Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1000

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PartOfYourWorld posted...
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.

LOL, yeah, bishies on parade.

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Character Battle 2006
Samus Aran vs. Nidoran F
The contest began with a surprise, as Nidoran F did better on Samus "the fodder and midcard brutalizer" Aran than half the field would have. This, in turn with Pokemon's series contest performance, were the early rumblings in what would soon be the earthquake from hell.

Kairi vs. Claire Redfield
Claire held a slim lead at the start but was absolutely blown away with the ASV. Perhaps no better example of the Kingdom Hearts day vote exists than in this very debated match. This one actually eliminated me from the Guru on day four. Weak! I also voted for Kairi here. I will not see heaven.

Zelda vs. Carmen Sandiego
Even though she originated in a game (hence her inclusion in the contest), Carmen Sandiego was more or less our first non-game character, having gained the lion's share of her popularity through TV. No one expected her to win, but anticipation for the match was high to see how she'd do. How'd she do? Zelda did awful things to her. AWFUL THINGS. I still can't believe it was such a massacre. Guess GFAQs loved the Zelda cartoon more lol

Gordon Freeman vs. Phoenix Wright
Gordon Freeman... sometimes win? Gordon breaks the contests' most famous streak against a character that may as well have been born on Board 8. A really fun and historic match. Believe it or not, Gordon has now been winning longer than he hasn't been. Incredible how the time flies, huh.

Vincent Valentine vs. Ganondorf
HM, don't do it. HM, HM, Heroic Mario, don't do it, don't do it don't do AUGH HE DID IT. This was a debated match, one many people missed, but it was here that the most recognizable and "influential" B8 user name was lost. And before you chastise me for using the word influential for something so trivial... you have a Heroic alt, don't you? Don't you? Then shut it and pour a 40 on the curb son. HM REPRESENT. He died the way he lived. INSANE.

Luigi vs. Zero
Zero was the favorite to beat two big Ninty players (Luigi and Kirby). It didn't pan out and kinda pissed off some Mega Man fans. The franchise's decline can be traced back to this contest.

Sub-Zero vs. Master Chief
LMAO Chief. I can't believe so many of his didn't see this coming. Oh well, all the better. Chief ends R1 on a note legendary enough for him and him only.

Princess Peach vs. Jill Valentine
Anything but 27 votes, anything but 27 votes, anything but 27 votes, DAMN YOU NINTENDO. In losing by a mere 27 votes again, Jilly V cemented her status as a contest legend. I voted for PEACH here. No rest for my soul.

Yoshi vs. Dante
50/50 match all day eventually won by Nintendo. Dante had a surprisingly unappealing match picture for this, an occurrence that really pissed off his supporters. Still an extremely fun match. I believe we had Stats Topic Part 402 during this one, and it was flooded with LUE-inspired ASCII and much complaints.

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Samus Aran vs. Tifa Lockhart
The hell happened here? Samus was supposed to moonwalk through her bracket, but Tifa almost WON. Most people consider it a combination of the picture (first time GameFAQs has seen Samus out of her suit, apparently) and Tifa overperforming as the final female Square rep (a la Bowser and Ganon in the villains contest), but this match was still really weird.

Solid Snake vs. Mega Man
Snake begins his transformation from the N9er most susceptible to breaking the streak to a true contender. Very few people even expected a win, let alone a much more comfortable one than the win Samus had against Tifa. The Brawl announcement did wonders for Snake, and this match was proof.

Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Crono
Sonic takes out Crono! This may have been as huge an upset as Snake over Mega Man. Indeed, I gotta wonder how many people on B8 actually had a Snake/Sonic male finals. Sonic's games may have been getting crappy, but he was at least getting games, which is apparently kinder to a character's strength than nothin' at all!

Solid Snake vs. Sonic the Hedgehog
This wasn't surprising considering the beating Snake put on Mega Man, but it still cemented the legendary soldier's rise to glory. He went from being winless against his fellow Noble 9ers to beating two of them in a row.

Samus Aran vs. Solid Snake
Through masterful performances, Snake had maneuvered himself as the board-wide favorite. We were all feeling really good about it, ready to see him triumph and beat a third N9er in a row. Then our hopes were summarily dashed, as Samus decided to wake up and issue the pain. After all his work and redemption, Snake ended up lower than Tifa in the final X-Stats. LOL Nintendo does it again

Link vs. Cloud vs. Sephiroth vs. Solid Snake
Snake, however, gets the last laugh, as damn near no one expected anything but a Link/Cloud/Seph final three. Snake destroyed this archaic notion by hanging with Sephiroth and winning in the final ****ing update. MGS fans earning their reputation here.

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2005 was so good - so many debated matches, so many people being flat out wrong. all of us got crushed that year.

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Solid Snake is overrated, he's just another soldier. What's so special about him?

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Vincent Valentine vs. Ganondorf
HM, don't do it. HM, HM, Heroic Mario, don't do it, don't do it don't do AUGH HE DID IT. This was a debated match, one many people missed, but it was here that the most recognizable and "influential" B8 user name was lost. And before you chastise me for using the word influential for something so trivial... you have a Heroic alt, don't you? Don't you? Then shut it and pour a 40 on the curb son. HM REPRESENT. He died the way he lived. INSANE.

Indeed. One of the biggest ever Round 1 matches.

I can't believe he put it on THAT match as well. Especially since I once said "hmm guys do you think Vince might not boost much because his game doesn't look very good" and he responded "What? You don't think Vince will get a significant boost from a game starring him?"

...then during the buildup to Ganon/Vince it was "Vince isn't going to boost at all from that crappy game!"

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Yoshi vs. Dante
50/50 match all day eventually won by Nintendo. Dante had a surprisingly unappealing match picture for this, an occurrence that really pissed off his supporters. Still an extremely fun match. I believe we had Stats Topic Part 402 during this one, and it was flooded with LUE-inspired ASCII and much complaints.

Oh yes. And it was glorious. 2006 WAS SUCH A GOOD CONTEST GODDAMN

Gordon Freeman vs. Phoenix Wright
Gordon Freeman... sometimes win? Gordon breaks the contests' most famous streak against a character that may as well have been born on Board 8. A really fun and historic match. Believe it or not, Gordon has now been winning longer than he hasn't been. Incredible how the time flies, huh.

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That's because we've fallen in a world where GFSW

Gordon Freeman Sometimes Wins.

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Wait wait wait


There's a new TMNT series!?

Pac-Man/Revolver Ocelot will have a special place in my heart. Despite what everything says by the time the picture was revealed hours before the match I think almost everyone knew that Pac-Man had a real shot. A lot of things happened from when the brackets were locked to the match.

- People realizing Ocelot wasn't as strong as some people were saying (it was just barely stronger than Kefka which just barely defeated Pac-Man in 2k3)
- SFF doesn't have to be same company became more accepted
- Luigi/Pac-Man SFF became more accepted

The picture put it over the edge. Best part was almost everyone was happy that Pac-Man won.

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Against a pretty liked character in Ocelot, too. I think everyone just wanted Pac-Man to get his. He's Pac-Man, after all.

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Also who can forget the WoW debates before the second game contest.

WoW was suppose to get some sort of crazy rally that could give it L-Block-like powers. It then proceeded to lose in a close match against Oblivion.

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@Ulti:

Also please submit your own unique feedback and don't encourage other people to submit the same thing that you submitted. Thanks!

You everything slob...

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Ah, SHUT UP!

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Get them fictional characters out of my video game character contest.

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From: charmander6000 | #108
Get them fictional characters out of my video game character contest.

^5

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voltch posted...
I wanna win another guru contest.

GotD was the first contest I participated in GameFAQs and I was able to sneak into the #11 spot of the guru, mostly thanks to have watched KP's bracket plus adding my own modifications, (like Brawl > Melee, MP > HL2, MM > G/S/C, hehehe...). I've never participated in a Character Battle, so I have no freaking clue as to what characters are more popular than others, or how do their popularity fluctuates throughout the years, so...

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MegaWentEvil posted...
Ah, SHUT UP!

This made my day. Well done, Ulti, takin' out the trash. /HiFive

And now...time to fill that form. Fictional Character, 12-hour, 24-hour matches on division finals contest, HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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A 1000 topics huh?

I still remember the first one where someone simply posted a bunch of stats as the first few posts, but either computed them incorrectly or in a way that didn't mean anything (I forget which) and had to correct himself once someone pointed it out.

I am horrible at these contests. Always have been, always will be. I've entered every single one though! I think I'm better at games, seeing as I was at or near the top of the leaderboard in the final days of both 2004 Spring and Game of the Decade. Here are my bracket finals from each year (In all these years, I've only gotten 1 correct!):

2002: Sephiroth > Crono (final 4 was right though!)
2003: Link > Mario
2004s: Chrono Trigger > FF7 (leaderboard #1 on last day of contest!)
2004: Cloud > Link
2005s: Sephiroth > Diablo
2005: Crono > Samus
2006s: Final Fantasy > The Legend of Zelda
2006: Crono > Samus (again!)
2007: Link > Cloud (I finally take Link...)
2008: Link > Cloud
2009: FF7 > OoT
2010: Link > Cloud (Finally!)
2010w: Brawl > FFX (had MM in the final four though, was top 3 leaderboard at one point iirc)

I enjoy watching them (don't really care for in depth analysis though) and I plan to continue to fail year after year. =)

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From: charmander6000 | #228
Get them fictional characters out of my video game character contest.

this

Asked for the return of the quotation contest instead.

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Oh god yes, I should have asked for the Quote Contest.

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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.

I remember that was that match which finally broke the long-standing vote total record originally set by Link/Cloud in 2003. Old record stood at 147637. It took 1064 days for that record to be broken, and then the record was broken again the next day.

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From: Advokaiser | #111
voltch posted...
I wanna win another guru contest.

GotD was the first contest I participated in GameFAQs and I was able to sneak into the #11 spot of the guru, mostly thanks to have watched KP's bracket plus adding my own modifications, (like Brawl > Melee, MP > HL2, MM > G/S/C, hehehe...). I've never participated in a Character Battle, so I have no freaking clue as to what characters are more popular than others, or how do their popularity fluctuates throughout the years, so...

Just go to the B8 wiki and run wild. Almost every little piece of evidence you'd want on characters can be found there.

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From: PartOfYourWorld | #188
Ness vs. Carl Johnson
Second day of the contest, and brackets were torn to shreds.

Oh man, I remember this match because my favorites bracket (with Squall as champ) was #1 on the leaderboard for like an entire week after this match.

Good times.

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From: transience | #207
2005 was so good - so many debated matches, so many people being flat out wrong. all of us got crushed that year.

Yeah, I think SC2K5 may have been the most debated contest we've had since the invention of the X-Stats. A lot of those matches didn't pan out as great matches, but we had some great debate on them.

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From: charmander6000 | #217
- Luigi/Pac-Man SFF became more accepted

Also, I'm pretty sure I was the first person to push for "Old School SFF" for Pac-Man against Weegi.

After Pac-Man beat Ocelot and got summarily trounced by Yoshi the next round (in the most AWWWWWWDORABLE match pic ever), I was vindicated.

Although I still picked Ocelot, so whatever.



Speaking of which, since yo is doing a "Famous matches" thing, maybe I should do a "Famous match pics" one.

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Also, I'm pretty sure I was the first person to push for "Old School SFF" for Pac-Man against Weegi.

I was right in there. Poor Pac-Man it's gone up against 3 Mario characters in its history.

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I remember the Guantlet of 2005

Then the next match proceeded to be more interesting than all 5 of those matches combined.

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Oh yeah, that second round was supposed to be brutal.

Ganondorf/Auron
Snake/Zelda
Sora/Alucard
Kirby/Tidus
Bowser/Ryu

All in a row. Man, that was crazy. Only Sora/Alucard turned out to be worth a darn, and that was only until morning when the kiddies woke up.

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Famous 2002 Match Pics



TJF is born. This is why people want Morrigan back, not MvC3.



Bomberman vs. a TV. Still one of the most hilarious match pics we've ever had.



Fun Fact: Ceej originally used Mega Man 1 box art for the match pic, and there was so much outrage over it that he changed it. I don't know if anyone still has a copy of the original match pic though.



HEADSHOT



The MEGAROTH. The story behind this pic was that Ceej put up the match pics for this entire round before the end of the previous round, and Mega Man/Sephiroth was still up for grabs at this time, so Megaroth was born. Also, can't believe we've still never had a one-on-one Samus/Mega Man match.



A match pic worthy of the inception of the greatest contest rivalry we've ever had.



Through the years, a good concept for a pic.

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Part 1000, aww yeah. Lots of good memories from these topics over the years.

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While I think 4-ways are the most enjoyable contests we've had(!!), I decided to suggest a handheld games contest with no remakes/ports. Though maybe ports/remakes should be allowed.

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I decided to suggest a handheld games contest with no remakes/ports. Though maybe ports/remakes should be allowed.

Link's Awakening wins, beating like three Pokemon games. Board 8 meltdown.

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