Board 8 > Character Battle X Oracle Challenge Discussion + Team Sign-Up Topic

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This topic is for discussion of the CBX Oracle Challenge! Here you can discuss the Oracle Challenge without wading through tons of prediction posts. Predictions only count if they are in the prediction topic!

Until the contest starts, you can also sign up for the Team Challenge in this topic. I just need the name of your partner and a team name.

Current Prediction Topic
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests?search=Oracle

ORACLE WEBSITE
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/
(It doesn't really work right now but hopefully it will be fixed soon)
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@SwiftyDC

Let's do it.
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Time to actually think about this contest
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nick and i are Team Vladding Nimmo

i think
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yes
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Menji posted...

@SwiftyDC

Let's do it.

Sure thing @Menji.

For our team name, here are a few suggestions:

D.Va Gina Gang
OG Swaggerdick's
SUMADARTSON (Nostradamus backwards)

One of these is not like the others, but just throwing them out there.
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I'm partial to D.Va Gina Gang
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I guess I need to start thinking about percentages.
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Who wants to be my team buddy? I never do great in these but I try and also can threaten other teams with rage.
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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Who wants to be my team buddy? I never do great in these but I try and also can threaten other teams with rage.

This but I am completely non-threatening.
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Was going to team up with my gf for this, but since I'm helping her with her percentages. I'm worried our guesses would be too similar.

So I guess I'm looking for a partner. I know the 2013 contest really well and have a general idea of some of the previous contests
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I am looking for a team also.
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HOYYYPE!

Also, I'm open to team offers. I don't know squat about characters' stats (my only strength is games), but I'll passionately do my best.
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creativename and I are back for win #4.

Predestined Divination rides again!


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ALSO was there a team competition last year, and if so, do we know who won?
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EVEN MORE ALSO

In exciting news I was able to reach the final Team Results pages on the OC website, despite how they were accidentally set to invisible.

Final result for Game of the Decade: http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k10&type=teamtotal&match=127

Gold for amy and raytan, Silver went to Moltar and DSRage, PD finished 27 points back to earn the Bronze. Not our best result, but at least we held off that powerhouse tran/yoblazer team.

Final result for Rivals: http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k11&type=teamtotal&match=64

Gold for lefty and gitanil, PD earns the Silver (14 pts off the mark), Luster and kawaii took home the Bronze.

I updated the wiki with these results.


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Ngamer64 posted...

ALSO was there a team competition last year, and if so, do we know who won?

Round 35 Team Rankings:
1 - Luster Soldier/tennisboy213 - 3137.96
2 - th3l3fty/ShatteredElysium - 3091.75
3 - Predestined Divination - 3088.63
4 - Frog and Magus - 3057.53
5 - hylianknight3/theawesomestevr - 3046.45
6 - Palace of Wisdom - 3040.2
7 - cyko/LeonhartFour - 3001.95
8 - Team Rocket Elite/whatisurnameplz - 2998.52
9 - DarkAdvoX - 2988.63
10 - Oraclinguists - 2982.28
11 - RA-Dickeyulous THORacle - 2806.83
12 - Ultima Supreme Justice! - 2744.91
13 - XIII_rocks/mcflubbin - 1930.04
14 - Big Bad Steiner Time - 1879.16
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Super duper, okay we've got complete results for everything except Characters 2013 now.

https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Oracle_Challenge
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I am all in and could use a teammate.
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I'm also looking for a teammate as well. I forgot to mention this before but, as usual, anyone who is interested in the team challenge but doesn't have a partner will be randomly paired up at the end. So you can sign up even if you don't have a partner right now.
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I'll wait a couple more days for people to trickle in looking for teams...

here's my AMAZING resume though(lol)


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I'm not picky as far as partners go, but if you have any desire to actually do well at this thing, don't pick me. I'm always middle of the pack in these things.
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I'll team with meche again if he wants to participate, but I'm not sure how often he posts around here these days. If not, I'll partner up with whomever.

SuperNiceDog posted...

I'll wait a couple more days for people to trickle in looking for teams...

here's my AMAZING resume though(lol)

Random question for NGamer of anyone else who might know, but this made me wonder how up to date the User Rankings/Records/User Profile pages are?
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Those pages are automatically generated so they should be as up to date as the rest of the site.
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I THINK everything on the site is now up to date. Everything that was tracked, that is- keep in mind, no 2017 or 2013 data is in the database.


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wow I totally forgot winning last time

Luster I'm willing to team up again to defend our title

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Round 35 Team Rankings:
9 - DarkAdvoX - 2988.63

Totally forgot about this!

The only partner I remember clearly is pj, and that was 8 years ago.
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LeonhartFour posted...

I'm not picky as far as partners go, but if you have any desire to actually do well at this thing, don't pick me. I'm always middle of the pack in these things.

I'd like to team up! But be warned there's a good chance I do something dumb like take Tidus over Leon because I BELIEVE
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Those pages are automatically generated so they should be as up to date as the rest of the site.

Ngamer64 posted...

I THINK everything on the site is now up to date. Everything that was tracked, that is- keep in mind, no 2017 or 2013 data is in the database.

this is slightly incorrect - those pages currently fail to account for the final two matches of the 2011 contest due to the poll numbers of the matches being reversed from the order they ran in for whatever reason, so the only place they're accounted for is in the contest-specific archives

other than that, everything should be fine
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MZero11 posted...

I'd like to team up! But be warned there's a good chance I do something dumb like take Tidus over Leon because I BELIEVE

I mean that's why I'm always middle of the pack so that works for me
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Team Frog and Magus is good to go for another year.
@Glenn_and_Toad
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I've never done this before, but I'll try
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Signing up for Team PD.

Sorry about the broken site guys, that's my fault! My host upgraded me to a new server, broke a bunch of stuff on my the site's on there. Lesson: don't upgrade your server unless you've got a pro admin to handle it...

Would it be possible to get the Excel files or whatever for the missing Oracle challenges that were manually conducted uploaded to the OracleChallenge.com site and added to the menu? (if they aren't on there already, I don't know)

Not sure if anyone kept those records or if those people are still around.

you up for teaming up again, @ShatteredElysium ?

(also, you're the one that ran 2k13, right?)
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Yo @Camden, I may not post much around here anymore but Im always down to participate in the oracle challenge and to team with one of the all-time best!
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th3l3fty posted...

you up for teaming up again, @ShatteredElysium ?

(also, you're the one that ran 2k13, right?)

Sure.

And I ran one, I don't know what year though

I'm on holiday right now but I have all the files on my old laptop so i can try dig them up off that once I'm back in the country

tennisboy213 posted...

wow I totally forgot winning last time

Luster I'm willing to team up again to defend our title

Sure, I'm interested in teaming up with you again since kawaiifan won't be participating in this Oracle Challenge either. I had asked kawaiifan if she would participate (she wasn't interested in the previous contest) and chose to decline this contest as well.

Now if only I can come up with some kind of team name, as all of the suggestions prior to the start of the last contest sucked.
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I'm in, and currently shopping for a teammate

pros: I was on the leaderboard 1 day
I always trust my heart
I'm great

cons: NGamer is secretly in love with me so he may try to sabotage you
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That's the definition of an open secret!

TRE has all the Oracle data for 2017, maybe Morgoth could get it into the database if he e-mailed it over?

Sounds like SE could get him the 2013 files in a couple weeks, that will be more tricky to put in the database though because it's never been set up to work with 3 way results.


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RoseChevalier posted...

I'm in, and currently shopping for a teammate

pros: I was on the leaderboard 1 day
I always trust my heart
I'm great

cons: NGamer is secretly in love with me so he may try to sabotage you

(psst NG or KM or whomever has the keys to the site, plz change my name on there to RoseChevalier)
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LeonhartFour posted...

MZero11 posted...

I'd like to team up! But be warned there's a good chance I do something dumb like take Tidus over Leon because I BELIEVE

I mean that's why I'm always middle of the pack so that works for me

Great! Now we just need a sweet team name

I was thinking of a FF8/10 related name and came up with "Maybe I'm a Blitzball"

We could also go with Mewtwo is a fraud because I concur
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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Who wants to be my team buddy? I never do great in these but I try and also can threaten other teams with rage.

@DoomTheGyarados

Ready to do this?
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MZero11 posted...

We could also go with Mewtwo is a fraud because I concur

let's do it
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I'm fine to team up with whoever
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Ngamer64 posted...

That's the definition of an open secret!

TRE has all the Oracle data for 2017, maybe Morgoth could get it into the database if he e-mailed it over?

Sounds like SE could get him the 2013 files in a couple weeks, that will be more tricky to put in the database though because it's never been set up to work with 3 way results.

3-way looks doable too, send everything you have my way...

Best Year In Gaming individual results are here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BbnK6f63pQRv6bvE-mgOr4_Yx48Yt_UCWL12AFMGJI8/edit?usp=sharing
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linkhatesganon posted...

I'm fine to team up with whoever

@linkhatesganon you wanna team up? Were on the same team in Smfffc so might as well carry it over
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KingMorgoth posted...

3-way looks doable too, send everything you have my way...

With the 3-way format in 2013, we had to come up with a new scoring system and this was a subject of an open discussion before being finalized. This turned out to be fairly simple to do since only one character from each 3-way match would move onto the next round, meaning we could keep the 5 point penalty from the 1v1 contests for failing to predict the winner. This was the final scoring system decided on for 3-ways:

You will earn (50-p)-(x+y+z)/3 points

Where p is a 5 point penalty if you failed to predict the correct winner.
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Who wants to make some miracles?

@mcflubbin
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LusterSoldier posted...

KingMorgoth posted...

3-way looks doable too, send everything you have my way...

With the 3-way format in 2013, we had to come up with a new scoring system and this was a subject of an open discussion before being finalized. This turned out to be fairly simple to do since only one character from each 3-way match would move onto the next round, meaning we could keep the 5 point penalty from the 1v1 contests for failing to predict the winner. This was the final scoring system decided on for 3-ways:

You will earn (50-p)-(x+y+z)/3 points

Where p is a 5 point penalty if you failed to predict the correct winner.

So everyone makes three predictions per match?