GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1189
Case in point --- "...and then he became Doctor Doom." - Daniel Bryan |
Man SOTC's run was fun. Wish we could have another contest like that. Heck, I got the game because of that contest and loved it! --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
Not_Wylvane posted... Allen is clearly on a power-trip and I hope CBS takes down the king and I hope he goes bankrupt and his wife leaves him and he dies alone and unloved while I stand above him laughing at his misery. Because he deserves it for making a mistake in an online video game character popularity contest. It's because of quote like yours that we may never see another contest... Was it perfect? Hell no... Yes it could have been handle way better but it was better than no contest at all |
Wylvane was kidding around >_> --- "...and then he became Doctor Doom." - Daniel Bryan |
foxhead84 posted... Not_Wylvane posted...Allen is clearly on a power-trip and I hope CBS takes down the king and I hope he goes bankrupt and his wife leaves him and he dies alone and unloved while I stand above him laughing at his misery. Because he deserves it for making a mistake in an online video game character popularity contest. I believe he is being sarcastic >< anyway I REALLY doubt SBAllen won';t run another contest because he is still upset at the way some lashed out at him. It was a minority after all. But he does need to find a way so that Reddit can't single-handedly decide our next contest, because that would really suck. Probably why it's taking him a long time to come up with one. --- ... |
Is Luster tracking today's poll to see which game is the nerdiest, a.k.a. which one gets the biggest Super Bowl boost? --- Hope Dream Discovery Adventure Awaits For You and Your Pokemon |
do people still take Wylvane's posts seriously I think it's usually pretty obvious when he's being sarcastic, but maybe not! --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
OrangeCrush980 posted... Is Luster tracking today's poll to see which game is the nerdiest, a.k.a. which one gets the biggest Super Bowl boost? Nope. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Luster, you disappoint me. I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic with that one. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
So an admin answered my feedback, Message From abdou on 01/29/2015 can we expect a contest soon? I recall one of the staff saying early 2015 on facebook. thx. Message From GameFAQs on 02/02/2015 Soon enough. :) At least SBAllen still plans on running contests. --- ... |
Well, that's good. Now we wait. --- Don't argue with trolls - it means they win. Magmortar is still most certainly not a table. Maybe. |
I am absolutely tracking poll updates for today's poll. I already tracked both polls from 2011 and 2013. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Damn,
nice vote totals so far in today's poll. With 2922 votes at the end of
the first hour, this poll should finish between 28000 and 31000 votes.
It would be great to see this poll break 30000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Yesterday's
poll failed to break 30000 votes. Compared to our average vote totals
right now (about 23000), yesterday's poll received vote totals that
28.00% higher than average, which is pretty impressive given the large
majority of our polls receive anywhere between 20.00% below average to
20.00% above average (roughly 18500 to 27500 votes). Very few polls are
even capable of drawing in vote totals that are significantly higher
than average. Assuming no changes are made this year to boost vote
totals, we'll have fewer than 5 polls all year that ultimately get at
least 30000 votes. The age poll will lead the way with the highest vote
totals of the year, and even that will only be somewhere between 31000
and 34000 votes. Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdHpvb0FxbU5nYVJGX09SR1VERnJDcEE&gid=3 "feb-roo-er-ee" had a very weak board vote, Power Hour, ASV, and SNV. It performed best during the early morning vote, but it also had an above average night vote and late morning vote. "feb-roo-air-ee" had very consistent trends over the course of the entire poll. It performed best during the morning vote as a whole, but even that was barely better than the other time periods. "feb-yoo-air-ee" had the most extreme trends here. It had a very strong board vote and Power Hour. It dropped off slightly during the first 2 hours of the night vote. But after 3:00 AM, it dropped off really hard and performed worst between the hours of 3:00 AM to 8:00 AM. After the early morning vote wore off, it began to recover from its awful night vote and early morning vote. But it would take a few more hours before it started to go back up in percentage again. "feb-yoo-air-ee" ultimately performed best during the ASV and SNV (especially after Europe goes to sleep). Starting from the 1:00 AM mark, "feb-yoo-air-ee" lost a total of 6.12% overnight and during the morning vote to drop from 53.25% (at 1:00 AM) all the way down to 47.13% (at 1:10 PM). But after 1:10 PM, it gained a total of 1.48% to finish this poll with a final percentage of 48.61%. "feb-yoo-air-ee" never lost a single update overnight or during the morning vote, although it lost one update to "feb-roo-air-ee" near the end of the poll. It was only a 1 vote cut. "feb-yoo-er-ee", "feb-oo-er-ee", "feb-oo-wair-ee", "feb-er-wair-ee", and "feb-ree" all maintained fairly consistent trends over the course of the entire poll. "None of the above" performed worst during the board vote, Power Hour, and SNV. It performed best during the night vote and morning vote, while it had a below average ASV. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Here is another poll that I will also track poll updates for. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Yesterday's
poll clearly had some very interesting trends. I didn't even track
poll updates for the 12/21/2013 poll, so I used the vote total data that
GameFAQs uses to create the poll graphs in order to make trend charts
for the 12/21/2013 poll. I won't be talking about the trends of the
12/21/2013 poll, though. However, both polls are very interesting since
the trends will be different every time we have this poll. No two
polls will be similar in their trends, since this poll's results are
extremely dependent upon the overall weather conditions we have had
during this winter so far. Next winter season could end up being
completely different, with less snowy weather than this winter. Or next
winter could end up being even more brutal than this one. Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdGVheC1ZdEo2U1dRNnhYOVJIWkdlTkE&gid=1 "Yes, it's snowing outside right now" had a very strong board vote and Power Hour. It dropped off just slightly during the night vote, but even the night vote was above average overall. It performed better during the early morning vote, but started dropping off again after the early morning vote ended. It performed absolutely terrible during the ASV and SNV. At one point, "Yes, it's snowing outside right now" had a percentage of 12.99% at 9:40 AM, which was its highest percentage during the morning vote. After 9:40 AM, it lost a total of 2.68% for the rest of the poll to finish with 10.31% at the end. Also, "Yes, it's snowing outside right now" reached a maximum lead of 474 over "No, although there's still a chance" at the 11:35 AM update. For the last 12 1/2 hours in this poll, "No, although there's still a chance" made an attempt at a comeback, but only managed to cut a total of 353 votes off that lead to get it all the way down to 121. "No, although there's still a chance" failed to complete a comeback here. "Yes, it's not snowing right now" had a very strong board vote, but dropped off very hard after the board vote to finish with a pretty bad Power Hour. It performed even worse during the night vote, which was its worst time period. It went absolutely berserk during the morning vote and ASV, although it dropped off a bit during the SNV (due to Asia and Australia waking up again). The strange thing is the morning vote actually kicked in about 20 minutes before the traditional starting time of 6:00 AM. This suggests that Europe played a role in getting the morning vote started, although North America helped fuel the later part of the morning vote and the ASV. This is one of the few times where Europe and North America joined forces to support a certain option. "Yes, it's not snowing right now" reached its lowest percentage of 28.69% at 5:40 AM. After that point in time, it gained a total of 8.17% to reach a maximum percentage of 36.86% at 10:55 PM. The percentage dropped off just slightly during the final hour of the poll. "Not now, there was some earlier" had an awful board vote and Power Hour. It performed best during the night vote and morning vote. It dropped off after the morning vote for a slightly below average ASV, while it had a bad SNV overall. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
"No, although there's still a chance" had the most consistent trends overall, although it performed best during the ASV and SNV. "No, it never snows where I live" had a good board vote and Power Hour. It continued to remain strong during the night vote thanks to Asia here. In fact, this option actually started dropping off during the later part of the night vote because of Europe waking up, since Asia just doesn't have enough manpower to outvote Europe during the deepest part of the night vote. This option performed worst during the early morning vote, but also had a pretty bad late morning vote and ASV. Finally, this option performed best during the SNV when Asia was waking up again. "No, it never snows where I live" reached its maximum percentage of 30.33% at 2:40 AM. After that point in time, it lost a total of 7.52% to drop all the way down to 22.81% at 8:40 PM. After 8:40 PM, it gained another 0.45% to finish this poll with 23.26%. "Snow? It's summer here" had an awful board vote and slightly below average Power Hour. It performed best during the night vote and early morning vote thanks to the power of Australia and New Zealand. It performed worst during the late morning vote and continued to perform awful during the early part of the ASV. Overall, it had a fairly average ASV and SNV. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
this is what purgatory would be like if it existed --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
I could use a contest bad votals be damned. --- "i am pretty sure 3-year old children would generate more thoughtful discussion than board 8 on any topic of sexism" - Naye745 |
Bring back the quotes contest so we can see "You're Draven me crazy!" win. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Here's
a poll that I am definitely tracking as well. Somehow, I didn't track
the same poll that we had back in 2012, so this will be the first time
that I'm tracking this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
OK --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdGpJUUUzTVd4QWZpSmdtekpKRGtDSWc&gid=1 "In my bedroom" had a good board vote and Power Hour. It continued to remain strong during the night vote. When the morning vote started, it dropped off. It was the morning vote that was the worst overall time period for "In my bedroom". It performed better during the day vote, but was never able to reach the same level of strength it had during the night vote. "In my bedroom" only lost a grand total of 7 updates to "In a family/living room" during the entire poll. Outside of the Power Hour, the highest percentage for "In my bedroom" was 59.87% at 3:20 AM. It lost a total of 4.69% over the rest of the poll to finish with a final percentage of 55.18%. "In a family/living room" had a bad board vote and Power Hour. The night vote was just as bad as the Power Hour. It performed best during the morning vote, but dropped off somewhat during the day vote and SNV. At one point, "In a family/living room" had its lowest percentage of 27.60% at 2:25 AM and went on to gain a total of 4.01% for the rest of the poll, finishing with a final percentage of 31.61%. "In a dedicated game room" and "In a home office" both had fairly consistent trends overall, and both options performed best during the morning vote. "In the bathroom" somehow had a pretty good board vote, perhaps due to joke voting. This option performed worst during the night vote and morning vote, but performed best during the day vote and SNV. "In another room" had a good Power Hour and day vote, but performed worst during the night vote and early morning vote. "I never play games at home" managed to get 2 separate hours of 0.00%, where it didn't get a single vote. But it also had one hour where it managed to get over 1%. Other than that, there isn't much else to talk about due to this option's low percentage. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
EPIC POLL ALERT A favorite Star Wars movie poll will be happening in less than 40 minutes from now. I will track this poll just to see if there's anything interesting for trends (probably not). But hey, it's our first Star Wars movie poll since late 2005. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Epic Spoiler Alert Ep 5 will win easily and 4 and 6 will be way above the prequels --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
Epic Fail Alert I never watched a Star Wars movie. --- ... |
abdou posted... Epic Fail Alert So? You could say the same thing about any contest match in a Best Game Ever contest where you haven't played any of the games in the match. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
unfortunatley
official Contests have given people here bad habits of voting in board
contest matches without knowing both entries --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
-LusterSoldier- posted... abdou posted...Epic Fail Alert lol yes I know that.I meant epic fail on my part for having never seen a star wars movie. --- ... |
Well, consider yourself lucky that today's poll actually has an option for "I've never seen a single Star Wars movie". --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
With
only 2361 votes at the end of the first hour, this poll is on track to
finish between 23000 and 25000 votes. That would be only barely higher
than our average vote totals right now. Vote totals on this poll have been less than impressive so far and that's even with an option for "I've never seen a single Star Wars movie", which wasn't listed as an option in the 2003 and 2005 polls. And the 2005 poll, lacking the extra option that is in today's poll, received fairly average vote totals compared to the average vote totals during December 2005. So the addition of the extra option in today's poll appears to have no boost in vote totals by allowing the non-Star Wars group to vote in this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Now we need to submit polls like this for Alien and Terminator. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
abdou posted... So an admin answered my feedback, Sometime this century would be nice --- Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite? However, the Guru of the next decade so far is SuperNiceDog |
Another
poll that I am also tracking. Compared to yesterday's poll so far,
today's poll is already doing worse in terms of vote totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdEtHaExxREZCb3VVTnB0SVY4eC1OdlE&gid=1 "The Phantom Menace" had fairly consistent trends, but performed best during the night vote and morning vote and worst during the ASV and SNV. "Attack of the Clones" had trends very similar to "The Phantom Menace", with a good night vote and morning vote and bad ASV and SNV. "Revenge of the Sith" had a strong board vote and good Power Hour and SNV. It performed worst during the night vote, morning vote, and ASV. "A New Hope" had a weak board vote, but ultimately finished with a good Power Hour. It performed worst during the night vote and morning vote, which was a bit surprising. With the morning vote more likely to be composed of the "older voter demographic" (over 30 years old), I assumed the older voters were more likely to vote for "A New Hope" or one of the other 2 movies from the original trilogy since those 3 movies would have been released around the time they were born or while growing up. Anyways, back to the trends. After the morning vote, "A New Hope" went on to have an above average ASV and a bad SNV. "The Empire Strikes Back" had the most noticeable trends out of the 6 movies in this poll. It had a really weak board vote, bad Power Hour, night vote, and early morning vote. It performed best during the late morning vote, ASV, and SNV. During the entire poll, "The Empire Strikes Back" only lost a grand total of 2 updates to "Return of the Jedi" and both of them were 1 vote cuts. "Return of the Jedi" had an awful board vote and a slightly below average Power Hour. It performed best during the night vote and early morning vote. The late morning vote and ASV were slightly below average, while it performed worst during the SNV. "Never seen a single movie" had a pretty good board vote, but quickly dropped off after the board vote. The good board vote for this option is a sign that we could expect Star Wars characters to be anti-voted at the start of a match (if we ever get a Character Battle that allows them), but the anti-voting would quickly die down after the freeze kicks in. Star Wars in general appears to be far less anti-voted than Final Fantasy VII, with the level of anti-voting not even reaching any level of serious concern. FFVII would have required both the night vote and morning vote to reach its highest playrate of the day during an FFVII playrate poll, while the Star Wars movie series got through the Power Hour with a viewership that was only slightly higher than its final viewership at the end of the poll. The Power Hour, night vote, and early morning vote were above average for "Never seen a single movie". The trends during these 3 time periods were decided by Asia, as it was Asia that has the lowest viewership for the Star Wars movies out of all the continents. "Never seen a single movie" performs the worst during the late morning vote, ASV, and SNV. At one point, "Never seen a single movie" reached its highest percentage of 11.92% at 6:45 AM and then lost exactly 1.00% for the rest of the poll to finish with a final percentage of 10.92%. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
superange128 posted... unfortunatley official Contests have given people here bad habits of voting in board contest matches without knowing both entries LOL calling it a "bad habit" as if it actually matters --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFFLMFE0bXZEeFh3V2Q0aURMYjFTenc&gid=1 Battlefront was fairly average during the board vote/Power Hour. It was at its weakest during the night vote and morning vote, but performed best during the ASV and SNV. "Dark Forces / Jedi Knight" had a weak board vote and below average Power Hour. It performed best during the night vote. The morning vote and ASV were fairly average overall, while it had a bad SNV. "Knights of the Old Republic" had a terrible board vote and bad Power Hour. Even the night vote was only slightly better than the Power Hour. It performed best during the morning vote, ASV, and SNV. "LEGO Star Wars" was pretty well balanced throughout the poll minus the bad Power Hour and SNV. "Rogue Squadron" was all board vote and Power Hour, as it was bleeding percentage for nearly the entire poll. "Super Star Wars" was also very consistent overall, minus a bad SNV. "The Force Unleashed" had a good morning vote and ASV, but fairly average in every other time period. "X-Wing / TIE Fighter" had the most consistent trends if the board vote was ignored. "Never played a single game" performed best during the board vote and Power Hour. This falls in line with the Star Wars movie poll where the equivalent option in that poll performed best during the same time period. It also supports the theory that I expect Star Wars characters to have a very minor anti-vote at the start of matches, if we ever got to see them in a Character Battle. After the Power Hour ends, this option slowly becomes progressively weaker as this poll drags along, performing worst during the ASV and SNV. I expected the "Never played a single game" option to get a higher percentage compared to the equivalent option in the movie poll, but I was quite impressed at the overall playrate for the entire Star Wars game series on this site. With a playrate of 85.87% on this site, the Star Wars series falls less than 4% short of the playrate for one or more games in the Final Fantasy series. When combined with the 89.08% viewership for one or more movies, you have around 90% of the site exposed to Star Wars in some form or another, and probably at least 80% of the site has been exposed to both the movies and the games. This looks really good for the prospect of seeing Star Wars characters in a Character Battle that allows fictional characters. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Bump again --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
abdou posted... Message From abdou on 01/29/2015 I would expect that a contest would have to be announced before the end of this month to avoid any overlap with E3, since Allen loves to run those E3 polls during the time period that E3 is running. It already takes a full month to run the nomination phase and the contest entry phase. By the time the first match starts, it will be around early April. Depending on the format used, the contest itself will take somewhere between 63 to 67 days. By the time the contest ends, E3 is just upon us. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
No contest for the first half of 2015 confirmed --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
Which type of sci-fi does Metroid fall into? I'm assuming "pure", but there are definitely some magical elements. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
I
would probably say the "Pure Sci-Fi" option, because it mentions "Giant
spaceships, evil aliens" in the text for the option. So that sounds a
lot like Metroid to me. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
So
unless we get an announcement soon, no contest until june/july? well
damn. That would not be 'early 2015' and certainly not 'soon enough' I think we will get a contest announcement soon, maybe even this week. --- ... |
It could also be a smaller contest like Villains/Series. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Kind
of amusing to see that considering I'm currently reading the stats
topics during the Rivalry Rumble (also wow was that a dumb contest or
what?). --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
I really want to be hyped for a contest But these vote totals man --- Metroid Prime, Super Meat Boy speed runs: http://www.youtube.com/user/wgtan01 |
Instead of Reddit rallying Draven, we'll have a few /vp/ threads carrying Mudkipz to victory. --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
Polls for the next several days: 2/18/2015 - If you were an RPG character, which statistic would be your highest? 2/19/2015 - Have you ever lost a game on purpose to make your opponent feel better? 2/20/2015 - How many e-mail accounts do you actively use? 2/21/2015 - Do you know how to whistle? 2/22/2015 - Who do you usually play games with? 2/23/2015 - Which of the three current consoles do you now own? pirate109 posted... I really want to be hyped for a contest The vote totals we have right now won't be as big of a problem as long as Allen can actually do something to boost vote totals before the next contest starts, or at least put something in place that will boost vote totals during the contest that has no effect on the vote totals of non-contest polls. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
