Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1374

A picture that still lives in my nightmares

Zack sure does stand out in that.

I love that the hybrid face has two sets of eyebrows.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3301-contest-quarterfinal-samus-vincent-crono-pikachu

Crono vs. Vincent part two.

Part three!

Oh right, they fought in 2005.

Nobody can "clutch" out the end of a match like Chrono Trigger

...Except Mario

Even more intense considering winner goes a chance to go to the final.

Though maybe Vincent folds hard enough to Cloud so that Snake gets third place instead.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3302-contest-quarterfinal-snake-cube-cloud-mewtwo

This is a match that happened. Nice to have some recovery time after a close Crono match.

Leonhart4 posted...

A picture that still lives in my nightmares

So cursed, it's hilarious.

_SecretSquirrel posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3302-contest-quarterfinal-snake-cube-cloud-mewtwo

This is a match that happened. Nice to have some recovery time after a close Crono match.

And to think, just a few days after this result, Snake would have the lead on Link for several hours.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3303-contest-quarterfinal-kirby-dante-sephiroth-sonic

And here we have it, the most unexpected result of the entire contest. It might have been slightly foreshadowed by Auron > Sonic earlier in the contest, but no one expected this from Kirby, and no leeching or SFF could excuse Sonic here.

I still can't believe Kirby lost to Bowser.

Yeah the hot upset was Master Chief precontest and Dante when the match began. Kirby decided to utilize the combined power of Smash in those late rounds.

Sonic would get his revenge in 2010

Kirby was a somewhat popular upset pick that year yeah.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3304-contest-semifinal-link-mario-samus-crono

By hook or by SFF crook, Crono wins this chapter of his rivalry with Mario and advances to the finals alongside fellow Hero of Time.

The rivalry basically ended with the 2005 final, but it was nice to see Crono get one back I guess even though everyone knew SFF did it. Mario was never reacting the final in 4-ways with Link om the same side every time.

Also Crono getting to the final in place of another Nintendo character is almost certainly what allowed Snake > Cloud.

_SecretSquirrel posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3304-contest-semifinal-link-mario-samus-crono

By hook or by SFF crook, Crono wins this chapter of his rivalry with Mario and advances to the finals alongside fellow Hero of Time.

LMS caused Crono to sneak by...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3305-contest-semifinal-cloud-snake-sephiroth-kirby

LOL Sephiroth

Even he can get LPF'd if the need arises

In other news, we've got another Favorite GameCube Game poll. I'm kinda surprised they don't change up some of the options like they do with some of the other console polls.

Leonhart4 posted...

In other news, we've got another Favorite GameCube Game poll. I'm kinda surprised they don't change up some of the options like they do with some of the other console polls.

I'm kinda surprised WW won. All those great options, and WW pulls 20%?

It's a solid selection. I personally really like the GC Pokemon games but I'm not sure anything is missing.

Kirby swallowing Sephiroth that easily is pretty hillarious even with the field. The Smash picture was the best, especially because 15 years later you can now actually play as them all.

I wonder if Kirby theatens to move on if Snake wasn't in Smash. Because Brawl was a strong source of Kirby's increased power and Snake might take some of that from him. That and of course whatever bandwagon factor that made Kirby look better against Snake in the semifinals than against Big Boss in round 1.

Should have put Twilight princess in, it doesn't say gamecube exclusive!

I don’t think any of the games would be in my top 5. Maybe Fire Emblem, so I voted for it.

But no Resident Evil 4? Really?

RE4 got a reasonably timely (if inferior) PS2 port. None of the rest of these did besides Symphonia but that port didn’t release in the west.

I wonder how Wind Waker would do in a direct match against Melee these days.

It would still fold.

pjbasis posted...

Should have put Twilight princess in, it doesn't say gamecube exclusive!

I forgot this is not a Wii game.

Eh, I wonder. SFF isn't as severe as it once was, and it's hard to get Zelda to fold one-on-one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3306-contest-final-link-crono-snake-cloud

Snake led Link for 6 hours (although the lead never eclipsed 200) and led Cloud by as many as 3700 votes. Pretty sure he's the only non-joke/rally character who can make either of those claims.

If you stick a strong Nintendo character in that poll instead of Crono, Link might have started to sweat there.

Snake could've had a real shot in 2013 if not for Draven in a Link/Snake/Samus final. People forget because of Draven, but that was probably the weakest Link we've ever seen. Snake got 46.52% on Link 1-on-1 in a bonus match after the 2013 contest ended.

I imagine Samus gets obliterated like she did in Snake/Draven and that may have been enough for Link to still win, but Snake has had two nearly legendary finals performances regardless.

KamikazePotato posted...

If you stick a strong Nintendo character in that poll instead of Crono, Link might have started to sweat there.

For a while but I feel like Snake's chances of finising third would be higher than finishing first with Mario or Samus there instead of Crono.

ctesjbuvf posted...

I forgot this is not a Wii game.

gamecube version the REAL version

ctesjbuvf posted...

For a while but I feel like Snake's chances of finising third would be higher than finishing first with Mario or Samus there instead of Crono.

We've seen precious little evidence that FFVII and Chrono Trigger disproportionately affect each other. Snake was just riding the bandwagon from beating Cloud the round before and it was just enough for him to hold on to 2nd.

I'm just saying I would found it more likely than him getting first.

Cloud would also be the only one not in Smash.

It wouldn't have to do a lot for Snake to fall below Cloud.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3308-character-battle-bonus-link-link-link-link

I wonder if Toon Link would finish second now.

So long, farewell, 2008 Character Battle.

It's a bit sad but I really enjoy looking at old matches daily as a closest thing we have to contests.

It's like Characters 10 running currently? Maybe it was GotD. Whatever ended with Link defeating Santa Claus lol.

Yeah, GotD was the winter contest. I think the 2009 Games Contest was early in 2009, so we'll get to that one soonish!

Just checked and it started at the beginning of April. So did the original Games Contest, so we can remember them concurrently!

But characters 10 must then be early 10.

ctesjbuvf posted...

But characters 10 must then be early 10.

Yep, the first match was January 16.

That was when we started having 12 hour matches too. Even more life in contest topic.

I think the only days to never have a Contest Match (or Bonus Match) are:

January 1st-January 15th
March 22nd-April 1st
June 10th-June 30th
December 25th-December 31st

Not a huge difference between yesterday's results from Favorite SNES Game and the previous time it was run in 2020...except Mario World somehow improved by 2%.

Big year for Mario and we're fresh off of two popular releases for the plumber. That's my best guess.

Although Mario RPG went down by nearly a percent!

Weird that “played but never finished” is currently winning in today’s poll.

dilateDChemist posted...

Weird that “played but never finished” is currently winning in today’s poll.

Now "I've never played it, not even once" is winning by 10 votes.

It's generally been around 40% of people who say they've never beaten it or never played it every time this poll is run, although they added an extra option this time, so those options are winning now.

Yesmar_ posted...

I think the only days to never have a Contest Match (or Bonus Match) are:

January 1st-January 15th
March 22nd-April 1st
June 10th-June 30th
December 25th-December 31st

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7915-

That was from March 27th, and part of the March 22nd-April 1st range has been accounted for by the GotD2 contest. If not for a slight delay to the start of GotD2's first match, that entire range would have been covered by that contest.

February 29th is another date that has never had a contest match, since our only contest which covered the entire month of February was the 2010 contest. 2010 wasn't a Leap Year.