Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1002

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Brackets weren't bad when we had shorter nomination periods.

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Yeah, we get the vast majority of noms early within the first week.

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I don't mind shorter nomination periods as long as we can have a entry period that is about two weeks long, so we can have plenty of time to debate the most hyped matches in the bracket.

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Shorter nomination-periods are perfectly fine with me; let's shake up the seeding a little bit. As long as the bracket is legit (which can work around seeding) and no major snubs are missed (not just in the bracket, but in the vote-ins), it's hard to go wrong with shorter nomination-periods. Get us to the bracket-making phase so we can start complaining about the matches not starting yet.

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I thought the longer nomination periods were bad anyway. And Bacon can always tweak the brackets a little if he needs to.

Something I'm curious about, by the way. I feel like there are close to as many international/european posters in the S&D topic as there are Americans. How did we end up calling it a bracket instead of a draw?

I think you're overestimating the number of Europeans/Internationals in this topic, in Canada we call it a bracket too and GameFAQs calls it a bracket so it's likely that we'd follow suit.

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I didn't even know we could also call it a "draw" and I'm Mexican.

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Because this is an American website.

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First time I hear about a "draw".
I know that when we allocated a certain number of team in some group, we call it a draw (like they do in soccer for the World Cup) but I did not know that a bracket like we know it can be call a "draw"... it make no sense to me....

Those crazy Europeans =)

Today's poll is trying to make a run at beating out that iPhone GotY poll for the worst vote totals in nearly 5 years. iPhone GotY poll had 2461 votes at the end of the first hour, while today's poll had 2929 votes at the end of the first hour. Today's poll should end up around 31000 votes, but it would be the second worst vote total since the start of 2007.

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My main sport is tennis and it's always referred to as a draw there. The weirdest thing in the world is seeing European tennis fans discuss the March Madness draw.

Vote totals ended up being a little bit worse than I expected. I guess that happens because this site doesn't seem to care about TGS like they care about E3, so I probably expect many users to have no clue what's in Vita's launch lineup.

This poll won't even reach 30000 votes, making it only the second poll since the start of 2007 to get under 30000. Still slightly better than that iPhone GotY poll.

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FFX HD better not tip the battle against VIII in it's favor.

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I demand a contest!

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Kotetsu534 posted...
I demand a contest!

Me too!

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No contest announcement this week. Maybe next week.

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Here are my thoughts based on SBAllen's contest feedback from a while ago:

I'd be fine with a Character Battle, since it'd be the first one I'd ever enter (aside from the current one on Gamespot, which is a total troll-fest), but I don't really like the idea of an All-Fictional Character Battle since it could be too broad and it could basically turn into a movie vs. videogame Character Battle (but take that as you will).

-A "Tag Team Character Battle" sounds like an interesting enough twist to a contest, but there's gotta be more to it if we want to get some variety.

-A "Worst Character/Game" Contest sounds great. I'd personally go with worst game, but it could go either way (for the characters, I'd go with Master Chief > Tingle > Navi. For the games, I'd go with Superman 64 > E.T. > Shaq Fu)

-A "Most Atractive Character Battle" sounds like it would be really fun, but since I believe 85% of the contenders would be female characters, people would be drooling everywhere and touching themselves (I'd go with Morrigan > Zero Suit Samus > Yuna on that one).

-A "Best Inanimate Object" Contest sounds too bland and way too broad (but maybe Triforce > Magic Mushroom > WCC would be a way to go).

-A "Mega Man Robot Master" Contest sounds way too narrow.

-A "Best Developer" Contest sounds like one of the best ideas IMO. There's plenty of variety and many new developers like Bethesda and Bioware have been shining through (I'd go with Nintendo > Squaresoft > Capcom).

Anyway, I'd be fascinated with a new contest whichever it is.

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Master Chief definitley would not even come close to winning Worst Character

it could do ok maybe though

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I don't think MC would even get into a worst character contest, even on this site.

Are there even any series that get universal hate on this site anymore? CoD seems like the only series that's hated like that, though for a "worst character" contest IDK if it has a character that can represent that well enough. I suppose they have had characters in the contests before, though.. >_>

I'm pretty sure Chief would get in a worst character contest here, but it would be more because of really low nominations than anything else. I doubt he'd go very far, I'd imagine that people would eventually vote for the characters he's against to prove the point that we're past hating on Halo or whatever.

I think worst games would be more interesting because there'd be a higher quality of nominations.

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Are there even any series that get universal hate on this site anymore? CoD seems like the only series that's hated like that, though for a "worst character" contest IDK if it has a character that can represent that well enough. I suppose they have had characters in the contests before, though.. >_>

CoD seems to be the only series with universal hate on this site right now. Before CoD, it was Halo that had universal hate on here, but that hate seems to have died down.

CoD does have one character who has been in a contest, which was Captain John Price. He didn't even do too badly in this match:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3733

That probably looks look a low midcarder to me.

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As much as I'd love to see a "Worst. Game. Ever." Contest, I find the "Best Developer" Contest to be the most viable option. It would attract way more fanbases, and it would have a lot to talk about.

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The site would be hopeless either way in a Character Battle without Link. You'd have to eliminate Cloud too. I'm just saying that it would be a viable option with an interesting twist without/before going all the way with a completely new concept like "Worst. Game. Ever.". Sort of like a "bridge" for new and interesting contest ideas. "Tag Team Character Battle" would act in a similar way.

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The site would be hopeless either way in a Character Battle without Link. You'd have to eliminate Cloud too.

Cloud should certainly be the favorite in a Link-less bracket, but I wouldn't call him a lock.

Cloud is very beatable, especially if A) Square continues to drop, or B) Samus/Mario benefit from Link not being around, ala Majora's Mask as an Ocarina of Time proxy, or hell, maybe the Nintendo Boost in 2005 was partially because of Link not being in the main bracket.

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I would take Mario to win a Link-less bracket no problem.

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Cloud is beatable now. I would take Mario over him easy.

I'd take Cloud to lose in the final, regardless of his opponent.

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I think you guys are right. Mario > Cloud on a Link-less bracket doesn't sound bad at all! If the king is gone, the prince is the next in line to take his place.

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Without Link, I'm going with Cloud or Snake.

Don't want to pick Mario.

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Just gonna say Cloud for now, though the Mario arguments sound really good.

Mario is who I'd go with. Metal Gear games have fallen, no reason to think Snake hasn't as well... and Cloud is becoming more and more irrelevant with even the KH series kinda dying now.

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Depending on the bracket, I might float a Samus pick. No, no, hear me out. Mario goes up against Cloud and/or Snake, gets beaten, and then Samus powers through to win on the back of angry Nintendo fans. Perfectly plausible!

Or more realistically, I pick Cloud unless he gets Mario or Samus in a day match.

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From: FateStayAlbion | #236
even the KH series kinda dying now.

Except it isn't.

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LeonhartFour posted...
From: FateStayAlbion | #236
even the KH series kinda dying now.
Except it isn't.

Been 5 years since a significant new game. Having some side games doesn't really mean much.

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Its handheld games since KH2 have been this relevant:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3361
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3726
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4217

While it's respectable enough and keeps its image out there, Square has become less relevant through those years and the RPG-scene the series once knew has been shaken up. Announcing KH3 would make the series relevant again, but until then it's not particularly so.

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hey look it's a PSP game looking respectable in a GOTY poll

good enough for me

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LeonhartFour posted...
Not on a console =/= insignificant

It's pretty much the same thing. Handheld Sonic games have always been awesome but people still think Sonic haven't a good game since the Dreamcast games...

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That's because not enough people have played Sonic Colors, apparently.

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You pretty much have be either Pokemon or from a huge console game to be worth anything.

respectable =/= significant

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You pretty much have be either Pokemon or from a huge console game to be worth anything.

We need to Isaac vs. Niko or something next contest, because people clearly still haven't learned their lesson.

ZackFAQs, folks

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Advokaiser | Posted 9/17/2011 1:37:23 PM | message detail | quote
-A "Best Developer" Contest sounds like one of the best ideas IMO. There's plenty of variety and many new developers like Bethesda and Bioware have been shining through (I'd go with Nintendo > Squaresoft > Capcom).

Doing match pictures for that type of contest seems like it would be hard to do.

I just had an idea for a "Best Video Game Weapon" contest, which would cover any type of weapon used to physically assault someone in a video game. This includes guns, swords, spears, or other melee weapons. Doing match pictures for that type of contest wouldn't be hard at all. In the past, all of our contests have involved characters, video games, or an entire video game series.

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