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Holy shit at Hollow Knight actually doing it. This isn't just a mainline FF game, it's the first FF game since FFX to win GotY.

I'm not crazy about Hollow Knight -- I think it's interesting but gets overhyped -- but there's something legitimate here.

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squexa posted...

FFXV losing to Hollow Knight when all the FF fanboys are on this site for FFVII remake would be an even bigger flop than DA:I losing to Ori.

I agree. Not that FF7 fans are necessarily FF15 fans, but they are still FF fans and there is no better x-factor for a FF game than having FF7R release literally JUST before your match.

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

I did not like Isaac the first time I played it. It has grown on me though, to the point where I'll probably play this off-n-on for the rest of my life. My personal #2 game of the decade.

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Really think the post-game story content takes away from the core message, though. I was happier when I just beat the game rather than trying to COMPLETE the game.

I super-appreciate Celeste but I think this is my biggest complaint with it, thank you for finding the words to my feeling. I don't agree with the difficulty curve being perfect either if we get past the core of the game and go into the tapes. I say this as somebody who just went back to 106% Super Meat Boy again -- hard is fine, but I don't think the post-game content approached this as well as the story-based content did.

Still though, fascinating game. It did what I hope is an influential job on presenting bosses in platformers and it really does feel good in a lot of different ways. It's like a top fifteen game of the decade -- Celeste ( > Rayman Origins) > Rayman Legends.

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...ARMS ain't a series at this time, is it?

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plasmabeam posted...

Let's be fair. Sonic would beat Bastion, AC: Black Flag, Journey, Yakuza 0, Rocket League, and possibly others.

I'm not ready to say Sonic Mania beats Bastion or Rocket League.

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With R1 basically over, I see some people debating what turd of the round is. Tales, Isaac, I get the argument for those...Celeste, totally disagree with...Dragon Age, I get but it doesn't surprise me much...The Witness has an argument to be the weakest of the contest...

...but in my book, Undertale told other games to hold its beer more than any other game here. Turd of the round material for sure.

Star of the round is probably Mario Odyssey.

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Rayman's in Smash!

As a spirit....

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Advo, TRE tends to say things like "one user whose name I can't say here."

Still pretty funny.

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LLLLLLLLLEEEEEAAAADD
CCCCCCCCHHHHHHAAAAANNNGGEEEEEE

Now let's see if Celeste has a B-Side.

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Twenty-eight vote difference...pretty amazing to see, nice.

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I can see Rayman and Celeste competing well with Hollow Knight. However, I've decided through pure HaRRinstinct Cuphead leads the indie pack for now.

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Rereading the topic:

Glenn_and_Toad posted...

My message for everyone else is that even if you don't think you're good at these contests, you should still totally enter the guru contest because it's fun and you really don't need stats knowledge to do well. I never trust/rely on the X-Stats; they are a good starting point and I do look at them, but I never base my final decision off of them. Just do that and pick a few upsets each year, and you'll have a fighting chance.

Good encouragement and nice message -- it's one of the best parts of the contest and you never know when you're gonna be at the top or near it.

Leonhart4 posted...

Better than I would've expected considering I'm almost always middle of the pack!

You were like THE person here where my jaw dropped a bit when I saw I finished ahead of ya. You've always brought your A-game to these contests and conversations, plus like besides Master Hand I feel like I'm usually on the wrong side of our debates.

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Play more indie games.

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Lich_Sandro posted...

Urgh I hate ratman

Wait until Portal 2 beats Kingdom Hearts 3 then.

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I'm glad this is a close match. It felt like people were pretty confident in their predicted winner beforehand. To see two good games from the same genre duke it out is pretty satisfying.

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ROUND 1 INDIE WINNERS (10):

Minecraft - 75.71% (versus Dota 2)
Stardew Valley - 71.17% (versus Destiny)
Super Meat Boy - 68.96% (versus Slay the Spire)
Cuphead - 68.28% (versus XCOM 2)
Journey - 66.2% (versus Fate/Grand Order)
Shovel Knight - 64.4% (versus Dragon's Dogma)
Hollow Knight - 62.81% (versus Tales or Berseria)
Bastion - 52.25% (versus The Walking Dead)
Ori and the Blind Forest - 51.91% (versus Dragon Age: Inquisition)
Rocket League - 51.66% (versus Dragon Ball FighterZ)

ROUND 1 INDIE LOSERS (18):

Undertale - 46.71% (versus Octopath Traveler)
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 43.47% (versus Nioh)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 40.9% (versus Borderlands 2)
Terraria - 32.31% (versus BioShock Infinite)
Disco Elysium - 31.94% (versus Kingdom Hearts 3)
Slay the Spire - 31.04% (versus Super Meat Boy)
Crypt of the NecroDancer - 28.47% (versus Final Fantasy XIV)
VVVVVV - 28.28% (versus Fallout 4)
Dead Cells - 27.49% (versus Metal Gear Solid V)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 25.35% (versus Final Fantasy XV)
The Witness - 22.61% (versus Yakuza 0)
FTL: Faster Than Light - 22.23% (versus Persona 4 Golden)
Baba is You - 20.73% (versus Grand Theft Auto V)
The Stanley Parable - 20.6% (versus Fallout: New Vegas)
Hotline Miami - 17.01% (versus Dark Souls)
Subnautica - 16% (versus Skyrim)
INSIDE - 13.94% (versus DOOM)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 12.75% (versus Super Mario Galaxy 2)

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Kotetsu534 posted...

Kind of sad about this match - I actually like Rayman, but it should have been Origins here, not Legends!

Agreed.

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I've got Rayman too, but I do prefer Celeste. Good games either way, let's see what happens.

Also, Night in the Woods is about to get broken in half, but that game has some of the best character dialogue in gaming.

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For what I left in my bracket, Destiny > Stardew and Witness > Yakuza were terrible picks and among the most far off from correct I may have ever made. I saw the writing on the wall to some degree after I realized they were left like that though, so I don't feel TOO bad about them..

Starcraft 2 > Mass Effect 3 though, i was defending that one to the end. Bah.

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Good job to Mario Kart for winning its once-a-decade contest poll today (and double-hurting my bracket). The last MK win was another GotD-poll:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4127-northwest-division-round-1-phoenix-wright-vs-mario-kart-wii

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ROUND 1 INDIE WINNERS (9):

Minecraft - 75.71% (versus Dota 2)
Stardew Valley - 71.17% (versus Destiny)
Super Meat Boy - 68.96% (versus Slay the Spire)
Cuphead - 68.28% (versus XCOM 2)
Shovel Knight - 64.4% (versus Dragon's Dogma)
Hollow Knight - 62.81% (versus Tales or Berseria)
Bastion - 52.25% (versus The Walking Dead)
Ori and the Blind Forest - 51.91% (versus Dragon Age: Inquisition)
Rocket League - 51.66% (versus Dragon Ball FighterZ)

ROUND 1 INDIE LOSERS (16):

Undertale - 46.71% (versus Octopath Traveler)
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 43.47% (versus Nioh)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 40.9% (versus Borderlands 2)
Terraria - 32.31% (versus BioShock Infinite)
Disco Elysium - 31.94% (versus Kingdom Hearts 3)
Slay the Spire - 31.04% (versus Super Meat Boy)
VVVVVV - 28.28% (versus Fallout 4)
Dead Cells - 27.49% (versus Metal Gear Solid V)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 25.35% (versus Final Fantasy XV)
The Witness - 22.61% (versus Yakuza 0)
FTL: Faster Than Light - 22.23% (versus Persona 4 Golden)
Baba is You - 20.73% (versus Grand Theft Auto V)
The Stanley Parable - 20.6% (versus Fallout: New Vegas)
Hotline Miami - 17.01% (versus Dark Souls)
INSIDE - 13.94% (versus DOOM)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 12.75% (versus Super Mario Galaxy 2)

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Nowadays everybody wanna talk
Like they got something to say
But nothing comes out
When they move their lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
And motherfuckers act like
They forgot about Chrie.

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Thanks for considering my suggestion Ngamer and thanks for handling it hylianknight! Trust ya'll with whatever angle you think is most fair to gauge.

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Advokaiser posted...

Do you guys think Journey can break 80% a la Yakuza 0?

By the way, before the actual madness starts, here's a (literal) "1337" video, worthy of this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsSG_hEJaMY

+5 Style

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Just going back to an inconclusively answered question from 2013: TLoU VS LoZ:LBW, who you got?

Assuming TLoU/LoZ:LBW are equal and TLoU/CK2 stays as they are right now, Bayonetta gets 75.05% on Crusader Kings 2.

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I never heard of Crusader Kings as a series before, and after streaming it awhile I don't think it'll be a very GameFAQs'y game. I feel confident with Hotline Miami > CK2 before today and after today.

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ROUND 1 INDIE WINNERS (9):

Minecraft - 75.71% (versus Dota 2)
Stardew Valley - 71.17% (versus Destiny)
Super Meat Boy - 68.96% (versus Slay the Spire)
Cuphead - 68.28% (versus XCOM 2)
Shovel Knight - 64.4% (versus Dragon's Dogma)
Hollow Knight - 62.81% (versus Tales or Berseria)
Bastion - 52.25% (versus The Walking Dead)
Ori and the Blind Forest - 51.91% (versus Dragon Age: Inquisition)
Rocket League - 51.66% (versus Dragon Ball FighterZ)

ROUND 1 INDIE LOSERS (15):

Undertale - 46.71% (versus Octopath Traveler)
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 43.47% (versus Nioh)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 40.9% (versus Borderlands 2)
Disco Elysium - 31.94% (versus Kingdom Hearts 3)
Slay the Spire - 31.04% (versus Super Meat Boy)
VVVVVV - 28.28% (versus Fallout 4)
Dead Cells - 27.49% (versus Metal Gear Solid V)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 25.35% (versus Final Fantasy XV)
The Witness - 22.61% (versus Yakuza 0)
FTL: Faster Than Light - 22.23% (versus Persona 4 Golden)
Baba is You - 20.73% (versus Grand Theft Auto V)
The Stanley Parable - 20.6% (versus Fallout: New Vegas)
Hotline Miami - 17.01% (versus Dark Souls)
INSIDE - 13.94% (versus DOOM)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 12.75% (versus Super Mario Galaxy 2)

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SBAllen posted...

Edit: I can look into fixing Alabama as well. For poll results, not the state itself, that's a lost cause.

This guy gets it.

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This is no embarrassing low-point for DBFZ. With a single game they took over the 3vs3 fighting game genre from Marvel VS Capcom and I would comfortably predict it to beat any other fighting game here not named Smash. In fact, if we get away from Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 2, I don't know how many other non-Smash fighting games would beat DBFZ here.

Rocket League is also a humongous game that carries some respect on this site. Dark Souls could still make the winner here look small by the end, but my thought's that both games looking alright by the end is more likely than both games looking bad by the end.

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First thought that came to mind: Metroid Prime.

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Just now saw this -- great analysis! This is a good reason to love these contests.

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ROUND 1 INDIE WINNERS:

Minecraft - 75.71% (versus Dota 2)
Stardew Valley - 71.17% (versus Destiny)
Super Meat Boy - 68.96% (versus Slay the Spire)
Cuphead - 68.28% (versus XCOM 2)
Shovel Knight - 64.4% (versus Dragon's Dogma)
Hollow Knight - 62.81% (versus Tales or Berseria)
Bastion - 52.25% (versus The Walking Dead)
Ori and the Blind Forest - 51.91% (versus Dragon Age: Inquisition)

ROUND 1 INDIE LOSERS:

Undertale - 46.71% (versus Octopath Traveler)
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 43.47% (versus Nioh)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 40.9% (versus Borderlands 2)
Disco Elysium - 31.94% (versus Kingdom Hearts 3)
Slay the Spire - 31.04% (versus Super Meat Boy)
VVVVVV - 28.28% (versus Fallout 4)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 25.35% (versus Final Fantasy XV)
FTL: Faster Than Light - 22.23% (versus Persona 4 Golden)
Baba is You - 20.73% (versus Grand Theft Auto V)
The Stanley Parable - 20.6% (versus Fallout: New Vegas)
INSIDE - 13.94% (versus DOOM)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 12.75% (versus Super Mario Galaxy 2)

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I figure accommodating for the difficulty would be most simply solved by either using the #1 score on the scoreboard or #1 score on the Guru list to compare scores against rather than against the score of a perfect bracket. Just going by memory here, but I think GameFAQs had perfect brackets in the Series Contest and Years Contest -- we may have a Guru or three with some of those golden eggs. Somebody could do poorly in comparison on those contests but still look better than a bunch of the best people in 2013's contest if the consistent comparison between contests is one's score VS a perfect bracket. My opinion is it's dependent on what it means to say "the best a Guru can do."

Side-note here, but we definitely have a lot of repeat-players for these contests. 488 Gurus this past decade out of 685 overall since the beginning...I know a lot of them will be new or one-timers, but also I know a lot of them would not be. Pretty cool to see these numbers.

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Also, I'm glad Rocket League and Dragon Ball FighterZ are having as close of a match as many of us thought they'd have. This is a great match set-up and hopefully it stays close awhile (before Rocket League wins at the end *fingers crossed*).

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WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITNEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I knew it was a bad pick as soon as I saw it left in my bracket, but gotdang this is terrible. Yakuza 0's doing to The Witness what Dark Souls is doing to Hotline Miami, and I'd take Hotline to beat Yakuza.

Oh well. The Witness is an exceptional game and you should still play it.

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I was thinking that at first BT, but also because that doesn't account for some contests being more difficult than others I wondered about if an [actual score/top score]-formula would help with that.

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Also, I don't know the best way to measure it or if anybody wants to put in the work for it, but it'd be cool to see a way to do a best average score of some sort -- something that said "across all contests they participated in, _____ did ### well.". That way, we could cross-compare from the dinosaurs who missed one contest to the dinosaurs who missed three contests, plus we could see some people who didn't enter many contests but still did well stand out and get noticed too.

The GotD-recap is a great compromise on this concept I'm asking about, cool idea -- just didn't know if there was an interest in this angle too or not.

Great job summing this up!

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It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances.
--Steve Martin

Shout-outs to swirldude -- never clicked you were rocking it THAT hard, way to go dude!

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Team Rocket Elite posted...

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/disco-elysium-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-soon/1100-6475724/

KH3 dodged a bullet here.

All this high praise for it has got me looking to wishlist it on the Switch now...not available to do so yet though.

Might get it on Steam before then.

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This performance is satisfactory for Portal 2 > KH3. It may get close to RDR2 but I don't think it'll happen, not off today anyway.

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Is that asking for personal favorites or predicted strength?

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Hotline Miami was possibly underseeded, but Dark Souls is gonna look excellent tomorrow anyway.

I don't have high hopes for Dead Cells -- I know we talked about indie Metroidvanias, but I think I'll judge MGS5 more cynically than DC positively if it's close.

Rocket League/Dragonball FighterZ is an excellent match, one of the best in the round. I'm excited to see what comes.

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LeonhartFour posted...

Time | Sonic | Ys VIII | Votes | Demographic
EBV | 70.88% | 29.12% | 467 | (0:00-0:05)
PHV | 63.71% | 36.29% | 3235 | (0:00-1:00)
ENV | 63.38% | 36.62% | 7972 | (1:00-6:00)
DNV | 59.32% | 40.68% | 3390 | (6:00-10:00)
TMV | 61.70% | 38.30% | 5319 | (10:00-16:00)
TDV | 64.55% | 35.45% | 4934 | (16:00-24:00)

Is this the first 10+% difference we've seen in trends during a match this contest?

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While I'm making myself sad with polls that feature Jonathan Blow's games in last place:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4654-which-top-rated-game-from-the-last-decade-yet-to-receive-a

I WISH THIS WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE SO SATISFIED WITH BRAID ALREADY EXPLORING ITS CONCEPTS SO THOROUGHLY

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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Does Yakuza 0 still beat The Witness? Yakuza 0 should have like0 strength. Is it possible The Witness loses anyways?

My bracket has The Witness > Yakuza 0 and it is the one change I would have made if I noticed I left that pick there sooner. The Witness had a zeitgeist for a minute and really is a top-caliber game of the decade, but GameFAQs just ain't got that kind of time for a less popular Myst.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5387-which-upcoming-original-title-are-you-most-looking-forward
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6570-best-of-2016-indies

Less hype than Dyling Light, fewer votes than INSIDE.

But to your point, I took that pick because I had no expectations of Yakuza 0 getting votes because Majima got clocked by Master Chief:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7288-division-7-round-1-chief-vs-majima

Master Chief ain't THAT embarrassing though and I overreacted to that result. Now, Yakuza 0 also didn't look great in this poll:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6730-five-months-in-to-2017-whats-your-pick-for-game-of-the-year

However, landing between Nioh and RE7 ain't too bad either -- RE7 looked good for a 16-seed, Nioh won an upset here, and 2017 was a powerful year for games.

Plus, Yakuza has franchise votes.

Yakuza 0's gonna win. Hopefully The Witness does exceptionally well considering its quality, but...I mean, it didn't matter for Jonathan Blow's other game we've seen.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4112-southwest-division-round-1-persona-4-vs-braid

^ pre-Golden, I can't even gets my hopes up there.....

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ROUND 1 INDIE WINNERS:

Minecraft - 75.71% (versus Dota 2)
Stardew Valley - 71.17% (versus Destiny)
Super Meat Boy - 68.96% (versus Slay the Spire)
Cuphead - 68.28% (versus XCOM 2)
Shovel Knight - 64.4% (versus Dragon's Dogma)
Hollow Knight - 62.81% (versus Tales or Berseria)
Bastion - 52.25% (versus The Walking Dead)
Ori and the Blind Forest - 51.91% (versus Dragon Age: Inquisition)

ROUND 1 INDIE LOSERS:

Undertale - 46.71% (versus Octopath Traveler)
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 43.47% (versus Nioh)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 40.9% (versus Borderlands 2)
Slay the Spire - 31.04% (versus Super Meat Boy)
VVVVVV - 28.28% (versus Fallout 4)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 25.35% (versus Final Fantasy XV)
FTL: Faster Than Light - 22.23% (versus Persona 4 Golden)
Baba is You - 20.73% (versus Grand Theft Auto V)
The Stanley Parable - 20.6% (versus Fallout: New Vegas)
INSIDE - 13.94% (versus DOOM)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 12.75% (versus Super Mario Galaxy 2)

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Animal Crossing is about to show Street Fighter V who the new mayor is.

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Leonhart4 posted...

And we like platformers, but I don't know if we like punishingly difficult ones.

Yeah, I think this is up for debate. Dark Souls earning the respect and influence it has industry-wide (and if DS3 is any indication, register voter-wise here) gives me hope, but it's a question mark.

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