Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1320 GameFAQs Contests

Getting another Zelda character to beat Link was an idea so crazy it just might have worked.

But it didn't.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

You can check if you have a tiebreaker.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/features/cbx_mybracket

Just above your bracket it will say your score and tiebreaker.

Looks like no tiebreaker then

https://i.imgtc.com/g43U4nF.jpg

I think I like XIII's odds far more than mine. I think Mario > Zelda is a lot more likely in a rematch

In the unlikely scenario where Cloud beats Mario and Zelda, I would...fall 2 points short... :/

It looks like Advokaiser would pip me by 1 point if Cloud runs through losers bracket. I have no idea about the non Guru people between me and him though

Not winning a contest because you didn't enter a tiebreaker must be the worst feeling

pjbasis posted...

Getting another Zelda character to beat Link was an idea so crazy it just might have worked.

But it didn't.

I honestly believe samus would have come closest.

Well I'm not tied with anyone right now so it isnt in play. If they say my bracket is ineligible due to being 'incomplete' then yeah that would suck. Hopefully that's not the case. I guess I can ask?

I filled out my bracket quickly before deadline which is why I didn't fill in the tiebreaker. I think like 5 minutes before lockdown

I don't think I'll win anyway as I don't think Mario loses to Zelda a second time whic is what I would need to happen

Next character battle I’m definitely gonna have to try to push Skull Kid

VeryInsane posted...

Next character battle I’m definitely gonna have to try to push Skull Kid

You have my vote

And my sword.

Still salty that we didn't rally Linkle btw.

Came back from work, checked the results. This is what I have to say.

Final match=LAW

Bonus=FREAKING MARIO!

Zelda going to drop below 37% :|
When she stalled at the 38.5% mark I thought 37% would be the maximum lowest...but she can sink more...

Skull Kid would be an okay rally candidate. I looked back through 2013 and thought I remembered Epona being a complete bomb... but she beat Ike directly. That's respectable enough for a horse.

Brasen posted...

Team Rocket Elite posted...

People can come away from real life with different lessons. For me, I've seen people trash my town for millions of dollars of damage over losing a hockey game. If the worst thing people are doing is making angry message board posts over a contest match, that barely registers as a problem to me. In real life, people can be much, much worse than that.

This. So much this. I know that I'm going to beat the s*** out of the next person I come across wearing a Mario costume. I've not had a good fight in years!

Lmao

So why is Link so strong anyway? I mean yeah Zelda and Nintendo fans, but then you have Mario too, and he's not nearly as strong as Link. So where does it come from?

Nanis23 posted...

Not winning a contest because you didn't enter a tiebreaker must be the worst feeling

Could have been an accidental fun entry.....

CaptainOfCrush posted...

Skull Kid would be an okay rally candidate. I looked back through 2013 and thought I remembered Epona being a complete bomb... but she beat Ike directly. That's respectable enough for a horse.

And beat Ike just shy of how bad Pikachu beat Ike, too! Epona just had tough placement with significant LFF against a GLaDOS who looked her best ever that year.

Simple. The LOZ games are amazing. Now you may say aren't Mario games good too? Yeah but here is the thing. Mario isn't cool. Link is!

Link's not cool. He's an elf wearing tights that goes HYAH SHEYAHH YAHH

creativename posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

Mario>Samus is the most villainous result we've had in like, forever. Samus was reversing a 40-60 loss from 12 years ago, overcoming the Nintendo Hierarchy, overcoming bracket votes, and overcoming the Registered Voter Bonus which I will remind is equivalent to 400+ stuffed votes, overcoming rabid Mario ralliers literally going door-to-door asking people to vote. She came one update away from overcoming all that through raw strength alone. It's like an anime ending except the cheating villain won.

Mario is epic troll villain confirmed.

Story of an underdog hero who keeps besting adversity, only to barely lose to the cackling mafia plumber villain at the end.

Hail the Godplumber.

Lmfao

Safer_777 posted...

Simple. The LOZ games are amazing. Now you may say aren't Mario games good too? Yeah but here is the thing. Mario isn't cool. Link is!

It's gotta be more complicated than that

Because you can identify with Link but not with Mario. At least this is how I see it.

I definitely identify more with a happy go lucky Italian stereotype than a generic mute elf

I like pasta. I've been fat in the past. I've trained to be in professions then used very little of that knowledge in what I'm actually doing.

Yeah but Link demolishes everybody. Where is Link getting his vote steroids?

Mario might be who we are, but Link is who we want to be.

Dfy556 posted...

So why is Link so strong anyway? I mean yeah Zelda and Nintendo fans, but then you have Mario too, and he's not nearly as strong as Link. So where does it come from?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7423-after-20-years-how-many-times-have-you-beaten-ocarina-of
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7120-what-is-your-all-time-favorite-nintendo-64-game
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6721-which-of-1998s-most-popular-games-do-you-think-make-it-the
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6470-what-is-your-all-time-favorite-nintendo-64-game
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6181-best-game-ever-bonus-final-fantasy-vii-vs-zelda-ocarina-of
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4882-according-to-the-aggregate-rankings-whats-the-best-single
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4354-which-scheduled-june-release-are-you-most-looking-forward-to
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3509-contest-bonus-final-fantasy-vii-vs-zelda-ocarina-of-time
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2644-which-games-would-you-most-love-to-see-on-the-wiis-virtual
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2185-have-you-played-and-beaten-zelda-ocarina-of-time
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1180-whats-your-favorite-zelda-game
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1205-which-of-the-current-top-10-games-is-your-favorite
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1586-what-do-you-think-is-the-highest-rated-video-game-of-all

You get the idea
(There was a time OoT lost to ALTTP in a multi way poll, but it actually beat it 60/40 in a contest match and I am cherry picking so I didn't mention it. Also the time it lost to FFVII in the same year (I think) Cloud beat Link)

Plus look at what happened with FF7 related things getting wins. Lifetime of anti-votes and boosts by Link/LoZ to get revenge

Man every site has its own thing. For example here Crono is one of the strongest characters despite beeing in only 1 game ever.

Gordon Freeman sucks. BUT when Gamespot had a contest Gordon demolished everyone and he won the whole thing! He even beat Link!

So every site is different.

Here Link and LOZ games rule. That is all.

this match is giving Cloud a lot of hope.

creativename posted...

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XIII_rocks posted...

Guys I did legitimately go door-to-door at work today and get my friends to vote. Probably got another 50 votes all told.

Watch out, KP will call you out for cheering for your favorite!

Was Metroid ever a thing in Europe btw?

Can't speak for the rest of Europe, but my only exposure to anything Metroid related was Mother Brain in the Captain N show and it took until 2006 for me to discover Samus in the first place. When I first saw her in Super Smash Flash, I legitimately thought she was some sort of Xbox/Halo character.

Granted, I was too young for the SNES era and didn't grow up with the N64 outside of Mario 64, 1080, Banjo and Pokemon Stadium.

How did you watch the Captain N show but were too young for the SNES era...?

Re-runs? But I find it weird that show would be on years later.

I remember watching reruns on a Children's TV Channel sometime around the early 2000's.

Also Zelda has a lot of similarities to RPGs which is the genre everyone loves in this site.

Put in a feedback ticket to make sure I am prize eligible and wouldn't be excluded for an 'incomplete' bracket for not filling in a tiebreaker

I would hope it just means I lose all tiebreaker scenarios rather than outright excludes me

Safer_777 posted...

Man every site has its own thing. For example here Crono is one of the strongest characters despite beeing in only 1 game ever.

Gordon Freeman sucks. BUT when Gamespot had a contest Gordon demolished everyone and he won the whole thing! He even beat Link!

So every site is different.

Here Link and LOZ games rule. That is all.

Imagine not knowing how not representative of anything the Gamespot contest was.

Jman_maximum posted...

this match is giving Cloud a lot of hope.

isn't this just SFF?

I don't see Cloud beating Mario after Seph got his ass kicked so bad.

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KamikazePotato posted...

Mario>Samus is the most villainous result we've had in like, forever. Samus was reversing a 40-60 loss from 12 years ago, overcoming the Nintendo Hierarchy, overcoming bracket votes, and overcoming the Registered Voter Bonus which I will remind is equivalent to 400+ stuffed votes, overcoming rabid Mario ralliers literally going door-to-door asking people to vote. She came one update away from overcoming all that through raw strength alone. It's like an anime ending except the cheating villain won.

Good plotline tbh. I would love to watch an Anime where the hero gets destroyed by the villain in embarrassing fashion and then spends the next 13 years growing to finally get her re-match, only to narrowly be defeated this time due to being unable to unleash her full power. Then in the final arc, she finally unleashes her full power and gains the upperhand on the villain for the first time, but the crafty villain finds a way through devious tactics to bring the fight to a last hit situation and picks up that 3rd W in a fade to black. Would be a pretty refreshing story.

Sounds a lot like Ash vs. Alain in the Pokémon anime. I'd rather not.

Nanis23 posted...

I honestly can understand rooting for a video game character much more than rooting for a soccer team
At least the character has personality (sometimes), it's game gave you good times, and has a face to the name
In Soccer, you have 11 players + bench, the manager etc, they always change, after 10 years it's very unlikely that most of them stayed the same, the clothes change, the brand they advertise change, it's like a complete different thing, and people are still a fan of that "team"
What exactly are they fans of...I don't know

You don't know, but we do. I become a fan of a certain team if it is associated with specific individuals I know and love, and that's how I become a fan of Real Salt Lake and the New York Red Bulls. Issues?

ShatteredElysium posted...

It looks like Advokaiser would pip me by 1 point if Cloud runs through losers bracket. I have no idea about the non Guru people between me and him though

I'm currently at 33rd (378 points) with Cloud winning the two losers matches and Link winning in the grand final. Forgot to enter my Guru bracket this year.

_Dog_ posted...

Sounds a lot like Ash vs. Alain in the Pokémon anime. I'd rather not.

1)Alain wasn't really a villain though, just a rival.
2)The anime didn't just end immediately after the loss.
3)The loss was still clean.
4)Pokemon is completely different because Ash has been jobbing for 20 years now and sometimes to irrelevant deus ex machina characters just for the hell of it.

Match CXLVIII: (4) Cloud Strife vs. (7) Mario

Current Contest Performance

Cloud Strife
Defeated Alucard, 60.40% - 39.60%
Defeated Crono, 56.73% - 43.27%
Lost to Link, 39.48% - 60.52%
Defeated Crono, 57.79% - 42.21%

Mario
Defeated Sephiroth, 59.25% - 40.75%
Defeated Samus Aran, 51.42% - 48.58%
Lost to Zelda, 49.09% - 50.91%
Defeated Samus Aran, 50.03% - 49.97%

Analysis

In a battle of rematches Cloud was able to extend his victory over Crono while Mario required the final update to take out Samus. Interestingly enough, this is the first meeting between Cloud and Mario since 2002 where Mario used the power of Super Mario Sunshine’s release and a rally to defeat Cloud. For several contests after, Cloud showed that he would easily defeat Mario in a rematch. Fast forward 16 years and the match has become a bit more debatable.

With the way Mario defeated Sephiroth earlier this contest it is hard to imagine him struggling with Cloud, I doubt many of us would take Cloud to reach around 60% before SFF against Sephiroth. Cloud’s performance against Crono however, is probably not too far on what I would expect Mario to do. Cloud did have Super Smash Bros. 4 to boost his strength which would help him against Crono, but with Mario that may not be the case. I do feel a bit bad for Cloud fans; if he were to lose here, I doubt he would defeat Mario until possibly the Final Fantasy VII remake.

charmander6000’s Bracket: Solid Snake > Crono

charmander6000’s Prediction: Mario wins, 52.15% - 47.85%

Shattered, is ad_absurdum your alt? If so, congrats on leading.

I just realized that I'm in the top 50 in the main bracket, as well as one of my alts. I didn't expect that. If Mario can beat Cloud and Zelda, it would be only the second time in contest history where I finished in the top 50.

Lukejalil is the same account as Shattered so I'm leading the main bracket. My second chance is garbage as I set it to cover my main bracket.

For whatever reason it displays lukejalil rather than Shattered, something to do with when they merged yeara ago I think. I wish it displayed Shattered instead of my real name

Let's fill this topic before the match begins...

What contest do we want for 2019?
1. Best Console Contest
2. Villains Contest 2
3. Female Contest 2
4. Series Contest 2
5. Character Battle XI
6. Best Game Ever 4
7. Quotes Contest
8. Wait until 2020 for Game of the Decade 2

Best Game Ever 4.

Any game popular on Tumblr or Reddit banned from the beginning.

5 or 8.

But really with how long it takes to make a contest, it's better just to wait for GotD2.

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_Dog_ posted...

Sounds a lot like Ash vs. Alain in the Pokémon anime. I'd rather not.

1)Alain wasn't really a villain though, just a rival.
2)The anime didn't just end immediately after the loss.
3)The loss was still clean.
4)Pokemon is completely different because Ash has been jobbing for 20 years now and sometimes to irrelevant deus ex machina characters just for the hell of it.

My point stands, Ash never overcame the "rivalry", which certainly ended after the match (you can't call it a rivalry if it gets abandoned after a short time, it feels like a non-conference game instead). And if you're going to call the Alain match "clean", then Mario's wins were also "clean" as well.

Samus has also never beaten Mario after three attempts. I don't see how this it's totally different from Ash's case. Though I do agree with Alain's entry was quite a reverse deus ex machina, and a really bad one at that.

You know, scratch that, Ash's losses are way worse than what Mario's ever done in these polls.

8 > 7 > 1 > 4 > 6 > 2 > 3 > 5

Character Battle XI.

Link excluded.

DKC2 is the GOAT

Yes it is