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mnkboy907
03/20/17 7:13:03 PM
#102:


I get the feeling the match pics alone will decide it. I don't imagine most voters will actually bother to look at whatever lists or write ups will be provided (at least not before they vote), so whatever games they can easily see in the pictures will be what decides their vote. Which means predictions could be kinda hard without knowing which games will be most visible in the pics.
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Nanis23
03/20/17 7:21:59 PM
#103:


LeonhartFour posted...
this is what happens when Allen tries to create a "rally-proof" contest I guess

I don't find this interesting at all. It's too broad of an idea and I don't really care about what year a game came out, but I'm fine with it as long as it's a Villains/Series Contest and we're getting another one later this year

Pretty much this
90% of the reason I don't care about Soccer is because I don't care about any team so the excitement of seeing the team you root for is winning is gone
Like, who the hell cares about years
I like Majora's mask, does it mean I care if 2000 wins? No I don't give a shit because it might win due to other game and it means nothing

Well at least this is why it's a rally free contest which is good, but still
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On_The_Pence
03/20/17 7:29:01 PM
#104:


I'm guessing the tiebreaker is going to determine the top 10-15 spots, yes?
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Xuxon
03/20/17 7:42:46 PM
#105:


you guys are naive if you think that means it will be rally-free. i half-expect 2016 to win for reasons completely unrelated to games.
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profDEADPOOL
03/20/17 7:47:57 PM
#106:


Xuxon posted...
you guys are naive if you think that means it will be rally-free. i half-expect 2016 to win for reasons completely unrelated to games.

Oh god I can even see the logic which will be used to explain that rally
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GranzonEx
03/20/17 7:49:30 PM
#107:


Contest ruined yet?
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LeonhartFone
03/20/17 7:56:50 PM
#108:


I'm not saying people won't try. I'm saying this is probably Allen's rationale for running this particular contest.
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03/20/17 8:04:02 PM
#109:


Yeah, individually I'm just gonna vote for whichever year had the bigger games for me personally. But say my favorite game came out in 2005, I can't see myself saying "oh man I hope 2005 wins its all, I'm gonna root for it in every match". It's hard to get emotionally attached to something broad and abstract like a year.
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swirIdude
03/20/17 8:18:11 PM
#110:


abdou posted...
This can't be worse than 2011's rivalry contest. To me that was by far the least exciting contest we have had.


You are now manually realizing that Rivalry Rumble was the last contest with good votals.
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LusterSoldier
03/20/17 8:37:52 PM
#111:


mnkboy907 posted...
I get the feeling the match pics alone will decide it. I don't imagine most voters will actually bother to look at whatever lists or write ups will be provided (at least not before they vote), so whatever games they can easily see in the pictures will be what decides their vote. Which means predictions could be kinda hard without knowing which games will be most visible in the pics.


I hope we can get voting interface that looks very similar to this interface from the previous contest:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151215113000/http://www.gamefaqs.com/

I am assuming we're going to get 1 match per day for the entire contest. If that is the case, I think we need to have the same voting interface shown in the archived page I linked to above so we can have match pictures large enough to properly depict the major games from both years in the match.
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Forceful_Dragon
03/20/17 10:40:44 PM
#113:


Tag, im pretty excited for this.
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spooky96
03/20/17 11:53:28 PM
#114:


This is depressing AF, hopefully we'll get a real contest at the end of this year or early 2018.
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Cheeze_E_Breath
03/21/17 12:12:06 AM
#115:


A contest for best year in gaming? Seriously? What's next? A contest for the best food item in a video game? Sorry, but this idea is really stupid.

2016 is gonna win by the way. Overwatch fanboys are gonna be all over this.
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Ngamer64
03/21/17 7:31:19 AM
#116:


Interesting choice, this isn't an option I'd ever considered but it could make for a decent enough mini-bracket in the "GameFAQs Spring Contest" tradition. Thanks for making it happen SB!

Now that being said, as for seeding... 1993 vs 1994 and so forth would be awful, but I also wouldn't want to see a whole bracket of 1985 vs 2016, 1986 vs 2015 etc etc. Could we do something simple like taking the 5 most-owned games from each year (based on the My Games data) and seeding the entrants by their average GameFAQs user score? I'd think that would do a good job of putting a rough enough estimate on strengths to ensure the later rounds would be competitive and hard to predict.


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PrivateBiscuit1
03/21/17 9:51:35 AM
#117:


I hate to be a downer, but this contest idea does absolutely nothing for me.
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Surskit
03/21/17 2:27:57 PM
#118:


y'all should start making predictions taking Birthday Factor into account tbh. so many people won't give a single crap what games are in there and just vote for their birth year.

1990-1996 will be strong. Birthday Factor + Nostalgia = $$$
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HaRRicH
03/21/17 2:34:57 PM
#119:


That's why I think we need to watch out for 2009-rallies from 4chan.
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Metal_DK
03/21/17 2:48:28 PM
#121:


1998 > 2001 > 1995 > 1994 > 1997 > 1999

2007 sadly will do well
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pjbasis
03/21/17 3:00:14 PM
#123:


Surskit posted...
y'all should start making predictions taking Birthday Factor into account tbh. so many people won't give a single crap what games are in there and just vote for their birth year.

1990-1996 will be strong. Birthday Factor + Nostalgia = $$$


That's stupid. Who is seriously gonna vote for a year of games because they were born in it? Chances are they didn't even play those games then.
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HaRRicH
03/21/17 3:27:29 PM
#124:


Do you think system-releases will matter here? If so, 2000 swings a heavy bat with the PS2 and popular LoZ/Pokemon/FF games.
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tennisboy213
03/21/17 3:44:48 PM
#125:


they will matter if they are in the match pics/writeups

I think they should be
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HaRRicH
03/21/17 4:22:09 PM
#126:


So...we got a new issue here: the Guru nomination.

I take it there will be no nominations for this contest, right? Then whoever won last time (DpObliVion?) doesn't get to nominate anything this time. Either a substitute could be held for him ("vote for 1996!"), or we have two Guru noms for the next contest after this contest is finished.
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ctesjbuvf
03/21/17 5:00:04 PM
#128:


HaRRicH posted...
So...we got a new issue here: the Guru nomination.

I take it there will be no nominations for this contest, right? Then whoever won last time (DpObliVion?) doesn't get to nominate anything this time. Either a substitute could be held for him ("vote for 1996!"), or we have two Guru noms for the next contest after this contest is finished.


This has been discussed quite a bit already actually. Pretty much everyone seems to agree that we have two Guru noms next contest.
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HaRRicH
03/21/17 5:26:19 PM
#129:


Oh, cool...must have overlooked the Guru-discussion.



GOATTHlEF posted...
HaRRicH posted...
That's why I think we need to watch out for 2009-rallies from 4chan.


What happened in 2009 sandshrew?


I'm making fun of 4chan here.
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LeonhartFour
03/21/17 5:55:58 PM
#130:


HaRRicH posted...
Oh, cool...must have overlooked the Guru-discussion.


again because you have Ulti on ignore

you might have to temporarily lift that if you don't want to miss some contest discussion
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swirIdude
03/21/17 8:02:53 PM
#131:


LeonhartFour posted...
HaRRicH posted...
Oh, cool...must have overlooked the Guru-discussion.


again because you have Ulti on ignore

you might have to temporarily lift that if you don't want to miss some contest discussion


Or get the URL from someone and bookmark it.
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On_The_Pence
03/21/17 8:19:27 PM
#132:


That's the best part about ulti's trolling. You literally can't ignore him if you want to fully experience the board.
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LeonhartFour
03/21/17 8:27:02 PM
#133:


swirIdude posted...
Or get the URL from someone and bookmark it.


except he's not going to know when a discussion is being had that he wants to be part of
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OrangeCrush980
03/21/17 8:41:58 PM
#134:


What's going to happen to DpObliVion's guru nomination? Does it get delayed to the next contest and then there'll be 2 guru noms?
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LusterSoldier
03/21/17 9:23:35 PM
#135:


OrangeCrush980 posted...
What's going to happen to DpObliVion's guru nomination? Does it get delayed to the next contest and then there'll be 2 guru noms?


This has been discussed in the contest stats topic. There was some consensus that Dp's Guru pick would get delayed to the next contest, while the Guru winner of this contest would get a Guru pick that would be used towards the same contest that Dp will use his Guru pick. The next contest (after this one) would have 2 Guru noms.
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Ngamer64
03/21/17 10:02:02 PM
#136:


Yes let's double up.
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gearofages
03/21/17 10:13:05 PM
#137:


WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game and Batman Forever came out in 1995, so this "contest" is just a formality. It'll be interesting to see what gets #2, I guess.
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Haste_2
03/22/17 1:33:22 AM
#138:


SBAllen, please don't forget about Best. Quote. Ever!
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LIsJustice
03/22/17 12:42:27 PM
#139:


Best Pokemon Ever contest next plz.
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LazyKenny
03/22/17 3:16:50 PM
#140:


I'm gonna have 1998 winning the entire thing in my bracket because OoT (11/23/98)
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Raka_Putra
03/22/17 4:24:21 PM
#141:


Oh wow, didn't expect this to be the next contest. Sounds pretty interesting though.
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03/22/17 5:49:53 PM
#142:


Now that people have had time to reflect on the contest, are most people in agreement that the majority of matches will be decided by the pictures alone?
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OrangeCrush980
03/22/17 6:07:35 PM
#143:


The majority of matches will be decided by how close the year is to 1998. The closest year wins.
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jonthomson
03/23/17 4:26:55 AM
#144:


whichever year had super metroid wins
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FlyingForever
03/23/17 1:41:50 PM
#145:


Yay
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LeonhartFour
03/23/17 4:41:05 PM
#146:


OrangeCrush980 posted...
The majority of matches will be decided by how close the year is to 1998. The closest year wins.


what happens with 1997 vs. 1999
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charmander6000
03/23/17 5:14:31 PM
#147:


1999 wins due to being closer to Ocarina of Time.
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MoogleKupo141
03/23/17 7:18:00 PM
#148:


'97 wins for FFVII

'99 was a dumb year filled with Y2K panic, no games even came out that year other than CD-ROM versions of game shows
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Zylothewolf
03/23/17 8:11:57 PM
#149:


LeonhartFour posted...
OrangeCrush980 posted...
The majority of matches will be decided by how close the year is to 1998. The closest year wins.


what happens with 1997 vs. 1999


http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/(1)Cloud_Strife_vs_(4)Squall_Leonhart_2004
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SSJ Link
03/23/17 9:46:18 PM
#150:


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Big Bob
03/24/17 5:07:10 PM
#151:


The Mana Sword posted...
can we get an entry for the first quarter of 2017? because it's probably better than a lot of the full years in this!

Yeah, really. It's not even April and you could make a Top 10 list.
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