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Topic	think you know the contests well? here's some character battle contest trivia.
transience 05/20/20 6:42:11 AM #127:	Which "kain" has the most contest votes? (Kain (Legacy of Cain) \| Kaim Argonar \| Kane \| Caim \| Kain Highwind) Kain Highwind - 34477 Kain (LOK) - 33927 Kane - 11476 Kaim - 6467 Caim - 1586 This one is obviously silly so I won't go into detail. LOK Kain did make two contests though, not one, so I'm a little surprised that that wasn't enough. But whatever. How many characters have received less total votes than Tanner? (0 \| 4 \| 11 \| 28) Tanner 4492 Steve 4488 Kat 4401 Ragna the Bloodedge 4240 Dan Hibiki 4217 Alan Wake 4152 Red Bird 3976 Zero (999) 3866 Teemo 3788 Marisa Kirisame 3402 Hades 3352 Reyn 3332 Dunban 3233 Adol Christin 3228 Cirno 3215 Isaac Clarke 3193 Captain Viridian 3128 Welkin Gunther 2999 Commander Keen 2769 Sen. Steven Armstrong 2721 Francis York Morgan 2692 Peacock 2685 Nier 2640 Sissel 2426 Wolf 2322 Commander Video 1814 Spring Breeze Dancin' 1587 Caim 1586 Chester 924 Tanner was in last place from 2004 until 2013, when he fell to 28th. Interestingly, 2018 didn't add a single character to this list. The lowest vote total in 2018 was Isabelle with 5923, good for 41st worst. As it turns out, three-way battles and 243 characters are more important than lower vote totals. Link has the most votes in contest history. Who is second? (Cloud \| Solid Snake \| Sephiroth \| Samus) This one's close. Cloud - 2,558,296 Solid Snake - 2,510,510 Sephiroth - 2,370,932 Samus - 2,252,595 The bar chart race in post 51 explains this one pretty well. Cloud and Snake have been neck and neck since 2010, and were 30,000 votes apart at the end of the 2013 contest. Cloud's run through the losers bracket gave him a bit more of a cushion, though not as much as he maybe should have gotten due to the low vote totals. This makes me wonder if I can make some adjustments based on average # of votes so that every contest is equally represented, or perhaps use something like adding up each character's percentage from each round. I don't have that tabulated though and it would probably be heavily weighted towards characters that have been in more matches, even more than total votes. I'll think about this and probably do nothing about it. Which franchise has the most character battle wins? (Half-Life \| Fire Emblem \| Portal \| Mass Effect \| Mother/Earthbound) Portal - 9-8, 3 characters Mass Effect - 7-8, 4 characters Half-Life - 6-11, 2 characters Fire Emblem - 6-14, 6 characters Mother - 5-10, 3 characters Everyone forgets Weighted Companion Cube! (and rightfully so.) WCC has some really good wins that feel completely weird because WCC lives in a post-L-Block world where stuff like this was already normalized, and because it never truly had a deep run. Its best was making the quarterfinal in 2008. It did beat Mega Man thanks to Zero being in the poll though, something that made the Mega Man over Charizard win in 2013 all the more impressive. Which perennial contest failure has received the most contest votes? (Kefka \| Tidus \| Magus \| Donkey Kong) Tidus - 542,199 votes, 5-10 record Kefka - 521,680 votes, 9-9 record Donkey Kong - 496,792 votes, 8-9 record Magus - 440,423 votes, 5-8 record I didn't include Gordon, but I should have: Gordon Freeman - 498,175 votes, 6-10 record Which one is the biggest contest failure? I'd probably go with Tidus, a dude who almost always had winning chances in later years but could always find a way to drop a match. His losses are to Sonic, pre-boost Ganondorf, Mega Man, Kirby, Squall, Pikachu/Leon/Vivi, Cube, Sub-Zero, Missingno and DK. I don't have the drive to look through the Guru but I bet he was the favourite against Kirby, Vivi, Cube, Sub-Zero and DK. But Tidus is also one of only 17 characters to make 10 character battles (18 if you include Sephiroth, who is the only character to have made all 11), and was halfway decent in our best years which helps. Gordon had a better post-prime than Tidus in terms of results but he was terrible from 2002-2006 when vote totals were still healthy. Both characters are more than 200,000 votes below the next lowest character to have made all 10 character battles (Alucard). --- xyzzy <cite>transience posted [p:939434141] in think you ... [t:78700273]...</cite> <quote>Which "kain" has the most contest votes? (Kain (Legacy of Cain) \| Kaim Argonar \| Kane \| Caim \| Kain Highwind) Kain Highwind - 34477 Kain (LOK) - 33927 Kane - 11476 Kaim - 6467 Caim - 1586 This one is obviously silly so I won't go into detail. LOK Kain did make two contests though, not one, so I'm a little surprised that that wasn't enough. But whatever. How many characters have received less total votes than Tanner? (0 \| 4 \| 11 \| 28) Tanner 4492 Steve 4488 Kat 4401 Ragna the Bloodedge 4240 Dan Hibiki 4217 Alan Wake 4152 Red Bird 3976 Zero (999) 3866 Teemo 3788 Marisa Kirisame 3402 Hades 3352 Reyn 3332 Dunban 3233 Adol Christin 3228 Cirno 3215 Isaac Clarke 3193 Captain Viridian 3128 Welkin Gunther 2999 Commander Keen 2769 Sen. Steven Armstrong 2721 Francis York Morgan 2692 Peacock 2685 Nier 2640 Sissel 2426 Wolf 2322 Commander Video 1814 Spring Breeze Dancin' 1587 Caim 1586 Chester 924 Tanner was in last place from 2004 until 2013, when he fell to 28th. Interestingly, 2018 didn't add a single character to this list. The lowest vote total in 2018 was Isabelle with 5923, good for 41st worst. As it turns out, three-way battles and 243 characters are more important than lower vote totals. Link has the most votes in contest history. Who is second? (Cloud \| Solid Snake \| Sephiroth \| Samus) This one's close. Cloud - 2,558,296 Solid Snake - 2,510,510 Sephiroth - 2,370,932 Samus - 2,252,595 The bar chart race in post 51 explains this one pretty well. Cloud and Snake have been neck and neck since 2010, and were 30,000 votes apart at the end of the 2013 contest. Cloud's run through the losers bracket gave him a bit more of a cushion, though not as much as he maybe should have gotten due to the low vote totals. This makes me wonder if I can make some adjustments based on average # of votes so that every contest is equally represented, or perhaps use something like adding up each character's percentage from each round. I don't have that tabulated though and it would probably be heavily weighted towards characters that have been in more matches, even more than total votes. I'll think about this and probably do nothing about it. Which franchise has the most character battle wins? (Half-Life \| Fire Emblem \| Portal \| Mass Effect \| Mother/Earthbound) Portal - 9-8, 3 characters Mass Effect - 7-8, 4 characters Half-Life - 6-11, 2 characters Fire Emblem - 6-14, 6 characters Mother - 5-10, 3 characters Everyone forgets Weighted Companion Cube! (and rightfully so.) WCC has some really good wins that feel completely weird because WCC lives in a post-L-Block world where stuff like this was already normalized, and because it never truly had a deep run. Its best was making the quarterfinal in 2008. It did beat Mega Man thanks to Zero being in the poll though, something that made the Mega Man over Charizard win in 2013 all the more impressive. Which perennial contest failure has received the most contest votes? (Kefka \| Tidus \| Magus \| Donkey Kong) Tidus - 542,199 votes, 5-10 record Kefka - 521,680 votes, 9-9 record Donkey Kong - 496,792 votes, 8-9 record Magus - 440,423 votes, 5-8 record I didn't include Gordon, but I should have: Gordon Freeman - 498,175 votes, 6-10 record Which one is the biggest contest failure? I'd probably go with Tidus, a dude who almost always had winning chances in later years but could always find a way to drop a match. His losses are to Sonic, pre-boost Ganondorf, Mega Man, Kirby, Squall, Pikachu/Leon/Vivi, Cube, Sub-Zero, Missingno and DK. I don't have the drive to look through the Guru but I bet he was the favourite against Kirby, Vivi, Cube, Sub-Zero and DK. But Tidus is also one of only 17 characters to make 10 character battles (18 if you include Sephiroth, who is the only character to have made all 11), and was halfway decent in our best years which helps. Gordon had a better post-prime than Tidus in terms of results but he was terrible from 2002-2006 when vote totals were still healthy. Both characters are more than 200,000 votes below the next lowest character to have made all 10 character battles (Alucard). --- xyzzy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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