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That
would be nice, but either Snake or Link would probably be considerably
weaker by the end of the gauntlet, because they always win. We are
taking the 7 most beloved characters on the site after Link/Snake and
having them beaten in 7 consecutive days- that's going to fuel up the
anti-votes. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
Karma Hunter posted... Link v Noble Nine in ascending order might be worth seeing to see if his anti-votes build up from the frustration with the LAW and allow Snake to catch him on the final day. Perhaps, but I'm talking about which matches would be best from the perspective of accurately ranking the Noble Nine. If accuracy is the goal, Snake's a better reference point. You'd probably have to space the matches out over a lengthy period of time to prevent fatigue from setting in regardless of which character's making repeat appearances. --- The Legend of Snake: http://tinyurl.com/3cal86z The LoS Instruction Manual: http://tinyurl.com/3jlax8h |
Obviously we don't do it BR style. We just do it Link v Sonic, then Link v Sephiroth, then Link v Crono, until we get to the plucky underdog who never wins on the final day. :3 --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
You do that and I'm pretty sure the final day is Cloud vs Snake. Attrition would take Link before he got to Snake I think --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Maybe once a month? Then nominations for the next contest open on the day of the last one. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
It
wouldn't be too hard to get a ranking of the NN in a regular bracket,
provided it's made to avoid the more obvious SFF setups. We have a good
enough feel for the top half and the bottom half, anyway, I think. --- banana |
Cleanest
read on the Noble Nine requires keeping Mario away from Samus and Mega
Man (probably Sonic too, regrettably), keeping Cloud away from
Sephiroth, and keeping basically everyone except Snake, Cloud, and
Sephiroth away from Link (I don't trust even Crono to not get
overperformed on a tad by Link these days). --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
Crono
will do perfectly fine on Link. With the anti-votes Link gets, he
might even overperform a bit relative to what he'd get through Cloud or
Snake. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
FF7 remake on 3DS Link starts putting SFF on even more of the Noble Nine |
I
think the major ones to avoid are Mario/Samus, Mario/Mega Man, Link and
Mario/Samus (unless in the final). Everything else I think you can roll
with without it dramatically changing the stats, nothing that wouldn't
be easy enough to get an adjustment on. --- banana |
Mario Cloud Snake Samus Megaman Sephiroth Crono Sonic Winner vs Link 1v1. If Link wins, he gets retired forever. --- #1 Titans fan If Luigiman says it, then it must be true. -oj1985 |
Sonic
is one of the biggest wild cards we have right now among the Nobles as
far as his strength is concerned. Keeping him away from Link and Mario
is of paramount importance if your objective is a clean read (as opposed
to finally seeing Mario v Sonic). I could see a doubling for Mario
there today. --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
Mario
vs Sonic I honestly don't know. I mean Sonic massacred Bowser this
year and Shadow held up well against Mario in 03 (yeah yeah 10 years ago
but worth thinking about). I could see Sonic winning that or getting
doubled, but I think it's more likely that the match is for the most
part safe. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Fayt_Esteed posted... At any rate, while there were doubts about Charizard before the contest, mainly because it made everyone he faced overrated in the stats... what the heck went down for Charizard to suck so badly??? Charizard was getting SFFd/LFFd by Mega Man/Zero as well, as they are both pseudo-Nintendo. This minimzed how much he was able to gain from the Mega Man fanbase split. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. |
SMW
v Sonic 2, Mario/Bowser v Sonic/Robotnik give me a lot more pause.
Mario was just straight up hated and weaker in 2k3. I believe
Mario/Sonic could have been a barnburner in 2004. Nowadays, yeah, I'd
expect a doubling before a clean read. --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
Karma Hunter posted... I see no reason why they couldn't replicate that magic! Between 4chan rallies and Pokerallies, there are very few things that would be safe from something like Mudkip. Even if they didn't get rallied quite as hard in a future contest that decline would be nothing compared to how much our votals have tanked. Remember Super Mario World vs. Final Fantasy vs. Battletoads in the Best Game Ever 2 contest, and how 4chan rallied Battletoads several thousand votes, but it didn't mean a damn thing at all because that match drew well over 100000 votes? Imagine if that poll took place today with only 50,000 for 24 hour matches. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! I may be the greatone, but raytan is a greatguru. |
Fatal Threeway The Legend of Zelda Super Mario Bros. Battletoads --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
Sonic's
performance on Bowser this year wasn't good. Bowser was a hopeless last
placer being LFFed in two different directions between Mario/Sonic LFF
and Nintendo LFF. Bowser also hasn't looked like a real near-elite since
around 2006, with his 2010 win against Sora now looking the opposite of
impressive. This very contest, Bowser failed to 60-40 The Boss. In a day match. But despite all that, Bowser broke 40% on Sonic. Split Mewtwo's votes 50/50 (Should be reasonable, Bowser's actually Nintendo and Sonic isn't) and he'd get 44.51% on Sonic. For comparison: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2545 And that was in 2006, when Bowser was very likely stronger than he is now. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
What if the next contest combines 3-ways with the classic 1v1 format? - first round: 3-way for 12 hours - second round: 1v1 for 12 hours - from the third round until the finals: 1v1 for 24 hours They do it like this in the Saimoe tournament and it seems to work okay --- Hentai? I didn't ask for hentai. I asked for anime, you moron. *clicks and downloads* - Hayato118 |
I'd
like second round on to be 24 hours as well as 1v1. Assuming the field
gets winnowed down to 32 entrants by R2 (starting at 96 entrants) that
would be a trivial increase. And most of the R2 matches should be really good affairs that deserve a 24 hour setup. --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
snoocete posted... What if the next contest combines 3-ways with the classic 1v1 format? Personally, I'd prefer 24 hours for the second round onward. --- "Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia |
Karma Hunter posted... I'd like second round on to be 24 hours as well as 1v1. Assuming the field gets winnowed down to 32 entrants by R2 (starting at 96 entrants) that would be a trivial increase. And most of the R2 matches should be really good affairs that deserve a 24 hour setup. that 47-day contest! |
96 entrants sound reasonable but that's a lot lower than the 243 we had in CB9. So I was thinking double that! 192 entrants. Which gives 32 entrants remaining at round 3. 32 characters doing 1v1 for 24 hours leave a lot of room for N9 + many other elites, near elites and upsets from R1/R2. Some rough time estimations: 64 battles @ 2 matches a day = 32 days to cover round 1 after round 1 -> 64 entrants remaining 32 battles @ 2 matches a day = 16 days to cover round 2 after round 2 -> 32 entrants remaining 16 days to cover round 3, 8 days to cover round 4, 4 days to cover round 5, 2 days for semifinals, one finals day... = 31 days until the end of the contest Assuming there are no bonus matches between rounds the whole contest season runs for 79 days, which is 11 days longer than CB9. If we have 24-hour matches at round 2 this would stretch to 111 days. --- Hentai? I didn't ask for hentai. I asked for anime, you moron. *clicks and downloads* - Hayato118 |
snoocete posted... 96 entrants sound reasonable but that's a lot lower than the 243 we had in CB9. 192 characters?? That's just stupid, to be blunt. --- "Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia |
clearly Allen has decided to make CBX a 256-character, 4-way affair |
Fayt_Esteed posted... 192 characters?? That's just stupid, to be blunt. Didn't we just finish a contest with 243 characters 1337gamerpr0 posted... clearly Allen has decided to make CBX a 256-character, 4-way affair Draven/L-Block/Link/Snake finals go go go --- Hentai? I didn't ask for hentai. I asked for anime, you moron. *clicks and downloads* - Hayato118 |
snoocete posted... Fayt_Esteed posted...192 characters?? That's just stupid, to be blunt. well, that is another reason why this contest was stupid |
snoocete posted... Fayt_Esteed posted...192 characters?? That's just stupid, to be blunt. Doesn't make the idea any less dumb. --- "Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia |
Don't retire Snake. I would still take Mario over Snake and maybe even Samus. He's not untouchable. --- "Thank you, thank you, no applause necessary, just send money..." |
snoocete posted... Fayt_Esteed posted...192 characters?? That's just stupid, to be blunt. What makes you think Draven fans would vote for L-Block? It's not like he wasn't nominated for anything other than being the first LoL character to join this contest. Though it's a moot point because I can assure you Draven won't be there next time. ;) http://i.imgur.com/TvmIx8v.gif --- Common sense seems more uncommon. |
I was thinking if Draven and L-Block ends up in the same 4-way group some votes would spill over to L They have a very positive opinion about the block because it killed Teemo in the first round --- Hentai? I didn't ask for hentai. I asked for anime, you moron. *clicks and downloads* - Hayato118 |
RIP Master Chief --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Yeah, holy s***. --- raytanFEAR |
...less than 9% of the site is planning to get an Xbox One? --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
Honestly I don't think anyone from our board really expected him to get past R1. Hell I anti-voted him myself. *cough Palutena cough* I don't think it would of made too much of a difference who he was up against or who beat him tbh, he could of been up against Chester 1v1 and Teemo still would of lost simply due to Teemo hate. *hint hint* http://i.imgur.com/32puRKJ.jpg --- Common sense seems more uncommon. |
Karma Hunter posted... ...less than 9% of the site is planning to get an Xbox One? still higher than Wii U! *shot* |
Welcome to SonyFAQs --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
Karma Hunter posted... Welcome to SonyFAQs Link OP, holding strong in SonyFAQs |
Karma Hunter posted... Welcome to SonyFAQs The PlayStation 4 option did better when we had this poll back in June. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5117 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5269 The option for "No, but I plan to buy a PlayStation 4" is doing about 15% worse in today's poll compared to the poll back in June. However, you really have to blame the wording of the option in today's poll for the decline. The moment you add "in the next year" to that poll option, it causes some voters to switch over to "No, I don't plan to buy either console right now" because they know they aren't going to get either system within the next year. 1337gamerpr0 posted... still higher than Wii U! *shot* Wii U already has a higher ownership rate than the percentage of people interested in the Xbox One. And most of the site agrees that the Wii U is better than Xbox One, according to this poll: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5116 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
-LusterSoldier- posted... 1337gamerpr0 posted...still higher than Wii U! *shot* stop ruining the joke, damn it >_> |
Karma Hunter posted... Welcome to SonyFAQs Welcome to the League of Sony! --- Die young and save yourself. Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work. |
so this means cole macgrath will win a match next time right --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
earnest graves or bust --- raytan is the guru champ, yo yo yo He won it in the year of the draggy crow |
ExThaNemesis posted... Karma Hunter posted...Welcome to SonyFAQs >.> --- Common sense seems more uncommon. |
It
really is kind of baffling how I'm still seeing so much of the board
entertaining Mario being our #2 while solidly putting Crono at the
bottom of the Noble NIne (and a lot of people not even having him as,
like, Top 15). ...I'm not alone in recognizing the mathematical impossibility of these claims right --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
AxemRedRanger posted... so this means cole macgrath will win a match next time right It's all about Delsin Rowe now --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Karma Hunter posted... It really is kind of baffling how I'm still seeing so much of the board entertaining Mario being our #2 while solidly putting Crono at the bottom of the Noble NIne (and a lot of people not even having him as, like, Top 15). If they just totally wrote off/ignored this contest it makes sense! >_> --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
What about this contest means Mario can't be #2 and Crono can't be #9 at the same time --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Mario worth 47%+ on Link indirectly believe --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
People
have been crazy about where they've put Mario and Crono since....2008.
They've just ignored the actual matches and based their opinions on
their grand theories of what should make characters decline/boost. I'm not sure what it's going to take to get through to these people that Mario isn't #2. It might take Snake actually breaking 55% on him in a 1v1, 24 hour match. That might not even do it. Most of this board firmly expected Mario to break 40% directly on Link in 2010, even though he had faced Link 7 times before than and never ever broken 38%. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
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