GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1190
Allen's
latest topic seems to suggest that every match will be 24 hours, which
means we have to reconsider what that previous topic about what we
thought was number of matches per day actually means. --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
I mean, I suppose it could still mean total number of matches per day, but 4 matches running for 24 hours feels like overkill. --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
Once
all of the details regarding the contest format have been officially
revealed (none of these vague topics Allen is posting), I'll submit a
feedback ticket to address some concerns regarding the format if there
are any. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
He seems to have it all planned out, I doubt he will make last minute changes to the format. I am OK with it being 4 matches if it's 24 hours . Much better than 12 hours matches --- ... (edited 9/16/2015 5:19:53 PM)report |
I'm ok with pretty much anything at this point. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
abdou posted... He seems to have it all planned out, I doubt he will make last minute changes to the format. I wasn't going to suggest that he changes the format. If we do get more than one match running at the same time, I will put in suggestions on how to make it easier to vote in multiple matches so we don't suffer from reduced vote totals, or even a way to vote in multiple matches at the same time. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
abdou posted... He seems to have it all planned out, I doubt he will make last minute changes to the format. Is it just me, or does it seem like there has been increasing backlash to the 12-hour match thing? Most of us used to like it. I assume it's mostly nostalgia for 24-hour matches. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
12
hour matches were more of acceptance due to an increase 128 field. If
we could we would have it as 24 hours, but a 2 month first round would
pretty much kill any contest. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
That and because of our low votes numbers. a 12 hours match would get less than 10k votes, especially night matches. --- ... |
I think it's our low vote totals that seems to cause an increasing backlash to the 12-hour match format. abdou posted... That and because of our low votes numbers. a 12 hours match would get less than 10k votes, especially night matches. I wouldn't go that far and assume our night matches will get less than 10000 votes. Actually, a large majority of our non-contest polls have been getting at least 10000 votes by the 12 hour point in the poll and contest matches naturally get more votes than non-contest polls. Today's poll is currently at 9013 votes as of 8:30 AM and will break 10000 votes before 10:00 AM and that's with another 2 hours before reaching the 12 hour point in the poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Huh, I must have missed a few Allen topics, as all of this conversation is foreign to me. I could see running 2 matches simultaneously for 24 hours, but four at one time? Where would that even fit? And the vote totals would still be really low because most people will not vote in 4 polls in one day. They may not even vote in 2! --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
I
can understand if people see 4 matches, with only 1 character that they
really like, and vote in that one while ignoring the other 3 matches.
But would they have voted in those 3 matches if they were on their own
separate days? It sounds like they wouldn't. --- Hey man, LlamaGuy did encrypt the passwords. With what? ROT-13? -CJayC |
Some
would vote if the match was on a separate day, some wouldn't. I could
see this favoring characters with more dedicated fanbases, as there will
be fewer indifferent voters supporting the opponent. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
I can see some casuals voting in just one match and going on with their business. Could we see inter-match SFF? Not that we would know since we don't have much information. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
What have been all the Bacon topics? I just saw 128 and 24. Thanks. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! |
One of the topics was Four Two Two One One One or something like that. A lot of people assumed it was the number of matches per round, but who knows now. --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
LOLContests posted... What have been all the Bacon topics? I just saw 128 and 24. There was one that was "Four Four Two Two One One" (I think) with a message saying that then we'd be done. Another was "Four to Two, Three to One" (not sure on the order of those) with a message saying neither will do. ...There might have been more, I don't recall. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
Hmmm...some sort of double elimination? Four entrants in a group, then they get mixed up (so still four), then down to two, and so on and so forth. Not sure that's likely but I got nothing here for the first one. Pretty sure we're getting 1v1 matches with one winner regardless, hence the second one saying neither of the other two formats would do. (not 4 ways with two advancing or three ways with one advancing.) If it's some new thing, it would have said "Two to One" as well. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! |
I
saw someone say it was the number of entrants that advance per round,
but that would mean we could potentially have 8 game matches in the
first round, with 4 advancing. It'd be unpredictable, for sure, but I dunno about that! --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
Thus is getting interesting now. Any idea if it's another character contest? I'd rather have a best game ever one tbh --- Shooting Game never die. It prays that the clover of luck be always in your mind. |
Remission posted... Thus is getting interesting now. Any idea if it's another character contest? I'd rather have a best game ever one tbh It was confirmed to be a Games contest. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
Oooh,
it could be the number of days to get through a division, implying that
there are 12 hour matches for the first two rounds. Assuming that it was Four Two Two One One One --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! (edited 9/17/2015 4:05:23 PM)report |
It probably was. That looks more correct than what I posted now that I'm looking at it. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
That doesn't really explain 24 though, I guess. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! |
Maybe 24 is Bacon's favorite show and that topic had nothing to do with the contest. --- Congrats to 2013 Guru champ raytan! |
Yeah,
I assumed so far that it was 128 games 1v1 24 hour matches and just
kind of threw my hands up on the Four Two Two One One One thing. Number of matches per day made the most sense to me, but that would still be really weird. I'm not even sure how that would/could work. Well, work well, at least. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX (edited 9/17/2015 4:10:41 PM)report |
LeonhartFour posted... One of the topics was Four Two Two One One One or something like that. Here are the topic titles for all of Allen's topics so far: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Eleven Five Nineteen Ninety-Five Three to One? Four to Two? Four Four Two One One One One Twenty-Four --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Eleven Five Nineteen Ninety-Five = November 5th, 1995: the founding of GameFAQs. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! |
So
we're getting a 128 entrant contest, starting November 5th, which is
not a triple threat nor a quad tear, with 24 hour matches. The Four Four Two One One One One thing is the only confusing part of this. It suggests seven rounds, which a straight 1v1 contest would be. However, if four first round matches occurred every day, it would only last 16 days. And if the second round also had 4 matches a day, it would only last 8 days. So we'd be down to 32 entrants before the end of the first month. That seems like it would go too quickly to be enjoyable...but would make sense if Allen tries to squeeze the contest between November 5th and Christmas. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
swirIdude posted... So we're getting a 128 entrant contest, starting November 5th, which is not a triple threat nor a quad tear, with 24 hour matches. This looks like the right theory. Assuming there is still a third place match, this would end the contest on December 22nd, with a Bonus match on Dec. 23rd, and the rest of the traditional Holiday Polls running as normal. Seems a bit cramped, but I can't see any other solution unless Bacon's just going to say **** It and run the contest through the holidays. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! |
So when would nominations have to begin to allow enough time for that and bracket making before Nov. 5th? |
swirIdude posted... The Four Four Two One One One One thing is the only confusing part of this. It suggests seven rounds, which a straight 1v1 contest would be. However, if four first round matches occurred every day, it would only last 16 days. It was also believed that the first 3 rounds would be 12-hour matches, but with 2 matches running at the same time for the first 2 rounds. That would lead to 4 matches per day for the first 2 rounds, although a recent topic from Allen has put a little bit of doubt into that theory. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
xp1337 posted... Remission posted...Thus is getting interesting now. Any idea if it's another character contest? I'd rather have a best game ever one tbh Oh hell yes ! --- Shooting Game never die. It prays that the clover of luck be always in your mind. |
Jesse_Custer posted... So when would nominations have to begin to allow enough time for that and bracket making before Nov. 5th? Well noms last for at least 2-3 weeks then almost a week of bracket making than at least 2-3 weeks of predictions before the contest actually starts So Id say worst case scenario noms start about 2 weeks from now Hopefully they are up by next week --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
superange128 posted... Jesse_Custer posted...So when would nominations have to begin to allow enough time for that and bracket making before Nov. 5th? Thanks, I couldn't remember how long all that usually takes. |
Well it's only 8:30 pacific right now, so maybe Allen will surprise us and put nominations up today! --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Already past 12:00 PM Pacific and Allen hasn't logged in once today. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Almost reaching 5:00 PM Pacific and still no sign of Allen today. I'm calling it now... No contest announcement today. I guess it's going to happen next week most likely. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Today
was the premiere of the movie in which Emma Watson's boobs are briefly
visible so maybe he is scouring the internet for that or something --- Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter? Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards. |
I'm definitely tracking today's poll. I do have poll updates for the same poll that took place back in 2011. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
blue doing so well is a good sign for Sonic and Mega Man for sure --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJxwtAuWwAAbmea.jpg |
Blue winning was always expected, Green > Red is a bit of a surprise though. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
Even
though it's been almost 4 years since the previous time we had this
poll, the results for today's poll are very similar to the 2011 poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
unlike most other preferences, color preferences never change /s |
Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's color poll: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUvXcN7mkC9d_w2NxXw2aDcz7CUbMFpU31KtiufpJzs/pub?gid=824824788 The trends were pretty boring for the most part. Red and Blue had the best board vote, while Green and Purple had the worst board vote. Outside of the board vote, the trends end up being pretty consistent for the entire poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Bump --- ... |
Do we know what the guru nom is? (edited 9/23/2015 6:12:49 AM)report |
