Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1299

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ExThaNemesis posted...

I guess I just misjudged people's ability to care about Pac-Man.

Good news for me though if Gerry pulls this off, he could very much win next round too.

isn't someone going to send a tweet to CPR if he can win this? i know someone talked about that.
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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

in a year where Pokemon has looked questionable

Charizard's performances were horseshit, no doubt, but Pokemon has looked healthy otherwise. Mewtwo put up a reasonable performance on GlaDOS, and Pikachu has looked sterling and is likely to win his division (and probably in a convincing fashion, at that; Knuckles embarrassed Zero badly).

I don't think Sora bombed per se. That match was always going to be a toss-up and he kept it respectably close.
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A 1 seed needing to rally to definitively beat Castlevania on this site is hilarious to see

Things sure have changed a lot
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im317 posted...

ExThaNemesis posted...

I guess I just misjudged people's ability to care about Pac-Man.

Good news for me though if Gerry pulls this off, he could very much win next round too.

isn't someone going to send a tweet to CPR if he can win this? i know someone talked about that.

CPR isn't going to help here. Look at how active their Twitter is these days.

https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED
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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

ExThaNemesis posted...

You expected Pac Man to be this close to Bayo after she blew Riku to hell?

Yes, because Pac-Man absolutely anihilated Sans. This is a battle of the shit-tier smash characters, in which noone wins. Also after seeing Sora absolutely bomb to Red in a year where Pokemon has looked questionable, the writing is on the wall for the Kingdom Hearts series

It's just Charizard that looked questionable. Pikachu looks great. Red didn't have any issue with Neptune. Mewtwo is inconclusive at worst since we don't know just how much GlaDOS fell.
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Does pac-man have a chance? I got Riku there so might as well have everyone else be wrong

Simon retakes the lead. Where was Rosalina at this point of the match?
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handsomeboy2012 posted...

Does pac-man have a chance? I got Riku there so might as well have everyone else be wrong

It's unlikely, because Europe is backing Bayo pretty hard here. Same reason Simon Belmont needs to be doing way more than trading the lead with Gerry right now.
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This match. I'm not sleeping tonight, am I?
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if someone tweets CDPR somebody else should try the castlevania account (@ castlevania) btw

Castlevania is at least still pretty active
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Why don't we just not tweet anybody
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Gerald vs Simon has got to be the manliest match ever
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Yeah Geralt vs. Simon is too good of a match to try and rally for
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snake_5036 posted...

if someone tweets CDPR somebody else should try the castlevania account (@ castlevania) btw

Castlevania is at least still pretty active

If anyone is going to tweet someone to get a rally going, I would prefer if they provide the link to the GameFAQs homepage so we can get increased vote totals on the regular polls that are running during the contest.
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oh luster

always thinking what's best for the site
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I gotta say, Vincent looks okay now considering how awful he's looked before. Might he be stronger than Aerith still? This could bode well for Chrono Trigger.

TsunamiXXVIII posted...

DanKirby posted...

I don't know if we can tell for sure if it's like that, or if it's that Dante's picks are correct and Lightning's picks include all not-Dante picks.

I believe this to be the case.

Well, I see that D.Va's picks go up from round 1 to round 2, so that doesn't seem quite right.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

oh luster

always thinking what's best for the site

Well, we got to know whether the Witcher and Castlevania fans preordered Smash or not.
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_SecretSquirrel posted...

Well, we got to know whether the Witcher and Castlevania fans preordered Smash or not.

By the time a rally gets going, we'll end up with a different regular poll on the homepage. The regular polls still change daily at 12:00 AM EST, but the contest matches change at 7:00 PM EST instead.
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Thanks, Luster.

Sigh, Geralt seems to be pulling away now. 60 is the biggest lead of this whole match.
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@ simon please don't collapse while i play stronghold crusaders
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I was more invested in Pac vs Bayonetta but looks like Bayonetta put it away. Sad :(
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DoctorJimmy133 posted...

I gotta say, Vincent looks okay now considering how awful he's looked before. Might he be stronger than Aerith still? This could bode well for Chrono Trigger.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3782-gear-division-round-1-auron-vs-aerith

Looks like there's a good possibility.

In the past FFVII has also generally declined much faster than FFX so there's a good chance Aerith wouldn't have been able to hit that number nowadays.
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PAC-Man is surprising me today

good for him
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Simon increased his total votes to equal Geralt's votes from the last update. I thought I was seeing things for a second.
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So how much does Geralt need to be ahead by overnight to be safe when the US wakes up in the morning?
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davidponte posted...

So how much does Geralt need to be ahead by overnight to be safe when the US wakes up in the morning?

probably 50k lead
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That seems a little extreme
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just to be safe
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davidponte posted...

So how much does Geralt need to be ahead by overnight to be safe when the US wakes up in the morning?

Honestly, he probably just needs to be leading which he will be. Simon's not winning by a huge margin in the US, and Canada is going for Geralt. It's Simon that should have a good lead built up right now, and he just doesn't
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So is this more Pac getting a boost or Bayo just getting false hype and Riku being a complete joke?
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Riku is bad. Pac-Man and Bayonetta are both stronger than they used to be due to Smash.
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this site has come around on old mascots for some reason. DK, Crash, Pac-Man... iconic characters are outperforming our expectations
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I wish we had Pac vs Riku in round 1

Dude destroying Riku would've been something to see.
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Is Sub Zero the favourite next round?
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Lopen posted...

I wish we had Pac vs Riku in round 1

Dude destroying Riku would've been something to see.

That would have been Monika > Noctis levels of WTF.
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Auron beat Sub-Zero with 59% in 2006

Yeah that was twelve fucking years ago but with how these two have performed it'll end like that. Probably closer though. I don't think Auron loses but Sub-Zero can easily put up 45% or so.
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haloiscoolisbak posted...

Is Sub Zero the favourite next round?

I don't think so
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I'm skeptical Sub-Zero does any better than Vincent. Magus isn't the potential NN breaker we once thought he was but I doubt he loses to Sub-Zero by much if at all. You can't take this match with Claire to mean anything because her pic sabotage is legendary. This is the most lopsided pic of the contest so far.
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I know Auron is the xstats favourite, but I mean with the trends we've seen this contest

Nintendo/90s against Square/00s in a potential close match, might be a squeeze
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davidponte posted...

So how much does Geralt need to be ahead by overnight to be safe when the US wakes up in the morning?

I see no reason why Geralt shouldn't win the vote tomorrow. Simon dropped 1% from morning vote to the end last round, and Geralt gained nearly 2% in that same period.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

DQ11 has shipped 4 million copies worldwide.

Persona 5 sold 2 million copies.

"pErSonA iS mOrE pOpUlaR tHaN dRaGoN quEsT"

Here's a fun fact you might not have realized: Dragon Quest is a big freakin' deal in Japan. And guess where the vast majority of GameFAQs users aren't from? Oh that's right, it's Japan!

LeonhartFour posted...

also uh Sub-Zero

what exactly are you doing

did he get announced for Smash while I wasn't looking

Dude...Mortal Kombat is a big franchise.
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Why are people scared that Sub-Zero is doing well? Maybe with the MKX boost he can give Auron the fight of his life!
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Because Scorpion being stronger makes Pikachu look even scarier.
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I always thought Sub-Zero was consensus stronger than Scorpion just because his results have been far more impressive
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He is. My point was more if there's a general Mortal Kombat boost, it makes Pikachu look better.
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Sub-Zero has always been a decent way above Scorpion for whatever reason. Scorp had some decent results in the four way contests and not much else.

I've always been a Scorpion guy myself but yeah. Hard to argue Sub-Zero isn't a good way ahead of him.

But saying Claire is being super pic screwed isn't damage control it's just the truth.
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So I've gotten from today is:

-Kingdom Hearts is trash this year. Thus, Red beating Sora is not as impressive a result as it seemed.
-Castlevania is great this year. Simon Belmont is proving that Round 1 wasn't just Hayabusa dropping off.

In conclusion, 2018 is the year of:


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Lopen posted...

But saying Claire is being super pic screwed isn't damage control it's just the truth.

I mean it's a bad pic but Sub-Zero would be doing better with the classic ninja look instead of his Shredder look
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