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Level 4:

Tennessee +11
Cincinnati +11.5
UCLA +3
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Rules
- State which level you're on when you make your pick. Usually it should be obvious, but say it anyway.
- Deadline for making a pick is the start of the earliest game that you're picking. This means that if you are on a level that involves picking multiple teams, ALL of your teams are locked as soon as one of your teams has kicked off. If you don't have a pick in by the start of the early games, you can just pick later games, but if you can't make an eligible pick out of the games that haven't started yet, you can't advance that week.
- Conferences featured in games may be imposed at certain levels, but unless otherwise stated, any game(s) featuring two FBS teams are eligible.
- I'll list some marquee games each week, but you're not restricted to these. If you pick other games, make sure that your lines can be verified.

Level 1: Pick one game against the spread.

Level 2: Down goes Goliath. Pick a ranked team to lose, using the official Selection Committee Rankings if you're still at this level by the time they start coming out and the AP Poll prior to that. The ranked team must not be an underdog of at least 7 points (generally only happens when the favorite is also a ranked team). Alternatively, if you think that no ranked teams will lose (or the only ones that will lose are underdogs of at least 7 points), you can use "no valid option" as your pick and will advance if this comes to pass; this option must be chosen before any valid pick has kicked off.

Level 3: Pick three over/unders; 2 out of three passes.

Level 4: Three-team teaser. Tease the lines six points in your favor, two wins and a push or three wins needed to pass.

Level 4:
kevwaffles
Paratroopa1
TsunamiXXVIII

Level 3:
5tarscream
jcgamer107

Level 2:
bwburke94
Eddv
Jakyl25
KCF0107

Level 1:
Shaduln
SmartMuffin

Marquee games:
Tennessee (+5) @ Florida (O/U 49.5)
LSU (-7.5) @ Mississippi State (O/U 51)
Kansas State (-4) @ Vanderbilt (O/U 51)
Clemson (-3) @ Louisville (O/U 58)
Stanford (-9) @ San Diego State (O/U 48.5)
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Chrono Trigger
FFIV
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Paper Mario
Persona 5
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LeonhartFour posted...

Huh, I thought for sure there was one that was hidden behind my ignore function.

That's usually a safe bet, but not this time. Maybe next week.
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Level 1: Pittsburgh
Bonus: Yes
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Paratroopa1 posted...

It opened at -30.5! Rutgers was underestimated I think. Hopefully it's more that than UW overestimated

When is Rutgers ever not underestimated? Their reputation for being losers is so strong. Of course, when they actually become competent, they immediately become overrated and choke.
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SmartMuffin posted...

bng_mmmk posted...

HOLY SHIT UCLA

Came back from 44-10 to win 45-44.

xfd wut

I turned that thing off at the end of the third quarter

I had been busy watching the Yankees-Red Sox game, turned that off at 9-1 in the sixth, all six Yankees runs in the inning coming after what should've been an inning-ending called strike three was instead called ball four. But I saw score updates on ESPN; was lol'ing so hard at how badly the Bruins were getting housed.

SportsCenter says that the time remaining when UCLA scored their first TD of the comeback--2:06 in the third quarter--was exactly the same as the amount of time left in Super Bowl LI when the Patriots scored their first TD of the game after getting down 28-3.
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StartTheMachine posted...

i replayed ALttP and TMC recently guys i can confirm it's true

Ah, yes, I forgot to mention ALttP and SMRPG. And SMG2, because good lord that was the worst.

Honestly, now I'm starting to wonder if I didn't overrate FFVI because by the time I played it, I'd already been disappointed by so many SNES games that everyone claimed were amazing that an actually good one seemed like the Holy Grail.

(I'm kidding, of course; FFVI is amazing. But yeah, I've probably been disappointed by more SNES games than I've actually enjoyed. Still need to try EB, though, and from what I know about it, I think I'd like that one.)
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Gunstar Heroes (GBA).

Heard such great things about the original Genesis game, and the GBA game turned out to be total crap.

There have been plenty of games that failed to live up to their lofty reputations for me--Chrono Trigger, Mega Man 2, maybe Xenoblade Chronicles--but CT and XBC weren't that bad and I didn't really expect much out of MM2 to begin with. GH was truly an awful game that I was told would be great.
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Shaduln posted...

Level 1: Washington (-27.5} over Rutgers

Wow, the line was that big? Actually, I'm not remotely surprised that the line was that big. I'll take the moral victory then!
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LeonhartFour posted...

can I vote for "bae" because that's the actual worst

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Big Ten reppin' it hard!

Come on Purdue, you can do it too! You're not going to let Maryland show you up, are you?
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Level 2: Florida to lose to Michigan.
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If turnout was bad due to being so last-minute, I was going to just make it so that anyone who did pick correctly in Week 0 would have a tiebreaker advantage at the end and leave everyone on Level 1 anyway for Week 1, but it seems that it wasn't a problem for most of our regulars. Which is good because due to my general spaciness combined with being on vacation for the past three days, this one's kind of last-minute as well! At least if you want a Thursday night game.

Rules
- State which level you're on when you make your pick. Usually it should be obvious, but say it anyway.
- Deadline for making a pick is the start of the earliest game that you're picking. This means that if you are on a level that involves picking multiple teams, ALL of your teams are locked as soon as one of your teams has kicked off. If you don't have a pick in by the start of the early games, you can just pick later games, but if you can't make an eligible pick out of the games that haven't started yet, you can't advance that week.
- Conferences featured in games may be imposed at certain levels, but unless otherwise stated, any game(s) featuring two FBS teams are eligible.
- I'll list some marquee games each week, but you're not restricted to these. If you pick other games, make sure that your lines can be verified.

Level 1: Pick one game against the spread.

Level 2: Down goes Goliath. Pick a ranked team to lose, using the official Selection Committee Rankings if you're still at this level by the time they start coming out and the AP Poll prior to that. The ranked team must not be an underdog of at least 7 points (generally only happens when the favorite is also a ranked team). Alternatively, if you think that no ranked teams will lose (or the only ones that will lose are underdogs of at least 7 points), you can use "no valid option" as your pick and will advance if this comes to pass; this option must be chosen before any valid pick has kicked off.

Level 2:
bwburke94
Jakyl25
kevwaffles
Paratroopa1
TsunamiXXVIII

Level 1:
KCF0107
SmartMuffin

Marquee games:
Appalachian State (+14.5) @ Georgia
Michigan (-5) vs. Florida (Arlington, TX)
Florida State (+7) vs. Alabama (Atlanta, GA)
BYU (+15) vs. LSU (New Orleans, LA)
West Virginia (+4) vs. Virginia Tech (Landover, MD; Sunday Night)

Also, since I realize that there's definitely room for confusion with the Level 2, note that if you just put a single team name, I'm assuming that you are picking that team to lose their game. If you want to make your pick clearer by spelling out exactly what you are picking (especially if it's a game between two ranked teams with a line close enough that either is a valid pick), feel free to do so.
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Huh, nice turnout. If turnout was bad due to being so last-minute, I was going to just make it so that anyone who did pick correctly in Week 0 would have a tiebreaker advantage at the end and leave everyone on Level 1 anyway for Week 1...which, thanks to being on vacation for the earlier part of the week combined with my general spaciness, is also being put up at the last minute!
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
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Actually, the FCS team seems like the best bet. They've been a thorn in the FBS's side a couple of years in a row, haven't they?

Level 1: Portland State +34
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
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Yeah, I'm dropping the "bonus points" thing. It wasn't working. ...Wait crap there are games today! I was planning on making this earlier in the week, but I didn't want to make it too early...ah, whatever, let's do this!

Rules
- State which level you're on when you make your pick. Usually it should be obvious, but say it anyway.
- Deadline for making a pick is the start of the earliest game that you're picking. This means that if you are on a level that involves picking multiple teams, ALL of your teams are locked as soon as one of your teams has kicked off. If you don't have a pick in by the start of the early games, you can just pick later games, but if you can't make an eligible pick out of the games that haven't started yet, you can't advance that week.
- Conferences featured in games may be imposed at certain levels, but unless otherwise stated, any game(s) featuring two FBS teams are eligible.
- I'll list some marquee games each week, but you're not restricted to these. If you pick other games, make sure that your lines can be verified. Except for this week because that's all there is.

Level 1: Pick one game against the spread.

Games:
Oregon State (+4) @ Colorado State
Portland State (+34) @ BYU
Hawaii (+2.5) @ Massachussetts
South Florida (-22) @ San Jose State
Rice (+30.5) @ Stanford

Yes, that's right, I'll even give you the FCS-FBS game today.
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Easy Vote

RBY
M3
FF
KH3D
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Blame the time zones. Once the bonus hours ended, Gaius's only cuts came when America was largely asleep. Since the start of matches favors the Japanese fanbase, though...

Also, 50.00033375%-49.99966625%. That's in our terms, where percentages add up to 100. Because of the way bonuses work, however, their trackers usually calculate it so that the two percentages have a product of 100%, rather than a sum. So it's 100.00133500% vs. 99.99866499%

I checked on my calculator because their trackers just said 100.00%-100.00%. And rightly so; you'd need three decimal places in their method to get it away from even, and by the way a GameFAQs contest works...We'd need four decimal places for it to not appear as 50-50. Who had that in their Oracle?
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Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation)
Cool Boarders 2 (PlayStation)
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(2-0) Bowser (Mario)
(1-1) Link (Zelda)
(2-0) Darth Vader (Star Wars)
(2-0) Han Solo (Star Wars)
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My Immortal posted...

Thoughts and prayers Corrik

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Oof. Don't have any of the Nohr units yet. At least I got 3 of 4 Awakening units so I'll definitely still be live for R2.

Also, I'll probably be backing an underdog for R1, because grown-up Tiki was my waifu even before Heroes put her in a bikini.
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...Wait, there were 500 to start? ...Still doesn't belong in the field, but I figured it'd be something like 256. Even I can't go through with my planned "you could double the field size and this thing still wouldn't belong in" rant, even if I do think it was just pulled out of someone's ass.
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junk_funk posted...

Who Doesn't Belong Group 1
-20 Chewbacca (Star Wars)
-100 Jesse Custer (Preacher) Three -20's
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-100 Belle (Beauty and the Beast) Four -20's
-110 Edgar Figaro (Final Fantasy VI)

Well Chewbacca did very well. In fact, I was the only one to negative vote him. So he makes the Top 10 easy peasy. On to the exciting part, Jesse Custer NARROWLY edges out Belle for a spot int he Top 10 by receiving only 3 -20 votes to Belle's 4. Edgar even did very very well and only lost by a small margin. Valiant fight all around. Belle gets 11th and Edgar finishes with a very respectable 12th place.

Mother fucker. Edgar would've survived if I'd voted this round. Probably. I might've -10'd Chewie instead of Belle. Actually no I wouldn't have even risked a -10.
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Final Round Day 2 Group 1
(0-0) Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
(0-1) Link (Zelda)

Final Round Day 2 Group 2
(0-1) Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
(0-0) Darth Vader (Star Wars)
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...Wow. Ramping up the fanservice again.
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Woo! Sounds like we'll finally be getting a FE8-based update, judging by the fact that Valter's going to be a GHB in August.


Oh holy crap they saved the best for last. 4* and 3* rates will be swapped for a limited time, plus starting with the Focuses that will begin August 7th, your first summon in each focus is free!
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Who Doesn't Belong Group 1
-20 Jesse WHO?! (Some Thing)

No, seriously, this is round 6 and this is literally the first time I've ever even heard of Preacher, much less Jesse Custer. Granted, I haven't been here every day, but you'd think at least the results topic would've clued me in that this guy and his, um, show? Comic? His thing exists. It hasn't. You could put a fucking Game of Thrones character in this group and I wouldn't -10 him, because even something that I outright anti-vote is more deserving of advancing than this anonymous schmuck.

Well, something I anti-vote sure to hype backlash, anyway. I'd still -20 Mega Man over him, because fuck Mega Man.

Who Doesn't Belong Group 2
-20 Snoopy (Peanuts)
-10 Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

God, this is a painful one. I like all four characters, but can't not vote because there's one I like more than the other three. If I had 30 negative points to distribute any way I wanted, it'd be an easy -10 to everyone that wasn't Pooh

Who Doesn't Belong Group 3
-20 Chewbacca (Star Wars)
-10 Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

Wait, this is the top 16? None of these four are bad, but none really belong.

Who Doesn't Belong Group 4
-20 Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones)

I really need to vote more often. This top 16 is horrendous. Also, if Jesse Custer actually survives this round, may ISIS bomb the homes of the other voters, because after seeing the other three groups, it's literally three potential top 5 characters and "who the fuck is this and how is he even in the field?"

No, seriously, most of these characters "don't belong", but I feel like Group 1 is the strongest overall despite having someone who literally didn't even belong in Round 1.
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Star Fox 64 (Nintendo 64)
Sonic R (Sega Saturn)
Time Crisis II (Arcade)
Age of Empires (PC)
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Group 1 Wildcard Contestants: It's a Shame This Isn't the OUaT Version of Hook Edition
+5 Ariel (Little Mermaid)
+6 Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
+3 Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
+4 Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
+1 Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones)
+2 Captain Hook (Peter Pan)

Easy Vote:
+6
+5
+4
+3
+2
+1

Group 2 Wildcard Contestants: +3 Closer to +6 than to +2, but Probably Twice as Close to +2 as +1 Is Edition
+6 Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)
+2 Iron Man (Marvel Comics)
+5 Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)
+4 Edgar Figaro (Final Fantasy VI)
+3 Link (Zelda)
+1 Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)

Easy Vote:
+6
+5
+4
+3
+2
+1
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Lopen posted...

Janus5k posted...

I guess he

no

the jokes are both too easy, and too soon

RIP

Gonna be honest I had the urge and I actually will admit to still liking Linkin Park (well, their older stuff-- haven't heard anything they've released in the past 10 years probably)

RIP

Same, but replace "haven't heard" with "don't really care for". But yeah, just because I haven't been an angsty teenager in quite some time doesn't mean the songs I liked then don't still resonate with me. Hell, "Faint" still applies, and "Numb" and "Somewhere I Belong" still did even after the angsty teenage years wore off. Meteora was just a phenomenal album. Hybrid Theory too, but it's a bit too angsty for my current tastes (still love In The End and Papercut, though).
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ZeroSignal620 posted...

charmander6000 posted...

Anagram posted...

N64 classics:
Paper Mario
SM64
OoT
MM
Pokémon Snap
SSB
SF64
DK64
BK
Goldeneye
Any other must plays?

Mario Kart 64, Pokemon Stadium (probably wouldn't work in this scenario), Diddy Kong Racing, Wave Race 64, Yoshi's Story, Mario Party 2/3, Perfect Dark, Mario Tennis, Kirby 64, F-Zero X

We won't see BK, Goldeneye, or Perfect Dark since they're all Rare, and possibly no DKR since it has Conker and Banjo. We'll be lucky enough to see DK64. Take out Stadium due to it's GB accessory scenario and we have 15 games. If you wanna make it an even 20, add Sin & Punishment, and maybe some third party support with Ogre Battle, Castlevania, Bomberman, and maybe even a Star Wars title.

The original Bomberman 64 or Bomberman Hero? Please say Hero.
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Round 3 score: 1,134,110
Round 3 rank (Priscilla): #930

Overall score: 1,482,860
Overall rank: 12,632

Dark Young Link posted...

No 40% for me(I don't see myself pulling another SoV character, and I am NOT intentionally going for Faye). I suppose this is the time I raise my Lukas. He's +Att I believe.

...Damnit. Lukas is the only SoV unit I've pulled--twice, 4* both times--and both times I used him as Inherit fodder. ...No wait nevermind I forgot. I have Alm. Almost got him to Level 40 already, too.

Dark Young Link posted...

Also here's the new arena bonus units.

https://twitter.com/FE_Heroes_JP/status/881770389927374848


Guess I'm not gonna have a red this season because XFD if you think I'm raising a Sophia.
(I should raise Alfones to 4* eventually)

I suppose getting Legion to 40 will be the first thing I attempt to do.



And a salute to the Katarina I pulled way back when who got me to Tier 18. It was nice having a competent red mage.

This I can work with. I already have two of the Summer Units; got them in the same session. First time I ever summoned two 5* units on the same set of 20 orbs, I think, although I may have gotten my second Jakob at the same time as my second Nowi. Definitely first time I got two Focus units from the same banner, though.
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Jesse_Custer posted...

To those who have nominated, would anyone care much if I bail on this one and do one of the other ideas instead? This one doesn't seem like it's going to work out well.

Yeah, I did think it was a stretch.

Though I'm also very disappointed and maybe a bit surprised that no Once Upon A Time characters were nominated. Equally disappointed, but less surprised because I'd consider it an "adaptation eclipsed the original" that would probably still count anyway because the "original" characters could still count and the adaptation in question doesn't seem like B8's thing, is the lack of Wicked characters. (The books are actually really good, and a lot racier than the musical. Though I'll admit I saw the musical first and decided I was interested in reading the source material.)
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Jesse_Custer posted...

MrZAP17 posted...

I question the parts regarding only being well-known for the adapted medium, and being basically the same character. For example, Atticus Finch is arguably the case for both of those, but it's undeniable that he is a well-realized adaptation, partially because of the strength of Gregory Peck's acting. Your Bond example is also off, because the books were reasonably popular and anyway most of the Bonds are fairly different from the book version.

Adapting something from one medium to another is almost always going to bring about inherent differences; The Stick of Truth example you mentioned, where they are explicitly designed to be as much in the style of the show as possible, are something of exceptions.

Also, what about characters from famous Disney adaptations like Sleeping Beauty or Frozen or Beauty and the Beast or Hunchback of Notre Dame? Aside from perhaps the last one of those, the source material is largely fairy tales that are hundreds of years old and are generally substantially altered. However they are generally far less known than their Disney counterparts, and many have not read the original tales. That fact might disqualify them, but surely it can't be denied that they are not only adaptations, but very different from the source characters? This is frankly true of most movies, especially the less recent the derivative work; moves tend to overshadow source material most of the time.

I mean, I can just give you my 10 favorite LotR characters and call it a day (several would make it either way), but surely that's less interesting?

There's also the complication of seeing and adaption beforehand. I watched Batmas: TAS long before I read any comics, and my conception of the characters was absolutely informed by that. I love Two Face not because of his comics, but because of the TAS version I encountered first. Then there are all of the adaptations I've experienced without ever seeing the source material... how can I judge them on the merits of the adaptation if I've never experienced the original? At that point it's just a character I like, and adapting them has nothing to do with it. It's practically irrelevant that they were created for some other work before.

One final things, and I know this is reaching a bit, but what about characters that are not strictly the same, but are based off of others in stories based on others. Think King Lear > Ran or Romeo & Juliet > West Side Story. Many of these characters are direct analogies to the original work, even if they are technically different characters.

I think you're overthinking it. I put in the qualifying language just to eliminate people trying to get characters in that clearly shouldn't qualify like a Pokémon. And I think there's plenty of licensed games like Stick of Truth that are intended to be identical to the source material (such as any of the Dragon Ball fighting games).

Most of the examples you named would be eligible, including Atticus Finch and the Disney movies. Where I'd draw the line is characters loosely based on literary works that aren't the same character such as your West Side Story example.

And as for Bond, I guess we'll just have to disagree. That is a rare character who is only famous because of the films, and I don't believe the average person even knows he started as a literary character at this point.

Nope, I absolutely agree with ZAP. Bond is exactly the type of character that belongs in this, because there have been plenty of changes.
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Group 7 Contestants: Oh wow this group is stacked
Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)
Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
Cookie Monster (Sesame Street)
Alucard (Castlevania)
Hades (Hercules)
Donald Duck (Disney)
Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)
Bowser (Mario)
Luigi (Mario)
Genie (Aladdin)

Double Immune: Genie
Immune: Hades
Immune: Solid Snake
Immune: Cookie Monster
Boot: Luigi
Boot: Donald Duck
Boot: Alucard
Double Boot: Gus Fring

...Wow that was close. I almost actually had to boot a Winnie-the-Pooh character. Even if it's only Eeyore, that really should never happen (well, okay, if one of the cartoon-only characters ever got into one of these I'd almost certainly anti-vote them, but I doubt that'd happen. Maybe Gopher could because he's been around since New Adventures, but by the same token, because he's been around since the series that was on when we were kids, he wouldn't get "anti-voted", merely "not given the same pedestal as the book characters".)

Group 8 Contestants: At least this one has cable TV characters for me to hate on.
Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)
Ariel (Little Mermaid)
Deadpool (Marvel Comics)
Lex Luthor (DC Comics)
Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
Vegeta (Dragonball Z)
Jon Snow (Game of Thrones)
Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)
Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad)
Doc Brown (Back to the Future)

Double Immune: Winnie the Pooh
Immune: Harry Potter
Immune: Vegeta
Immune: Deadpool
Boot: Ariel
Boot: Lex Luthor
Boot: Jon Snow
Double Boot: Saul Goodman

Still strong enough that I have to give a boot to a Disney Princess that I actually like, though. Normally, that wouldn't happen in a match with two HBO/Showtime/FX/whatever characters and two Marvel/DC characters, but Deadpool is awesome enough to avoid my customary western comics anti-votes.

TIEBREAKER - Kronk (Emperor's New Groove)
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Group 5 Contestants: *licks chops* Look at all the anti-vote targets!

Double Immune: Goku (Dragonball Z)
Immune: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)
Immune: Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic)
Immune: Marty McFly (Back to the Future)
Boot: Starlord (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Boot: Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)
Boot: Rocket Racoon (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Double Boot: Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)


Group 6 Contestants: Uh well at least the Double Boot choice is easy

Double Immune: Kirby (Kirby)
Immune: Han Solo (Star Wars)
Immune: Brain (Pinky and the Brain)
Immune: Ganondorf (Zelda)
Boot: Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
Boot: Mickey Mouse (Disney)
Boot: Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Double Boot: Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
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MZero11 posted...

what kind of name is Trint

tag

I was thinking the same thing.

Also, jocks on a video gaming board on the Internet? What is this madness?

Amazing story, though.
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pkmnpkmn posted...

This thread feels like CNN on election night lol.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/204447-fire-emblem-heroes/75520504

I actually compared these guys to our stats topic during a contest at one point. The FEH board is surprisingly quality (and they seem aware of how surprising it is; another topic there seems disdainful of the mainline games' boards, and not just Awakening and Fates, for being too Waifu Emblem.)
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Group 3 Contestants
Princess Leia (Star Wars)
Fox McCloud (Starfox)
Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
Samurai Jack (Samurai Jack)
Yoshi (Mario)
Scrooge McDuck (Duck Tales)
Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Professor X (Marvel Comics)
Kronk (The Emperor's New Groove)
Scar (Lion King)

Double Immune: Edward Elric
Immune: Kronk
Immune: Scar
Immune: Spike Spiegel
Boot: Fox McCloud
Boot: Princess Leia
Boot: Professor X
Double Boot: Samurai Jack

Group 4 Contestants
Jasmine (Aladdin)
Simba (Lion King)
Taz (Looney Tunes)
Ralph (Wreck-It-Ralph)
Green Goblin (Marvel Comics)
Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes)
Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Count Dracula (Dracula)
Professor McGonagall (Harry Potter)
Wonder Woman (DC Comics)

Double Immune: Professor McGonagall
Immune: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Immune: Simba
Immune: Daffy Duck
Boot: Wonder Woman
Boot: Ralph
Boot: Green Goblin
Double Boot: Jasmine

Such a poor distribution. Literally have to immune someone in the second group that's worse than one of my boots in the first group. ...Actually, my double boot for Group 3 is the only one in the group that's worse than my last immune for Group 4. Group 3 is stacked, whereas Group 4...is weak.
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trdl23 posted...

redrocket_pub posted...

Tag

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Xuxon posted...

i'll have 2830 flags to spend this round so i'm definitely spending in 200s for every bonus period

did you already spend all your flags last round or something? i wouldn't count on there being a huge amount of bonus time here.

Not last round, no. Did in Round 1.
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Bonus in the second hour! Dropped my 5 flag login, though I'm saving the multiples of 200 for the endgame.
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So are we still looking at Lissa not getting a boost before this ends? I'm saving my flags, but I don't know how long to wait.
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Xuxon posted...

actually now that i think about it, there could be some LFF going on. like a gamefaqs 4-way, with a bunch of people who would support Lissa over Priscilla 1v1 that are instead supporting Elise.

...Why did I not think of this? I guess because I was always supporting losing armies in the first two Voting Gauntlets, I completely forgot that if your unit wins, you're stuck with it. And Lissa would probably be drawing from the same fanbase as the Fates girls...but by the same token, Sakura's Army is probably more likely to have gone to Elise than to Lissa. As for the other three defeated armies...Clarine's probably either goes to Priscilla or Lachesis, and I have no idea where Maria's goes. Maybe Lissa? I jumped from Mist's to Lissa's, because...those actually were my top 2, facing off in R1.

...No, wait, that's silly. These hypothetical people that don't care about anything before Awakening probably would've started off on Lissa's team, because she was facing a pre-Awakening character in R1 whereas Elise was facing Sakura, and then they'd still be there and Lissa would win this whole thing unless all of the early games' fanbases preferred Elise...oh, wait, Conquest was the one designed for the longtime fans; that could actually happen.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

I think Sakura is the second strongest of the 8 we got. I'm not sold on Maria beating Clarine but it might be possible.

Probably not. At first I thought that maybe since she's at least had a game released in the US it's a possibility, but that didn't help her against Lachesis so FE1/3/11/12 really is just that weak here.

Don't disagree that Sakura would probably be one of the strongest; I actually expected her to win this outright but I guess Elise is more popular.

Xuxon posted...

also i think Sakura would beat Priscilla, and Clarine would lose to everyone, so the horse doesn't have much to do with it. Lissa just isn't that popular compared to some of the other 3DS characters.

...Doesn't that just reinforce the idea that Awakening should hold more credibility than that? Being a SpotPass character in Awakening is literally the only exposure advantage Lachesis has over Clarine since neither had their game released outside of Japan, but FE6 should have the advantage over FE4, especially where characters directly related to FE7 characters are concerned.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

I think you are underestimating FE7 a bit. FE7 was the original FE boom in North America and I think it did pretty well in Japan as well. As long as they aren't picking crazy fights like Lucina, they can be fairly competitive. Also remember that Ephraim beat Leo and Chrom in the first gauntlet. Awakening and Fates are strong but they don't instantly beat just anyone.

Did he? I forgot that. I'm happy, though, because FE13/14 just auto-winning disappoints me. This just isn't one of those times where the older game has the better character. There are a lot of better FE7 characters, whereas I think Lissa's actually a pretty good character.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

LIssa leads by 102 million. Priscilla is cutting 18 million of the lead per hour. She'll pass Lissa in about 5 hours. Priscilla isn't gaining fast enough to trigger another boost for Lissa before the match ends so Priscilla will just ride her natural strength advantage over Lissa to the end of the match.

...I obviously know nothing. A pre-Awakening character actually has the natural strength advantage over a character from Awakening or Fates? I know Troubadours have an inherent strength advantage over Clerics, but...I didn't think that THF would be enough to upend the natural strength advantage that being from Awakening or Fates affords.
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