversal of an error from the initial request, implying the first contact was the same person. Maybe |
It
goes without saying (or DOES IT), but a lot depends on the reception of
MGSV. MGSIV gave Snake a nice boost, but let's remember that that game
was a "hero" in and of itself and was seen as the savior of the PS3, a
stalwart Sony release in an industry that was shifting heavily toward
westernization and mulitplatform ports. Its performance in the 2009
contest (and subsequent dropoff just 1.5 years later) indicate just how
big that game's release was. Will MGSV have the same "identity" at launch? Unlike IV, it's releasing on FOUR consoles at once. If it gets a lukewarm reception, then the hype could be bigger than the actual game. And if you think I'm crazy please remember that no one on GameFAQs plays games anymore. --- http://i.imgur.com/IjkDZMA.jpg |
Not_Wylvane posted... lightning-02 posted...It's not my theory, read the moderators post. He clearly says both contact was from the same person, while Allen has admitted to contacting them the second time. For it to be a mod misunderstanding the context of his description of the second contact talks about a reversal of an error from the initial request, implying the first contact was the same person. Pretty much. I think the mods are covering for or are not aware of the fact that they were duped during the Mewtwo match. I mean, I don't completely trust Allen myself, but if it comes down to the word of SBAllen vs. the word of the LoL Subreddit mods, I know which side I'm believing. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! I may be the greatone, but raytan is a greatguru. |
At this level of strength it is really hard to boost. Most of the site already loves you. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/users/Poll5267/boards This account is so totally useless now Thanks,/r/lol mods for ruining what could have been a good bonus match |
My alt is better! |
_SecretSquirrel posted... Not_Wylvane posted...lightning-02 posted...It's not my theory, read the moderators post. He clearly says both contact was from the same person, while Allen has admitted to contacting them the second time. For it to be a mod misunderstanding the context of his description of the second contact talks about a reversal of an error from the initial request, implying the first contact was the same person. Well it doesn't make much sense why Allen would lie on this particular matter. The most damning part to him was the part he admitted. I doubt they're going to divulge in the messages sent on that night so it's probably more likely it's further evidence of the r/lol mods really needing to get their **** together. |
I
don't think there's any question the hype will be bigger than the
release, provided it reaches those same highs. At the same time, though,
it hitting every platform means everyone will have a chance to
experience it without any hassle, if it gets big enough and has
everyone's attention. It being multiplatform will definitely take away
the luster if being an exclusive and a reason to buy a whole system.
With all that in mind, Snake still has plenty of exposure, thanks to
MGS4 and Brawl. He can't actually reach much wider of an audience here
at this point. And even then, Zelda HD is a thing, so as far as
challenging Link and beating him? Unlikely, I think. But he won't drop
off either. --- ZELDA |
I still wish we could've gotten Bulbasaur/Squirtle/Charmander match. --- http://myanimelist.net/animelist/swordz9 |
More pokemon matches? No thanks! --- you just can't live in that negative way...make way for the positive day |
vcharon posted... It's hard to tell if this is peak Snake, because I figured peak Snake was in 2010. The thing is... how does Snake get stronger? I mean, shouldn't he be entering a FF7/Crono stage now? He is effectively no longer an active gaming character, according to Kojima at least. He won't be the focus of any Metal Gear "Solid" games regardless of the continuation of the series. I mean the fact Big Boss looks like Solid Snake might be helpful, but how much? IMO new franchise games help even if they don't contain/focus on the character. The only reason Cloud has fallen so far is because all the recent Final Fantasy's have been so poorly received. --- 9/1/13-The Hero of GameFAQs fought bravely but fell to an unrelenting horde supported by a corrupt tyranny. R.I.P. Hero of Time, 7 time CB Champion, Link |
I
kind of wish we could do bonus stuff like this more often outside of
contest season. Something like once or twice a month we have a bonus
match with pics and no prizes or karma or anything at stake instead of
the normal polls we usually get. B8 would be more than happy to create
match pics for fun and it'd be something to spice up the site a little
bit. --- http://myanimelist.net/animelist/swordz9 |
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