GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1188
Soon Luster will be the only voter. --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
And he'll still analyze his own voting trends. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
And his analysis will still be a compelling read. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Not_Wylvane posted... Serious post now though, did you compare the votal trends to those of the past several years for the time period? Maybe votals usually drop a lot more at this time of year due to the holidays keeping people busier with family/work/finals and thus playing less games and visiting the site less. Shouldn't be too hard to sum up the votals for the last couple years and compare the trends to this year's. Common sense would suggest vote totals should in theory be higher around this time of the year. But no, I didn't compare that to previous years. Another thing that really complicates the issue of calculating this would be that contests are also common around this time of the year. The years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011 all had a contest go into November (or start in November for the 2011 contest). abdou posted... just how much worse will votals get? 15k? 10k? 5k? At some point, I think the vote totals will have to stop falling. I don't know what magic number that will be. I originally thought the vote totals hit rock bottom right before the start of the 2013 contest when we had 12 straight months of vote totals hovering around 40000 votes. Then after the contest ended, we found average vote totals had dropped to roughly 35000 votes during the first 30 days after the last match of the contest. And then the vote totals continued to drop even farther over the next 12 months. For vote totals to drop after this poll change came into effect is a bad thing when we're right on the heels of the 2014 GotY polls. We already have one non-GotY poll get under 18000 votes recently, so I can't imagine what the actual GotY polls will get. Best Mobile Game will definitely get under 10000 votes, and the Vita poll is almost likely to suffer the same fate. LeonhartFour posted... And he'll still analyze his own voting trends. If I was the only voter, there wouldn't even be any trends. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I'll
be tracking today's poll because the poll graph for last year's poll
was... quite interesting to the least. The same poll from last year had
noticeable trends based on the poll graph that GameFAQs hosts. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Today's
poll will also be tracked to see if there are any interesting trends
with this one. Anyways, the poll updates and trend charts for
yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdGlkRW9zdEs4NlNmdnBMNzBNMVdEc0E&gid=1 "Yes, a real full-size tree" had a slightly above average board vote and Power Hour. It drops off during the night vote, where it performs the worst out of all the time periods. It also has a bad early morning vote, but ends up doing better during the later part of the morning vote. It performs best with the ASV and SNV. "Yes, a fake full-sized one" has a bad board vote and slightly below average Power Hour. It performs worst during the night vote. It has a below average early morning vote. It continues to perform even better as we get through the morning vote, before performing best during the ASV and SNV. This option has a better morning vote compared to "Yes, a real full-size tree". This option reached its lowest percentage of 27.69% at 6:00 AM and then gained a total of 2.78% for the rest of this poll. "Yes, one or more smaller ones" has the most consistent trends throughout this poll. Nothing much to see here. "Not yet, we'll have one up" has a bad board vote and below average Power Hour. It performs best during the night vote and morning vote for some reason. Perhaps this poll reminded a lot of voters to get working on setting up their tree, because this option would drop off during the ASV and perform terribly during the SNV. "No, we still celebrate Christmas" had a good board vote, Power Hour, and night vote. Once it dropped off during the morning vote, it remained pretty consistent for the rest of the poll. "No, we don't celebrate Christmas" performed best during the night vote and early morning vote, which is the prime voting period for Asia. Asia as a whole is probably the only continent with a significant number of people that don't celebrate Christmas and the trends pretty much show up as a little blip on the radar here. This clearly shows that you need Europe to have sharp changes in trends during the night vote, as Asia alone can do very little to the overall trend. Besides the night vote and early morning vote, all of the other time periods are slightly below average. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I thought this topic purged --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
No,
it didn't. Also, the trends for yesterday's poll were even less
impressive than the poll from 2 days ago, so I won't be posting
yesterday's trend chart. --- 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! |
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Based on the trends of last year's poll, I will be tracking poll updates for today's poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Holy s***, Final Fantasy series poll. I'm tracking this for sure. I expect to see some good vote totals out of this poll. We've had other Final Fantasy series polls like this one get really high vote totals, compared to the average vote totals of the time. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
let's see how much FFVII jumps on the next update (haven't heard that sentence in a while) edit: or not lmao |
This poll just barely reached 400 votes before the freeze kicked in. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
FFVII actually went down on the first update after the freeze. FFVIII also went down, but just barely. FFVII went up again on the second update after the freeze. But anyways, FFVII going down on the first update after the freeze is not unusual. It has happened 3 times in the past where the FFVII related option lost percentage on the next update after the freeze, as you can see here: http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/drupal/node/22?matchnum=4571&num=2 http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/drupal/node/22?matchnum=3856&num=2 http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/drupal/node/22?matchnum=2566&num=2 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Voted FFIV I am surprised FFVII isn't dominating this, but I guess this is FFVII's worst time. --- ... |
3080
votes at the end of the first hour. That puts this poll on track to
finish between 30000 and 33000 votes. But this poll is definitely
breaking 30000 votes and this is happening during a time when we're
averaging about 22500 votes per day. Assuming we still had 2008 level vote totals, this poll would be breaking 120000 votes and give the age poll a run for its money as for which poll is king of the vote totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Is this the largest poll (in terms of number of options) we've ever had? --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
No, there were some polls during the early years of GameFAQs (before 2003) that had between 16 and 20 options. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
It
seems like Bacon has finally converted the poll results layout from the
previous contest into the standard PotD layout. Here are 2 Google
cache pages I managed to dig up: http://tinyurl.com/pepx2x4 http://tinyurl.com/oemu6eo Sometime between November 18th and November 20th, the poll results layout for all contest matches from the previous contest were converted into the standard PotD layout. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/762-which-is-the-best-game-in-the-final-fantasy-series http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/1178-whats-your-favorite-final-fantasy http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5727-from-the-last-27-years-which-numbered-final-fantasy-title-is-your-all-time So guys, remember "Dissidia boost"? It was a myth. The FFIV, FFVI, and FFIX characters got stronger because their games got stronger. This poll also strongly supports that Squall/Vivi last year wasn't a total fluke. Although in a one-on-one without Vivi's bandwagon, maybe Squall wouldn't have outright lost. I'm tempted to even take what the Missingno. matches imply about the relative strengths of Squall and Tidus nowadays somewhat seriously. Spot Squall 5% for Squall/Missingno. happening right after Vivi's win and therefore having an elevated 4chan presence (I also recall someone making threads on 4chan telling people to vote for Squall in an obvious stealth-rally for Missingno.), Missingno. not being transitive, and possible Banjo LFF in Tidus/Missingno and you get Squall at around 57.5% on Tidus. For reference, Sub-Zero got 53.86% on Tidus in 2010. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
FFIV
characters getting stronger was a myth in general. It was just Rydia
who was above average in strength and for a very obvious reason. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
IIRC Rydia isn't even in Dissidia. --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Team Rocket Elite posted... IIRC Rydia isn't even in Dissidia. unless you count those random menu quotes --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
Maybe yoshi is stronger than mario guys! --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
So I guess the days of FFVII laying the SFF hammer on other FFs has come to an end, or does this poll mean nothing? --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
Previous favorite FF polls that I managed to dig up: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/576- http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/762- http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/1443- I would say this poll likely doesn't mean anything as far as FFVII being able to SFF the other games in a direct match. In the previous favorite FF game polls, FFVII performed much better in those polls compared to what we are seeing in today's poll. Some of that could be blamed on FFVII getting weaker, which is something that we have seen in some of our more recent contests. Also, polls like this probably ends up diluting the SFF a little bit, I suppose. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Think the backlash against the FFVII PS4 anouncement play any part in today's result? --- Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die. |
I've
never heard anything about a FFVII PS4 announcement. I quickly checked
out the recent news articles on GameSpot and there is absolutely no
news related to FFVII. If you can, please link me to this FFVII PS4
announcement. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Calintares posted... Think the backlash against the FFVII PS4 anouncement play any part in today's result? Yeah it could possibly be just anti-FFVII voting due to how much Square Enix loves to shove that game in peoples' faces. Of course, does that mean the same could happen to Resident Evil 4 at some point? --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
-LusterSoldier- posted... I've never heard anything about a FFVII PS4 announcement. I quickly checked out the recent news articles on GameSpot and there is absolutely no news related to FFVII. If you can, please link me to this FFVII PS4 announcement. http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-vii-ps4-is-the-ultimate-troll-1667750675 --- ... |
Good to see VII pull away --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
AxemRedRanger posted... So guys, remember "Dissidia boost"? It was a myth. The FFIV, FFVI, and FFIX characters got stronger because their games got stronger. It was a boost in that it gave new, good-looking art for contest pics for characters that really needed it, like Kefka. Pleasantly surprised FF9's in the top 5 for this poll. Was hoping FF5 would be higher, but hey, it's beating FF13, I'll take it. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
There it is. 30000 GET on today's poll as of this update right now. The poll reached 30000 votes at roughly 11:07 PM EST. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Oh man, nice. When was the last time we had a poll break 30000? The answer to that kind of scares me, but hey. --- Don't argue with trolls - it means they win. Magmortar is still most certainly not a table. Maybe. |
It's been over a month actually. Last poll to break 30000: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5691- Of course, vote totals have dropped pretty hard since that poll happened. When we're currently averaging about 22500 votes, you need to have a poll get at least 33.33% higher vote totals (compared to the average) just to break 30000 votes. That's almost getting into age poll territory, although the age poll gets around 40% higher vote totals compared to our average vote totals right now. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Poll glitch'd http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5728- --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Finally, the poll glitch has ended. Today's poll wasn't showing up on the homepage for the first 9 minutes of this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Ffvii got this! --- Ngamer64: Zylo, you're making less sense every day. Raytan > Me |
Hahaha,
wow. FFVII ended up winning the super early board vote (first 1 minute
of the poll), but now FFVI is kicking FFVII in the teeth since then. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Boring update. The percentages remained almost identical after the first update after the freeze. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Okay guys... Cloud vs. Crono --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
Poll updates for today's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdGV2djRDV2NKTlliYTJUMUZraW5zOEE --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
yo what and I love how this is making the thread more active then it has been for a year lmao |
I wish red sox was here to watch yesterday's poll and now today's poll. But he hasn't logged in since December 1st. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
FF7 isn't going to lose to another FF game in a 1on1 battle is it? oO I know FF7 got weaker but this is shocking. --- ... |
what numbers are we projected to reach on this poll? --- Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die. |
Power Hour over with, FFVII wins its first update of the poll. FFVII comeback incoming. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Calintares posted... what numbers are we projected to reach on this poll? Difficult to say because this poll started 10 minutes late due to a poll glitch. Under normal situations, 1890 votes at the end of the first hour would translate to 18000 to 21000 votes. This poll is 100% guaranteed to break 20000 votes. I would probably say somewhere between 22000 and 26000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
