Board 8 > Idea: Why not let GF users pick the GOTY for each year...in a contest tournament

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So instead seeing the same characters win every year, we can have an interesting contest that's not easily predictable: the GOTY selection ensures that no game is ever entered twice into a bracket tournament.

It'd be fairly trivial to come up with a shortlist of ~10 potential GOTY candidates (Arkham City, Portal 2, Skyrim, Skyward Sword, ME2, LBP2, GOW3, MW3, etc.); however, it's not clear which of these would win in a 1:1 polling format. And if we were to expand the list to include Tier 2 and Tier 3 games (for example Sonic Generations vs. RAGE), it'd be hard to submit a perfect bracket.

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this actually isn't a bad idea, but I have a feeling it'd have to be for no prize because I doubt allen could get sponsorship for it.

I'd be down though.

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From: X_Dante_X | #002
I have a feeling it'd have to be for no prize because I doubt allen could get sponsorship for it.

why wouldn't he?

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Who needs money when you have karma? I'd be down for it.

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There already is a set of polls for this.

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This idea has been pitched multiple times before, and really should be done, yes.

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not enough good games in a year

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There are easily 64 characters people care about; there are not 64 games that a decent percentage of people care about each year.

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LordoftheMorons posted...
There are easily 64 characters people care about; there are not 64 games that a decent percentage of people care about each year.

right, it would be a 32 or 16 game contest, probably with a vote-in.

Granted, note that last year there were like...over 100 games in the end-of-year polls. This was like 10 on each system, though, including 10 iPhone games, though, so definitely some chaff that you'd want to drop in a 1v1 format.

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From: KingButz | #005
There already is a set of polls for this.

yes, but it's not a full tournament.

From: GuessMyUserName | #008
not enough good games in a year

it doesn't matter.

there aren't enough household-name characters for 64-man tournaments, either.

in fact, it'd be fun to predict the winner amongst two obscure games just because it's not predictable and there are no x-stats to help.

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I would agree because allen forgets some obvious games makes him look silly


Also no crappy catagories either. That way we can have the strongest games competing in the final polls. Red dead and batman got robbed last 2 years from appearing in the final polls.

1v1 format makes sense but not a contest for prizes or karma just a goty contest

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