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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| LeonhartFour 03/18/20 2:54:40 PM #317: | #5 Bad Pick - Sonic the Hedgehog - Sonic 2 > Mario World (2004)/Sonic > Samus (2004)/Sonic > Mega Man (2005) /Sonic > Smash Bros. (2006) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1638-division-16-round-2-sonic-the-hedgehog-2-vs-super-mario https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1777-chaos-division-final-sonic-the-hedgehog-vs-samus-aran https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2125-tournament-quarterfinal-sonic-the-hedgehog-vs-mega-man https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2446-mushroom-division-semifinal-sonic-the-hedgehog-vs-super If there is something I've overestimated as often as I've overestimated Tidus, it's Sonic, especially in the early days of the contest. By the time 2007 rolled around, I had mostly scaled that back (Sonic 2006 will make you do that). In each of my first four contests (not counting Villains, since I had Kuja beating Robotnik, whoops), I picked Sonic to go a round further than he should have. I don't know why I kept wanting to believe that Sonic was stronger than he was other than fanboyism. My sole rationale for picking Sonic 2 > Mario World in Games 2004 was, "Mario has 3 games in the contest and Sonic only has 1, so people won't mind losing one Mario game to keep Sonic in." Unfortunately, I didn't know contests don't work that way! I decided to go with Sonic > Samus in 2004 despite how much better Samus looked in 2003 because of their initial match, where Samus won by a mere 34 votes. But by the time the match rolled around, I knew it wasn't going to be close because Samus had been destroying everything in her path and Sonic was actually trailing Ryu overnight before only posting 55% by the end. With the Series Contest, this was in the aftermath of the Brawl reveal, so Smash hype was at a fever pitch, so why did I pick Sonic? Well, my rationale is that "2 games isn't a series and so Smash will get penalized for that." I wasn't the only person who felt that way, for the record! This was also another time where Smash got an unfair pic advantage. This was treated as the sprite round, so Sonic got Sonic Advance sprites rather than the classic Genesis ones, while Smash Bros. got...Mario 3 sprite for Mario, LttP sprite for Link, and Super Metroid sprite for Samus. Seriously, that's ridiculous. I know it wouldn't have changed the end result, but that was stupid. I almost included Sonic/Mega Man under painful picks, but I decided to group it under this one to give me more stuff to talk about overall. The other Sonic picks were flat out bad, and I was ridiculed for making all of them, including this Mega Man pick, which made it all the more frustrating when it ended up being so close. Sonic just couldn't get any closer than 250 votes, and Mega Man's lead only peaked at a little more than 1000 votes. Would I ever stop making bad Sonic picks, or would they finally pay off? Only time would tell. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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