I understand that not everyone may want to share this information. The choice is entirely up to you. Let's face it: barring some freak upset, there is a very high chance the winners will be determined by tiebreaker, so at this point I don't see much harm in doing so.
Current leaderboard position: OFF (probably #61 since I changed my bracket seconds before lockdown) Entry Type: Money Tiebreaker: 83,333 Pick #61: Mario Pick #62: Link Pick #63: Link
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But yeah, the topic is kinda silly IF you're still holding out some hope that the 61 will get whittled down over the next few days. Either Pokemon/FFVII wreck everyone or it comes down to tiebreakers between 55+ brackets.
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You can already figure out like, half this stuff (at least, the stuff that matters) just by looking at the leaderboard and seeing who has what winner....
From: Azp2k32 | #008 You can already figure out like, half this stuff (at least, the stuff that matters) just by looking at the leaderboard and seeing who has what winner....
Only the bracket leaderboard has that information.
Clearly, people make different picks for the battles than for the bracket. This explains why there are 60 perfects vs. 4 perfect brackets.
If I were GranzonEx (#4 bracket #37 battle) I'd go for a Cloud or Pokemon upset on the battle contest, and win at least one contest no matter the outcome.
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People with a crappy tiebreaker (that's not around 50-60k) need to take a risk, no matter how unlikely the outcome.
Who cares about going perfect if you don't win a prize?
If you have a bad tiebreaker, take a gamble on Trainers > Mario or Cloud > Link. There may only be a 10% chance of either happening, but at least you took a shot. And if it does end up happening, you'll be golden since majority of the leaderboard would have ****ed up.
Also, it's probably not smart to give up any information at all in this topic.
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From: -Tofa7- | #010 Who cares about going perfect if you don't win a prize?
Perfection of any kind is extremely rare for these contests. In fact, I think it has only been achieved during one contest before this. Granted, the predictable nature of this contest has sullied that a bit, but I'd still rather go perfect and not win a prize than ruin it for a potentially greater shot at some money. All the prizes after third place are no big deal anyway.
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Someone is going to end up with a perfect bracket in this contest, as one person has Cloud/Sephiroth as their winner. And another one has the Trainers winning the contest.
I don't have a perfect battle bracket, as I got that DK/Ezio match incorrect back in round 1, but I have all of the other matches correct since getting DK/Ezio wrong. I have a very small chance of getting a Karma prize, although winning one of the private boards seems unlikely unless I pick Cloud/Sephiroth next round and get it correct. I don't think I'll be attempting that, though.
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From: -Tofa7- | #010 If you have a bad tiebreaker, take a gamble on Trainers > Mario or Cloud > Link. There may only be a 10% chance of either happening, but at least you took a shot. And if it does end up happening, you'll be golden since majority of the leaderboard would have ****ed up.
In that case you'd just bank. Assuming that the B8 hivemind really is in full force (the number of perfects has been stuck at 61 for a while now), everyone will screw up together and you'll end up winning without having to gamble on whether it'll be a Pokemon upset or a Cloud upset. I really think the odds of either upset are incredibly slim, though; it'd require a big rally from external forces, yet public levels of enthusiasm for these contests have dropped dramatically from previous years.
From: PartOfYourWorld | #012 All the prizes after third place are no big deal anyway.
Indeed, the prizes do stink. Heck, if you live in California, most notaries charge the maximum legal limit of $10, so if you end up in #11-20th place you might as well not bother claiming the prize at all.
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I have an extremely bad tiebreaker but refuse to take a dumb risk. I will take my name on the leaderboard forever and ever.
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Also, I remember having a really lousy tiebreaker for Best Series Ever, yet I somehow won 9th place on a 55-way tie. Are ties broken by | TB - Actual |, where | | = absolute value?
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With the new final battle rules, this guy is banking tonite (assuming Mariowser holds on, or else banking zero is moot). Yeah, I am about 95% confident Linkondorf wins, but given it's only a difference of 6,500 points, not sure it matters. If Clouderoth somehow wins, I'm looking golden, and if it doesn't, I still can go for 1% or 5% to blow past the 10% and straight up picks. It's conservative, followed by aggressive, but at this point, I like it a lot more than straight up going for the FFVII upset, or risking having nothing entering the final battle.
Add in that less than 100 people have a chance to jump me if I go straight up and they go 1%, and I like my chances in this final format.
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