Board 8 > The Show EP6 - Red/Ryu! Dante/Sora! Samus/Bosses! (about time) w/ Leon + Big Bob

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What do you get when you take Thanksgiving break plus Skyward Sword plus Uncharted 3? If your answer was "a hastily thrown together episode of The Show", you're right!

http://board8.speedrunwiki.com/interviews/theshow/20111127-TheShowEP06.mp3

42 consecutive polls without a single upset or close match has certainly been a bummer... but there's light at the end of the tunnel, as this week we finally had some debated matches to preview! Analysis superstar Leon hopped on board on short notice to make some predictions, and he was joined by Show newcomer Big Bob who also provided some keen insight.

If you're wondering where to go with your Battle brackets and Oracle picks in the coming 10 days, this episode will hit the spot!

ROUND THREE FEVER
- (but first talk a little about R2's Sora/Dante)
- X/Subby
- Fighters/Trainers
- Samus/Bosses

STARS AND TURDS of Thanksgiving week

111 PERFECT BATTLERS REMAIN
- quick advice for Alucard/Phoenix and Frog/GlaDOS

BREAKING NEWS
- votals have officially hit below-2002 levels of suck!
- but why? and can GameFAQs Contests be saved?

Enjoy!

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listening now
love the theme song always

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Leon!!! Ngamer is really pushing my buttons these days.

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I see

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From: UltimaterializerX | #004
You have Leon on the show twice before I'm on once?

LOL NLAMER

Get on my level.

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For some reason I associate Pipit from Skyward Sword with Yoblazer. I thought he should know.

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UGH, such a great picture, but SB uploaded it too late to make The Show.



Personally I'd have gone with the Jeopardy angle, but still, great stuff.

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Don't get why people are debating Sora/Dante. Seems like an easy win for Sora. It feels like we're just so bored with this that we need to look for any plausible sounding upset and went with this one. Still, maybe The Show will convince me otherwise!

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Jeopardy picture's been done before.

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but I meant I'd like to see it citing this line specifically- as in "miserable pile of secrets" being displayed as the answer and Alucard's podium lit up because he just buzzed in.

(Forgot about L-Block in a tie, heh!)

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That wasn't even the first Jeopardy style match pic!

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Preparing some remarks beforehand will help with that!

...Something I need to start doing as well!

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LeonhartFour posted...
That wasn't even the first Jeopardy style match pic!

Whaaaa? *looks*



What the heck, who knew L-Block was such a trivia mastermind.

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Squall winning with $2007. The other guys are doing so poorly that their scores can't even be represented with numbers!

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Finally got around to listening to this.

UltimaterializerX | Posted 11/28/2011 7:32:50 PM | message detail
Without listening yet, votals for game of the decade were just fine. The site may be shrinking, but a good contest will put asses in seats and this is not a good contest.

Going by the average votals for the night matches in Game of the Decade, the average votals would be about 73569 (factoring in the 24-hour matches as well) for the entire contest. Regular POTDs from September 1st to October 19th (the day before the contest started) had average votals of 62615, so Game of the Decade was bringing in the votes and more site traffic as well.

Game of the Decade was still slightly better than the 2002 contest, which had an average of 68353, although that average is heavily skewed by the later rounds getting a huge spike in votals.


As for yoblazer mentioning the Alexa rankings for this site, he's right about all these hot games increasing site traffic, but it has not translated into higher votals for this contest. The low point was in late September, right around when Gears of War 3 was released. The traffic rank came close to falling down to about 1300 at one point, but it has remained above 700 most of the time during the past 15 days.

There is one problem with using these Alexa graphs. The Alexa graphs and traffic rankings are based off the people who use the Alexa Toolbar, so the traffic rankings are based off of a very small subset of the entire internet population.

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The Bosses will beat Samus easily. Chris/Wesker is a classic, well-known rivalry, and the Bosses beat them handily. Samus just looked pathetic against Kefka.

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I'd like to think that Chrisker would 55/45 Terfka.

Not really feelin' it though. I guess it's possible that Terfa and Tidecht are equal, but eh.

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Big Bob is a wise man about the trainers .... but winning it all I dunno

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From: Whiskey_Nick | #023
Ugh dat Leon, he is no RPGlord

And we're all thankful for that.

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Yo's live reaction to Pokemon 80% against Luigi on We Came to Play was excellent

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Yeah that is right, the Charizard/Blastoise pic factor bring it up without mentioning me. Ngamer is so jealous of me.

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Red/Blue to the final four.

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Ngamer and Leon such close friends, and doubting Pokemon

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Pokefear hmmmm

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Trainers will 60-40 Ryu/Ken at least

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RPGLord making himself look sillier with every comment

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ah now here is some advice I can use, Sora/Dante is a toss up ... convince me Show, convince me

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Ratchet? Like the tool?

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*adds RPGLord to hit list*

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Bring it Leon

Also your advice on Sora vs. Dante is best

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X/Zero will wipe the floor with the ninjas

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Naturally

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oh good everyone agrees. Was worried Ngamer would go all Ninja hype

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I would still say Samus is a sure thing, but it is going to be way closer than I would have ever expected when the bracket came out.

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Ngamer hates Samus so much, his fury towards her is relentless

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Star: Pokemon Trainers
Turd: WAAAAAAAAAALuigi

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yeah Kirby was a pretty big turd

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If you think that the '09 games contest is any indication of rivalry strength, we might be looking at a the trainers pulling at least a 60-40 over the fighters. It's kinda hard to tell one way or the other, but RBY is just so incredibly popular, and if we consider nintendofaqs and rpgfaqs, any faith I had in the fighters before their round two match is pretty much dead at this point.

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From: Greyfeld | #044
If you think that the '09 games contest is any indication of rivalry strength

And I don't!

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and he let Yoblazer loose on a Link rant. Here we go *popcorn*

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Phoenix winning with that board vote

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how coincidental that the match starts as The Show talks about it on my listen

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Frog/Magus > this match confirmed

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