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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 9:17:29 PM
#325
SSBU is the best game remaining in this contest (that I've played) and ya'll are lucky SSB4 didn't get enough nominations to land a low seed and score quick upsets on some other games.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 9:00:26 PM
#307
Also, just looking at the leaderboard again...LMS is really #4 right now -- tied for second place and one point behind first.

What in the world...?

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 8:53:30 PM
#302
KamikazePotato posted...
Not to take accolades away from the multiple Stats Topic users here currently tearing up the leaderboard, but I also have to say that anusblaster and COVID-19 have been up there on the leaderboard forever. Real troopers right there.

Respect.

LusterSoldier posted...
Those are 2 of my accounts on the Second Chance leaderboard. I have a few other Pokemon usernames on the leaderboard, but they all have unique entries, so they can't all stay on the leaderboard before the contest ends.

How many accounts did you submit this year and what's your range of scores?

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TopicThe Show EP 7 - A Xeno/Persona Classic and Picking the Last Week, w/ azuarc!
HaRRicH
05/08/20 8:31:12 PM
#30
That leaderboard is a beautiful sight for ya'll, congrats on the continued success!

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 8:28:02 PM
#281
Yeah I got a prize bracket for my main entry but forgot to switch it on for my second chance entry. Really wish prize-entry would just be the default option.

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Topicdo you think this was intentional? (Phoenix Wright 2 JFA)
HaRRicH
05/08/20 8:17:50 PM
#36
I love seeing people be caught off-guard by Mac's name because I still remember the surprise I had when I learned it too.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 8:03:41 PM
#246
Yeah this is the deadest I've ever seen the topic when a match started. I thought the site was messed up.

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TopicRecommend one game that lost in Round 4.
HaRRicH
05/08/20 7:58:48 PM
#7
Upsy for the end of a round.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 7:55:06 PM
#235
Can Shepard impress against Link in a match without Draven?

We'll know in five minutes.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 1:48:49 PM
#222
1) LoZ:BotW

2) SSBU

3) Witcher 3
4) SMO
5) Skyrim
6) DS1

7) P5
8) ME2

9) Xenoblade
10) P4G

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 12:21:27 PM
#205
SMG2 probably beats MK8 head to head, but I wouldn't guarantee it and indirectly I don't know that there's much difference. MK8's widely considered the best of the series, it's the only Mario Kart game to have two major releases, and Switch-games have mostly been on fire here (of which MK8 has been the best selling among them).

Now people adore SMG2 and it's got top-of-the-decade levels of reception so I don't want to downplay that. Mario Kart games are almost always top-sellers too so I don't want to overstate that. Still, I think that match is more complicated than it's been treated. For all of its accolades, SMG2 wasn't THAT big of a release for the Mario-series.

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Topic* GotD 2020 Guru Contest Stats & Discussion - Part Two *
HaRRicH
05/08/20 11:56:25 AM
#319
Also, sidenote here but:

https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/All_Time_Guru_Rankings

Did this link get updated with hylianknight's update in a previous topic about how many people didn't get their final points from the final round of some recent contest?

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Topic* GotD 2020 Guru Contest Stats & Discussion - Part Two *
HaRRicH
05/08/20 11:52:25 AM
#318
TsunamiXXVIII posted...
@HaRRicH Congratulations. It's a great feeling, isn't it? (Lone Guru to perfect Division 5 in 2015 here.)

I'm looking over that division right now and maaaaan for a division that had LoZ:OoT clearly winning it I butchered so many matches in it.

Incorrectly took:
Monster Hunter 4U > Suikoden 2
Xenoblade > DKC2
Mario Maker > FE: Awakening
^both of these made sure I couldn't get points in Round 2 of those four-pack (plus I thought DKC2 would be the weakest of the four)
Banjo-Kazooie > C:SotN
^this then made sure I couldn't get any points in Round 3 when C:SotN faced DKC2

That's 11/32 points I missed out on that division, or 11/17 points I missed that were available when not counting the LoZ:OoT matches that were essentially locks. Wrecked me.

All that's to say good job there! Perfect divisions aren't exactly the same as prizes or finishing on the leaderboard, but it's important to hold onto your good picks and this is a neat little personal trophy to hold me over until the next contest.

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TopicRecommend one game that lost in Round 4.
HaRRicH
05/08/20 11:27:40 AM
#6
Super Mario Odyssey is the only other game I've played besides Portal 2 -- SMO is good too.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/08/20 12:25:01 AM
#142
LeonhartFour posted...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 50.00%
Dark Souls - 46.01%
Super Mario Odyssey 44.06%
Marvels Spider-Man 36.39%
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 35.94%
The Last of Us - 35.94%
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - 33.78%
Batman: Arkham City - 32.17%
Minecraft 30.82%
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 29.31%
Yakuza 0 - 28.89%
Diablo III - 26.39%
Bayonetta 26.24%
BioShock Infinite - 25.86%
Devil May Cry 5 25.28%
Shovel Knight 23.96%
Octopath Traveler 23.78%
Undertale 22.22%
Dead Space 2 21.88%
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 21.54%
Rocket League - 20.85%
Dragon Ball FighterZ - 20.16%
Dead Cells - 18.57%
Dragons Dogma 17.06%
Tekken 7 17.02%
Terraria - 16.72%
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - 16.36%
Hotline Miami - 15.65%
Dota 2 14.97%
The Witness - 13.06%
Crusader Kings II - 13.05%
Mortal Kombat 11 12.36%

Thank you. It's easy to make the Spiderman/Batman comparison from here,,,so I will If you think they're close to equal, one can compensate for this gap between them by adjusting LoZ:LBW up for possible SFF from SSBU...but then, the higher you adjust LoZ:LBW, the closer DS gets to SSBU. It's already leading SMO according to this, though SMO could be adjusted upward too.

This assumes LoZ:LBW and TLoU are still basically equal from 2013 though, which may not be the case. LoZ's stock and Nintendo's stock have risen in recent years while TLoU2 is facing some major controversy at this very moment.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1358
HaRRicH
05/07/20 10:00:27 PM
#100
Hey Leon -- assuming TLoU = LoZ:LBW (and assuming no SFF in SSBU > LoZ:LBW), where do we land stat-wise?

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TopicRecommend one game that lost in Round 4.
HaRRicH
05/07/20 8:50:40 PM
#1
Which game would you recommend?








(you can recommend additional games in the comments, why not)

Portal 2

How do you make a sequel to a nearly-perfect game? You triple its length, incorporate an additional two-player co-op mode, and then add new elements on top of what people already loved. There will always be the eternal question of whether Portal 1 or Portal 2 is better because it sure is hard to beat Portal 1 pound for pound, but for my money this was an admirable attempt at providing both more of what people loved from the original and evolving to offer something new. There is all sorts of room for a sequel too...too bad Valve doesn't work on games with the number 3 in them though.

This was also a game with brilliant music direction as well -- I mean the music itself was fine, but the way it was used was outstanding. I'll always appreciate the puzzle with the three lasers for this.

Portal 2: best AAA-game of the decade.

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Topicfree Wonderful 101 Switch code inside
HaRRicH
05/07/20 7:59:01 PM
#11
Well done.

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Topicits almost 8pm and my neighbor is mowing his lawn
HaRRicH
05/07/20 7:55:08 PM
#4
Less wasps. I get it.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1357
HaRRicH
05/07/20 6:33:56 PM
#392
Yeah, as someone who's been dishing it on Mass Effect's chances this contest, it did what it needed to do. First, it got a 1-seed. After that, it beat down this contest's toughest 16-seed -- the first of two major Resident Evil games it'd have to face. Then it beat down a game way worse than Witcher 3 could in 2015. ME2 didn't stop there -- it went on beat a game that beat a GotY-winner, and most recently it beat our latest GotY-winner. We generally knew this division was contentious and it survived it.

If you thought ME2 was going to fail due to ME3's reception, we saw ME3 was closer to ME2 than Starcraft 2 was to Starcraft 1. It did all it was asked to do there too.

I still think we never got to see ME2's strength at its highest peak (pre-ME3), and as someone who barely dabbled in these games it still sounds like the ME-series has had a true fall from grace when that trilogy was arguably on its way to be our medium's biggest contribution since the Ocarina of Time. Regardless, this didn't stop the series one bit with the paths it had this contest and all we have left to see is how it compares to Dragon Quest 11 when it faces Breath of the Wild -- just as it was before the contest began.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1357
HaRRicH
05/07/20 2:39:40 PM
#343
I'm still maintaining no rSFF in SSBU > SMO:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78658278/938672793

And I don't feel too bad about my bracket-picking this year. I got my dumbest picks in a long time with taking the Witness/Destiny/Hearthstone to win their matches, but also I got a perfect Division 4 too so pros and cons. I think ultimately my lesson from this contest is remember to properly submit a bracket (didn't save my tie-breaker in the main contest, left my bracket as For Fun in the second chance bracket) and remember to look over my picks again before lock-down.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/06/20 6:17:45 PM
#424
DoctorJimmy133 posted...
P5 Royal is pretty much the same game. What, you think Allen is going to treat an updated version of a Persona game that adds a new character or two as a completely different title? Please!

+1

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TopicHow many new games did you start playing thanks to this contest?
HaRRicH
05/06/20 3:05:00 PM
#17
TheCodeisBosco posted...
This contest inspired me to play Super Meat Boy. I think it's decent; the repetitive nature gets to me if I play for a while, but it's good fun in short spurts.

Once I beat SMB, I plan to play some other games that caught my eye during the contest. I have DOOM, Celeste, Hotline Miami and Bastion ready to go on Switch, and I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a sale on Night in the Woods.

I'm vouching for all of those games except DOOM (just not the kind of game I play lately, not hating -- first level was alright).

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/06/20 3:02:50 PM
#349
I don't remember Barret or Tifa saying either of those things. Huh.

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TopicHow many new games did you start playing thanks to this contest?
HaRRicH
05/06/20 1:36:26 PM
#13
Sonic Mania

Hopefully some more in time.

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TopicAaaaand broke up with the girlfriend
HaRRicH
05/06/20 1:29:16 PM
#55
You know what you doing

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/06/20 1:03:29 PM
#320
Should it come down to rallies later, it feels harder for P4G to rally against Xenoblade than it was against two Rockstar games. Then again, P4G didn't need to rally AS much with a small lead as it does with a small deficit.

Nothing's guaranteed.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/06/20 7:59:00 AM
#291
Kinda funny to think about a division finals for 2010s game of the decade being between a Vita port of a 2000s game and a Wii game with a versatile original release date depending on the perspective you take with it.

Oh well, I hear they're both great and I want to try them both someday soon.

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Topic* GotD 2020 Guru Contest Stats & Discussion - Part Two *
HaRRicH
05/06/20 12:15:01 AM
#240
_SecretSquirrel posted...
Persona 4 Golden

DoomTheGyarados
Ringworm
GildedFool
charmander6000
TsunamiXXVIII
Whiskey_Nick
Furious Fura
linkhatesganon
transience
DoctorJimmy133
The Mana Sword
Tirofog

Xenoblade Chronicles

Ngamer
_SecretSquirrel
Gall
azuarc
JONALEON1
ChichiriMuyo
squexa
yoblazer
raytan7585
SuperNiceDog
SpikeDragon
Advokaiser
UltimaterializerX
HaRRicH

Some cool news here is we're guaranteed to have a Guru with a perfect Division 4 this contest...literally just one person though, and it depends on today who gets that honor: me or charmander.

Too close to call at the moment -- good luck char!

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/05/20 10:46:58 PM
#185
In Bowser's defense, have you SEEN his hair?

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/05/20 10:36:28 PM
#177
How do past trends suggest P4G/Xenoblade will go? Gonna be a bit weird to see them side-by-side since P4G had two Rockstar games to compare against (RDR1/GTA5) and Xenoblade had two Nintendo games to compare against (Splatoon 2/FE:3H).

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TopicSecond Chance stats and results will go live tomorrow
HaRRicH
05/05/20 9:31:55 PM
#14
S'all good, man.

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TopicBoard Odds Project Second Chance Edition - Share your entry here!
HaRRicH
05/05/20 9:23:16 PM
#37
Zelda with 78%
ME2 with 51%
SSBU with 54%
Xeno with 53%
Witcher with 57%
P5 with 55%
Souls with 56%
Skyrim with 55%

Zelda with 67%
SSBU with 60%
Witcher with 54%
Skyrim with 51%

Zelda with 66%
Witcher with 52%

Zelda with 59%

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/05/20 9:08:45 PM
#146
What's the argument for rSFF costing SMO this match against SSBU?

SSB has been a bigger deal than Mario every generation for the past twenty years and SSBU landed a 1-seed to SMO's 2-seed. The Guru contest was 132-7 in favor of SSBU > SMO, and in the Second Chance BOP it was still 14-5 in favor of SSBU > SMO with an estimate of 52.63%. SSBU also prevented LoZ:LBW -- a Zelda-game that won GotY here -- from rSFF'ing it. In fact, though I thought it was unlikely at the time, it's easy to wonder if SSBU could have even SFF'd LoZ:LBW...it's not like we haven't seen SSB do it before with SSBM > LoZ:WW.

I totally agree that MK11 > Tekken 7 was an unexpected surprise, and I think SMO has looked solid all contest. It's possibly the #3 game this contest. However, we really don't know THAT much about these games in this contest, much less this division. We can theorize, but rSFF is a pretty in-depth concept we have only rarely seen if we've ever even seen it at all.

My opinion is we're dodging some other truths that would be accepted most places but considered unusual here: Spider-Man was a legit game, Minecraft is a top-tier indie game, and LoZ:LBW wasn't that big of a deal.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/05/20 8:10:49 PM
#84
What. A. Jump.

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Topicah shit i shaved my armpits
HaRRicH
05/05/20 7:30:36 PM
#13
Yes I can.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/05/20 7:18:54 PM
#54
_SecretSquirrel posted...
https://gamefaqs1.cbsistatic.com/images/contest/gotd-r4/480957.jpg

Sheik-sighting: SSBU's odds just went up.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1356
HaRRicH
05/05/20 1:07:14 PM
#17
I haven't followed a thing about those TLoU2 leaks, but a friend of mine specifically is warning people against watching videos on TLoU2 because YouTube is recommending some weird videos he doesn't want to watch now.

The Algorithm Factor

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/05/20 10:40:27 AM
#484
Lolruz posted...
I'm surprised Catherine didn't make it over fodder like Baba is you and VVVVV
I'm surprised Catherine didn't make it too, but not necessarily over those two games.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/05/20 10:37:58 AM
#483
Persona 5's looking good in the PotD today, but props to Skyrim too: this is a poll it could have lost in a time we've been kinda down on its performances, but it's winning.

What do the stats look like when we make this relationship of Skyrim (26.82%) > Persona 5 (24.19%) hold true?

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/05/20 12:05:59 AM
#438
I'm gonna need Mega Man 5 in future 5-polls so I have something to vote for.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/04/20 11:37:54 PM
#429
Do people still expect Hollow Knight to be a top indie game contender? Because if so, it looks like Bastion might not be so far off from the top (which I'd love to see).

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/04/20 8:32:43 PM
#375
KamikazePotato posted...
BotW/DQ11 feels like it changes something we were expecting to happen but I'm not sure what. I still don't think BotW comes close to losing to anything without a rally, but DQ11's half of the division being legit creates some interesting comparisons with other parts of the bracket.

Just at the moment, right away it makes me think From Software's got a legit following across the board.

Too early to tell, yada yada yada...but Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 had respectable losses and DQ11 is making Sekiro look better too. Dark Souls 1 was already looking good, so if this holds then that makes DS1's good showings look all the more supported.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/04/20 6:17:39 PM
#299
RE2 very well could still win. I just think ME2's managed to look A SINGLE BIT better.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/04/20 3:00:16 PM
#278
I have RE2 in my original bracket and ME2 in my second chance bracket. I'll be happy and mad either way.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
05/04/20 1:16:28 PM
#272
Battles will resume on daily at midnight UTC on May 5th (8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific on May 4th).


Hyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyype.

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TopicRecommend one game that lost in Round 3.
HaRRicH
05/02/20 1:11:36 PM
#20
Up once more.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1355
HaRRicH
04/29/20 1:25:47 PM
#122
plasmabeam posted...
And, yes, even Super Circuit is better.

Oof.

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TopicRecommend one game that lost in Round 3.
HaRRicH
04/28/20 1:01:52 PM
#17
I've played very few of the R3 losers this round -- what else is worth recommending?

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1354
HaRRicH
04/27/20 8:21:03 PM
#457
Where is the confirmation for the second chance bracket being an oracle-challenge? I don't see it.

EDIT: nevermind, found it -- thanks team!

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