Some credits:
LMS- I know everyone thinks his posts are pointless, but he did inspire my 4-way votal-stats inadvertently.
MWC- One of the most entertaining posters here, despite his hatred of Boston and its sports teams. I'm glad he doesn't want me dead just for being from New England.
NGamer- Runs a lot of our most important contest projects, such as the Guru and the Show.
Leon- Possibly the backbone of discussion in these topics, always ready to discuss contest stuff.
creativename- The best contest predictor, he came up with the x-stats and advanced this topic to a new level for the statistical analysis of these contests. He also runs the contest sites, with the ever-useful poll update tracker.
Yoblazer- Also a really good predictor, but coming from a more qualitative/intuitive approach.
solarshadow- Hopefully you'll read this topic and see how far your topic has come! Half a million posts. If the average post contains 50 words, that's 25 million words, which translates to something like 80,000 pages in a typical-sized book.
EC- For fighting the good fight for Samus when everyone was against him. You've convinced me- Samus > Mario indirectly since 2008 at least, and Samus > Sephiroth next year!
Slowflake- Sheparded this topic from its infancy into the fast-moving river of discussion it became. Slowflake also more or less personified the conservative, consensus, default, opinions of the topic.
Ulti- Our Spring 2004 winner and the creator of the vast majority of stats topics. But I disagree with you on one major point: Stats > Common Sense, any day of the week.
Chichiri- Always loved a good, agressive, debate.
MWIS- I don't think MWIS actually posted very much in the stats topic, but he has the greatest ideas for board projects. The original concept of Mercenaries was absolutely brilliant, though it later got pulled into a deep morass when the simplicity of its rules were discarded.
Harrich- Fourpacks are fun- it's 3 matches for only 4 characters, and the variations aren't too complicated to consider, as they would be with larger packs.
Yesmar- Had differences of opinion with many in this topic especially Ulti, but different perspectives are good. I do like your contest opinions much more than your political ones though.
Albion- What kind of Chrono Trigger fan are you, who actively roots for Crono to lose to the likes of Yoshi? If at first Crono doesn't succeed, you're supposed to come back the next year and put all your hopes on him again. And again. And again!
Karma Hunter- I think Snake's 2006-2010 run was a huge success.
Heroic Mario- I liked the old Heroic Mario much better, the one who constantly changed his opinions and started impossibly unlikely upset trains.
Lopen- Always one of the last eliminated from the Guru. Cutting cookies is for.....well the Guru cookie is usually pretty good, but it's still a mark of character to take upsets!
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90s games > 00s games