Board 8 > The Game Company Contest 2011: Bracket, results and discussion

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Here is the bracket:

http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=405944

The contest will start on August 1st, around 5-6 AM EST. Get your predictions in until then!

We'll most likely have 2 matches per day in Round 1. Not decided about Round 2 yet. Round 3 and on will be 1 match per day for sure.

The seeding was based on:
1. Number of nominations
2. Being mentioned first in the nominations stage (for those with 2 or more)
3. Order of clearance of Round 0

Feel free to discuss and/or predict the bracket!

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Full list of nominations:

Atlus - 12
Capcom - 11
Konami - 10
SquareSoft - 9
Valve - 9
Nintendo - 8
Namco - 7
SEGA - 7
Level 5 - 7
NIS - 6
Sony - 5
Naughty Dog - 5
tri-Ace - 5
BioWare - 5
Game Arts - 4
HAL Labs - 4
Arc System Works - 4
Rockstar Games - 4
Blizzard - 4
Gust - 3
Camelot - 3
Sonic Team - 3
Enix - 3
Platinum Games - 3
Rare - 3
Intelligent Systems - 3
07th Expansion - 2
Type-Moon - 2
Ubisoft Montreal - 2
Kojima Productions - 2
Marvelous - 2
Ubisoft - 2
2K Games - 2
Bethesda Softworks - 2
Firaxis Games - 2
Remedy Entertainment - 2
Retro Studios - 2
Working Designs - 2
SNK - 2
Bandai - 2
Tecmo - 2
Xseed Games
Monolith
Activision Blizzard
Natsume
Square Enix
NIS America
Midway
KID
Aksys Games
PopCap
LucasArts
Eidos
Bungie
Koei
3D Realms
Rocksteady Studios
Irrational Games
Nihon Falcom
SCEA
Cavia
EA Sports
Nitro+
Codemasters
-----------------Jupiter
5th Cell
Inti Creates
Bizarre Creations
Sucker Punch
CD Projekt Red
thatgamecompany
Crystal Dynamics
ArenaNet
DICE
Media Vision
Microsoft
Taito
Tose
Quintet

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Damn. Squaresoft and BioWare all the way for me and they're going to end up competing sooner rather than later.

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UltimaterializerX posted...
Capcom will win on joke votes.

I will fight this tooth and nail. Capcom's goin' down.

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We all know Nintendo will win. :P

Here are the links to the first two game company contests I held back in the day:

http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=82895

http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=128962

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Bleh.

Well I'm not as "augh" about Nintendo as I am with Capcom but I don't hold either company in high regard.

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Capcom might be a horrible company these days, but they still make good games and have one of the greatest libraries if you judge them on past quality (which, since companies no longer in business are involved, would seem to be a requirement in some cases).

I doubt I'll support them after the first round and I feel sick thinking about them winning, but I'd hardly consider them to be a joke vote.

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Predict the bracket, if you'd like.

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I am going through the bracket and I have to look up a good chunk of the entrants and even among those, a large portion of them have never made/published a game that I have heard of

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07th Expansion. I thought this was a games contest.

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PopCap gon' win this

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Still confused as to why NIS and NIS America are being counted seperately!

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From: Chrono1219 | #011
07th Expansion. I thought this was a games contest.

The Umineko fighting games are clearly video games, even if you don't think Umineko is!

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From: Articuno2001 | #054
The Umineko fighting games are clearly video games, even if you don't think Umineko is!

oH yeah, like all *checks* 2 of those fighting games. Wait, I played one of them. Shannon kept tossing seaguls at me and I also beat up Battler as Ange. Good times.

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Did my bracket and I expect to have the lowest score because only in my dreams will Codemasters, Ubisoft Montreal, and Rockstar make it to the semis

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Excellent I can vote for Nitro+ and it'll almost feel legit

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Don't worry, dudes. I doubt 07th Expansion and such will make much of an impact this contest. They do have their fans here, but they're a minority.

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Namco > Capcom, let's do this.

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Konami > Squaresoft

Where it's at.

Less than 12 hours left for predictions.

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Only 2 hours or so left, so get your predictions in until then!

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Why not, this could be fun.

Atlus > Codemasters
2K > Kojima
Blizzard > Square Enix
HAL > KID
Platinum > Tecmo
Level 5 > 3D
Rare > Bandai
Sega > Rocksteady

Square > Cavia
Ubisoft > Remedy
Natsume > Gust
Bioware > Popcap
Camelot > Activision
NaughtyDog > Eidos
Retro > Type-moon
Valve > Nihon

Capcom > Nitro+
Bethesda > Marvelous
Rockstar > NIS
Game Arts > Aksys
Enix > Xseed
Nippon > Koei
Intelligent > SNK
Namco > Irrational

Konami > EA
Ubisoft > Firaxis
Arc System > Midway
tri-Ace > Lucasarts
Sonic Team > Monolith Soft
Sony > Bungie
07th > Working Designs
Nintendo > SCEA

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Atlus > 2K
HAL > Blizzard
Level 5 > Platinum
Rare > Sega

Square > Ubisoft
Bioware > Natsume
NaughtyDog > Camelot
Valve > Retro

Capcom > Bethesda
Rockstar > Game Arts
Enix > Nippon
Namco > Intelligent

Konami > Ubisoft
tri-Ace > Arc System
Sony > Sonic Team
Nintendo > 07th

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Atlus > HAL
Level 5 > Rare

Square > Bioware
Valve > NaughtyDog

Capcom > Rockstar
Namco > Enix

Konami > tri-Ace
Nintendo > Sony

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Atlus > Level 5

Square > Valve

Namco > Capcom

Nintendo > Konami

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Square > Atlus

Nintendo > Namco

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Nintendo > Square

Aside the first division our brackets seem to be very similar, Vlado. Let's hope it is the great minds that think alike.

I'd much rather Nintendo not win, but we know how things are on this board. :P

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Yep, and Squaresoft being a separate entity from SE guarantees a place in the finals.
Some things never change.

Ugh, my browser is screwing with me, I hope I get this right in time.

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Great. It won't let me delete it now so it will remain incomplete.

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Whoo, strike my last. I got it in. And I have Square taking the final, score be damned.

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You're last name's not Zero!?

This is almost as bad as finding out Leon's name isn't Leon!

pjbasis posted...
You're last name's not Zero!?

This is almost as bad as finding out Leon's name isn't Leon!

There is some small comfort in this revelation: Jeff O'Connor is partially the origin of my chosen user name.

Jeff O = Jeff 0 = Jeff Zero

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In a sense, Jeff "0" Connor.

I like it.

Also didn't think you'd take Capcom farther than me!

Yeah well, this is my first time entering this particular contest and I did next to nothing in the way of homework on the issue. I'll probably get dead last.

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Nah I didn't do homework either. I mean I took a look at the past results after I made my bracket, but, and I don't know when they were run, they didn't look very useful.

I was just thinking that Capcom hate is kinda high and it's ironic that maybe you didn't think it's as high as I thought.

I thought "Jeff Zero" was a pun on "F-Zero". I guess it is, but yeah.

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Embarrassingly enough, I think it's going to go far despite the volume of understandable animosity. Ironically enough, I hope it doesn't.

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LinkMarioSamus posted...
I thought "Jeff Zero" was a pun on "F-Zero". I guess it is, but yeah.

It's a pun on both my user name and F-Zero while also being a reference to Zero of Mega Man fame. It's a three-sided origin.

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Why is there any reason to hate so much on a company that released its best game since 1994 last year?

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LinkMarioSamus posted...
Why is there any reason to hate so much on a company that released its best game since 1994 last year?

Whatever that game might have been it probably wouldn't have interested me if we're talking Capcom. Only Capcom franchise I really enjoy is Mega Man.

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We're talking about Nintendo of course.

Yeah, the only Nintendo games I like more than either Super Mario Galaxy are Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Metroid.

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Oh, Nintendo.

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Blizzard vs Square in round 1? I call shenanigans on your seeding.

bleh, my predictions are late by 20 minutes. First time I saw this topic.

People voting Kojima over 2K is disgusting. >.<

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Since I'm going to sleep around this time every day, I'd appreciate it if people bumped the voting topics every few hours in the period when I'm not around.

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Bump.

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already losing a match argg

why the separations and mergers of some companies into separate contenders.

Is Jeff getting killed a secret?

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First day results:

Atlus - 23
Codemasters - 4

Kojima Productions - 18
2K Games - 8

Expected.

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Well, there goes one of my semi-finalists

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