GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1189
If we can actually have a yearly contest again, that'd be great. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
All my hype --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
Might be time to come out of retirement. One more time... --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
ooh yay Good time for my weekly click on CS+D --- "It's a Nosepass in witness protection." - Wizardsfan1000 on Probopass Luster Reloaded (6:37:06 PM): If I have to, I will play THE GAME. |
Please, just a 1 v. 1 contest again. Preferably games. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
well hopefully it goes back to being yearly --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
He could boost vote totals by letting people vote more than once! But I don't think most people will want that. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
I
was thinking that votes from registered accounts could count twice (or
even thrice) to counterbalance rallies. It might be necessary because
the votals are even lower than last time. --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
We need to do 1v1 character battles more often than every 4 years. --- Temporarily on my old laptop, so no xFAQs access. |
128 1v1 all-inclusive no divisions by era No previous champs removed, too --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
OrangeCrush980 posted... I was thinking that votes from registered accounts could count twice (or even thrice) to counterbalance rallies. It might be necessary because the votals are even lower than last time. I like this idea, because it not only gives us old people power but it may convince some of the people brought around by rallies to stick around for other polls (knowing they get more power for other things they like) I don't really care what's IN the contest, I just want it to be 1v1. --- You know what. Fine. "I AM THE TABLE!" psssssssssssst - http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/565572-dig-dug |
contest starts late March early April it seems Hopefully it's a traditional 1vs1 no gimmick contest. --- ... |
Don't be so sure about that. Here was a post that you should read: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/20-gamefaqs-competitions/71246949/812467534 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Magmortar75 posted... OrangeCrush980 posted...I was thinking that votes from registered accounts could count twice (or even thrice) to counterbalance rallies. It might be necessary because the votals are even lower than last time. so you wouldn't mind a Female Villain Rivalry Rumble? --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
-LusterSoldier- posted... Don't be so sure about that. Here was a post that you should read: ;( oh well. I mean the contest has to end before E3 right? since Allen likes to run the E3-related polls and all, so it makes sense for them to start the contest late March or early April. --- ... |
OrangeCrush980 posted... I was thinking that votes from registered accounts could count twice (or even thrice) to counterbalance rallies. It might be necessary because the votals are even lower than last time. I don't think this is going to do a whole lot in the first place. From a mathematical standpoint, it won't boost vote totals that much. Right now, we're averaging about 23000 votes on non-contest polls. That average would probably increase to 30000 votes for a full 24-hour contest match. Allen has already stated that registered users only make up about one third of the total votes. So out of 30000 votes, we have 10000 from registered users. This means if you make votes from registered users count twice, you're only boosting the total votes from 30000 to 40000, which is still lower than the vote totals we were averaging during the last contest (roughly 50000 votes in 24 hours). And even if votes from registered users were counted three times, that still only boosts vote totals up to 50000. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I
don't like the idea of artificially boosting vote totals by letting
people vote multiple times or letting their votes count multiple times. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
Over the past eight years, we've only had one 1v1 character battle. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
And only three 1v1 contests overall, because of GOTD and Rivals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Haste_2 posted... Over the past eight years, we've only had one 1v1 character battle. And when did Allen become the main guy? 2007 or '08? |
2007. That's when gimmick after gimmick after gimmick after gimmick started rolling out. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
GOTD
is the closest thing to a non-gimmick contest under Allen's watch.
There are the 12-hour matches, which you could call a gimmick, but it is
something that received more positive reviews than negative ones.
Although with the super low vote totals, it does call into question
whether 12-hour matches should stay around or get rid of them to get
higher vote totals per match. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Like villains, series, females and almost a quote contest. Oh wait... --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
Eh,
the quote contest is the only one that qualifies as a gimmick, I'd say.
Just doing a specialized contest doesn't count as a gimmick because he
didn't change the format. In fact, Ceej handled those things correctly
by making them mini-contests instead of full blown contests like the
utter disaster that was Rivalry Rumble. Plus, we still got proper
contests within the same calendar year. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
Rivalry
Rumble was somewhere between a mini-contest and a full blown contest in
terms of contest length. Thanks to the 12-hour matches in round 1, the
contest was only 48 days long instead of 64 days. That puts it near
the middle of a standard mini-contest (31 days, or 32 with a bonus
match) and a normal contest (63/64 days). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
LeonhartFour posted... 2007. That's somewhat what I was thinking. Like L-Block's run Another 4 way 4 way games iirc GotD (was good) normal 1v1 characters lolrivals lol3waydraven |
I think 4 ways was pretty sweet for its time --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
4-ways
was fine once. It gave us L-Block, and as dumb as I still think the
idea of it winning is, it was good for the contest overall. The other 4-way contests were not as good. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
I think it could have gone down as great if he tried to do what he did with the 3way. Basically engineer Link Mario and Samus into the finals with Snake or Cloud --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
I feel like something would've come along to screw that up, just like it did with 3-ways! Well, Snake coming on strong at the end of 2008 messed things up a little bit because almost certainly everything extra Snake gained came at Cloud's expense. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
I
still like how MGS4 turned Snake from the embarrassment of the Noble
Nine into potentially the second strongest character in the bracket. I also like Cloud losing to a turtle. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
MGS4 and Brawl! 2008 truly the Year of the Snake! --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
And somehow Snake has kept up said newfound strength despite MGS4 and Brawl both getting weaker as the years pass! --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
Cause
Snake still keeps his fans even if the game gets weaker. Plus he has
appealing character design. It's the same reason why Kirby is so strong
despite his games being weak. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Of course, MGS games aren't quite "weak" per se, but yeah. Could have been MGSV hype covering everything up. Or perhaps Snake is weaker and Link declined even more, who knows? Actually yeah, rank the Noble Nine based on perceived contest strength! Here goes nothing: Link > Snake > Mario > Samus > Mega Man > Cloud > Sephiroth > Sonic > Crono Tempted to take a Samus > Mario upset. You guys think Samus would have been victimized in Round 2 if she was in Mario's place? (lol Ganondorf leeched Mario enough to make him lose to Vivi, but couldn't leech Samus enough to make her lose to Vincent. So much for Samus being vulnerable to S/LFF am i rite guys?) --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
I'd pick Crono over Sephiroth, no doubt about it. |
It wouldn't shock me if Cloud, Seph and Crono are the bottom 3 now, in that order. Mega Man is probably down there too. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Mega Man just had Smash Bros., though he's probably in no man's land among the noble nine. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
The
problem with all this rallying is that it is literally impossible to
rally for Cloud and Sephiroth, so they're boned in any close match. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
Mega
Man had a good showing last contest, plus having no games (besides
Smash) is probably better than being in Sonic's situation. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Link
> Snake > Mario > Samus > Mega Man seems pretty clear to me
as the top 5. Only deviation from that I'd reasonably expect is if
Snake managed to top Link. Hard to say on the bottom four, other than Cloud > Sephiroth. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
I'll be tracking today's poll to see if there might be some interesting trends in this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I still think Mega Man beats Samus after SSB4. I'd also probably take X over Cloud and Seph at this point too. --- Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite? However, the Guru of the next decade so far is SuperNiceDog |
The overreactions are strong in this one --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
BlAcK TuRtLe posted... I still think Mega Man beats Samus after SSB4. I'd also probably take X over Cloud and Seph at this point too. Mega Man > Samus isn't completely implausible if you think Samus has continued to decline. However, Samus never looked to have lost a step last contest outside of allowing an FFVII character to get 44% on her in a year where they all dropped the ball bigtime (then what does this say about Kirby?), and considering how well she did in '02 I wouldn't be surprised if Samus is simply a character who does not age somehow. I'm also going to assume that Mega Man 2013 = Mega Man 2010, with the SSB4 announcement making up for Mega Man not having gotten anything since 2010 (perhaps all of the Mega Man cancellations actually BOOSTED him because there's no such thing as bad publicity?). Also in fairness Samus has gotten more (or at least equal) amounts of exposure since 2010 as Mega Man. If anything I'd be prepared to jump on a Samus > Mario upset, though perhaps mostly just to support my favorite VG character. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
I
don't see Samus having the appeal to get a rally over Mario, which is
the only way I see her beating him. I mean, I think it's possible, but I
don't think it's likely. I think Samus is a pretty solid fourth at this
point. So how strong would Vivi be in the next character contest? Obviously won't have the crazy rally he did last time (probably), but would you expect him to beat Squall in a 1v1? --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Squall should be able to beat Vivi if you ask me. gawd, at this point bacon should at least tell us if its a games or characters contest Link > Snake > Mario > Samus > Mega Man > Crono > Cloud > Sonic > Sephiroth Trust me, no one gives a s*** about Sephiroth any more. |
For
all we know Mario gets anti-voted nowadays due to the series being
whored out like no one's business. Although Mario's probably stronger
now than he was in 2013 since Nintendo has improved its position since
then, back then he would have been more of a target than he is now since
we've FINALLY went a year without a new Mario platformer, for the first
time since...2008. Wow. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
spooky96 posted... Trust me, no one gives a s*** about Sephiroth any more. Funny we mention this considering he didn't do THAT badly last contest. Wait how did Kirby not boost at all following his first two console games since these contests began? Admittedly no one talks about said games nowadays though, I guess they just came and went. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
For all we know Mario gets anti-voted nowadays due to the series being whored out like no one's business. How is this any different than Mario in the past? I feel he's less whored out now than he was in the past. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
