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Yeah, this topic's probably going to take two months to fill up. ~*creativename's contest site (all things contest!)*~ www.gamefaqscontests.com ~*The Board 8 Wiki (lots of useful contest and board information, including all past Post-Contest Analysis from Ulti, transience, Ed Bellis and others)*~ http://board8.wikia.com/ ~*List of All Polls (a search bar is at the bottom)*~ http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html ~*NGamer64's Archive Sites (good stuff!) and (LOL) X-Stats Sim (some offensive language)*~ http://www.thengamer.com/ http://thengamer.com/xstats ~*GameFAQs Contests Hall of Fame*~ http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/GameFAQs_Contests_Hall_of_Fame http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/GameFAQs_Contests_Match_Hall_of_Fame ~*Character Contest Histories*~ http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Contest_Histories ~*Simple Explanation of Extrapolated Standings*~ A = Strongest Character B = Character Weaker than A C = Character Weaker than B To figure out a character's Xsts Percentage ---> [(CvB)(BvA)]/50 = CvA To compare how C would do against B ---> [(CvA)/(BvA)]*50 = CvB To figure out how B would do against A ---> [(CvA)/(CvB)]*50 = BvA ~*All the Match Pics*~ http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery/index.php ~*Leonhart4's Trend Charts*~ https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en&key=tOGmynfNIiNy5VukpEF-PdA&hl=en#gid=0 ~*Daily Vote Trends - An Explanation for Dummies*~ http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Daily_Vote_Trends ~*Acronyms and Percentages for Dummies*~ http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Acronyms_and_Percentages ~*Say What? Common Stats Topic Lingo Defined*~ SFF (Same Fanbase Factor) - Same Fanbase Factor is the theory that, if two contestants share a common fanbase, the weaker of the two options will underperform in a direct matchup. For instance, Link was expected to defeat Ganon with 65% of the vote in 2004, based on their 2003 values. Instead, Link collected near 88% of the vote. This is the best example of SFF we've ever seen. However take some SFF labels with a grain of salt, as many people will slap it onto any match that doesn't make perfect sense. Extrapolated Standings - The mathematical "strength" of a contestant that's determined based on their performance relative to the rest of the field. This number is typically based on the contest entrant's loss, but adjustments are sometimes made. See above for a watered down explanation for how the stats are calculated. --- Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy VI: Brave New World http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3577467 Prev: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Any news on the next contest? |
BREAKING NEWS: Allen still hates all of us. |
Bonus Match: Chester vs. Tanner vs. Denver Broncos --- Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy VI: Brave New World http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3577467 Prev: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
It's not quite an official contest but this is pretty cool: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/68425836 http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/68425836/773335539 --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Reminder that we have yet to seen the cosplay he promised |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Nominate Link. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
Oh
s***, it's the Male/Female poll again. I'm glad we're getting this
poll again because it's been almost 3 years since the last Male/Female
poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/1107 Look at the progress we've made in female gamers visiting GameFAQs over the past eleven+ years! More seriously, it's interesting to see the female percentage has increased with every gender-poll we've had. --- M E N: nominate Metal Man in 20XX! http://i.imgur.com/Dr4NAeq.png |
These
are some good vote totals so far, compared to the polls we've had for
the past 4 months. This poll will probably surpass 40000 votes, which
would be the first poll to get more than 40000 votes since 11/8/2013.
This was our last poll to get more than 40000 votes: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5320 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I am tracking poll updates for today's poll. Here are the poll updates for today's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFlmUmt6d3otVTF5a2ptS3NnUDBGQUE&gid=1 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Big Bob posted... BREAKING NEWS: Allen still hates all of us. We kind of deserve it. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Doesn't
look like today's poll will break 40000 votes. I was hoping to see at
least 40000 votes today since this poll had 4007 votes at the end of the
first hour. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Voting in DetroitDJ's Top 100 Games of All Time list ends tomorrow. ~2,000 users participating and ~10,000 votes cast so far. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/68425836 Everybody who hasn't go vote. My guess at what the top 10 will look like: 1: Final Fantasy VII 2: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3: Chrono Trigger 4: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 5: Super Smash Bros. Melee 6. Super Mario 64 7. Super Mario World 8. Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow 9: Super Mario Bros. 3 10: Metal Gear Solid --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Final poll updates for yesterday's Male/Female poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFlmUmt6d3otVTF5a2ptS3NnUDBGQUE&gid=1 Top 5 largest updates for Male in yesterday's poll: 99.21% (9:05 AM update) 98.15% (11:20 AM update) 97.95% (9:45 AM update) 97.58% (2:55 PM update) 97.26% (6:00 PM update) The next largest update is below 97%. Ladies and gentlemen, this was the 9:05 AM update in yesterday's poll: Male 99.21% 126 Female 0.79% 1 TOTAL VOTES 127 We nearly saw a 0 vote update for Female on that update. I believe that update is the closest thing to a 100% update. We've seen 0% updates before in contests, but never a 100% update. I don't think even Snake managed to get a 100% update in his match against Tanner. Top 5 worst updates for Male: 82.65% (6:00 AM update) 83.19% (8:40 PM update) 85.00% (11:40 PM update) 85.33% (9:55 PM update) 85.38% (6:05 PM update) Trend charts for yesterday's poll: Time | Male | Female | Votes 1:00 | 91.74% | 8.26% | 4007 2:00 | 93.11% | 6.89% | 2411 3:00 | 92.84% | 7.16% | 1787 4:00 | 91.78% | 8.22% | 1412 5:00 | 92.09% | 7.91% | 1189 6:00 | 90.95% | 9.05% | 1116 7:00 | 92.54% | 7.46% | 1353 8:00 | 91.60% | 8.40% | 1595 9:00 | 92.87% | 7.13% | 1782 10:00 | 94.69% | 5.31% | 1845 11:00 | 91.68% | 8.32% | 1888 12:00 | 92.82% | 7.18% | 1838 13:00 | 91.46% | 8.54% | 1815 14:00 | 92.58% | 7.42% | 1590 15:00 | 92.46% | 7.54% | 1486 16:00 | 93.56% | 6.44% | 1490 17:00 | 93.06% | 6.94% | 1484 18:00 | 94.53% | 5.47% | 1482 19:00 | 91.91% | 8.09% | 1384 20:00 | 91.18% | 8.82% | 1361 21:00 | 92.33% | 7.67% | 1264 22:00 | 91.54% | 8.46% | 1159 23:00 | 91.96% | 8.04% | 1045 24:00 | 92.07% | 7.93% | 908 Time | Male | Female | Votes EBV | 92.48% | 7.52% | 585 PHV | 91.74% | 8.26% | 4007 FNV | 92.36% | 7.64% | 7915 BSV | 92.35% | 7.65% | 4730 DSV | 92.64% | 7.36% | 9718 ASV | 92.63% | 7.37% | 10368 SNV | 92.01% | 7.99% | 1953 In the first trend chart, Male performed worst during the night vote and early morning vote. Male also performed badly during the last 6 hours of this poll. Male did best during the 9:00-10:00 AM hour (which had 2 updates of 97% or better for Male). Male also did very well from 5:00-6:00 PM, with 5 updates above 95%, including one update above 97% on the last update of the hour. The second trend chart shows much more consistency with the trends. Male performed worst during the Power Hour and SNV. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
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My top 10 prediction: 1: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 2: Chrono Trigger 3: Final Fantasy VII 4: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 5: Super Smash Bros. Melee 6: Super Smash Bros. Brawl 7: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow 8: Super Mario 64 9: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 10: Super Mario World --- SC2K13 Bracket: Kefka hate hate hate hate hates my bracket! Oracle: Team Frog and Magus |
what's up with people predicting Melee and/or Brawl so high I'm not seeing it |
Melee was pretty high on the list in 2005. Though I figure the people that prefer Melee are much more likely to vote for it than the people who prefer Brawl hence why Brawl doesn't even make the top 10 on mine. We'll see whether that's right or not before too long. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Might as well give my attempt... 1. Ocarina of Time 2. Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow 3. Final Fantasy VII 4. Super Smash Bros. Melee 5. Super Mario 64 6. Super Smash Bros Brawl 7. Super Mario World 8. A Link to the Past 9. Metal Gear Solid 10. Skyrim --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
Quite a shame we didn't get "Got Bravely Default?" poll and instead got some stupid Flappy Bird poll |
Where is the poll option "No, because I don't want to"? --- *1, *202,000,024 raytan7585 *2, *8,070,446 Kuroko no Basket, *3, *6,495,240 Naruto |
Nanis23 posted... Quite a shame we didn't get "Got Bravely Default?" poll and instead got some stupid Flappy Bird poll Bravely Default came out yesterday, not today. And yet he gave us some poll about Amazon making a game console (which had sucky vote totals). The funny thing is that a stupid Flappy Bird poll is going to get more votes than a poll related to Amazon's potential attempt to enter the console market. ctesjbuvf posted... Where is the poll option "No, because I don't want to"? I agree that option was definitely overlooked here. And despite not having that poll option, this poll is on track to get around 32000 votes. However, I voted for "Flappy what? Huh?" since I never heard of Flappy Bird before this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
AxemRedRanger posted... Melee was pretty high on the list in 2005. well yes, this is true ..... hey give us a final day update on the standings, DetroitDJ! :P |
ctesjbuvf posted... Where is the poll option "No, because I don't want to"? Looked for it myself Voted for the last one because it's the most negative Even though it's hella wrong, I read about Flappy Bird on Kotaku too much because they put 10 articles about it in a week |
I'm glad there's an option for "None of them" in today's poll, after Bacon messed up this poll big time: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5333 I estimated that poll would probably have gotten about 37000 votes if there was an option for "None of them". We'll find out how many votes today's poll gets. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
"None
of them" having almost 60% proves that Bacon mistake's in that poll was
even more embarrassing. Excluding over 50% of all voters from voting
in the poll is unacceptable. Also, here was a poll about 2 months after the launch of the PS3/Wii: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2636 "None of them" was doing 20% better in that poll compared to the same poll today. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
The Nintendo voters are certainly making themselves heard right now. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Lame, DetroitDJ is going to draw out the results for the top 100 a lot: DetroitDJ posted... Voting is now closed! I'll be tallying the responses and writing the lists over the next few weeks. After that, I'll post the lists one per week, optimistically starting the first week of March and ending the first week of May. --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
swirIdude posted... The Nintendo voters are certainly making themselves heard right now. imagine if 3DS and Vita were included :lol |
You gonna update your ownership spreadsheet for yesterday's result and today's after this one finishes, Luster? --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
AxemRedRanger posted... You gonna update your ownership spreadsheet for yesterday's result and today's after this one finishes, Luster? No, because these polls are very unreliable for tracking ownership. I noticed these polls seemed to result in each system having an ownership of several percentage points lower than their previous "Got Console?" poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
It's
probably the other way around. My theory is people who don't have a
console are more likely to abstain than someone who does have a console.
This means the "Got ___" polls have inflated owner percentages. In a
poll like this, owners of all three consoles come vote. This means
instead of a PS3 owner abstaining on "Got Wii?", they come vote for
"Just a PS3". --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
hey TRE, spill the top 100 results before DetroitDJ gets to it :P |
Team Rocket Elite posted... In a poll like this, owners of all three consoles come vote. This means instead of a PS3 owner abstaining on "Got Wii?", they come vote for "Just a PS3". That is probably the reason why these polls also have much higher vote totals than the "Got Console?" polls. These are just some of the insane vote totals that this kind of poll can bring in: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2576 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2722 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3193 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3436 The first poll really pops out because it is the highest known vote total recorded for a non-contest match. No other poll besides contest matches even breaks 150000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
I'm totally tracking poll updates for today's poll. Vote totals are pretty bad so far in this poll, but of course the Winter Olympics is not as popular as the Summer Olympics. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Glad to see Curling is competitive here. Hockey too strong though. =( --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
Canada
crashes the party again with a ridiculous 63.38% for Ice Hockey. It
also proves once again that the US doesn't really care about hockey
despite a very misleading assumption that hockey is popular in the US
simply because there's a lot of people on Board 8 that discuss hockey. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I hope someone in Jamaica votes for Bobsleigh. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
These
vote totals are so bad today. 2216 votes at the end of the first hour,
which means this poll should finish between 21000 and 24000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
3537 votes zzzzzz |
Surprised Speed Skating is so low. --- Because. -SBAllen |
AxemRedRanger posted... I hope someone in Jamaica votes for Bobsleigh. Although there is a vote from Jamaica now, they voted for "Ski Jumping" instead. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
took long enough to pass 20k votes |
I'm so disappointed. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Disappointed in Jamaica for not voting for "Bobsleigh"? --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
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