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Just wait until the kiddies wake up.

cyko posted...

I wonder if we will see any kind of voting trends with this contest. Will the newer years perform better in the mornings and "after school"?

This was brought up before and my guess is that the most interesting trends will involve the matches with a 20+ year difference between the 2 entrants in a match. The 20+ year difference would apply to the following matches - 1979/2009, 1981/2006, 1978/2005, and 1992/2016

Other matches that could potentially have noticeable trends are 1995/1986, 2000/1990, 1996/1989, and 2004/1994.

In general, trends should be rather boring for the most part and mostly non-existent for a majority of the matches.

cyko posted...

I wonder if we will see any kind of voting trends with this contest. Will the newer years perform better in the mornings and "after school"?

Does ASV still exist? I thought we saw this last contest where it doesn't really matter that much anymore because of smart phones + a lot of this site's userbase not being in school anymore anyways

That's why I put "after school" in quotes. I feel like trends still often shifted around that 3:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern time period.

cyko posted...

That's why I put "after school" in quotes. I feel like trends still often shifted around that 3:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern time period.

It's when the voters get a chance to sneak in a vote right after picking the kids up from school and dropping them off at soccer/ t-ball/dance/piano practice etc.

redrocket_pub posted...

cyko posted...

That's why I put "after school" in quotes. I feel like trends still often shifted around that 3:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern time period.

It's when the voters get a chance to sneak in a vote right after picking the kids up from school and dropping them off at soccer/ t-ball/dance/piano practice etc.

SMV

Soccer Mom Vote

Just wait until the grannies wake up. Atari domination!

God, editing PHP code and a website on a cell phone is a b****. I think I'm done though...hopefully nothing breaks.

looks good! nice work!

better work than the contest maker. I can't get over how bad this picture stuff is.

Oh god. If this is the way the pics work, then whatever the strongest game in a given year is (ie. the first pic) us going to be a lot more important than I thought. Very much regret picking against 1997 and maybe 1995 already.

Thanks for the updates to the Poll Tracker.

pyresword posted...

Oh god. If this is the way the pics work, then whatever the strongest game in a given year is (ie. the first pic) us going to be a lot more important than I thought. Very much regret picking against 1997 and maybe 1995 already.

Game in the first pic is not necessarily the strongest one. Mario Bros. is likely a lot stronger than Dragon's Lair. Adventure probably isn't the strongest of the four 1979 games either. 1989 got lucky that it got Tetris in the first game slot.

wow i didn't even realize the contest started today. my bracket is just my first initial thoughts and going to sleep.

If they're going in the same order as in the "notable games" thing next to the years in the bracket, I think the first game will be the strongest in the majority of cases at least. (and in particular it would be the case for the two years I mentioned, which is probably the ones that would stand to benefit most from this other than maybe 2015)

pyresword posted...

If they're going in the same order as in the "notable games" thing next to the years in the bracket

They're not. Bomberman isn't even listed under 1989 and it's in the match pic.

creativename posted...

God, editing PHP code and a website on a cell phone is a b****. I think I'm done though...hopefully nothing breaks.

Thanks for the update. Here are the missing poll updates for both polls:

Time | 1979 | 2009
12:01 AM | 9 | 51
12:02 AM | 20 | 104
12:03 AM | 28 | 158
12:04 AM | 35 | 190
12:05 AM | 43 | 237
12:10 AM | 81 | 407

Time | 1983 | 1989
12:01 AM | 14 | 44
12:02 AM | 38 | 87
12:03 AM | 52 | 134
12:04 AM | 61 | 167
12:05 AM | 72 | 211
12:10 AM | 131 | 352

it kinda feels like Allen cares about this contest less than we do but he didn't want to send it to the scrap heap with the Quotes Contest since he already had the prize money

Should've had a best console contest instead of this. LameFAQS.

pyresword posted...

Oh god. If this is the way the pics work, then whatever the strongest game in a given year is (ie. the first pic) us going to be a lot more important than I thought. Very much regret picking against 1997 and maybe 1995 already.

Yeah, this whole contest hinged on how these matches would be presented. A good amount of people aren't going to wait and see all the games represented, so whatever comes first is going to carry a lot of weight.

The 2 matches today had vote totals of 1715 and 1673 at the end of the first hour. Based on this, we're looking at roughly 17000 votes for both matches today, which would be a 16% boost in vote totals compared to the 2 Vote-In polls (which averaged 14703 votes).

Once we get to Round 1, we'll start getting to the years that will be much better at drawing in votes.

I just noticed Geolocation isn't a thing anymore, how longs that been gone?

Geolocation still exists. From the poll results page, click on the button that says "View Map and Detailed Results" to load up the world map. From there, you can hover over any visible country to view the results from a country. For certain countries, you can click on them to view a more detailed breakdown of the results.

Cool I'm just blind as hell. Haha.

For some reason I don't have a winner in 1995s. second match. One less guru to worry about.

Bad votals.

Feel better about my tiebreaker.

I mean my bracket's going to lose horribly but hey.

I think I disqualified my official bracket after getting my roommate to fill out a bracket on my computer, since his motherboard is s***.

I mean; I won't win so it probably doesn't matter... but damn.

anyone else having this issue

on internet explorer the match pics aren't changing, it's scrolling but it's the same pics

I'm not having this problem on chrome

So far, the trends in these 2 matches are somewhat interesting. Despite only a 6 year difference in the 1983/1989 match, 1983 appears to be showing a clear night vote and morning vote advantage over 1989.

In the 1979/2009 match, one would expect the older year to have the night vote and morning vote advantage since those 2 time periods have the oldest voters on average based on past age polls. Instead, 2009 appears to be winning the night vote and morning vote. This casts doubt into how people are voting in this contest. The 2009 match picture features Uncharted 2, Street Fighter IV, and Batman: Arkham Asylum, 3 games which seem to have at least average or above average night votes and morning votes.

Well darn. I forgot to change my tiebreaker number of total votes. I put in too low a number. Thought would've been able to change it while the contest went on.

tennisboy213 posted...

anyone else having this issue

on internet explorer the match pics aren't changing, it's scrolling but it's the same pics

I'm not having this problem on chrome

not working in explorer ain't an issue

Literally a day 1 elimination in the Guru

What a contest

LeonhartFour posted...

Literally a day 1 elimination in the Guru

What a contest

You know the contest sucks when...

Can someone nicely ask SBAllen to change the picture format. Or at least, make the rotation faster. That way, people will notice that there is more than 1 picture BEFORE they cast their votes

swirIdude posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

Literally a day 1 elimination in the Guru

What a contest

You know the contest sucks when...

Haha WHAT?

foxhead84 posted...

Can someone nicely ask SBAllen to change the picture format. Or at least, make the rotation faster. That way, people will notice that there is more than 1 picture BEFORE they cast their votes

I think the average person will see at least one rotation before they click the vote button. Though with that said I doubt the average person will sit through all the pictures.

I could not be more strongly in favor of faster rotation.

Of course kids don't appreciate the classics...voting for crappy games...

TyVulpine posted...

Of course kids don't appreciate the classics...voting for crappy games...

As is tradition

Faster rotation will be really easy to set up for SB. It's only a number in the script.

So the contest started...Man this is the contest I care the least about. And I have taken part in all of them since 2003! Who thought this was a good idea? The only good thing I can say is that it is unique.

Safer_777 posted...

So the contest started...Man this is the contest I care the least about. And I have taken part in all of them since 2003! Who thought this was a good idea? The only good thing I can say is that it is unique.

Better this than another Noble Nine pissing contest....err, Character Battle.

guys guys GUYS

we just broke 10,000 votes. TEN THOUSAND!

transcience posted...

guys guys GUYS

we just broke 10,000 votes. TEN THOUSAND!

*insert clichéd DBZ Nappa and Vegeta line here*

transcience posted...

guys guys GUYS

we just broke 10,000 votes. TEN THOUSAND!

My guess of 25k per match might be too LOW somehow. Jesus.

Ten years ago, L-Block/Link/Cloud/Snake broke 10,000 votes in thirty minutes. That contest began with Yoshi/Knuckles/Rikku/Vaan, which broke 10,000 votes in forty minutes. Even one of its matches as narrow-focused as Fox/Wario/Captain Falcon/Banjo broke 10,000 votes in fifty-five minutes.

Today, we break 10,000 votes twelve hours and fifty minutes into these matches, with two matches at once regarding something as broad as years.


Still excited, but damn we've shrunk.

The Internet became bigger.

"Something As Broad As Years" is a negative, not a bonus. Simpler formats get more votes and this is a very complicated format. You could put Link/Cloud/Snake/Mario in a poll and it gets less votes than Link/Cloud. We've seen this happen back to back before.

All in agreement for a faster rotating picture at least, given after seeing how it is going and feeling a lot better I went with the 1995 upset to the finals, needs to be better representation of the games in the year, just a pity the picture format was never fully defined before lockdown, quite a lot of bracket placement was gambling on how the representation of the match pic turned out to be.

Rotating pictures would be nice.

Putting a small text list of notable games under the pictures would be 10x better.