GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1257
Averia posted... ZFS posted...But really, the fact that Ocarina has no one (comparatively) in its corner is the biggest issue going into this. That's the real difference between this and Draven. GameFAQs was a united front on that match, but I feel like Undertale's sales have boosted with each contest win as more people play it and hear about it and then wanna vote for it. That and Melee burned people out on caring to rally. The lead up to this got ruined because Melee is terrible Well it was in danger for like 10 minutes until it noped the f*** out of it. But still those were some glorious 10 minutes. |
Well
I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the
match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k
liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having
any sort of chance starts. --- 9/2/13-The Hero of GameFAQs fought bravely but fell to an unrelenting horde supported by a corrupt tyranny. R.I.P. Hero of Time, 7 time CB Champion, Link |
red sox 777 posted... Also, I'd like to point out that for all this talk of rallies on demand, we've never actually seen a rally produce more than 2 big waves in a 24-hour period- one at night when the poll opens, another in the day. Big waves that sustain for hours and hours And a third wave has never been needed If it's needed, it will come --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
JJH777 posted... Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. This This is your proof that people have learned nothing --- Welcome to the League of Antivotes. |
Karma Hunter posted... JJH777 posted...Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. Well, I mean, at least they're trying. --- Currently playing: Atelier Shallie (PS3) Ar Tonelico 2 (PS2) |
Karma Hunter posted... JJH777 posted...Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. It's not about winning. |
It
was not in any real danger, as it took all that rallying just to catch
up to even. It was in greater danger against Pokemon. Pokemon tanked
the first wave without losing a single hour, and was up 7000+ as the ASV
began and Undertale could barely cut 200 an hour. I mean, people were calling the match for Pokemon for a couple hours. I think most everyone here yesterday knew Undertale was almost certainly going to win, even during the height of Melee's morning rush. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
Karma Hunter posted... It's people catching onto the contest and spreading it everywhere. Tumblr, reddit, random gaming message boards, irc chats, I've seen it all. Dammit --- satoru iwata |
I
just want Undertale to actually bury Zelda. Like, 60-40, so that we
don't spend the next two years going, "But MAYBE if Zelda did this or
that or the other thing..." --- Video game companies don't care about you, so stop kissing their asses |
Probably old as dirt by now, but as expected SBAllen dropped the equivalent of "Melee was stuffing at a 2:1 ratio" Bacon posted...
--- "This place has a nice view of Hod. And also... I promised someone." - Asch, Tales of the Abyss |
THE WHOLE INTERNET SHOWED UP?! I see --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Karma Hunter posted... JJH777 posted...Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. I never bought into the Pokemon and Smash hype so there was nothing for me to learn. After SMW lost Zelda was always the only potential answer. Link was the only one who truly stood up to Draven rallies not Mewtwo or Snake. If one of the facebook pages with over 400k likes rallies for Zelda the match is over and there are a decent amount of them. I just wish I could stay at home and message different ones all day. --- 9/2/13-The Hero of GameFAQs fought bravely but fell to an unrelenting horde supported by a corrupt tyranny. R.I.P. Hero of Time, 7 time CB Champion, Link |
Welcome to the League of Excuses --- Welcome to the League of Antivotes. |
I think you guys have deflated the last bit of HOPE here Between all this and the new OOT anti-votes at the start of the match yuck --- satoru iwata |
JJH777 posted... Karma Hunter posted...JJH777 posted...Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. Actually those rallies for Link against Draven. It gave Link it's greatest cut of the match. Still wasn't enough though, so even if they rally, the match will still be far from over. |
ZFS posted... I think you guys have deflated the last bit of HOPE here i'll be pretending i have hope. if i can. but really it's all been gone since the moment NOTED ELITE GAMEFAQS TITAN Mass Effect 3 lost --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
TheCodeisBosco posted... ZFS posted...But really, the fact that Ocarina has no one (comparatively) in its corner is the biggest issue going into this. That's the real difference between this and Draven. GameFAQs was a united front on that match, but I feel like Undertale's sales have boosted with each contest win as more people play it and hear about it and then wanna vote for it. That and Melee burned people out on caring to rally. The lead up to this got ruined because Melee is terrible To be honest here, I don't see much of a difference between the LoL fans and guys like Ulti have been this contest. --- Like Darth Maul, the bastard child of Michael Flatley and Hellboy -trancer1 lol xstats |
Averia posted... JJH777 posted...Karma Hunter posted...JJH777 posted...Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. The only big facebook page that rallied for Link during the Draven match was the Skyward Sword page I thought? That page has no where near 400k likes. I'm talking about the Zeldainformer, Zeldadungeon, and Zeldauniverse pages. --- 9/2/13-The Hero of GameFAQs fought bravely but fell to an unrelenting horde supported by a corrupt tyranny. R.I.P. Hero of Time, 7 time CB Champion, Link |
TheCodeisBosco posted... WhiteLens posted...TheCodeisBosco posted...WhiteLens posted...Still doesn't top Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon Probably, yeah. They force an overly-lengthy tutorial on you the first time through the game which is basically fine for when the series is new to you but might be very annoying otherwise - so not playing it first may make it an issue if you leave it for later. And it's a very good game outside of that and, before Awakening came out, it was the entry point for most western fans of the series. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] (edited 12/14/2015 2:44:27 PM)report |
JJH777 posted... Averia posted...JJH777 posted...Karma Hunter posted...JJH777 posted...Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. I think it was a thing with more than 200k back then. Don't ask me which one it was, I don't use facebook. (edited 12/14/2015 2:43:13 PM)report |
JJH777 posted... Karma Hunter posted...JJH777 posted...Well I got one facebook page to say they will make a post about it when the match starts and then a second one tomorrow as well. It's only a 19k liked page so probably won't do that much but this is how Zelda having any sort of chance starts. No, the only game in UT's path that had a chance after SMW lost was Pokemon. The only hope Pokemon had was that these pasty overweight 15 year old girls would let their Pokemon yaoi fanfiction love override their love of a mediocre JRPG that 'speaks to them' --- Like Darth Maul, the bastard child of Michael Flatley and Hellboy -trancer1 lol xstats |
This is why Undertale's going to come with everything it's got to harvest this gold mine of saltiness At least this OoT talk isn't as silly as the people who thought Melee could win the contest --- Welcome to the League of Antivotes. |
OoT is going to get murdered Those poor oppressed Zelda fans : ( --- "Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." |
OrangeCrush980 posted... Probably old as dirt by now, but as expected SBAllen dropped the equivalent of "Melee was stuffing at a 2:1 ratio" Just for the record this literally means nothing Like even if vote stuffing was at some point caught he kinda can't admit it since cash prizes are on the line. I'm pretty sure there would actually be legal issues at this point since the methods caught were no doubt used in previous rounds and skewed results. That of course assumes that anything was able to be caught by the antiquated methods of this site to begin with, which I doubt, but yeah, just saying putting your fingers in your ears and lalalaing is really the only option here. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Undertale
is more like L-Block than Draven. Every corner of the internet is
getting in on it, and large portions of Board 8 are on board with it,
too. Draven was truly a heel in every sense of the word. Undertale is
just the plucky underdog. --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif |
I
also never understood this 'Facebook rally' bulls***. Honestly, who
here actually reads the garbage that comes up on their news feed? --- Like Darth Maul, the bastard child of Michael Flatley and Hellboy -trancer1 lol xstats |
Lopen posted... OrangeCrush980 posted...Probably old as dirt by now, but as expected SBAllen dropped the equivalent of "Melee was stuffing at a 2:1 ratio" Hey he caught those 600 accounts bots. That's shows that the methods aren't inexistent. (edited 12/14/2015 2:47:58 PM)report |
truly these are dark times in fact i think it will be the plot of zelda wii u this is the crisis link will save us from --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
Targets! 1 AM: -1000 2 AM: 0 6 AM: 2000 3 PM: 12000 11 PM: 1000 --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
xp1337 posted... truly these are dark times You just can't help yourself from slipping into kayfabe even in the midst of no hope can you --- Welcome to the League of Antivotes. |
xp1337 posted... truly these are dark times If OoT wins do we go back to the pre-rally timeline --- "Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." |
Averia posted...
I know you were being facetious here but I would put money on him having just made that up entirely. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Janus5k posted... xp1337 posted...truly these are dark times No, this was the plan. To draw out the rally and gather it all in one place. Then destroy it! --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. (edited 12/14/2015 2:50:46 PM)report |
Karma Hunter posted...
i really can't it's all that's keeping me going here --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
(Again, if it gets to be too much you guys can just tell me to knock it off.) --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
TheCodeisBosco posted... Ah, so they "FireRed/LeafGreen'd" it. I see. Well, unlike Shadow Dragon, FR/LG is well praised as a remake. The one on GBA that's just called Fire Emblem is good entry point. I think it was designed with the idea that it would get localized because of all the tutorials that were put in the game. Oddly enough, Shadow Dragon would be a good entry point too because it is a remake of the very first game. --- http://www.backloggery.com/whitelens | http://myanimelist.net/profile/WhiteLens http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/5086952/ |
I think we've got bigger fish to fry when talking about stats topic s***posting my man and by "fish" I mean "pretty much just Karma Hunter" --- Welcome to the League of Antivotes. |
Lopen posted... Averia posted... I'm sure he saw Luster's statistic about 2200 accounts being created yesterday and ran with it. --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif |
transcience posted... I mean, Allen confirmed earlier today that it was just rallying, and I'll take that over unsubstantiated claims. I don't want to go down that road but its pretty clear that the Internet is out to push Undertale. good luck rallying Zelda. I'd love to see someone try though. This is the difference between Undertale and Draven. Draven was responsive, sure, but it was nothing like what happened to Melee when it started to catch up, and it was a single community with a very large pool. Undertale kinda started that way but has turned into a different kind of rally, one that can respond instantly to a narrowing of the vote. I'm not ruling anything out because a yellow site banner definitely changes the equation. But it's revisionist history to claim that Undertale showed anything in the first few rounds comparable to what it showed against Melee. That instant response to a very large rally was completely different from previous trends by both Undertale and Draven. Up until that point it was still feasible (based on the numbers we had) that OoT could use a yellow site banner to stay within striking distance and possibly try for a late push. After the Melee match, it doesn't look like the Undertale rallyers will allow it to stay any closer than 3k-4k votes. Or maybe that was a fluke match since it happened on Sunday and we'll see more ASV trends, with OoT actually holding the lead through lunch. Then the deluge comes and the match is over barring some crazy rally from Smash Direct and/or other nintendo boards. Here's also something to remember: as much as we talk and plan on these boards, it was clear that when Link fought Draven there was a LOT of rallying for him that didn't get announced here until it already happened. If those rallyers are still around for this year's contest, there may be some low-level support that isn't accounted for. Last and not least...we were doing a LOT of planning for LSD as well but there was very little hope of actually beating Draven before the match started. Not quite as apathetic as we are about tomorrow's match, but we were really desperate because Draven was beyond anything we'd rallied before. The reason that match will always be the greatest contest match is that Link made two comebacks despite every pre-match indication that such a thing wouldn't happen if Draven got a big lead. tl;dr--as bleak as tomorrow looks, we can't forget that Link facing Draven looked pretty damn bleak too. And it turned out pretty awesome. Slim hope is still hope :) --- Every day the rest of your life is changed forever. |
Just remember, before we get into the championship match tomorrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INywX3IgcnU&t=20m23s --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif |
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LeonhartFour posted... Undertale is more like L-Block than Draven. Every corner of the internet is getting in on it, and large portions of Board 8 are on board with it, too. Draven was truly a heel in every sense of the word. Undertale is just the plucky underdog. Yeah, this. I would vote for Undertale in a heartbeat over anything related to Draven or LoL. Just not over OoT :P --- Every day the rest of your life is changed forever. |
I can say with 100% certainty that the --- Welcome to the League of Antivotes. |
Karma Hunter posted... I can say with 100% certainty that the all it needed was 500 ME3 anti-voters --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif |
I and my 499 fellow brothers and sisters won't apologize for what we did that ending still sucks --- Welcome to the League of Antivotes. |
LeonhartFour posted... Undertale is just the plucky underdog http://i.imgur.com/0fbHlqE.jpg --- satoru iwata |
Julian_Caesar posted... Up until that point it was still feasible (based on the numbers we had) that OoT could use a yellow site banner to stay within striking distance and possibly try for a late push. Ehhh... I disagree. I'm not going to go back and try to chronicle my exact positions on this by checking old stats topics, but I think it was... After ME3: Undertale probably has this. RBY and OoT might have a shot but I REALLY wouldn't count on it. After Fallout 3: Undertale has this. RBY and OoT literally need massive outside help now. After SMW: Undertale has this unless there's a Nintendo Direct that tells everyone to vote against it. It didn't take Melee, or even RBY, for the hope to die. At least not for me. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
I'm not saying I believe that! I'm just saying that's the public perception of it. --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif |
Yeah I know This is what the ralliers believe --- satoru iwata |
xp1337 posted... Julian_Caesar posted...Up until that point it was still feasible (based on the numbers we had) that OoT could use a yellow site banner to stay within striking distance and possibly try for a late push. Fallout/SMW matches showed a nearly identical number of rallied votes for Undertale, and identical ASV trends. RBY showed similar trends with a higher number of rallied votes (40-45k for Fallout/SMW, ~55k for RBY). It was assumed that those would continue to increase as the contest went on. However considering that GameFAQs votals do the same thing and a conservative guess on yellow site banner was that votes could be boosted from 55k to 80-85k, that put OoT on roughly equal footing with a finals-boosted Undertale rally (i.e. 75k or so). However the Melee match showed that Undertale had a much larger possible boost if needed, to the point that it rallied more votes than GameFAQs would likely draw even with a banner. So from my perspective, it wasn't actually that bleak until Melee got smacked down. --- Every day the rest of your life is changed forever. |
