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KamikazePotato posted...

Was this the match where the LoL subreddit broke their own rules and pinned the link to GameFAQs at the top of the reddit?

I believe so

I didn't know that was against the rules, I just remember them pinning it and being like "fuck this"
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I really do remember people thinking Snake could beat Link even without Mario, it wasn't many people but they were vocal that "THIS WAS THE YEAR"

That's why that Bonus match happened iirc, it was partially to put that theory to bed

Happy you enjoyed the writeups, I want to write more in the future if I have time. I just don't know what about. I was thinking maybe L-Block's contest but all the details are way too blurry for me at this point.

I really appreciate the support everyone gave, you guys are all great. I know it sounds cheesy but I've always considered Board 8 a kind of weird pseudo-family where everyone is all my annoying cousins that I still love even though they keep asking me if Ethan Hunt could be Simon Belmont in a contest
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(8)Chester vs (22)Caim vs (8)Spring Breeze Dancin'




This was the bonus match post-Round 1, it didn't count for points I think and I also think we voted on what match we wanted to see. @LusterSoldier usually remembers this stuff better than me.

Something tells me we could have come up with something more interesting, but at the time the board was obsessed with finding the weakest possible character in these things. Yet somehow we all knew and wanted it to be Chester but we also voted for him?? You can't make this shit up, we never agree on anything. The only thing we learned from this match is that Caim is so weak he can barely double Spring Breeze Dancin'. We also learned just how low we could get the votals to go.

(1)Mario vs (1)Crono vs (7)Mega Man X




Here's another match where I wonder what the hell we were thinking. Why X in this match? Did we really need Mario vs Crono for a tenth time? Crono has dropped so much in the decade leading up to this match that this didn't even need to be a question. Even with X potentially sapping some of Mario's votes away he was still able to beat Crono quite comfortably. Could X beat Crono if Mario weren't here? Maybe. I seriously don't think Crono is going to be shit come CBX. I'd be shocked if he made it out of Round 3, even with a good seed. Put him up against a Pokemon and watch him crumble.

(11)Mewtwo vs (6)Pikachu vs (1)Mega Man




Speaking of which, here's a match that pits all the second place winners of the Semis together, including two whole Pokemon. Mega Man was destined to win this one based on the virtue of heavy SFF, but which Pokemon would come out on top?

A lot of people argued it would be Pikachu, but Mewtwo was already on fire, and if any of the rally people were checking in they probably would have voted for him as well. There wasn't really an option for Pikachu to win here. A 1-v-1 between these two in 2018 would definitely be interesting.

(1)Link vs (1)Solid Snake




The only thing super interesting about this match is that originally it was scheduled to be Link vs Draven but reddit set up a rally for Draven because they are scumbags and can't even let us have a bonus. So instead Allen put up a poll for a replacement, but reddit also rallied for Link vs Draven in that poll because they are scumbags and can't even let us have a poll for a bonus.

Allen did the right thing and gave us Link vs Snake, which may seem silly for people who weren't here in the 2013 season, but at the time Snake > Link was the "cool" upset pick everyone was pushing. I will actually admit there was potential for it, but Link was just too strong and probably will be too strong forever. The dude is just a vote magnet, and now with Breath of the Wild beneath his wings he will most likely dominate the 2018 season unless there is some major structural change or gimmick introduced.

Still, Snake performed admirably here, and if he were still getting games regularly he might stay near Link's level even post-BotW, but unless my prediction comes true and the Martyr Factor plays a role in his strength, we will probably never see Snake come this close ever again.

I really don't have much else to say about the bonus matches, they were super vanilla. Hopefully Luster has the other potential matches written down somewhere.

Thanks for contributing to this thread, everyone. It's good to see all of us so passionate after such a long drought (Best Year doesn't count). I want to see every one of you on the leaderboards this year! <3
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(3)Draven vs (1)Solid Snake vs (1)Samus Aran




LeonhartFour posted...

in the finals David Hayter tweeted and insulted Draven multiple times and it actually helped Snake start to make a comeback

then Draven fans got buttfurious and buried the rest of the match

but at least we had that one cool moment

also Jennifer Hale tweeted for Samus at one point too but it didn't really matter because she finished a distant third

You know this is barebones but this is also basically the writeup I would write, just with more purple prose thrown in.

Before this match, people still thought Snake might win. I have no idea how they arrived to that conclusion based on the copious evidence that Draven would run away with this easily.

Perhaps if Samus had been swapped out for another joke proxy (like L-Block) Snake could have done better but there was no way he was winning at this point.

There was a ton of whining, and, of course, this being the finals, the amount of BUTTDEVESTATED MAX: BUTTFURIOUS ROAD comments peppering the boards basically made any serious talk impossible. I believe I was in Canada on vacation when this match happened and when I did log in at the end of the day I wasn't surprised by what I saw. The pillaging of our board went well into the night. It kinda sucked.

I wasn't following the "Allen's Wife" drama at the time because of my limited internet access, but I managed to download the last episode of The Show on the train ride back and listened to it all in disbelief.

Said Allen:

So I'm reading through the big topic about me explaining myself and wondering what the hell all this is about. So I go over to Reddit and my account and lo and behold, I see that I actually did post those messages. After the initial WTF!? reaction, I finally figure out what happened.

My wife loves Solid Snake. He's her favorite character in gaming. She also knew how irritated I was with this whole Draven thing, and worst of all, she knows all my passwords. Thus, her devious plot unfolded. She logged into my Reddit account posing as me and messaged the mods.

I honestly had no idea, and feel pretty stupid about the whole ordeal. Feel free to mercilessly mock me for getting completely owned by my wife!

Allen really types like an old man sometimes, but I've chatted with him on AIM before and he's actually more laid back when he's not on GameFAQS. The "owned by my wife" comment might as well have said "pwned" instead for how "fellow kids" it comes off.

Where do I stand with the "Allen's Wife" excuse? It reminds me of one of those Yu-Gi-Oh cards invented by the show where Yugi brings it out and it has crappy artwork done by an anime artist and it has a really specific bullshit effect that only applies to the weird situation Yugi is currently in



Like that, just imagine it says "My Wife Did It" instead. Actually fuck it here:



That's basically how this all panned out. Snake never had a chance, there was drama surrounding Allen's wife, and to this day we still talk about the time when reddit ran a train on us.

The only thing I want to briefly touch on are the long time Board 8ers who flipped to reddit's side and supported Draven. I can't remember specific names, but there was a lot of bickering at the time. Is there anyone reading this that voted Draven over Snake that wants to explain why they did it? This is a judgment free zone.



Well, except for him, I guess.

ps great votals here, some of the best ever iirc, top 5 maybe?
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next page plz
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SwiftyDC posted...

I know its a long shot but imagine if KH3 has a Star Wars world, or MARVEL/Lego world, or finally a FF world (unless I missed something in the 3DS games).

I read in an interview once that Nomura contacts Disney every time they buy something and asks "can i have it too" and he says the response is different every time

I'm thinking Star Wars and Marvel licenses are too hard to get (EA has exclusive rights for Star Wars and Marvel is weird about letting you keep their license for too long ala Konami and Activision) so I doubt we'll see them even though it would be cool
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charmander6000 posted...

I feel Mickey would suffer a bit from Pac-Man syndrome. He'll defeat unknown characters, but once he goes up against someone well-known I he'll fold.

tbqh I think that's most of the characters we'd get from an "anything goes character battle"

even Batman and Superman would not do too great here, they'd be high midcarders but I think I'd take Mega Man over Batman
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My small restaurant thing opened today so I'll be too busy to do any writing for a bit

i'll still shitpost occasionally tho
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2B (NieR: Automata)
Master Hand (Super Smash Bros.)


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@LeonhartFour is going to do a guest writeup for the final match
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allen will remember

hopefully by next year
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LeonhartFour posted...

I could never forget. I wrote like 10% of the bios on that site.

i wrote fucking Ulala's despite never playing Space Channel 5 because nobody else wanted to
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remember when this was the song on Knuckle's bio page on MMXCaliber's site

if we ever bring that site back it should be moved to vivi's page
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did we ever try to get agumon into a contest or is he not eligible
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I made a SECOND poll: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/76924114

Now we can figure out how people feel about Sans being in Smash and compare that with the general knowledge the same community has of him
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also lmao @ the Creation match pic, what the fuck @GANON1025
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(1)Samus Aran vs (4)Pokemon Trainer Red vs (1)Mega Man




This match was a complete tossup, as seen by the three versions of my Andy Warhol Finals match pic I submitted:



The common theory was that Mega Man would take advantage of the Nintendo SFF and squeak by here. The second most common theory was that Mega Man was too heavily tied to Nintendo SFF and despite beating Charizard with Zero in the match that he would get beaten by Samus comfortably. The third theory was that Red would win because of POKEFEAR and a lack of common sense.

The results make sense once you spotlight just how Mega Man / Charizard / Zero panned out. The results are definitely due to how heavily the MM series is mixed with Nintendo, so the same logic should apply to this match. Samus also looked pretty good so far this contest. What did she have going on in 2013 that gave her this strength? Nothing since Other M? Alright cool what the fuck although I guess the same could be said about Mega Man.

Samus had such a boring path to victory, I think everyone was cheering for Mega Man to get to the finals here. It would have been a way better story than "Samus easily beats Sandbag, Knuckles, Tifa and Mega Man then gets knocked out by Snake and the rallied character"

Red bowed out gracefully here, he definitely looked pretty consistently good this contest, he lost badly to X once I think so coming close to Mega Man and getting into the semis shows how much he's grown. He didn't really have much of a challenge until this point but at least he never jobbed out to some fodder. Not sure where the guy goes from here, will he stay consistent in 2018?

Are we even going to remember to nominate Red in the sea of Shellder and Ditto support? Who knows. He could potentially make a crazy run if he gets a very low seed and a debatable matchup. Imagine Round 1 is (2)Sephiroth vs (7)Pokemon Trainer Red.

In the end this match didn't matter much (other than to our hearts) because whoever won here was going to be Draven food anyway.
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(1)Solid Snake vs (5)Squirtle vs (6)Pikachu




You know what would have made this match more interesting? Cloud here instead of Squirtle. If Pikachu had inherited all of Squirtle's votes he would have been close to Snake in strength, and you can also assume that Cloud would have LFF'd Snake based on Classic PlayStation nostalgia, so the match would have been really close. Funny how I'm saying Cloud would have been the one to hold Snake back. What a year.

But instead of Cloud we had Squirtle, and while Squirtle impressed by staying close to Pikachu, that didn't really surprise anybody at this point. Ulti makes a point to say that Blastoise was one vote away from beating Squirtle in the NRT and being our chosen pick instead. I don't know if Blastoise would be stronger than Squirtle, while he certainly is "cooler" as well as being the cover Pokemon for Blue, I'm not sure if that would translate into as much raw strength as Squirtle just being Squirtle.

Do you know how many Picsmiths were trying desperately to get Squirtle's Kamina sunglasses into every pic? Yeah, that's cuz of the anime, not cuz of the games. Squirtle gets a huge portion of his strength from that as well as being playable in Brawl. I think Blastoise would be close in strength but not stronger.

On the other side of that coin, would Charmander do better than Charizard? Definitely not, no, because Charizard was a focal point of the anime for longer and comes back every time the anime needs to get the views up. He's also cool as heck.

Back to the actual match: Yeah, some people took Squirtle over Pikachu, and yeah, he had an early lead, but Pikachu is the face of the franchise, and even though at one point he was a contest punchline he's now a juggernaut. Pikachu is one of the most recognizable things on the planet, and unlike Pac-Man, people actually seem to give a shit. Two shits. Three, even!
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i think it would be a wasted opportunity to introduce Dante but not have Bayo in his reveal cinematic
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Here is the Dante leak:



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it's nice to see Sonic always hovering near the very top or rock bottom of our lists

poor guy
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it's worth noting that in the english dub of the latest Direct it was pronounced "K Rool"

I think the announcer is actually saying "Kururu"
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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

I'm a huge Pokemon fan and even I don't think we should be getting that many Pokemon tbh, 1 new one (Incineroar out of the rumored plz) would be perfectly fine and then do more characters from other series'

I agree 100%, i'm just hoping Sakurai's vision of the "Ultimate" Smash doesn't include "rep from each Pokemon gen," cuz I dont think anyone ever asked for that but Sakurai seems kind of neurotic so if he got the idea in his head we could actually be seeing Gothitelle
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so if Sakurai was going to add a Gen 3 pokemon, there are only a few viable options:

-Sceptile
-Blaziken
-Swampert
-Gardevoir
-Mawile
-Plusle & Minun
-Deoxys

if Sakurai's only criteria was "they need to be a notable Pokemon from Gen III and have a plausible echo from Gen V," then we can start narrowing down the list:

-Sceptile - Not really notable anymore, he's pretty forgettable. You can argue that Treeko would be a better pick but I don't think people are clamoring for him

-Blaziken - A memorably final starter evo that has had smash buzz since its creation, but now that Incineroar exists and could potentially have a wrestling moveset plus more relevancy, why should Blaziken exist?

-Swampert - A poor man's Greninja

-Gardevoir - Recently in Pokken and is super popular, still makes appearances here and there. Good moveset potential based on all the psychic moves ever in Pokemon. Tons of porn. Had to be said. Great choice.

-Mawile - I only put this one on here because people still seem to like her, but I don't think she's too popular. She's bipedal and could potentially have a semi-decent moveset but she really isn't THAT notable

-Plusle & Minun - Part of the Forbidden Seven, but Pichu exists to fuck it why do this now when they are the least relevant they have ever been?

-Deoxys - Way better and more relevant legendaries with better moveset potential. Also this thing is ugly af

Once you have it broken down, I guess all you got left is Gardevoir, and when you look down the Gen V Pokedex... Yeah, Gothitelle is the only one who could really be an echo. Actually, when you look down the Gen V Pokedex you see that there's actually not many viable Pokemon at all:

-Victini
-Snivy
-Emboar
-Oshawott
-the ugly element monkeys
-Krookodile
-Gothitelle
-Chandelure
-Keldeo
-Meloetta
-Genesect

so if you break these down, you got starters that are no longer popular, ugly monkeys that would be a pain to implement, Krookodile who is just a shitty K Rool, a chandelier that was in Pokken for some reason, and three legendaries nobody even remembers because there are now 16 legendaries per generation

that leaves Gothitelle, who really isn't notable on her own, but when attached to Gardevoir, why the hell not?

I don't wanna believe the leaks but she's just such an out-of-nowhere pick, and yeah having her be an echo of Gardevoir seems like a no-brainer if you already have Gardevoir on your fake leak roster, but why go that extra mile when it could potentially invalidate the rest of your leak? and what about the convenience of getting a rep from each gen? is that just a coincidence?

i can't believe I'm trying to rationalize Gothitelle being in a Smash Bros game, what the fuck
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everyone keeps saying that it would be cool to have reps from each gen, and I get that and I don't disagree

but would that really be a priority for sakurai? does he look down the roster and say to himself "something is missing... we need reps from EACH GEN OF POKEMON! Get me ANYTHING from gen 5, even that weird goth thing nobody remembers!"
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also from the "smash speculation farm," there is now talk of Skull Kid NOT being playable because Ganondorf and Wolf's victory jingles are still the same as their respective heroes' (heros'?)

meanwhile K Rool and Ridley/Dark Samus have unique jingles so people now think there's no potential for a new Zelda villain

it's a bit of a reach but I must do my due diligence reporting any news
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also in "dumb leak news" this was posted two nights ago:



there was the random note that they removed the "wins" from the results screen and the recent gameplay demos show that is true, but sane people pointed out that it had been removed earlier than these demos so there really isn't any validity to that

plus the idea of "dark meta knight" and "Camelot doesn't even want Isaac" makes me wanna die
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here's Chrom / Dark Samus gameplay:



also shows off the stage morphing feature

ps people are all arguing over whether or not the announcer says "King Rool," "K. Rool," "Krool" or his Japanese name "Kururu" everywhere I go. People who have been saying "Krool" their whole lives are looking for validation
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I need a Chie v Draven grudge match
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"Beep boop, I am a robot," said Metal Sonic, who was a robot. "I will now commence... the robot." Metal Sonic did just that, moving and gyrating much like a robot would. Duke was hypnotized.
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/76921839

I made this thread but I gotta go to bed someone watch it for me
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My serious answer is probably Mysterio, then maybe Kraven (Kraven's Last Hunt was one of my first comics), then probably Shocker

I would love Spider-Man in Smash but he's more likely to be in PSASBAR 2
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also this topic has been thoroughly entertaining and I wanna say everyone has solid points

I anti-vote Sans every time I get him on that site just cuz I am repulsed by the idea that he'd get in over anyone, and that includes Pop Figure Marcus Fenix

I also understand that while there are a lot of people like me out there (bitter assholes), Undertale sold super well and if he were in Smash I think there'd be a good amount of happy people and a lot that would recognize him as "the thing from Undertale" at the very least
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Waluigi1 posted...

Why do you guys keep saying Marvel instead of MvC. It's super weirding me out.

I don't know anyone who doesn't call it Marvel but I watch a ton of fighting game streams and went to a college with a huge Marvel scene
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tag

i don't watch much anime but i had a friend tell me Food Wars was great and I put it on in front of my girlfriend and I was so embarrassed to be watching it I shut it off roughly 3 minutes in, no lie

I tried watching it by myself later but I got maybe halfway through episode 4 and turned it off, what a dumpster fire
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LeonhartFour posted...

get Spider-Man into Smash so we can persuade Allen to expand eligibility for the contest

can you explain this recent "Spider-Man in Smash" obsession you've had

also who is your favorite Spider-Man villain that isn't the Big Wheel

Mine is the Big Wheel
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what is the weakest pokemon Cloud could potentially lose to? including ones that haven't been in a contest

like if anyone wants to take a crack at listing Pokemon they think Cloud could potentially take an L to that would be great
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we all lose

uhhh I think Noctis because of recency and the fact that his game gets massive free updates and Square still pushes him even though 15 has been out for a while

13 as a franchise is dead and the games are seen universally as "eh" now, a lot of people are down on XIII itself in particular

that said I have no fucking clue it could go either way IMO, gamefaqs is fickle with its FF protags
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(3)Draven vs (11)Mewtwo vs (1)Sephiroth




I visited Draven's bio on the LoL site and it looks exactly the same as it did in 2013 when I went there to get pics of him and write his bio. Like, literally nothing has changed. It's been 5 years but I remember all the art there and the shallow backstory he was given.

Either Draven really ain't shit and the LoL fanbase will upvote anything not named "Teemo" or LoL is incredibly stale. You know what else is incredibly stale? Talking about Draven matches.

Draven had beaten Link, so at this point if you took anything over him you were crazy. We all knew he had this shit locked down, but you still had some people pushing for either Mewtwo based on POKEFEAR (fat chance arguing that point after Charizard bombed) or hoping Snake somehow had actually grown stronger than Link and that he'd beat Draven in the finals.

Uh, were those people not paying attention to the extra 50,000 or so votes Draven brought in from rallies alone in his last match? Most matches were lucky to hit 50,000 total. In 2013, the year the voters had forsaken us, Draven was free to walk up, kick Link in the dick, buttdevestate our asses and pry first place right from Bacon's open hands.

But then this happened:

"Hello! After discussing this topic internally, we've decided to remove this and other Draven CBIX threads for the following reasons. First, simply put, they aren't fully relevant to League of Legends. However, even if they were considered to be extremely relevant, there's another reason for their removal: the moderators of /r/LeagueofLegends received a request from a verified staff member at GameFAQs, asking us to remove the thread rallying behind Draven, as it was manipulating the voting on their contest.

As many of you know, reddit has long taken a hard stance against vote manipulation, and it would be incredibly unfair of us to tolerate this sort of activity just because it affects another site and not ourselves. This is why the post has been removed. It isn't fair of us to ask other sites not to game reddit, if we allow reddit to game other sites. Posts on reddit should only be voted on by redditors, not bots or spammers. Polls on other sites should be voted on by their communities, not ours. Thanks."

Bacon you are our one true God, all hands to the sky, praise this man:



But just as lord Bacon giveth, he also taketh away.

Turns out that the person who contacted r/LoL wasn't actually Bacon or something. Did anyone ever own up to that? I can't believe the r/LoL mods even fell for it, did they not ask for verification? Guess their mod staff is as much of a joke as the community.

I think at some point Bacon asked r/LoL to let the rallies back so he could make an extra $4 off of the ad revenue, and whatever lead and momentum Mewtwo was gone within a few minutes. No exaggeration, Mewtwo was done after less than an hour of rallying.

I kind of get why Bacon turned the rally switch back on. Rallies had already fucked up the results of this contest and if some jabroni was going to mess with the status quo by removing rallies to give himself some extra points in his Expert Bracket then it was super unfair to the rest of us who had already accepted Draven as our new lord and master.

Talking about all the craziness surrounding this contest is making me really appreciate it, holy shit. I had buried a lot of this in the back of my mind but you can't find drama better than this, even on Bravo!. There needs to be a Real Housewives of CBS Interactive.

Speaking of housewives, we'll get to that soon. Can't believe I'm even saying that. What a fucking nutso contest that I have to devote a paragraph to Bacon's wife.
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(1)Mega Man vs (2)Zero vs (7)Charizard






It's amazing how a match with Serious Sam in it pulled in more votes than this crazy quarterfinals match. I'm bringing this 2002 classic up just to show how Mega Man always finds a way to impress in these things.

This was the match that ruined my shot at winning the Guru; if Charizard had pulled this off you would all have been nominating Metal Sonic right now. I probably wouldn't have made this topic, though, or if I did it would have been called ~*~Zen's "Road to Victory" CBIX Analysis - 5 Years and He Still Hasn't Let It Go~*~.

I really didn't care if I won or not, though. I'm happy we got to see POKEFEAR stopped dead in its tracks here. Everyone had counted Mega Man out thanks to Zero being in this poll; Zero had looked pretty good up until this point, too, and Charizard was just considered too strong of an obstacle. A lot of other Noble Nine members had let us down and at this point Mega Man really didn't have many "new" games at the time other than 9 and 10 which were a few years old and basically just cash grabs. Good cash grabs, but cash grabs nonetheless.

Charizard never really had a shot at this match once it started. Out the gate he looked like garbage and even when he managed to pull ahead Mega Man was right there to take first place back. It was good to see Mega Man of all NN members escape to the semifinals.

How did this happen? Is Mega Man just that universally loved? Is Mega Man so deeply mired in Nintendo SFF that Zero was affecting Charizard too? I don't know. Probably. Fuck it at this point it's 2013 and that's all the excuse I need

Here's a fun exercise, rank the Noble Nine members by how much you personally give a shit about them. I'll start:

Snake
Sonic
Link
Mega Man
Mario
Samus
Crono
Cloud
Sephiroth

Allen can keep Sephiroth out of the CBX banner forever
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(6)Vivi vs (2)Squall Leonhart vs (4)Pokemon Trainer Red




Because Bacon released the guidelines for Round 3 and beyond's match pics way in advance, there were people who had pre-made Mario / Squall / Red pics that had to resubmit their pics because fucking Vivi beat Mario. I'm almost positive the picture in the top left originally had Mario in it.

This match was debated until Vivi pulled his upset, and all of a sudden it became a matter of Squall putting away Red with the newly-awakened sexual tyrannosaurus that was Vivi in the match. Could he pull it off?

Short answer: No

Long answer: fucking Vivi beat Squall

Again, expert brackets had been basically torn to shreds, but this match was cause to take a blowtorch to the scraps that were left. Vivi had a ton of momentum coming off his Mario win and everyone threw their votes his way like teen girls throwing their bras on stage at a [insert current popular boy band here] concert.

Vivi is going to be riding this win for the rest of his contest career. I wouldn't be surprised if he landed a 2-seed in CBX. That's how strong his win was (and still is!). We're going to be talking about it until contests die. Vivi could lose to Caim in R1 this year and we would still champion him.

If we step through a doorway and enter the Berenstein Bears dimension, we'd find a match where Missingno was here instead of Squall, and Vivi would advance to the semi-finals. On the left of that doorway is another leading us to the dimension where Sinbad actually was in a genie movie, and there we'd find a match where Mario beat Vivi and Squall would have had a shot to beat Red and advance to the semi-finals.

Are those realities better than the one we live in? That's up to you, the reader, to decide. Then you can complain in the comments and I'll ignore you.
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Medusa's VA liked a tweet asking if she was going to be doing anything in Smash Ultimate, then when someone made a tweet pointing out that she liked the tweet she liked that one as well

May not mean anything given that Krystal's VA had advertised she was in Smash 4 but that was just for extra content

But a female villain from one of Sakurai's franchises that is already similar to Palutena and can receive some of the extra moves she lost from smash 4? Yeah I think that's more than plausible
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that's fine

i'd wait til 2020 if they're taking the proper time to make it better

curse of the moon was pretty great, i'm just happy we have that
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I also want to mention my imgur account is filled to the brim with "sexy" pictures of all the CBIX characters from my topic series "Zen Determines if the CBIX Entrants Are Virgins"

I will be doing this again for CBX
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As I mentioned earlier a lot of what I did this contest was pushing boundaries for pics to see what Bacon would take. I had been making them since 2007 and I was super bored with the same photos being used over and over

So yes kind of, I didn't expect most of them to be accepted anyway
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If you think it's the right call then it is

good luck bro
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Morning bumpo
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Is this Elite Beat Agents 2?

I want Tabuu back

I don't know why, I just do. feels right
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Is this Elite Beat Agents 2?

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Is this Elite Beat Agents 2?