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ZeroSignal620 02/17/21 9:43:36 PM #12:	Best Game of 2008 https://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?1&tid=303978 Ran: January 2009 Overall top seed: Fallout 3 1 seeds: Fallout 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metal Gear Solid 4, The World Ends With You Final Four: Fallout 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metal Gear Solid 4, Persona 4 Ultimate Loser: Guitar Hero - World Tour Championship: Persona 4 defeated Super Smash Bros. Brawl 38-33 And here's what I considered to be the first truly successful tournament. Men lie, women lie, numbers don't. Game of the Month winners January: Advance Wars - Days of Ruin February: March: Super Smash Bros. Brawl April: The World Ends With You May: Boom Blox June: Metal Gear Solid 4 July: Soulcalibur IV August: Braid September: Rock Band 2 October: Fallout 3 November: Chrono Trigger December: Persona 4 Time for a slight regret paragraph. Had I known what direction I was going in with these tournaments, Chrono Trigger never would have been in this bracket. I had no idea or thought that I'd be doing retroactive tournaments when I was doing the 2008 polls and contest, and allowed a 13 year old port to be eligible for entry. Considering the next two tournaments I did after this one, it's a mistake I (hopefully) didn't make a second time. Seedings were mostly reasonable, based on poll results and strength of months. Fallout 3 came out in a stacked month, so its top seed was justified. Brawl had all the hype in the world, as did MGS4. TWEWY won a close battle with Grand Theft Auto IV, so it got the last #1 seed while GTA still got a respectable #2 in MGS4's division. Persona 4 and Boom Blox got #4 and #5 seeds, considering they came out in months with little to no competition. Boom Blox crashed hard in the first round getting upset by Devil May Cry 4. But if you wanna look at scores, look no further than the first damn match. Fallout 3 storms out the gate immediately, scoring the biggest shutout in tournament history, beating a One Piece game no one played 26-0. We'll never see a score like that ever again. We watched Crisis Core get upset by World of Goo, and later watch Dragon Quest IV stun Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2. Gears of War 2 got a nice upset win over Disgaea 3 also. Ninja Gaiden II nearly shut out Wii Fit in the first round. The lowest scoring match in round 1 was Little Big Planet's 7-3 win over Animal Crossing: City Folk. This was the tournament that put this B8 series on the map. Also for first-time-ever moments, 2008 introduced the sudden death match; if any match in the first two rounds is still tied at the end of OT, they enter Sudden Death, where the first to five votes is the winner. The first sudden death winner was Dead Space, winning 5-3 in sudden death over Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. In later rounds, we saw Fallout 3 have close affairs with Apollo Justice, Soulcalibur, and Professor Layton. We watched Brawl dispose of all its opponents before having the fight of a lifetime with #3 seed Left 4 Dead, requiring overtime in a match that combined for 117 votes to put away the zombie FPS. Metal Gear Solid 4 completed one of the easiest runs to the Final Four, outscoring its four opponents 68-18, including a 17-4 humbling over #2 seed GTA4. Finally, TWEWY was the only #1 seed to not live up to expectations, losing 25-20 in round 3 to Persona 4. The last three matches were all something else. First was Fallout 3 vs Brawl, which ended in a 30-24 victory in favor of Smash. Next up was MGS4 vs Persona 4; after mowing down its entire region, Old Snake finally had a viable opponent in Yu Narukami and friends. The end result? Persona 4 knocking off its second #1 seed with a 35-37 upset. The stage was set for Brawl vs Persona 4. The Smash fanbase was heavily divided between pro Brawl and anti Brawl, and Persona 4's cult following was only beginning. In a result that I admittedly didn't see coming at the time, Persona 4 took the lead in the beginning and never lost it, winning 2008's tournament with a 38-33 final. As stated earlier, this was when the scales tipped in favor of these tournaments on Board 8, though again not without its flaws. The anticipation of waiting another 12 months to determine 2009's best game was something, but thanks to an idea I had, Board 8 didn't have to wait long for another tournament... Rankings so far 2008 2007 2005 2006 Also looking at this bracket now, there's no way GTA4 beats Dead Space today. --- Formerly known as Raven 2 https://twitch.tv/ZeroSignalX <cite>ZeroSignal620 posted [p:950769120] in All 25 Bes... [t:79297411]...</cite> <quote>Best Game of 2008 https://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?1&tid=303978 Ran: January 2009 Overall top seed: Fallout 3 1 seeds: Fallout 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metal Gear Solid 4, The World Ends With You Final Four: Fallout 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metal Gear Solid 4, Persona 4 Ultimate Loser: Guitar Hero - World Tour Championship: Persona 4 defeated Super Smash Bros. Brawl 38-33 And here's what I considered to be the first truly successful tournament. Men lie, women lie, numbers don't. Game of the Month winners January: Advance Wars - Days of Ruin February: March: Super Smash Bros. Brawl April: The World Ends With You May: Boom Blox June: Metal Gear Solid 4 July: Soulcalibur IV August: Braid September: Rock Band 2 October: Fallout 3 November: Chrono Trigger December: Persona 4 Time for a slight regret paragraph. Had I known what direction I was going in with these tournaments, Chrono Trigger never would have been in this bracket. I had no idea or thought that I'd be doing retroactive tournaments when I was doing the 2008 polls and contest, and allowed a 13 year old port to be eligible for entry. Considering the next two tournaments I did after this one, it's a mistake I (hopefully) didn't make a second time. Seedings were mostly reasonable, based on poll results and strength of months. Fallout 3 came out in a stacked month, so its top seed was justified. Brawl had all the hype in the world, as did MGS4. TWEWY won a close battle with Grand Theft Auto IV, so it got the last #1 seed while GTA still got a respectable #2 in MGS4's division. Persona 4 and Boom Blox got #4 and #5 seeds, considering they came out in months with little to no competition. Boom Blox crashed hard in the first round getting upset by Devil May Cry 4. But if you wanna look at scores, look no further than the first damn match. Fallout 3 storms out the gate immediately, scoring the biggest shutout in tournament history, beating a One Piece game no one played 26-0. We'll never see a score like that ever again. We watched Crisis Core get upset by World of Goo, and later watch Dragon Quest IV stun Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2. Gears of War 2 got a nice upset win over Disgaea 3 also. Ninja Gaiden II nearly shut out Wii Fit in the first round. The lowest scoring match in round 1 was Little Big Planet's 7-3 win over Animal Crossing: City Folk. This was the tournament that put this B8 series on the map. Also for first-time-ever moments, 2008 introduced the sudden death match; if any match in the first two rounds is still tied at the end of OT, they enter Sudden Death, where the first to five votes is the winner. The first sudden death winner was Dead Space, winning 5-3 in sudden death over Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. In later rounds, we saw Fallout 3 have close affairs with Apollo Justice, Soulcalibur, and Professor Layton. We watched Brawl dispose of all its opponents before having the fight of a lifetime with #3 seed Left 4 Dead, requiring overtime in a match that combined for 117 votes to put away the zombie FPS. Metal Gear Solid 4 completed one of the easiest runs to the Final Four, outscoring its four opponents 68-18, including a 17-4 humbling over #2 seed GTA4. Finally, TWEWY was the only #1 seed to not live up to expectations, losing 25-20 in round 3 to Persona 4. The last three matches were all something else. First was Fallout 3 vs Brawl, which ended in a 30-24 victory in favor of Smash. Next up was MGS4 vs Persona 4; after mowing down its entire region, Old Snake finally had a viable opponent in Yu Narukami and friends. The end result? Persona 4 knocking off its second #1 seed with a 35-37 upset. The stage was set for Brawl vs Persona 4. The Smash fanbase was heavily divided between pro Brawl and anti Brawl, and Persona 4's cult following was only beginning. In a result that I admittedly didn't see coming at the time, Persona 4 took the lead in the beginning and never lost it, winning 2008's tournament with a 38-33 final. As stated earlier, this was when the scales tipped in favor of these tournaments on Board 8, though again not without its flaws. The anticipation of waiting another 12 months to determine 2009's best game was something, but thanks to an idea I had, Board 8 didn't have to wait long for another tournament... Rankings so far 2008 2007 2005 2006 Also looking at this bracket now, there's no way GTA4 beats Dead Space today. --- Formerly known as Raven 2 https://twitch.tv/ZeroSignalX</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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