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Eh.

At this rate I think us folks that guessed greater than 60% are in trouble. Should have just gone with a straight pick rather than an oracle pick

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MarquessLaus posted...
So I ultimately put down everything on Link 62%, what do you got?

I've got it all on Link 60-65%. I probably won't be winning the contest even if I am right, but I don't have a prize entry anyways

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Not a chance

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Beat in in the normal bracket. I've beaten him in the battle bracket if my 5% pick comes through tomorrow, since I wagered all of my points on it. (Link 60-65%)

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Blastoise would wreck just as much as Charizard, and there are plenty of others with potential also. (ie. I could see something like Snorlax making quite a run)

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Yeah, if you could do that, I think I would definitely go with a 55%-65% pick, but as it is I'm not entirely sure what to do.

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It was pretty awful compared to others in the series, but I have played many worse games than FFXIII in all honesty.

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I'm probably just going for the flat out pick, maybe 10%.

That being said, I'm only doing this because my entry isn't a prize entry ("Nah I won't bother, not like I'll actually win anything anyways"). I would probably be going for the 5% pick if I had a shot at a prize though. I don't really know the percent, as at this point I wouldn't be suprised by anything between, say, 53% and 70% for Link.

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Probably the guy with ~130 alt accounts that was on the leaderboard for a bit has 136 points.

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The contest stats page updated way after the individual brackets did. After I got points for Link>Cloud, I had 145 points, but the leaderboards hadn't updated yet so I had more than the top score on the leaderboard.

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First time on the leaderboard, on the last day of the contest. Success!

Yes I am sitting here in this topic bragging to all you people who have done this multiple times in the past . >.<

disagree with 9, and also 5 if you count competitive battling, although thats a bit of a stretch.

As a whole though, yes. As much as I enjoy Pokemon, it cannot even begin to compare to Final Fantasy.

rychu_supadude posted...

Aes Sedai (Wheel of Time)


Oh my god this, I nominate them as well.

Anyone who has read these books should nominate this. I never finished them myself, but they were epic nontheless. (got up to book 8 or so)

I'm going for the 10% thing at least.

I really want to go for the 1% thoughm even though it will assuredly be wrong.

After reading nominations, I am going to add these two

Study Group (Community)
Tantalus (FFIX; How could I forget this one?)

This was done without looking at anyone elses nominations, so there are probably good ones that I missed, but anyway:

S.E.E.S (Persona 3)
Cruxis (Tales of Symphonia)
The God Generals (Tales of the Abyss, if they qualify)
The Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter)
Dumbledore's Army (Sue me, I like Harry Potter)
The Al Bhed (Final Fantasy X)
Organization XIII (Kingdom Hearts)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings, not sure if this one qualifies either)
The Reapers (The World Ends With You)
Fight Club/Project Mayhem (Fight Club)

This is all I can think of for now

Mario/Bowser in both brackets.

I'll be voting Mario/Bowser also, but only because of the Bowser in the Paper Mario series.

The amount of FFIX in this topic is truly great. That being said I cant decide between FFIX or FFX, so I'll just list both.

FFIX: The sequence from Oielvert to the arrival on Terra was lackluster compared to the rest of the game.

FFX: The Calm Lands. Not because I hate the area, I actually really love it as a level. It's just that the game is so great from pretty much the entire game up until that point, and each time I get to the Calm Lands it always strikes me that the best part has passed and the game is almost over.

My two favorites that you listed are Final Fantasy X and Tales of Vesperia. Since you already played FFX, I'd recommend Tales of Vesperia. (These are my two votes though)

guwa posted...
Wasn't it the alt in question, or was that gone before?

This is correct I think. Probably he picked on his main but forgot to on his alt or vice versa

edit: Can't spell

I was just about to make this topic >.>

This contest is infuriating me, because I'm not going to appear on the leaderboard even with a perfect battle bracket

To catch them is my real test

Perhaps I am underestimating people's concern for the actual world on this site, but I think Gandhi might have a shot.

I assure you I would vote for Gandhi over any Fictional Character at any rate

Cloud
Cloud/Sephiroth, but only barely this time.

I like Cloud/Sephiroth about the same as Cloud or Sephiroth alone, but I like Link/Ganondorf a whole lot more than I like Link alone, mostly due to Link or Ganon lacking any sort of personality. (although that is true of the majority of characters in these contests)

Ok, there is a serious lack of Super Paper Mario in this topic. I had so much fun with that game.

Lucky4815162342 posted...
Lopen posted...
In a close match, the b8 favorite will win.

No exceptions.

Thank you.
Finally, someone who understands.

The main reason that this contest has been awful (with absolutely no upsets of any kind) is because the vote totals are so low, that in close matches the bracket voters (through the B8 consensus) have skewed every match in favour of the favourite.
It's the same reason that matches that were though to have a very small chance of being an upset (like matches predicted to be in the 55-45 to 60-40 range, ended up as 75-25 blowouts throughout the entire first round -- bracket voting against the upsets.

The contest does not work with vote totals this low.

Part of the problem was the poor idea for a contest, poor alignment of the battles, not allowing more interesting entries, etc. But if the traffic on the site doesn't go back up then the contest is definitely dead.

I don't think the effect of bracket voting is quite that large. I definitely am not alone when I say that I vote for my favorite character/game/whatever even if it conflicts with my bracket. I voted Sora/Riku in both R2 and R3 even though I had them lose round 2 in my normal bracket and have them losing today in battle bracket.

More like Squall will hold on and then Samus will get doubled by the Trainers.

Ok, she won't get doubled, but she doesn't have a chance at winning

Meh.

The music was good, the ending as a whole was so awful though that I really couldn't take it seriously. The game had such potential but crashed and burned on the last third of the game

As far as N64 platformers go: Banjo Tooie>DK64>SM64>Banjo Kazooie, although all of them are great. There is probably one I'm forgetting, and I have no idea where Conker's Bad Fur Day fits because I've never played it.

Sakurafanboy posted...
I'm 22. I know a pile of garbage (FF8) from a masterpiece (KH). People who don't like KH usually moan the story is "too complex". Huh, well I understand the story quite well. People don't pay attention to cutscenes and dialogue and base their opinion on that. The story is quite easy to learn, its fun, and the cast is likable. And not all KHs "mash the X button". Try that against Ursula form 1 in Kingdom Hearts. You'd be killed.

Actually, I hated the story because it was overly simplistic. Literally nothing in the overall story changed other than Sora's location from after leaving Traverse Town the first time to the time you reach Hollow Bastion (which I will admit is a pretty awesome level).

Topic title should have been "a terrible Final Fantasy is beating a terrible series.

That being said, I really enjoyed KH2 and the beginning of KH1, so I still voted for Sora/Riku. (Although Squall individually is better than either Sora or Riku, despite the awfulness of the game he is in)

Objectively speaking, there is really nothing at all special in the first Pokemon as compared to the later ones. There is literally nothing better about Red/Blue other than nostalgia.

Of course, nostalgia is a powerful factor in deciding which games one likes, I'm just saying.

Well, I guess why I dont get it is because I cant picture anyone voting for a character based on a non-canonical appearance of that character.

I guess if its a matter of voting "that guy from Kingdom Hearts" or "this other guy I've never heard of" I could see it, I guess I just underestimated hhow much that played a role in Squall's vote

I dont understand the whole theory that Squall gets votes from Kingdom Hearts.

Squall isn't even called Squall, its "Leon," unless there is like one scene or something. Unless people knew who Squall was before playing Kingdom Hearts, there would be no way to associate the KH "Leon" character with the Squall in the pole.

Soulavenger69 posted...
Because a match is supposed to be decided in 15 minutes mirite?

Obviously.

What fun would matches like this be if not for the intial panic in the first hour or so?

Well, I'm now wishing I had banked.

Say goodbye to all 61 perfect battle brackets, unless there was one courageous soul

RappinHobo9292 posted...
Man thong is the best FF villain by the way

Also this.

I dont think a villain in any game I ever play will be able to match the depth and awesomeness of Kuja

Sephiroth himself is fine.

The game as whole though is painfully mediocre, which I think rubs off on Sephiroth for me.

I'll always vote anything FFIX related

XIII_rocks posted...
Probably going Alucard. I'm sure as hell not banking at this point whatever happens

Pretty much this exactly, the rest of the contest after this match is almost a lock i feel like. Relatively confident in Alucard, maybe like 70%, as opposed to 95% or more for the rest of the contest.

I just wish I hadnt overrated Chrono Trigger in my normal bracket, since I was doing pretyt good in that to until tomorrow

I didn't no Mee-troid was was even a thing people said >.>

Safer Sephiroth 777 posted...
Okay I believe there should be one entry per IP.Yeah I know you can only enter 1 prize entry but I can make 300 accounts and have every contest perfect by making all possible combinations on debatable matches so at least 1 of them will be perfect...

There are way to many debatable matches per contest to do this I think, although admittedly this year is putting it in the realm of possibility. Even by conservative estimates, I would say there have been at least 10 debatable matches so far (I say that as if its a lot), which would mean 1024 different combinations you would have to make. If the number even increases to a still incredibly small 15 matches than you would have to make over 32000 brackets.

-Tofa7- posted...
I've got the feeling the casuals who are still perfect in the battle challenge are visiting board 8 each day to find out who the favorite is. This is just getting ridiculous. I hope there's an upset and 99% of you get wiped.

Since I feel like this statement is directed at people like me, as a lurker for the past ~4 years, I feel like its more just a reflection on how easy this contest has to pick so far. The only match so far where Board 8's opinion caused me to change was on taking Bosses>Tidus/Jecht in Round 1 and 2, and I highly doubt only casuals are guilty of changing one pick because of someone else's opinion.

Well, I've now been convinced to take Sora in my battle bracket, so when I drop down to 0 points it;s going to be your faults.

7 hours in; I've done the first dungeon and a good number of sidequests.

The game is great so far except for one thing: the motion controls. They aren't terrible, and they dont make the game unplayable or anything, its just they literally add nothing to the game. The only thing I've seen so far from the motion controls making things needlessly difficult. Flying is kind of a pain with the controls, and that beetle thing is the most annoying item I have ever used in a Zelda game. Pointless gimmicky mini-games that utilize the motion controls are also added (If I have to cross one more tightrope I may chuck my remote at a wall).

Don't get me wrong I love the game, I just feel like it would have been better in every way if they had simply had the player use a GCN controller.

CHANGE

Well, despite being the FFX fanboy that I am, after doing some last minute thinking, I can't see this upset happening anymore.

I am changing tidus/jecht to the bosses in round 1 and 2.

(I am going to be so pissed if there is no naked snake pic and tidus actually manages to pull this off)

League of Legends, not even close. I can't go one game without someone raging at someone else in the match, just making unpleasant for everybody.

I'll presume this is true for other games like DotA/Hon that are in the same genre, I've onlyplayed LoL though

Change:

Sora/Riku

to

Dante/Vergil in Round 2