Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1326

Today's poll is sponsored by The Show.

I totally miss when some polls used to be sponsored polls. The last time I remember a sponsored poll happening was back in 2010, for about 3 weeks back in September. You can see one of these sponsored polls right here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100909042924/https://www.gamefaqs.com/

oh man, I just spent almost 20 minutes looking at archived pages of gamefaqs, that's a cool website.

I think GameFAQs used to look better, or maybe I am using wrong theme now..

There were sponsored polls once? Damn. Also look at the votes on that poll. More than 75.000!

Definitely tracking today's poll as this poll has a history of having strong trends in the past.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7864-

Noms have been open for a month now. Surely it's almost time for them to close.

And then for vote-ins to begin.

Anyone remember how often we have had vote-ins?

I am guessing that nobody cares to put nominations so they just leave that as long as possible.

We had vote-ins for Character Battle VIII, Game of the Decade (2000s), Rivalry Rumble, and Best Year in Gaming.

We didn't have them for Character Battle IX, but with a 243-character bracket, everyone that would have had to go to the vote-ins for a 128-entrant bracket just made it in outright, with plenty of room leftover even. Character Battle X and Best Game Ever III had no vote-ins either.

I don't know why we would need vote ins when it would be choosing between which turbo fodders get clobbered in the first round given how weak this field is going to be.

Vote-ins would allow our favorite turbofodders to have a chance to participate in an official GameFAQs poll, which would be nice.

I love vote-ins because it gives us near-useless data to quote for the next decade as to reasons why we should never nominate anything ever again

No data is pointless!

swirIdude posted...

Vote-ins would allow our favorite turbofodders to have a chance to participate in an official GameFAQs poll, which would be nice.

This.

Murasaki better be there.

Edit: There's also a good reason to have vote-ins: to know more good games by putting them in the spotlight. (Dark Cloud 1 and 2 are still in my wishlist.)

Edit 2: We can also make fun stats comparisons like what percentage would OoT put into the weakest vote-in contestant.

What is the Guru's nomination?

Safer_777 posted...

What is the Guru's nomination?

Super Meat Boy

Oh darn, the Guru nom topic purged already.

Okay thanks. Info for my analysis.

I wonder if we'll get vote-ins.

I imagine we'll find out in about 6 hours. I feel like vote-ins started with the next poll after noms closed in the past.

Noms are closed! Commence bracket!

Team Rocket Elite posted...

I wonder if we'll get vote-ins.

No vote-ins today. I wouldn't expect vote-ins tomorrow given that we're probably likely to get some kind of poll related to Valentine's Day. So that leaves the weekend days for some possible vote-in polls if they do happen.

I'm not sure why anyone's expecting vote-ins. The only time in the past eight years we had any was BYIG, when one single match was necessary due to its format, and that was indeed all we got. In particular, no contest where Allen needed to spend time determining the field via a combination of noms and other metrics has had vote-ins.

There were actually 2 vote-in polls for BYG:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6666-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6667-

I don't think we were expecting them. They just would've been nice to have.

Do we need vote-ins for a contest that's going to have this much fodder?

KamikazePotato posted...

Do we need vote-ins for a contest that's going to have this much fodder?

vote-ins have always created a more competitive contest so yes it would be nice

KamikazePotato posted...

Do we need vote-ins for a contest that's going to have this much fodder?

The previous GotD contest had plenty of fodder, and we still got vote-ins for that one. The average game strength in this contest won't be significantly lower than the previous GotD contest. At the very most, this field will be only slightly weaker.

Has a vote-in ever wound up winning a match?

Big Bob posted...

Has a vote-in ever wound up winning a match?

Several times

Sub-Zero, Mega Man X, and Missingno. all had to get through vote-ins to make the main bracket in 2010.

What is with all the loners here based on POTD? Come on people be social!

I only play multiplayer games if it's couch co-op

I hate playing with other people online, video games are my escape from daily interactions with strangers

FIFA is the only online game I regurarly play. Sports are not fun against the AI at all.

I try Call of Duty and Battlefield games every few years but never really got addicted like so many.

I like couch multiplayer, but I don't have that many, very few of those are gamers and very few of the ones who are games still live in the same city as me.

And online multiplayer is usually cancerous.

Most people are garbage, online or offline. I like playing Fortnite, but I only play solo matches unless a certain challenge requires otherwise, because playing with random strangers means dealing with racist 13-year olds. People s***-talk me for the dumbest reasons.

If you actually have friends who you can set matches up with, then multiplayer is awesome. However, in general it's too much of a hassle, so most of my playtime is solo.

I just don't have an interest in playing online with people I don't know. Street Fighter is the only series I've done it with to any extent.

Big Bob posted...

Most people are garbage, online or offline. I like playing Fortnite, but I only play solo matches unless a certain challenge requires otherwise, because playing with random strangers means dealing with racist 13-year olds. People s***-talk me for the dumbest reasons.

If you actually have friends who you can set matches up with, then multiplayer is awesome. However, in general it's too much of a hassle, so most of my playtime is solo.

This is why I love Fortnite.

Not your experience specifically. That was awful and I'm sorry you have to deal with it.

But Fortnite by itself made every other online community better by default, because that's where all the moron screaming children play now.

UltimaterializerX posted...

This is why I love Fortnite.

Not your experience specifically. That was awful and I'm sorry you have to deal with it.

But Fortnite by itself made every other online community better by default, because that's where all the moron screaming children play now.

Fortnite is basically online babysitting, it's truly helped every other online community

AxemRedRanger posted...

Sub-Zero, Mega Man X, and Missingno. all had to get through vote-ins to make the main bracket in 2010.

The Boss, Jecht, and Big Daddy also won matches in 2010. Resident Evil 5 won a match in GOTD. Raiden/Vamp and Big Boss/The Boss won a match in Rivalry Rumble.

So yeah, it's produced at least one winner in every contest it's been a part of except for Years which barely counts.

Resident Evil 5 was only the moral winner of its match against Tales of Symphonia.

oh wait yeah it didn't win but it came close

RE5 was the ultimate loser that contest!

Though the most impressive we ever had. I think every match in the chain were within 55-45.

Vote-Ins tend to produce at least one winner because you get the strongest of a set of 60-ish entrants that usually includes third-tier characters from strong entries, and usually there's a weakling or two in the 3-4 seed range as well as some mere midcarders.

The good thing about living with my brother is that I can still play multiplayer games with my best friend.

The_Ctes posted...

RE5 was the ultimate loser that contest!

Though the most impressive we ever had. I think every match in the chain were within 55-45.

RE5 ranked #27 in the xstats despite being the Ultimate Loser. That's really impressive.

whoa a blank POTD

LeonhartFour posted...

whoa a blank POTD

here are your vote-ins, bro

except there's nothing to actually vote in!

This is scaaaarrryy.