Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1310

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3 hours!

Pikachu by the hour:
time | percent | gain/loss | lead/deficit
20:00 | 49.16% | -58 | -58
21:00 | 48.83% | -59 | -117
22:00 | 48.58% | -57 | -174
23:00 | 48.93% | -36 | -210
00:00 | 49.74% | -8 | -218
01:00 | 52.60% | +77 | -141
02:00 | 50.47% | +15 | -126
03:00 | 56.42% | +120 | -6
04:00 | 52.16% | +35 | +29
05:00 | 50.07% | +1 | +30
06:00 | 51.98% | +28 | +58
07:00 | 52.99% | +45 | +103
08:00 | 47.44% | -47 | +56
09:00 | 47.53% | -47 | +9
10:00 | 48.66% | -29 | -20
11:00 | 48.28% | -37 | -57
12:00 | 48.06% | -42 | -99
13:00 | 47.76% | -40 | -139
14:00 | 49.75% | -4 | -143
15:00 | 52.57% | +40 | -103
16:00 | 54.36% | +76 | -27

Pikachu just had his 2nd best hour of the match.

Pikachu needs to cut 0.75 votes per update to tie.
Based on the last 5 hours, Mega Man wins by 9 votes.
Based on the last 2 hours, Pikachu wins by 147 votes.
Based on the last hour, Pikachu wins by 201 votes.
Based on the last 30 minutes, Pikachu wins by 63 votes.

Dont understand why pikachu is so popular. Its global popularity peaked in the 1990s for good reason.
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tennisboy213 posted...

3 hours!

Pikachu by the hour:
time | percent | gain/loss | lead/deficit
20:00 | 49.16% | -58 | -58
21:00 | 48.83% | -59 | -117
22:00 | 48.58% | -57 | -174
23:00 | 48.93% | -36 | -210
00:00 | 49.74% | -8 | -218
01:00 | 52.60% | +77 | -141
02:00 | 50.47% | +15 | -126
03:00 | 56.42% | +120 | -6
04:00 | 52.16% | +35 | +29
05:00 | 50.07% | +1 | +30
06:00 | 51.98% | +28 | +58
07:00 | 52.99% | +45 | +103
08:00 | 47.44% | -47 | +56
09:00 | 47.53% | -47 | +9
10:00 | 48.66% | -29 | -20
11:00 | 48.28% | -37 | -57
12:00 | 48.06% | -42 | -99
13:00 | 47.76% | -40 | -139
14:00 | 49.75% | -4 | -143
15:00 | 52.57% | +40 | -103
16:00 | 54.36% | +76 | -27

Pikachu just had his 2nd best hour of the match.

Pikachu needs to cut 0.75 votes per update to tie.
Based on the last 5 hours, Mega Man wins by 9 votes.
Based on the last 2 hours, Pikachu wins by 147 votes.
Based on the last hour, Pikachu wins by 201 votes.
Based on the last 30 minutes, Pikachu wins by 63 votes.

Vote stuffing?
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Yuri_LowelI posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

Safer_777 posted...

Damn I have to go to sleep. Hope the rat does it. I never understood why MM is so popular anyways. Yeah the games were good. Like 30 years ago! I believe the NES games were the best right? Yeah I know nostalgia.

Sonic, Mega Man, Cloud, Sephiroth, and Crono have are all 20+ years past their heyday and their still among the strongest contests have to offer.

I'm in the minority, but I got into Mega Man through Mega Man 64, Mega Man Battle Network, and Mega Man Xtreme, which all released around the same time. I made sure to play the NES games afterwards because I loved all the other ones I played.

Cloud sonic and MM are in smash.

The N9 is older than Smash 3 and 4.

I can't believe people like or don't like things. What the hell!!

Shut up and enjoy the good match.
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I don't give a damn about MM outside Battle Network and I gotta say this bitching about MM being popular is really annoying.

I wish I'd been around back in 2k2 to see the reaction to this:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/995-west-division-semifinals-mega-man-vs-sephiroth
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Sephiroth was probably the favorite to win (the entire contest) during most of it, so from what I remember, there was genuine surprise that Samus and Mega Man were able to keep it as close as they did.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Sephiroth was probably the favorite to win (the entire contest) during most of it, so from what I remember, there was genuine surprise that Samus and Mega Man were able to keep it as close as they did.

AT the time was it pretty well known/obvious FF7 was the #1 most popular game on the site?
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NowItsAngeTime posted...

AT the time was it pretty well known/obvious FF7 was the #1 most popular game on the site?

Yeah, almost overwhelmingly so. I remember genuine shock (and glee) when Link was able to beat Sephiroth without breaking a sweat, because back then, that just didn't seem like it would happen. Seph and Cloud were capable of insane percentage beatdowns WHILE also bringing in more votals. They were something else.

Had Link not emerged as a contest force in 2002-03, FFVII would have been an even bigger favorite in the first games contest.
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damn pikachu down by 25 and cali not even outta school yet!
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From here until the end of the match, Zero went even with Pikachu in % gained/lost.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Mario was considered the big favorite all the way up until Link beat Seph's ass in the semis, then people were like "oh". Ceej gave us odds and everything. Mario was 6:1, next closest was 9:1 but I forget who that was. I think it was Cloud or Sonic but I don't remember. Link and Seph were in the teens somewhere.

Those were CJayC's odds, right? On the board, the general consensus was that the FFVII duo were the top dogs, and I remember Sephiroth holding an advantage over Cloud. It wasn't until 2003 when Cloud emerged as FFVII's #1 guy, and even in their 2004 rematch, quite a few people went for the Seph > Cloud upset because the hierarchy wasn't quite established yet.
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2002 was utterly insane just because we knew none of the stuff we know now, and because we had insane matches like those Ulti mentioned as well as stuff like Mario/Crono I.

Seriously, Mario/Cloud was one of the greatest matches in contest history, and in my mind the only ones that match the craziness of that one was Link/Draven and maaaaaybe the 2007 finals where L-Block won out.
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holy fuck pikachu nice cut brother
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SlugSh0t posted...

holy fuck pikachu nice cut brother

Ikr 19 votes is a MONSTER cut in this match.

KamikazePotato posted...

From here until the end of the match, Zero went even with Pikachu in % gained/lost.

Hey Mega Man, mind following Zero's example a bit better? Thanks bro.
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Mario/Cloud is still the greatest match ever imo. You really had to be here.
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Side note: this match has a very strong possibility of being decided by Registered Voters heavily favoring Pikachu.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Side note: this match has a very strong possibility of being decided by Registered Voters heavily favoring Pikachu.

ban all registered voters
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Kamekguy posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwYuX8uhavg" data-time="

Excellent match, glad for whoever wins (I believe I have Pika but I haven't checked).

My Man
I posted this on Discord a few hours ago
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Pokemon and close matches man.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

There were over 200 pages of topics at 50 topics per page by the end of Mario/Cloud, and all of it was contest related. Nothing like the urine dribble you see now.

Seph was the clear favorite, but people thought Mega Man had a good shot given he pulled two of the biggest upsets ever in the first two rounds. Then he took that 700 vote lead and hoo boy.

Ah, so MM had already got a ton of respect before that match, and it was in the middle of complete chaos before and after. What a wild ride. Amazing to think of all the legacies made in 72 hours of Noble Nine 1v1s.

Meanwhile, lead change imminent.
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Down B
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Jesus christ, I forgot the contest started up last night and just checked and saw MM/Pikachu 50/50. Is this the result of another bullshit rally?
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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Jesus christ, I forgot the contest started up last night and just checked and saw MM/Pikachu 50/50. Is this the result of another bullshit rally?

Nah, no rallies.

And if there are rallies, then nobody's come on to the board to gloat about recruiting furries or robot fuckers, so.
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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Jesus christ, I forgot the contest started up last night and just checked and saw MM/Pikachu 50/50. Is this the result of another bullshit rally?

Yep, the hentai subreddit is going full hog for Ganondorf today.
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This is gonna cost Pikachu in the long run. I'll say it again (and again until everyone tells me to shut up) that I feel re-running a match THIS close a week later makes the loser the favorite. You only need a few people to switch their votes (just to switch things up), and the result changes.

Pikachu is going to get unceremoniously dumped into Losers by Link, and he'll then be faced with an immediate Mega Man rematch.

He could have gone further with a Losers run through Ganondorf.
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tennisboy213 posted...

3 hours!

Pikachu by the hour:
time | percent | gain/loss | lead/deficit
20:00 | 49.16% | -58 | -58
21:00 | 48.83% | -59 | -117
22:00 | 48.58% | -57 | -174
23:00 | 48.93% | -36 | -210
00:00 | 49.74% | -8 | -218
01:00 | 52.60% | +77 | -141
02:00 | 50.47% | +15 | -126
03:00 | 56.42% | +120 | -6
04:00 | 52.16% | +35 | +29
05:00 | 50.07% | +1 | +30
06:00 | 51.98% | +28 | +58
07:00 | 52.99% | +45 | +103
08:00 | 47.44% | -47 | +56
09:00 | 47.53% | -47 | +9
10:00 | 48.66% | -29 | -20
11:00 | 48.28% | -37 | -57
12:00 | 48.06% | -42 | -99
13:00 | 47.76% | -40 | -139
14:00 | 49.75% | -4 | -143
15:00 | 52.57% | +40 | -103
16:00 | 54.36% | +76 | -27

Pikachu just had his 2nd best hour of the match.

Pikachu needs to cut 0.75 votes per update to tie.
Based on the last 5 hours, Mega Man wins by 9 votes.
Based on the last 2 hours, Pikachu wins by 147 votes.
Based on the last hour, Pikachu wins by 201 votes.
Based on the last 30 minutes, Pikachu wins by 63 votes.

A swing like that during Mega Man's strongest window, this has to be another bullshit rally. Where's ExTha?
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Yes, there are a lot of rally threads on r/pokefurry.
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Two vote barrier
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2 votes.. cali we need you now more than ever!
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Mario was the favourite to win the contest in 2002, but the board's favourite was Sephiroth > Solid Snake.

Regardless, the original noble nine (fab five?) was Mario, Cloud, Solid Snake, Link and Sephiroth, everyone else was considered to be at least a step lower.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Pikachu with the two vote LEAD!!!

LEARN TO READ!!!!!!

I think more than voters going for the revenge-votes, the fact that we're going to have more voters in general by the time the re-run happens is going to be a bigger factor. The week break really killed the contest momentum - kinda hope we don't take that long of a break again in future contests.

We probably have like 5k more voters by the time MM/Pika 2 rolls around. Who knows which way they go. If even 51% of them go for one character, that character wins easily.
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My (very hazy and probably wrong) memory had CJayC's topic listing Mario and Link as first and second respectively on odds while the vibe from board posters was that Sephiroth and Snake were the favorites. There were some who thought Mario would lose the first round due to people not taking it seriously ("joke voting") and there was widespread debate on what the actual wording of the poll would be.

This is probably all false but it's what I remember.
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Also Pikachu vs Link would prove whether Pokemon can be SFF'd or not (spoilers it can)
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Take back calling me a non-top tier user right now.

UltimaterializerX posted...

Moonroof posted...

UltimaterializerX posted...

Pikachu with the two vote LEAD!!!

LEARN TO READ!!!!!!

It's more fun not to!!!!!!

Rule #1: Just Post!
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Link can SFF almost anything. Nintendo characters, SNES character, Mega Man characters, Sonic characters, Pokemon characters. I'm not even joking. When you're that strong and your fanbase is so wide-reaching, you basically SFF anything except Square and Western characters.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3850-final-rounds-quarterfinal-link-vs-sonic

Never forget.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Link can SFF almost anything. Nintendo characters, SNES character, Mega Man characters, Sonic characters, Pokemon characters. I'm not even joking. When you're that strong and your fanbase is so wide-reaching, you basically SFF anything except Square and Western characters.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3850-final-rounds-quarterfinal-link-vs-sonic

Never forget.

i wonder if its the opposite for sonic and zelda characters not named link.. he destroyed ganondorf that one time when people thought itd be close... Maybe he does it to zelda.
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can yall stop votestuffing for megaman please? thank you kindly
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