Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1002

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Asked in another topic but..

Around what time of the day are OFFICIAL nomination topics usually put up?

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It'd be in the afternoon sometime, I'd wager.

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Nomination topics usually go up sometime between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM EST.

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

Doing match pics for the "Best Developer" Contest would be kind of hard, yeah, but you can get creative as each round passes by. You know, joining Fallout and The Elder Scrolls' matchpics with "Bethesda" on the center, or Ryu and Leon Kennedy, one on each side, and have "Capcom" on the center.


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.

I think the concept is too vague and doesn't seem to have any kind of structure in it. What would you have for a final match like that? Master Sword > Ragnarok > Masamune > AK-47?

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I didn't know Zelda games were supposed to be linked. (No pun intended.) -freshmakerrrr
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While it's almost certainly go to the Master Sword, I'd love to see some of the weapons nominated. Laptop gun/Farsight (PD), Cerebral Bore (Turok 2), Gravity Gun/crowbar (HL2), plasma grenades (Halo)...and those are just FPS-games.

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Nominate E P O N A.

Bump

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Advokaiser posted...
-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).

GameFAQs bad taste strikes again. Leon Kennedy and Sarah Kerrigan are sexier than any Nintendo character. I'd probably rank Samus as third there among those who I have exposure to, although I think I'd consider Power Suit Samus to be more attractive than Suitless Samus! They're both real close either way.

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chris redfield

dem beefy arms

mmmmmm

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I understand this is old news, blah blah blah blah blah, but for just about no reason whatsoever I felt like posting the Spring 2009 x-stats, except with all of the entrants shared with the Fall 2010 field in the order of their own x-stats. I would like you guys to voice your thoughts on how accurate you think this is (well, it probably would have loads of minor issues IMO but nothing particularly glaring...) - also I will post where Fall 2010 entrants were in the Spring 2009 stats.

1) LoZ: OoT
2) FFVII
3) LoZ: MM (34)
4) FFX (11)
5) Pokemon RBY
6) SSBB (3)
7) MGS1
8) LoZ: LttP
9) SM64
10) SMW
11) SSBM (4)
12) CT
13) SMB3
14) LoZ: TP (6)
15) Fallout 3 (30)
16) Pokemon GSC (14)
17) Metroid Prime (51)
18) LoZ: WW (36)
19) RE4 (17)
20) GoldenEye
21) FFVIII
22) SMB1
23) SMRPG
24) LoZ1
25) FFVI
26) MK64
27) HL2 (28)
28) MGS3 (18)
29) SotC (56)
30) MGS2 (39)
31) MGS4 (15)
32) KH2 (19)
33) GoW1 (33)
34) Portal (49)
35) FFT
36) KH1 (16)
37) Oblivion (29)
38) LoZ: LA
39) ToS (32)
40) GTAIII (55)
41) FFIV
42) StarCraft
43) D2 (43)
44) FFIX (27)
45) RE2
46) Okami (57)
47) Paper Mario (77)
48) Halo 1 (46)
49) SMG1 (64)
50) BioShock (54)
51) ME1 (86)
52) KotOR (50)
53) SotN
54) CC (85)
55) GTA: SA (40)
56) FFXII (31)
57) Halo 3 (58)
58) SFIV (90)
59) MMX
60) RE1
61) HL1
62) Sonic 1
63) MM3
64) TF2 (102)
65) Super Metroid
66) SMK
67) SMW2
68) SF64
69) Sonic 2
70) CoD4 (48)
71) GTA: VC (44)
72) SFII
73) WoW (37)
74) Halo 2 (48)
75) LBP (96)
76) Tetris
77) GTAIV (52)
78) Sonic 3
79) DKC1
80) Doom
81) MM2
82) SC1
83) Morrowind (73)
84) FF1
85) Gears of War 1 (75)
86) FE7 (94)
87) Battletoads
88) Earthbound
89) L4D1 (70)
90) Pokemon DPP (71)
91) Pac-Man
92) MK2
93) Xenogears
94) Perfect Dark (95)
95) P4 (90)
96) Phoenix Wright 1 (83)
97) KSS
98) Metroid 1
99) SoM
100) DKC2
101) Oregon Trail
102) Deus Ex (103)
103) Disgaea (75)
104) SH2 (104)

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ZenOfThunder posted...
chris redfield

dem beefy arms

mmmmmm

Deceptively skinny > Beefy

Also an awesome voice helps. Leon and Kerrigan have that. Samus only has that in my imagination.

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What's up with you, LMS? You find Power Suit Samus to be sexier than Zero Suit Samus? If you're attracted by robots (or robotic suits, for that matter) then Master Chief >>>>> Suit Samus.

Oh wait, you think KERRIGAN is sexy? So, you think Sindel is sexy too?

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Oh great, now not only does Link win again, Ganondorf wins, too.

Worst contest ever.

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Oh god, new GameFAQs contest announced.

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Is this.. tag team?

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From: FateStayAlbion | #264
Is this.. tag team?

Looks like it.

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I came home just in time!

Link/Ganondorf has to be the favorite, though this may be better-suited for Cloud/Sephiroth than Cloud alone against Link.


Who pairs off with Solid Snake?

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GameFAQS Contests are masters at providing solutions to problems that don't exist.

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Solid Snake vs. Big Boss or Liquid, either one.

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Will Magus make Frog choke or will Frog make Magus win a close match?
This is important, guys.

Link vs. Dark Link!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh man, Frog vs. Magus, the ultimate team

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Einstein/Hitler

Both have fictional video game versions!

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Any advantage Cloud/Sephiroth might have in a tag team format might be lessened by the phrasing of the teams as "rivalries." That probably helps out characters from older, long running series.

Hey on the plus side, we'll probably be getting a 1v1 24 hour matches for this contest!

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From: LeonhartFour | #271
Oh man, Frog vs. Magus, the ultimate team

'sold'

Who do we pair up with Crono though? Lavos?


Also, we're doing Alucard/Dracula, are we not? It's just too fitting.

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Who do we pair up with Crono though? Lavos?

Dalton or Queen Zeal

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Oh right, forgot about another one. Captain Falcon: does he come with Blood Falcon or somebody else?

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Here is a full list of the known rivalries that currently exist in the GameFAQs Nomination Suggestion Database:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFdYeXoxbmcyYjJnMEZLYmhsTzFWS0E

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Squall/Seifer represent

Remember to nom that!

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Wait, so you can have multiple rivalries with the same character?

Joke nom process for a joke contest confirmed.

Link Vs. Ganondorf Vs. Link Vs. Vaati for the Final 4 or something ridiculous like that.

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From: LOLContests | #279
Wait, so you can have multiple rivalries with the same character?

The rules say that only one rivalry will get chosen.

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So which block is L-block's rival?

L Block vs Z Block

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I guess this means we can pretty much throw all of our NRT winners out the window.

Or do we expand them to a rivalry, like (Seifer/Squall, Morrigan/Demitri?, Otacon/?, Squirtle/?,)

Also ,I hate how Bahamut doesn't really have a rival... Would Bahamut/Alexander count? The Bahamut vs Alexander scene in FFIX is pretty awesome.

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I guess we'll just have to toss the NRT results.

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We can't save it for next time?

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

They'll be two years old by the time we get a new contest. At that point, it'd probably be better just to redo them.

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I changed pants after a shower.

I need to change em again.

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Bacon is going crazy with adding new rivalries to the database. When I posted a link to a list of known rivalries that the nomination form recognizes, I only had about 25 rivalries listed. Now there's a total of 66 in the database.

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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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I think Squall/Seifer works. Who is a better rival for Squall?

The rest though.. meh. Maybe Squirtle/charmander?

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Squall/Seifer is better than Squall/Ultimecia.

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why is X vs Sigma in over X vs Zero?

Naked Snake / The Boss is a good one that probably won't be nominated enough. Snake / Liquid will top Snake / Big Boss.

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wow, how is this topic not up to 500 yet.

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Vote for this guy in every contest: ZFS

The nomination process for this is so weird. Could be a cool contest though!

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

Bad contest idea doesn't inspire much conversation.

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Really stupid contest, should have at least expanded the rivals part (Sonic/Mario would be killer). Time for joke noms!

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Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever
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Once the bracket comes around, the topic will be moving really fast. Not really sure what to think of it right now

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FateStayAlbion posted...
I think Squall/Seifer works. Who is a better rival for Squall?

The rest though.. meh. Maybe Squirtle/charmander?

I thought of Charizard/Blastoise, but people seem to be bigger on Red VS Blue.

Yeah, this is a pretty silly idea. Hard to say much about it until there's a bracket!

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I nominated Zard/Blastoise and was a bit sad to see it wasn't recognised yet.

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