Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1000

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charmander6000 posted...
Jill makes a crazy comeback to lose by 27 votes against Hayabusa
Jill makes a crazy comeback to lose by 27 votes against Peach

Man, that second till last update where Peach stalled was insane. Jill was making her heroic comeback, was down by 60 or so with 10 minutes left - which was achieveable at her current rate - and Peach stalled. Jill won the last update by a lot, but it wasn't enough.

I think that's how it went down, anyway.

Greaaaat match.

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3 seed curse (now 2 seed)

Order matters!!!

Duke Milkem

Squall/Uigi

The Elder Scroll fans

It's freakin Mario

Beating Halo was fine since it was suppose to be a close match, beating Kingdom Hearts was fine since it was a flop, but beating Wind Waker, now you've gone too far.

Solid ****

Brawlfear

Samus/Sonic, Sephiroth/Mega Man, Mario/Cloud triple pack match



That's it for now, maybe the real topic will be up tomorrow.

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I still remember someone making a topic claiming that a commercial aired on a Starcraft channel in Korea to rally votes for Starcraft during the spike.

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Man you guys like gamefaqs contests too much.

I still blame the entire 3 Seed Curse on Gordon Freeman losing to Tina Armstrong. He should have stopped it by beating Phoenix Wright, though.

Not sure what started the 2 Seed One though. Master Chief losing to Sub-Zero, I suppose.

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All-Time Classic Matches by Contest

Character Battle 2002

Mario vs. Servbot
First match ever. It all started here, and it started with the face of gaming.

Morrigan Aensland vs. Spyro
First ever example of TJF, and first ever "wait until the kiddies wake up!" They never did. Or they did, and went with TJF.

Cloud Strife vs. Fox McCloud
First time we saw the freakish power of FFVII. Cloud demolished a really popular character and drew like 20% more votals than we had been seeing. Put the fear of god in Mario fans.

Tina Armstrong vs. Gordon Freeman
GFNW began here.

Jill Valentine vs. Kirby
One of the first really big upsets. Nintendo icon goes down. Another piece of TJF evidence.

Ryu vs. CATS
I remember people being really hyped for this one, and the CATS jokes were all over the place. Really fun; the result made it funny.

Donkey Kong vs. Aya Brea
Super close, back and forth match. Our first, IIRC. Nintendo fans were shocked it was close.

Solid Snake vs. Knuckles the Echidna
First of three, all in round two. Good old days.

Scorpion vs. Pac-Man
Not the first time a 1-seed went down (Lara got killed a few days prior), but people were actually surprised by this one. Another legend bites the dust.

Samus Aran vs. Sonic the Hedgehog
Still a contender for best match ever. I was rooting for Sonic and got PISSED lol

Sephiroth vs. Mega Man
Pure powa on display here. Slinging bombs at one another.

Mario vs. Cloud Strife
Biggest match ever. Nintendo and Square's lead guys facing off in what may as well have been the finals.

Mario vs. Crono
Began the great rivalry. Many prefer it to Mario vs. Cloud, a testament to its awesomeness.

Link vs. Mario
First ever finals, and Link letting everyone know who runs the joint.

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Other than Squall, the 2 seeds all went down in Round 2 and one of them lost in Round 1.

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Character Battle 2003
Ganondorf vs. Tidus
Close Nintendo/Square match featuring two characters about as different from one another as you can find.

Kefka vs. Pac-Man
LETTUCE. One of the biggest examples of bombed expectations ever.

Magus vs. Ganondorf
Magus avenges his fellow Square guy in an even closer, more epic match.

Squall Leonhart vs. Luigi
NANASILENCER. FANTA SHOKATA. Crazy day on B8.

Bowser vs. Yoshi
First instance of B-Team Mario guys meeting up. Bowser wins what I think was an upset.

Aeris Gainsborough vs. Master Chief
LOL Chief

Mario vs. Shadow the Hedgehog
Is Shadow as strong as Sonic?!?!?!

Tommy Vercetti vs. Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong had the upset win... and choked it away. The stinging pain will later be all too familiar.

Mario vs. Crono
CJayC was paid off. Nintendo bought this win. Outrage. I'm never coming to this site again. Even better than the first time.

Sephiroth vs. Mario
Seph avenges Crono by DESTROYING the face of Nintendo. I'm sure some people thought Mario would never lose this badly to a non-Link opponent.

Cloud Strife vs. Link
Cloud defeats the undefeatable. Best movie fight scene ever.

Cloud Strife vs. Sephiroth
Square hits Nintendo back bigtime. All-Square final after the all-Ninty showdown a year earlier. Seph manages to keep it pretty close.

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Squall Leonhart vs. Luigi
NANASILENCER. FANTA SHOKATA. Crazy day on B8.

List spoilers

Best match ever

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Also, I'm pretty sure Squall/Luigi gave rise to the Kingdom Hearts Factor.

2003 list should have Cloud/Sonic because I remember nearly everyone's jaw dropping when they saw Cloud doubling Sonic the friggin' Hedgehog, and that was when people FINALLY started to believe Link may be beatable.

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Squall vs Luigi also kicked off a string a daily account suicides and the board being given a minimum account level to visit.

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Squall better have a great upset next time.

I'm waitin for it!

Reading through old stat topics, it's amazing the stuff we used to argue that we think is common sense now.

It's also amazing looking at the walls of text we used to write.

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Mega Man, King of Blowouts:


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From: LeonhartFour | #163
It's also amazing looking at the walls of text we used to write.

Yeah, it's become a much more chill social place now. We just go with the flow and tend to ignore many huge posts (I know I often do). I mean heck, no one cared that a non-stats guy made Part 1000. A few years ago, Anri woulda been burned at the stake.

Personally, I prefer it this way. Especially since we now have a freakin podcast for the really long rants.

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From: Slowflake | Posted: 7/12/2005 10:06:37 PM | Message Detail
From: UltimaterializerX | Posted: 7/13/2005 1:05:19 AM | #028
My post was the correct one. Leon will never hear the end of it after Magus wins, I assure you.

~*ST*~

I'm with ya on this one. He's going to regret that pick for the rest of his life.

Argh, I will find that Magus is overrated rant!

Also:

From: ExThaNemesis | Posted: 7/12/2005 10:07:55 PM | Message Detail
Since we're playing that game. There's only two characters that MY guy will ever lose to. =D Eat it.

LOL ExTha

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Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 8/25/2011 2:57:03 AM | message detail | quote
Mega Man, King of Blowouts:


That's a very strange glitch.

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That used to be a fairly common glitch back in the day, too.

My averages rankings translated from 2k3 Link to Tanner:

Rank . Name . % on Tanner

1 Link 96.34
2 Cloud Strife 96.16
3 Sephiroth 95.76
4 Samus Aran 95.18
5 Mega Man 95.12
6 Crono 95.10
7 Mario 95.03
8 Sonic the Hedgehog 94.80
9 Ganondorf 94.61
10 Magus 94.60
11 Solid Snake 94.52
12 Auron 94.38
13 Zero 94.36
14 Frog 94.13
15 Bowser 94.13
16 Ryu 94.03
17 Aeris Gainsborough 93.97
18 Tidus 93.85
19 Shadow 93.82
20 Zelda 93.78
21 Sora 93.64
22 Master Chief 93.53
23 Vivi 93.52
24 Squall Leonhart 93.51
25 Alucard 93.22
26 Claire Redfield 93.05
27 Yoshi 93.03
28 Dante 92.98
29 Kirby 92.98
30 Knuckles 92.94
31 Liquid Snake 92.83
32 Tommy Vercetti 92.60
33 Donkey Kong 92.56
34 Luigi 92.53
35 Jill Valentine 92.50
36 Morrigan Aensland 92.42
37 Aya Brea 92.40
38 Diablo 92.37
39 Felix 92.34
40 Strider Hiryu 92.22
41 Scorpion 92.18
42 Wario 92.17
43 KOS-MOS 92.11
44 Tails 92.10
45 Ken Masters 92.05
46 Yuna 92.03
47 Ness 91.97
48 Revolver Ocelot 91.94
49 M. Bison 91.90
50 Kefka 91.70
51 Ryu Hayabusa 91.69
52 Ramza Beoulve 91.55
53 Kasumi 91.50
54 Fox McCloud 91.37
55 Bomberman 91.29
56 Viewtiful Joe 91.26
57 Dr. Wily 91.14
58 Nemesis 91.11
59 Jak 91.06
60 Ridley 90.99
61 Raziel 90.78
62 HK-47 90.76
63 Kain 90.66
64 Sam Fisher 90.59
65 Duke Nukem 90.49
66 Lara Croft 90.47
67 Pac Man 90.40
68 Servbot 90.28
69 Vyse 90.26
70 Bub 90.22
71 Isaac 89.93
72 Ansem 89.63
73 Lavos 89.62
74 Conker 89.56
75 Vergil 89.53
76 Kite 89.40
77 Max Payne 89.37
78 Pikachu 89.30
79 Protoman 89.10
80 Crash Bandicoot 88.85
81 Simon Belmont 88.83
82 Dr. Robotnik 88.64
83 Mithos 88.46
84 Sin 88.33
85 Parappa the Rapper 88.26
86 Mother Brain 88.26
87 Terry Bogard 88.07
88 Spyro the Dragon 88.05
89 Little Mac 87.99
90 Laharl 87.96
91 Ultros 87.68
92 Iori Yagami 87.42
93 Albedo Piasora 87.16
94 Q*Bert 87.07
95 Sigma 86.73
96 Ryo Hazuki 86.73
97 Kyo Kusanagi 86.47
98 Kazuya Mishima 86.47
99 CATS 86.41
100 Gordon Freeman 86.39
101 Ramirez 86.39
102 Tina Armstrong 86.26
103 Master Hand 85.97
104 Wesker 85.96
105 Andross 85.74
106 Earthworm Jim 85.65
107 Pitfall Harry 85.50
108 Chop Chop Master Onion 85.34
109 Ghaleon 85.27
110 Abe 85.20
111 Sly Cooper 85.15
112 JC Denton 85.00
113 Kuja 84.84
114 Raiden 84.66
115 Luca Blight 84.33
116 Ratchet 84.23
117 Goemon 84.16
118 Pyramid Head 82.99
119 Tom Nook 82.58
120 Ulala 82.25
121 Giygas 82.10
122 Akira Yuki 81.96
123 Guybrush Threepwood 81.50
124 Kane 81.30
125 Gabe Logan 80.39
126 Captain Olimar 78.68
127 AiAi 78.21
128 Mr. Resetti 77.88
129 Officer Tenpenny 77.45
130 Dirk the Daring 76.23
131 Serious Sam 70.13
132 Ms. Pac-Man 68.37
133 Mr. Driller 63.82
134 Tanner 50.00

Bless you, Tanner.

Also, RPGuy really did a lot of undervalued things, like creating the x-stat calculator, which would eventually be used to make Ngamer's LOL XSTATS generator.

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Bless you, Tanner.

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Also, I think we should rename the Guru Cookie Bracket the "Slowflake Memorial Bracket." That dude had the most cookie-cutter brackets in the world.

Oh right, Sephiroth/Raziel is another notable match in 2003 because it gave birth to the Oracle Challenge, also courtesy of Slowflake.

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Slowflake was also the person behind the original Board Odds Project. It's unfortunate he's moved on from here. I wonder what else he would have come up with if he stayed.

...How many contest related alts do you have, TRE?

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A few. =D

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Best Game Ever 2004
Donkey Kong vs. Duck Hunt
Easily the biggest comeback ever up to that point, but Duck Hunt can't complete it. Almost pulled 3000 votes back, though, and electrified the board.

The Legend of Zelda vs Adventure
A beating the likes of which we had never seen. Almost a perfect 95/5 split as well. Beautiful.

Xenogears vs. Pokemon GSC
An anticipated match glitches and then ends badly for Pokemon. A Pokemon glitch would pay EVERYONE back several years later.

Starcraft vs. Halo
The biggest match from this contest. Super hyped, super contested, fanbases clashing, and a huge comeback. Defined Best Game Ever. Funny how weak both games really turned out being.

Kingdom Hearts vs. Soul Calibur
A shocked B8 watched as a sure win was turned into a struggle for KH. THIS made KH Factor?

Super Mario World vs. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
The awaited clash between Mario and Sonic ended in embarrassment.

Metal Gear Solid vs. Final Fantasy Tactics
Incredibly close and tense matched. MGS gained its rep as a series that would not choke in the end.

Starcraft vs. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Beating Halo was one thing, but Zelda was something else. Starcraft rode a wave of momentum to do the unthinkable.

Super Smash Bros. Melee vs. Final Fantays X
Sad that people cared little for this one after Starcraft/WW, but it was an amazing match. Still one of the most legendary pictures in contest history (bless you CJayC).

Chrono Trigger vs. The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
50/50 all day until CT started pulling away in the final hours. I cheated for CT so I could get free games. COME AND GET ME ADMIN.

Final Fantasy VII vs. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Disappointing, but still the match everyone was waiting for between the only two games with a chance to win.

Super Smash Bros. Melee vs. Starcraft
Starcraft finally goes down, but not before the most obvious attempt at cheating ever. Lol Starcraft fans.

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From: PartOfYourWorld | #175
Still one of the most legendary pictures in contest history (bless you CJayC).

RAGE

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Donkey Kong vs. Duck Hunt was my match where I had walked away thinking it was over only to have a friend contacting me to tell me the match wasn't over. I think I was kinda busy that day as well although I don't remember what I was busy with now.

Chrono Trigger vs. The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
50/50 all day until CT started pulling away in the final hours. I cheated for CT so I could get free games. COME AND GET ME ADMIN.

b7

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Yeah, for some reason, I missed nearly the entire DK/Duck Hunt match. I voted early in the morning when DK was right around the peak of its lead, and I wasn't able to be on the computer for the rest of the day. I was shocked when I came back the next morning and saw Duck Hunt had nearly won.

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Character Battle 2004
Tidus vs. Shadow the Hedgehog
Possibly THE most debated match going in. The final percentages justified it, but this has since become known as "the most boring 51/49 match ever."

Frog vs. Liquid Snake
Closest wire-to-wire match ever, and held that distinction for years. Amazing and fun, but Frog had really high hopes and was not off to a good start.

Solid Snake vs. Tanner
Snake delights everyone by going all Harlem Globetrotters on a hapless opponent. There's one way to make blowouts fun: shoot for the moon.

Vivi vs. Donkey Kong
Another debated match. Another badge on DK's choker sash.

Ryu Hayabusa vs. Jill Valentine
CATS glitches the poll and causes Jill to lose by 27 votes in the closest match ever. What a bastard.

Link vs. Ganondorf
Ouch

Frog vs. Master Chief
Moves Ryu/Jill aside and becomes the closest match ever. Frog wins by seven. Yeah, SEVEN. This was anarchy.

Crono vs. Mario
Crono finally brings the Italian mafia don to justice. GET PAID, CRONO.

Solid Snake vs. Frog
Frog takes advantage of big picture advantage and actually puts fear into Snake. Surprised the hell out of everyone. Frog bows out, but not before compiling arguably the most legendary contest run ever - each of his three matches were AAA classics.

Link vs. Cloud Strife
Link pays Cloud back, and the series between our two strongest characters is tied at 1-1. This was not long after the Twilight Princess unveiling as well.

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From: PartOfYourWorld | #180
but this has since become known as "the most boring 51/49 match ever."

Ha, I just read a post where someone said this in the stats archives.

Also, I think Frog/Liquid still holds the closest wire-to-wire distinction for a 24 hour match. The matches that have broken it since then have been 12 hour matches, if I'm not mistaken.

So that's still pretty darn impressive.

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The Summer 2004 Contest was also one of if not the most cookiecutter contest we had. A bracket that followed the BOP would have tied for 45th place and I think the Guru Consensus Bracket would have finished in the money. This was also the only contest where I finished on the final leaderboard.

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Villains Contest 2005
M. Bison vs. Albedo


Diablo vs. Ridley
The most debated match pre-contest ends as a boring win for el Diablo. This early match determined who still had a shot at a prize.

Ansem vs. CATS
CATS had everyone's jaws on the floor by threatening to win for HOURS.

Dr. Robotnik vs. Sin
Another debated match, this one much closer than Diablo/Ridley. There was bedlam when B8 discovered the picture. LOL

Master Hand vs. Kuja
Speaking of bedlam, nothing topped this. FF fans were PISSED. Nintendo fans were trollin. I somehow remember that this made HaRRicH one of the final perfect brackets. Hit the same day as Star Wars: Ep III. Really fun day on the board.

Kefka vs. Wesker
Kefka looked terrible enough before that he may have actually struggled here... and then he busted a 70% win. No doubt in my mind that this was one of the biggest examples of pic factor ever.

Diablo vs. M. Bison
Neck and neck until the clock struck 3 p.m. Eastern, at which point Diablo used the ASV to pull away at a thunderous speed. It was like clockwork; I couldn't believed it happened that perfectly.

Sephiroth vs. Bowser
Bowser lost easy, but he actually overperformed tremendously and went 50/50 with Seph at the start. Both big Nintendo villains did much, much better than expected.

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From: PartOfYourWorld | #183
I somehow remember that this made HaRRicH one of the final perfect brackets.

Actually, I think HaRRicH would've had a perfect bracket if he had picked Diablo instead of Ridley because he had Ridley going all the way to the Final Four and got everything else correct.

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Also, I finally found my MAGUS IS OVERRATED rant so I can get some sleep:

From: AmazingKirby | Posted: 6/28/2005 11:43:35 PM | Message Detail
And where is all of this Squall > Magus stuff coming from? Squall doesn't stand a chance.

Is that so? Have you noticed that characters who have been measured through Magus don't end up seeming as strong when they're measured independently from him? Let's look at Sam Fisher for a second. Magus failed to double him up, someone Samus quadrupled and took a large dive in the stats. Then you see that Squall got 64.71% on Bomberman, and would you take Fisher over him? I really hope not.

Then let's look at Luca Blight. It's bad enough that he gets quadrupled by Magus on his own. Then comes the Spring Contest. He lost 60/40 to Wesker, who then went on to lose to Kefka by even more than Luca himself would have been expected to lose. Yes, people keep wanting to blame that on Angel Kefka, but I say it's more of a result of overestimation of Luca Blight. He turned out to be much weaker than we thought, much like Sam Fisher.

We can even look at Tidus. His position in the 2004 stats may be questionable, but if it IS accurate, then that also brings into question the position of Magus. Keeping him in the same proportion to Tidus would drop Magus below Squall. Tidus fell 10% short of expectations against Mega Man. It may be a fluke, or it may be a warning sign.

Heck, we can even draw a little bit from Ganondorf. He underperformed by 3% off of expectations against Alucard. I know we've "officially" blamed that on Sephiroth overperforming in 2003, but if we don't, Ganondorf actually falls into almost exactly the same proportion to Bowser (who is slightly below Squall) as he had in the Villains Contest.

Squall has no chance? I beg to differ, my friend.

Now if only I could use my genius to accomplish something productive.

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XIII_rocks posted...
He'd post "favourite character of all time lists" with Link and Cloud as the top 2 and then next month they wouldn't even be top 15 or whatever, and Samus would be there instead. Whenever there was an HM playthrough topic, wasn't the running gag to say (if he was playing FF7) "1. Cloud" or w/e?

the original e-pop method. drawing pictures? talking about the users? pfft. make a new list, get a bunch of posts. what's up.

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Character Battle 2005
Ness vs. Carl Johnson
Second day of the contest, and brackets were torn to shreds. RacistFAQs was born. ExTha and I were chatting late, and he was pretty pissed with stupid Ness lol. Can't believe this was over six years ago.

Tommy Vercetti vs. Kefka
Arguably the funnest match ever. SIX stats topics were filled. I left to pick up some furniture with my dad, came back a few hours later, and missed at least a full topic. Completely ridiculous game of cat and mouse, with Vercetti inching closer only for Kefka to surge forward. And then, at the end... GEORGE ROMERO. Just incredible. I didn't think we could get such a match from such losers. Honestly, I could see this being argued as the best match ever. Soooo ridiculous.

Dante vs. Terra
I've just ranted about this, don't have it in me to do it again

Vincent Valentine vs. Sarah Kerrigan
Oh man. Oh man

Knuckles the Echidna vs. Magus
LMAO. Everyone got destroyed. Third hilarious result in a row after Dante and Vinny. SMURF CALLED THIS LOL

Tifa Lockheart vs. Vyse
By destroying Vyse almost as badly as Cloud did, Tifa made B8 fear that she would demolish the Noble 9's lower echelon

Pac-Man vs. Revolver Ocelot
Doesn't get as much mention as it deserves. This was actually about as big an upset as Knuckles/Magus. Really hilarious way to end Round 1.

Master Chief vs. Donkey Kong
DK HAD this. He HAD this. Just kidding, he didn't have ****.

Vincent Valentine vs. Dante
This match was debated since the moment Dante and Vincent ended R1 looking like monsters. Vincent got the win, but Dante walked away looking respectable. B8 females had a hand down the pants for this match.

Vincent Valentine vs. Squall Leonhart
And TWO hands down the pants for this one.

Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Tifa Lockhart
B8's fears go completely unfounded. Newsflash: we r dum

Mario vs. Samus
One of the most debated late-bracket matches of all time. Mario prevailed to an easy wins, causing his supporters to rib Samus supporters with cries of "common sense." I'm pretty sure Ulti called this correctly as well.

Solid Snake vs. Bowser
After barely besting Frog in 2004, Snake has an even closer battle against Bowser where he really looked in danger for a while. He holds on and the Noble 9 stays unbeaten.

Mega Man vs. Sonic the Hedgehog
Epic match between the "we're not Mario, BUT" icons. Mega Man held off Sonic during his vaunted day vote.

Mario vs. Crono
Mario captures the fourth match, and, in essence, the rivalry. A GameFAQser made one of the greatest contest pics ever for this one.

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PartOfYourWorld posted...
Master Chief vs. Donkey Kong
DK HAD this. He HAD this. Just kidding, he didn't have ****.

LMAO

I'm loving this, Yoblazer. Keep up the good work!

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Series Contest 2006
Castlevania vs. Halo
Simon and crew make old school gaming fans really, really happy while the Halo fanbase clings to delusional hope (It's the HALO DAY VOTE, not even FIFTY THOUSAND is out of reach!).

Warcraft vs. Grand Theft Auto
B8 goes down in flames here as WoW fans help their beloved series to a close victory. I believe some B8ers were actually banned for cheating during this one, including EC and Luster, who then cried at the loss of his accounts.

Mega Man vs. Mario Kart
Mario Kart was the Stats Topic upset special. When it didn't pan out, everyone was actually really kind and supportive about it. No jokes or nothin. Also, some dumbass lost his account here LOL

Metroid vs. Pokemon
The closeness of this match was seen as shocking. Knowing what we know now, the mere fact that Metroid won is impressive.

Super Smash Bros. vs. Sonic the Hedgehog
Basically, Melee ravaged Sonic's entire gaming library. Jesus, Brawl wrecked this series. =(

Resident Evil vs. Street Fighter
Nevermind what I said about Tidus/Shadow - THIS is the most boring 51/49 match ever. Hell, it was even closer than that and no one cared.

Final Fantasy vs. Super Mario Bros.
Mario delighted longtime fans by going toe-to-toe with the juggernaut for longer than anyone anticipated. The fact that he had an awesome, nostalgic pic compared to the FF crapfest brought more people to the portly plumber's side.

The Legend of Zelda vs. Final Fantasy
Zelda defeated the huge pre-contest favorite. IT ALWAYS WINS was born on this day. So basically, the greatest day ever.

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Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world!

Posting in legendary topic.

And to add a good memory that hasn't been mentioned yet:
Street Fighter characters pulling away during the California ASV

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MvC3: Haggar/Ammy/Wesker
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Seconded on that front. Yoblazer bustin' out dem history lessons.

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"Setsuna, you have to change. To make up for me... who didn't change." ~SCP~
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Oh hey posting for no reason

Yo.

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NIO BUNNY - http://img.imgcake.com/nio/76ayvpngam.png

Posting in a great topic.

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Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ.
(Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!)

So, is this our buffer-topic until Ulti makes it? Because there's a chance I'll completely miss the topic if he makes it later today.....

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Nominate E P O N A.

Wait, nevermind, I see he's already posted in here.

As for the Villain Contest...man! I picked Ridley to win that division with Diablo being my second guess, but second guesses don't mean diddly...and I got everything else right. I also had the best Villain Contest-bracket on B8 for the GapeSpot contest too since I took General RAAM to go so far (4chan's predictable sometimes!). All these near-prize opportunities are the pits.


Anyway, it's been a pleasure having so many memories shared with you guys.

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