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WRITE DOWN YOUR TIEBREAKER

It often disappears when brackets lock so make note of it now so you're not given a zero tomorrow night.


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NFUN posted...

stop making topics

Don't listen to this guy.
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Need this to live ONE more day for a project I'm doing.
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Ngamer64 posted...

th3l3fty posted...

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Those pages are automatically generated so they should be as up to date as the rest of the site.

Ngamer64 posted...

I THINK everything on the site is now up to date. Everything that was tracked, that is- keep in mind, no 2017 or 2013 data is in the database.

this is slightly incorrect - those pages currently fail to account for the final two matches of the 2011 contest due to the poll numbers of the matches being reversed from the order they ran in for whatever reason, so the only place they're accounted for is in the contest-specific archives

other than that, everything should be fine

Morgoth could you look into these final two matches of 2011 that lefty mentions?

Also when you get a chance, could you do a find/replace on the database for

http://oraclechallenge.com/profiles.php?type=users&id=303

and switch to "RoseChevalier"


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Wednesday evening unless I get caught in a bear trap.
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Yes, it's all we talk about at Thanksgiving.
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Yikes stuck in a division with all my best buds, too cruel!

Having spent a week with Menji I can say he would be a tough out, he's a big young dude in great shape.

(I DID beat him at volleyball though!)


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haloiscoolisbak posted...

Is this where we submit our brackets to enter the guru?

No, that topic is coming on Wednesday.
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th3l3fty posted...

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Those pages are automatically generated so they should be as up to date as the rest of the site.

Ngamer64 posted...

I THINK everything on the site is now up to date. Everything that was tracked, that is- keep in mind, no 2017 or 2013 data is in the database.

this is slightly incorrect - those pages currently fail to account for the final two matches of the 2011 contest due to the poll numbers of the matches being reversed from the order they ran in for whatever reason, so the only place they're accounted for is in the contest-specific archives

other than that, everything should be fine

Morgoth could you look into these final two matches of 2011 that lefty mentions?


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TAG I'll pick in a little bit
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That's the definition of an open secret!

TRE has all the Oracle data for 2017, maybe Morgoth could get it into the database if he e-mailed it over?

Sounds like SE could get him the 2013 files in a couple weeks, that will be more tricky to put in the database though because it's never been set up to work with 3 way results.


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30% were coming from registered accounts at the height of Draven-mania; I'm expecting a higher percentage this year.

(Until somethingelse-mania takes over.)


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Episode Two is now LIVE, carve out two days of your life to enjoy this monster!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77094530


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When it's the largest bracket in GameFAQs history, there's only two men I trust with my life to break down all the action.

http://board8.speedrunwiki.com/interviews/theshow/20181012-TheShowEP02.mp3

Yes the master of analysis himself Leon joined yo and I this week and let me tell you, "epic" doesn't begin to describe this super-Show! First though a quick WARNING, I highly recommend having the bracket pulled up this time around so you can follow along with the discussion and not get lost:

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

* Leon's hype level & opinion on taking a longshot for the $1000
* discussing Ange's Special Report about reddit being all about the rallies. will they spill over to other matches that day?
* is this sexy new meme Bowser's ticket to the Championship?
* analysis of all the most controversial matches in this mega-bracket

Get Involved!
Make your first set of Oracle picks: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77083370
Get hyped for the Guru, Spread, and Streak contests (coming soon)
Think about what match you want to do a guest writeup for w/ Moltar's Analysis Crew
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If you missed last week's episode or want to check past Shows, visit
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/The_Show


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I THINK everything on the site is now up to date. Everything that was tracked, that is- keep in mind, no 2017 or 2013 data is in the database.


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Super duper, okay we've got complete results for everything except Characters 2013 now.

https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Oracle_Challenge
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This story of Fat SB is tooooo funny, it must be preserved.


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Boo_Mario posted...

swirIdude posted...

The matches are showing 31 entries for Rounds 2 and beyond, but 32 entries for Round 1. Did someone submit a Round 1 only bracket?

It appears someone submitted an incomplete bracket. Should I exclude them from the counts or leave them in?

I vote EXCLUDE.

And great work with this!


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EVEN MORE ALSO

In exciting news I was able to reach the final Team Results pages on the OC website, despite how they were accidentally set to invisible.

Final result for Game of the Decade: http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k10&type=teamtotal&match=127

Gold for amy and raytan, Silver went to Moltar and DSRage, PD finished 27 points back to earn the Bronze. Not our best result, but at least we held off that powerhouse tran/yoblazer team.

Final result for Rivals: http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k11&type=teamtotal&match=64

Gold for lefty and gitanil, PD earns the Silver (14 pts off the mark), Luster and kawaii took home the Bronze.

I updated the wiki with these results.


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ALSO was there a team competition last year, and if so, do we know who won?
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creativename and I are back for win #4.

Predestined Divination rides again!


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Uhhhh don't overwrite the stuff in that file BTW, create a Duplicate and start editing it there, if that wasn't clear!
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I didn't mean for mine to be. Not at aaaaaaaaaaaalllll.

(actually I didn't)
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I'll participate if you run this. Check your gmail- I've granted you access to the spreadsheet I used in 2015 to run the Streak Contest for the game bracket. You should be able to update this for Characters and it would pretty much run itself. Well, in terms of scoring and the leaderboard, you would still need to input picks.

- by default everyone's board would say BANK for all 150 matches. as people post new picks, you overwrite BANK with the name of the character they selected for that match

- as results come in, you enter them into Col A

- that will cause Leaderboard tab to autoupdate everyone's scores


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You're right, that's the only flaw of this bracket. Fingers crossed we don't have to suffer through 4 exact rematches.
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The Owner of FF9 posted...

Is The Show available on iTunes? It looks it used to be.

I'll update it out there, if I get a free minute someday...

Haste_2 posted...

Oh, yeah... this is a topic that would be really difficult to talk about pre-contest, but Ngamer do you plan on talking a little about potential rally spillover, with the four matches per day and all that? Perhaps it won't be needed until we can peg which rallies are likely to continue in round 2. On the other hand, our brackets may depend on the spillover effect. Man, trying to predict this thing is complicated...

We'll discuss it in general terms but I don't know that we'll have enough time to break it down match by match. Gets overwhelming pretty quick if you try to factor in 2nd and 3rd rounds, and then what if the links are still active and they overlap somewhat into the following day, etc.

I defo agree it could be important!


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Underleveled posted...

@NowItsAngeTime do you have the results from the 2013 B8 nomination tally? The rest are on the wiki but that one just says coming soon (I assume it was you since you also did the two contests that surrounded it)

Also could someone link me to the final tally for this year?


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I think they're close but I'm giving Bowser the edge this year.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

Ill keep it off the final public archive but its staying deep in my hard drive in case you go rogue

A brilliant strategy.

ExThaNemesis posted...

LINK NOT EVEN IN THE TOP TEN SUCK IT YO

Top Five for this bracket though!

LusterSoldier posted...

A link to the contest is available on almost every single page on the site. Although the box shaped contest banner doesn't appear on the FAQ pages, there is a site alert that people will see when landing on an FAQ page from Google or another site.

Does the site alert display even for unregistered users?


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pirate109 posted...

Will the spread betting contest come back? That was really fun last time.

Spread betting is awesome. And YES, it's coming back, MZero is hosting, the winner gets a $60 dollar game of their choice!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77069575

ExThaNemesis posted...

Yes, yo. The website went down and cost Link the victory. It went down right in the heart of the ASV where he was actively FLAYING Draven. It was like an hour and a half lost and Allen never gave him that time back.

JUSTICE for Link!

ExThaNemesis posted...

After this episode of the show I'm getting some BoTW-fear and thinking about taking Zelda over your boy, Leon.

Yeah that one will be mighty interesting...


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I'm in it to win it!
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So everyone's up for it except Undertale pretty much? Very interesting... Good reporting Ange!


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Good question, for me it's also a mix of all these about equally, but top two would probably be

The surprisingly interesting math and analysis of trends and statistics
I just like seeing what the most popular things are at the moment in general


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Yes jump for joy, Contest fanatics, I had a chat with Morgoth and he's going to see if he can get the oc.com site back up and running for us! I also got in touch with creativename, he's going to check his database settings this week and will try to restore everything on gamefaqscontests.com so we can have our 2018 poll update tracking.

Huzzah!


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Unless Mario sneaks his way into the match again, I don't like Vivi's chances.
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While it's on my mind I'm going to check the numbers.

2010's direct matchups:

Jill > Niko 67%
Samus > Jill 67%
Cloud > Samus 53%

Fox > Lloyd Irving 67%
Snake > Fox 67%
Cloud > Snake 52%

Which implies Fox > Jill 51.50%.

Next you factor in who would have gained in the last eight years, then who gets the benefit of the GameFAQs Factor. Haven't looked over the Board Odds yet but this seems like a difficult upset to pull off!


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LusterSoldier posted...

Although it wasn't talked about during the episode, the tiebreaker question for your bracket entry will be rather interesting...

Good info Lusty, I'll run through these numbers next episode.

LeonhartFour posted...

I'm going to pick my main bracket without worrying about rallies. Then I'll use the Second Chance bracket to pick the rally character if one emerges as the clear favorite.

I want the Battle Challenge to come back. It was a lot of fun.

"Heroic Mario just laid his seed in his pants" still the greatest topic title of all time.

Fox had a fair match against Snake in 2010, and he got doubled, which is pretty solid.

yoblazer is totally correct. You're better off picking Link to win if you want to win prize money. Even if a rally does win, there will only be a few people who picked it with a prize entry bracket.

if Chloe wins a match it could become the newest worst thing in contest history

I'm terrified of Monika (for many reasons) because the thing that helps rallies get off the ground is a weak character in round 1 because rallies are never ready right off the bat in round 1, and she's got one of the weakest fourpacks in the contest. Sans does, too.

- that's a reasonable strat

- HECK yeah, let us Streak again in 2019 SB!

- historical significance through the roof; could HM have the only seed stronger than Draven's?

- true I forgot about Fox/Snake 2010, the only time in like 100 tries where he hasn't been hamstrung with a Nintendo opponent. well, since his first ever showing against Cloud in 2002, that is

- to clarify: I recommend everyone pick Link if they want to win the Guru, earn bragging rights on B8/The Show, finish on the final leaderboard, or win some prize money. trying to nail the rally is worth it ONLY IF the only thing you care about is earning those 1000 clams

- whaaaaaaa can't believe you're so anti-Life Is Strange, I just played through the series this month and loved it!

- yes the importance of a weaker opening opponent can't be overstated, plenty of eventual Champs wouldn't have been able to get off the ground without that extra stroke of luck (the Mass Effect 3 antivotes still haunt me)


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Okay, I brought the page back up to date.

https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Oracle_Challenge

Does anyone know if we had a team challenge for GotD, Rivals, or 2013?


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Thanks for the kind words gang!

Yes my other major projects are The Show and the Guru. One down, one to go...

That's correct, Draven's value is based on how he was performing "naturally," before the original reddit rally took off.


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ZenOfThunder posted...

here are the most masturbated to characters on that one website with all the hentai:



this is why peach won

SFF and LFF are all well and good, but by December, the only thing B8 will be discussing?

ICF.


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_SecretSquirrel posted...

I should point out that people were so into the just Monika meme that they literally nominated just Monika and no one else for the sake of the joke. I saw at least two in the nomination rally thread.

Normally I'd speak out against throwing away 19 slots... but that's pretty funny.

LordoftheMorons posted...

Oh god, expert bracket

I lost everything by getting greedy with the surprise oracle on an until then perfect run in Rivalry Rumble and then got like a little worse than top 50 instead of like top 10 in CB IX because I forgot to make a pick for Draven/Mewtwo/Sephiroth

Yes everyone has their streak contest horror stories, it was wonderful!

LeonhartFour posted...

Yeah, I agree with yoblazer about the absolute magic of the early years. We can't really recapture that because we're all older and it's harder to surprise us (without a rally) because we've seen so much. When I think about this, my mind always goes back to us just shouting BARRIERS for six Stats Topics during Kefka/Vercetti.

Breath of the Wild sold extremely well, Zen, especially for a Zelda game! Also yeah, Breath of the Wild is the first game that actually made me care about the series.

I like giving the Noble Nine (sans Sephiroth) byes to the Double Elimination round because it does make things more unpredictable. It reminds me of SC2K5, where Clinkeroth was taken out. That was a great bracket on paper, even if some of the matches didn't live up to the hype. I'm sure some of these matches that look good on paper will wind up being duds, but there's also more likely to be wild and unexpected upsets if you take those guys out since they're not just racking up guaranteed wins every round.

As a stats nerd (and X-Stat compiler), Double Eliminations is awesome. It'll make adjustments so much easier! Also, we get a chance for more matches with the heavy hitters (presumably it'll all be heavy hitters at that point in the contest), so yes, please. Theoretically, it's going to be the characters we care about the most at that point. But yeah, he should've reversed the order in the Losers Bracket so we don't have to worry about so many rematches. Theoretically, we can avoid rematches altogether until near the end if things play out right, but it's unlikely. But also, like yo, I'm kind of interested to see what a rematch would look like so close after the first match. The closest thing we ever saw to this was the Battle Royal in 2006, and observing the day to day numbers was pretty fascinating.

There were plenty of more important or dramatic or unlikely days in Contest history, but that Kefka match might be my all time favorite day on B8 for the sheer entertainment value.

WOW a Zelda game to win over even Leon, mighty impressive!

For me 2005 was great on paper but maybe EVEN BETTER in reality, easily one of my favorite brackets ever. (Helped that it was coming on the heels of a dud in 2004 and a year where every result went against me in 2003. And an uninspiring Bad Guys Thing a few months previous.)

That's true, was certainly funny when Samus was removed from the options but Mario still managed to LOSE vote share the next day (as 10,000 Nintendo fans didn't realize this was a new match). If we get one repeat I'd be fine with it from a stat quirk perspective, but jeeeeez, sure hope we don't get stuck with four...


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Whiskey_Nick posted...

Yo's reaction to Doki Doki is fantastic

He scoffed at first, yes, but we did convince him to give it a try later in the evening. Excited to hear the results!

azuarc posted...

I think when you guys were talking about rules and protocols and changes, the one thing you significantly overlooked is that the Thanksgiving break has the potential to disrupt rallies.

I fully expect there to be rally that starts before the break, makes it to the top 16, and then fizzles on the return. This is, of course, contingent on the board not foaming at the mouth for that whole week and giving outsiders something to cackle gleefully over...so then again, this is obviously an absurd expectation, since we know that will never happen.

I agree, we should have commented on this. It could be an especially effective cooling off period because that's the one week per year young Americans are forced to leave the internet (biggest travel days while everyone flies home). Maybe when they get back online afterward they'll have forgotten what was soooooo funny about Waluigi beating Sonic (or whatnot).

Whiskey_Nick posted...

Remember Linkle? no

We have Zelda's ass. We don't need Linkle

We needed BOTH, darn it!

And the horse they rode in on!

azuarc posted...

Honestly, I think that line was crossed during RR when BJ/Adolf was in the contest. Hitler might not be a fictional character, but he's certainly a person of non-video game origins. I don't know what criteria Allen was using then that he allowed that, but I'm more okay with the idea of Geralt appearing than the boss of Wolfenstein episode 3. At least Geralt has presence in the video game. Hitler's in Wolfenstein for about 10 seconds until you kill him and move on to the second half of the game.

Good point, yes I wanted to mention Hitler during this section but I forgot after a minute and then we'd moved on. (Normally I'd love to discuss letting in the new characters at length but didn't want to dwell on it too long during a HYPE/positivity episode.)

ZenOfThunder posted...

Wait Catherine was in Rivals, seriously? It's unbelievable how little from that season managed to stick inside my brain.


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Whiskey_Nick posted...

The six day gap is nice, breaks up rallies a little where there would normally be close matches

It does provide a "cooling off period", could that kill the momentum of a major rally? Hadn't considered that, but certainly possible...

Whiskey_Nick posted...

Hot Pocket t shirt

IT BURNS!

Christmas gifts get wild when Granny Ng is hosting.

Whiskey_Nick posted...

Zen the way you say analysis

It is a thing. It makes me chuckle each time

Yeaaaaah I loved it.

LeonhartFour posted...

I miss the days when I was the official analyst of The Show

and then everyone stole my gimmick

It was too sweet to copyright!


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We're back and, perhaps, better than ever.

http://board8.speedrunwiki.com/interviews/theshow/20181006-TheShowEP01.mp3

Next week we'll do a deep dive into the bracket and all the debated individual matchups- for this opening Show I was just counting on yoblazer and Zen to bring the hype over our first traditional 1v1 Character Battle in eight years. And boy did they ever deliver! Plenty of entertaining rants and raves as we went Big Picture and covered all the hot topics:

* GOOD IDEA / BAD IDEA for SB's new additions, including...
- GameFAQs user votes count double
- huge 128 bracket + "Legends" bracket for Noble Nine(ish)
- 4 matches per day, Double Elimination after Sweet 16

* overall trends to consider for this year; is "GameFAQs Factor" going to matter?

* should you pick a rallied upset champ if you want the 1000 bucks?

* if so, who's got the best chance- Geralt, Draven, Sans, D. Va?

* fun ways to get involved in Contest season
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This one was a blast to record, hope everyone enjoys it!

PS - links for what we discuss, if you want to follow along:

The Bracket: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/features/cbx_entry

Zen's "document the Contest" project: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76969215

Updated X-Stats: http://thengamer.com/xstats/

L-Block, #1 topic on reddit a couple weeks ago:
For context, that thread's about to hit 30k upvotes with a strong 93% ratio but those numbers don't come close to doing it justice in terms of total eyeballs. TIL is the second most popular community on the site (behind only AskReddit) with 20 million+ daily visitors, and the L-Block topic has been in the #1 position for the last 4 hours. If I had to estimate I'd guess about 400,000 unique users have seen the title in that time.


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Dang yoblazer, what a mastermind.
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Jump for joy, Contest history fans! lol x-stats is back up to date to help your picks in the next week

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77069022


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Chloe got the day 1 rally, which vaulted her onto the suggested nomination form, which made all the difference. I'm sure Max could have earned an 8 or 9 seed if their roles had been reversed.

I'm fine with this result though, I'd imagine they're very close in strength so only having one of them in the bracket is good enough for me.


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http://thengamer.com/xstats/

The site's now up to date with all results ever! (Except for BYIG and Rivals, because, ehhhhhhh.) We owe Luster a round of thanks for helping input the 2013 character data.

If you're asking yourself any questions about the bracket, this site has your answers. For instance, will our iconic friend Ryu fight all the way into the Legends bracket this year?

http://thengamer.com/xstats/ranks.php?name=Ryu

The man is a paragon of consistency! Whereas certain others have ping ponged in strength from year to year, and might not be so safe a bet.

http://thengamer.com/xstats/ranks.php?name=Master%20Chief

Note that you can compare the raw (pure % results) versus adjusted (our best guess at "fixing" weird results) stats here and also see what seed they earned in each bracket. Plus all their direct results, for their 1v1 matches.

Oh also, the picture is always from the matchup where that character was eliminated, and clicking it will bring up the whole thing. Let's say you wonder "how the heck was Mario knocked out that early in 2013?"

http://thengamer.com/xstats/ranks.php?name=Mario

One click will explain how the fix was in!

If there's one particular matchup you're struggling with, the calculator on the font page can help. For instance, 2013 tells us the division finals are going to be

Sephiroth (2013c) VS Ryu (2013c)
Sephiroth wins with 58.22% of the vote!

If clicking stuff on the calculator is too slow you can just edit the URL to try different years or character combinations, like

http://thengamer.com/xstats/?name1=Samus&year1=2007c&name2=Ryu&year2=2013c

If all you want to look over are direct results, those are all available as well (for the 1v1 brackets)

http://thengamer.com/xstats/ranks.php?bracket=2010c

And if all you care about are the pure strength numbers, you can have them in two flavors. Tweaked All To Heck

http://www.thengamer.com/xstats/ranks.php?year=2013c

(congrats, Tifa!)

Or Brutally Raw

http://www.thengamer.com/xstats/ranks.php?year=2013c&raw

(way to go, Chie!)

There's a couple further updates I'd like to apply, but no promises on if I get around to them in the next week... since there's some major projects I need to get off the ground before then.


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Nah that was legit, my Quiet pic sealed the deal.
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BKSheikah dominated even The Show hosts in 2017, wow!
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Melee had the outside support to get by a game that had just hung 65% on FFX. I have zero doubt it would have had the juice to sneak past Ocarina, or Pokemon, or anything else* in a similar fashion.

* that couldn't mount a massive Undertale-like counter rally


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BKSheikah dominated even The Show hosts in 2017, wow!
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