GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1190
SBAllen
added the Breadcrumb navigation because he said most forums use that
style, so he realizes that our boards are outdated. still, I don't see
just changing the name from board to forum having a significant effect. --- ... |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/72456414 Contest hype? Sounds like we could be looking at 128 games for the next contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
2537
votes at the end of the first hour in today's poll. Wow, we're getting
some excellent vote totals in today's poll. This would put today's
poll on track to finish between 25000 and 28000 votes, which would
likely be higher than the vote totals we got from the recent "3 console
ownership" poll which barely broke 26000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
hoping contest is announced before the end of this week. Allen wouldn't make that topic if the announcement was not close --- ... |
128 broken dreams as Allen reveals the topic was a troll all along |
So far, he hasn't revealed the topic was trolling yet. Anyways, yesterday's poll finished with 27434 votes, which is about half-way between the projected range of 25000 to 28000 votes. The poll is projected to get 121286 votes in terms of 2008 vote totals, which is starting to get up into age poll territory for vote totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Polls for the next several days: 9/12/2015 - Which Mario character is your all-time favorite? 9/13/2015 - I have no idea. Probably an original poll idea. 9/14/2015 - Do you look at the results of the Poll of the Day before you vote? The Mario character poll will be quite interesting to see. We haven't had that poll since 3/27/2006. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! (edited 9/10/2015 9:00:26 PM)report |
prediction waluigi does way better --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
We
could potentially be looking at 4 matches per day for the first 2
rounds of the upcoming contest. I don't think Allen is implying that we
are getting 6-hour matches, but rather two 12-hour matches running at
the same time. If this is the case, our 12-hour matches are going to
have even worse vote totals than usual, with a much bigger impact on the
bottom match. Based on what I've seen in the past regarding non-contest polls being put up below a contest match, there seems to be about a 50% reduction in vote totals compared to what would normally be expected if it was the only active poll for an entire 24 hours. However, that was back in the CJayC era and those extra polls below the contest match were non-contest polls. This upcoming contest will be different, as both polls will be contest matches, rather than one contest match and a non-contest poll. We haven't had 2 polls running at the same time since way back on 11/4/2008 when Allen put up an Election Day poll below the contest match and that wasn't even a full 24 hour poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
AxemRedRanger posted... prediction uh I guess not! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Great to see Rosalina doing well in the poll as well. >_> --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
No
Waluigi in today's poll, being replaced by Bowser Jr. instead. And
Bowser Jr. ends up doing worse than Waluigi, at least with the early
voting so far. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Literally Bowser Jr. Although I'm glad Luigi is back ahead of Mario, at least! --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
Nothing wrong with Bowser Jr., just who's gonna vote for him over 7 other characters? --- Hey man, LlamaGuy did encrypt the passwords. With what? ROT-13? -CJayC |
Bowser Jr. is one of the worst characters to exist. --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
I
never really understood why the results of this poll are so much
different from the established contest strength hierarchy for these
characters. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! (edited 9/11/2015 10:06:11 PM)report |
Mario character poll? we could get to see how Rosalina- ...oh |
-LusterSoldier- posted... I never really understood why the results of this poll are so much different from the established contest strength hierarchy for these characters. A favorites poll doesn't say anything about who would vote which characters in which order. Mario may not be the plurality's favorite, but he's probably closer to the top of their favorites list than everyone else is. --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
Voted Luigi due to a lack of Waluigi --- Your new reigning and defending Guru Champion, raytan7585! PSN: ALLIMACSEESOJ |
Plus, a poll like this keeps a lot of non-Nintendo fans from voting, whereas Yoshi vs Auron wouldn't. Also...where's Rosalina? :( --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ (edited 9/12/2015 10:00:39 AM)report |
Did
Allen really think Bowser Jr. was more popular than, uh, anyone else,
or did he include him to humiliate him? I'm pretty sure Bowser Jr. would
get his ass whooped by a Goomba. --- .-#Elements of Water#-. |
Allen probably has a fondness for Bowser Jr that not many share. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
LeonhartFour posted... Bowser Jr. is one of the worst characters to exist. Yeah I fell out of my couch laughing in his intro cutscene...and I really liked Sunshine otherwise, too! Didn't think it was much worse than World or 64 at all. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
Bowser Jr. is in Smash, and that automatically made him several times more popular and relevant. --- http://i.imgur.com/vKYmrZP.jpg |
OrangeCrush980 posted... Bowser Jr. is in Smash, and that automatically made him several times more popular and relevant. You know who else is in Smash? Rosalina. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
LeonhartFour posted... No, you didn't. Uh, yes I did. I'm not allowed to have opinions? --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
Bowser Jr is as bad as the Koopalings but people like then for some reason --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
The Koopalings aren't nearly as annoying. Plus they're just faceless bad guys you fight, not whatever nonsense Bowser Jr. is. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
superange128 posted... Bowser Jr is as bad as the Koopalings but people like then for some reason He's definitely much worse. --- Leonhart posting from his phone |
LinkMarioSamus posted... LeonhartFour posted...No, you didn't. You don't actually have opinions though because that won't be your "opinion" next week. --- Leonhart posting from his phone |
LeonhartFone posted... LinkMarioSamus posted...LeonhartFour posted...No, you didn't. WTF is up with this nonsense bullying? You're literally holding a grudge over stuff that happened years ago. Also I jumped straight into Sunshine after 64, so I can compare them closely. Sheesh. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil (edited 9/12/2015 12:29:29 PM)report |
You're implying that you're a different person now for some reason. --- Leonhart posting from his phone |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5631- http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5998- Even though today's poll isn't a playrate poll, I'm surprised that this poll makes it appear as though Mario 1's playrate is higher than the poll we had one year ago on this day. Even though it's possible that someone could have owned a copy of Mario 1 without playing the game once, I think that's extremely unlikely with a game that old. Since this poll isn't a playrate poll, the results from this poll won't be entered onto the "Have You Played" page on the Board 8 wiki. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
LeonhartFone posted... You're implying that you're a different person now for some reason. Why do you think otherwise? And what's the point of holding an unnecessary grudge like this? Honestly even otherwise it has been a while since I last beat either game (well only 10 months since I finished 64 and less than 8 since I finished Sunshine), so whatever. If my "opinions" seem "inconsistent", it's because I'm just trying to remember stuff that barely even matters. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil (edited 9/13/2015 4:03:53 AM)report |
I'm not holding a grudge. not sure why you and Pun seem to think me pointing out the dumb things you say means I hate you --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
Wait you DON'T hate LMS? --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
I don't really hate anybody here. Being sarcastic doesn't necessarily involve feelings of hatred. The internet is weird about linking those two things together when no one does it in real life. --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
LeonhartFour posted... I'm not holding a grudge. Yeah but ALL I said was that I really like Mario Sunshine, and you pointed out that was dumb just because of some past behavior of mine. I mean, really? You've said probably twice as much dumb stuff as me TBH. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
Despite the fact that I've posted a lot more times than you, I doubt it. (also the "no you didn't" was referring to you saying you literally fell off your couch laughing at Bowser Jr.) --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
That bracket battle poll option tease though --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
superange128 posted... That bracket battle poll option tease though That option was in the same poll that we had back in 2013. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Poll
6000 just happened exactly 2 years after the Draven/Snake/Samus match
took place. It's a bit interesting that Poll 6000 is happening on the 2
year anniversary of that match. Anyways, I'm tracking today's poll as there will probably be some interesting trends. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
It
took until the 12:20 AM update for the first option to get its first
vote. It will be interesting to compare how the first option does in
today's poll compared to a similar poll back in 2013 for Poll 5000. For
comparison, this was poll 5000: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5000- I guess based on that poll, the trends in today's poll should enable the first option to gain some percentage over the course of this entire poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Had a dream there was a new contest I never even post here anymore and only visit for like 2 minutes every other week but this place is still somehow in my subconscious forever --- ~Zen, Wizard of Pics The Guru known as RAYTAN owns my butt. It hurts. |
SBAllen has been clearly dropping hints regarding the next contest but it hasn't been officially announced yet. Maybe by the time you see this in two weeks, it will be! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Wow... already 2 years since the last contest... Who was the Guru winner and do we know the game he will nominate? |
raytan, someone needs to contact him. Let it be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time >_> --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
LeonhartFour posted... Despite the fact that I've posted a lot more times than you, I doubt it. Okay I apologize for the misinterpretation. Though, I'm being honest, that did actually happen. I did not make it up, I swear! --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
