Board 8 > The Show EP 05 - 1995/2000's pic-screwed controversy & Finals Preview w/ KP!

(+) Yeah! (+)

I for one am going to vote for UnderDraven to bring back the ButtFurious
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Whiskey_Nick posted...

oh god

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The best part is if Allen himself rallied Undertale and League of Legends fans on reddit and Tumblr and other places
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Ngamer, make sure you talk about the bonus match on the next episode of The Show.
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Ngamer, I don't care if you talk about the bonus match
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Gosh now I'm getting mixed signals...

Anyway incredible news gang, they said it couldn't be done but we've pulled it off- over 20,000 votes in a Contest match!


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Ngamer64 posted...

Anyway incredible news gang, they said it couldn't be done but we've pulled it off- over 20,000 votes in a Contest match!

Still a bit of an embarrassment that this final match is going to get less votes than this GotY poll from earlier this year:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6576-

Although it's worth noting that poll was rallied on both the FFXV board and the Pokemon Sun/Moon board, leading to some inflated vote totals.
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Luster do we have a wiki entry for those numbers you ran earlier this year, Contest vote totals versus the average PotD totals for the rest of that year?
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Ngamer64 posted...

Luster do we have a wiki entry for those numbers you ran earlier this year, Contest vote totals versus the average PotD totals for the rest of that year?

We do not. In a past Stats Topic, I calculated numbers for every single contest and made a post showing the boost in vote totals for every single contest compared to the non-contest vote totals prior to the start of the contest.

I won't be able to dig up this information for you until TRE updates his stats topic archive again.
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Alright Ngamer, here's some good information for you:

I went back through all of the previous contests, calculated their average vote totals and then compared them to the non-contest vote totals around the time each contest started. For contests with 12 hour matches, they were adjusted based on what they would likely have received in a full 24 hours. Contests that featured a heavy amount of rallying had the rallied matches filtered out to obtain more accurate estimates of the average vote totals for the contest. For all practical purposes, I was not concerned with providing the exact percentages down to 2 decimal places, so the percentages listed below are all whole numbers.

The full list of every contest so far and how much higher the vote totals were compared to the non-contest vote totals:

Best Year in Gaming - 17%
Best Game Ever 2015 - 100%
Character Battle 2013 - 16%
Rivalry Rumble - 3%
Game of the Decade - 16%
Character Battle 2010 - 21%
Best Game Ever 2009 - 27%
Character Battle 2008 - 43%
Character Battle 2007 - 51%
Character Battle 2006 - 40%
Best Series Ever - 51%
Character Battle 2005 - 60%
Villains Contest - 37%
Character Battle 2004 - 63%
Best Game Ever 2004 - 47%
Character Batlte 2003 - 105%
Character Battle 2002 - 137%

The first 2 contests were both extremely massive vote draws, bringing in slightly more than twice the vote totals of the non-contest polls prior to the start of their respective contests. From 2004 to 2008, the contests were less effective in bringing in votes (only 35-65% higher than non-contest polls). After 2008, the contests began losing their effectiveness in drawing in votes (less than a 30% boost in vote totals), with the Rivalry Rumble as the worst contest with only 3% higher vote totals compared to non-contest polls.

Out of nowhere, the BGE 2015 contest completely reversed this trend and had a boost in vote totals comparable to the first 2 contests. However, when we were only averaging about 20000 votes in the non-contest polls prior to the start of the contest, the 100% boost in vote totals for the BGE 2015 contest only brought us up to 40000 votes.

The Best Year in Gaming contest did not have anywhere close to the same boost in vote totals of the BGE 2015 contest. The Best Year in Gaming contest had vote totals that were only 17% better than our non-contest polls.
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What's Underbrauen?
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The Final Episode has hit the streets, jump for joy!

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75382450


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