Board 8 > Character Battle X Contest Analysis Crew

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Final Fantasy has been kinda all over the place. Lightning and Vivi looked good at least, but you can attribute Lightning to Chloe just being terrible and uhhh...maybe people think Vivi is a Pokemon or something,
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rpg sff

anyway, it doesnt take much for knuckles to beat zidane. that should have been the favorite pick after sonic mania.
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So far only have gotten Sully wrong. But looks like my matches today are correct! (I have Master Hand vs. Yoshi for this division, okay if that comes true....)
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Yeah, I wish I'd had the confidence to believe in a Sonic Mania boost

but I also needed it not to happen for Squall > Sonic LOL
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man, zero sucks if this holds. would definitely lose to vivi
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And people didn't want to believe that Noctis would be weaker than Balthier.
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To ironically quote hundreds of outraged veterans from early 2005 in the name of making it a rallying cry:

A

F**KING

GLOVE

for a brief second zenofthunder was right
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Personally I like to know why Wario is a low seed and why 2B of all characters is a seed 1 character!
I almost went with Master Hand also.
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Because Wario sucks
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transcience posted...

man, zero sucks if this holds. would definitely lose to vivi

Eh, like I said, Octopath Traveler was well received and has sold pretty well! It's gonna be the Tales of Symphonia of the Switch, probably.

I was kinda skeptical of how big of a blowout Zero was capable of here anyway.
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Seeds mean nothing

People don't bother to nominate characters they feel are guaranteed to make it
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i tried to vote Just Monika
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man, the goddamn glove might actually do it. that's hilarious
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transience posted...

man, the goddamn glove might actually do it. that's hilarious

I'm a big mixture of offended and entertained

Thanks, Master Hand, for making someone who's seen Way Too Many Contests feel some emotion about a result!
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alright wheres my monika rally
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Imagine being trolled by a glove in 2005 then again in 2018.

It's pinned on the DDLC subreddit now. It was up before the last update, but not by much.
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Master Hand vs. Wario who ya got
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I have master hand in my bracket because I refuse to lose to master hand ever again
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master hand cbx champion
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Master Hand vs. Zero, but the day before the match Master Hand gets announced as playable in Ultimate

who ya got
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I have Master Hand losing to Wario.
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it would seem the DDLC reddit is actually filled with Wario fans
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and Knuckles fans
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ya go my Knuckles

like I said I'll gladly lose a point to be wrong about this match
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I knew Knuckles should be the pick and I still picked Zidane in my bracket. there goes my #3 spot

oh well, if this holds I'll be 12/12 in the crew at least
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I'm going 2/4 today and that somehow might end up being better than most do
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Same here. I got MH right and everything. If Monika reverses this I could see myself hitting the leaderboard.

This contest is crazy lol.

I have gotten every single debatable match wrong so far. My bracket sucks this year.
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So why is final fantasy doing...this? Is it just backlash against square being super awful for so long, Sonic Mania reviving the sonic franchise like a phoenix or something else? What do you guys think?
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I still think it could be based on eras more than companies
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

So why is final fantasy doing...this? Is it just backlash against square being super awful for so long, Sonic Mania reviving the sonic franchise like a phoenix or something else? What do you guys think?

Aren't you the guy people scapegoat for the League of Draven?

The last universally liked FF game (8? 9?) is older than the first character battle.

Meanwhile nintendo had highs and lows.

Logience posted...

KanzarisKelshen posted...

So why is final fantasy doing...this? Is it just backlash against square being super awful for so long, Sonic Mania reviving the sonic franchise like a phoenix or something else? What do you guys think?

Aren't you the guy people scapegoat for the League of Draven?

Yes, that's me. Hi!
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Holy shit is my knuckles prediction going to be the most accurate one
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ZeldaTPLink posted...

The last universally liked FF game (8? 9?) is older than the first character battle.

I mean there are no "universally liked" FF games but the last really popular one was FFX

haloiscoolisbak posted...

I still think it could be based on eras more than companies

the older character has won every match so far

could be a repeat of 2015...!
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LeonhartFour posted...

the older character has won every match so far

could be a repeat of 2015...!

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I can't wait for the Pac-Man vs. Donkey Kong final!
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a repeat of 2015 in an alternate universe where rallies don't work like this Monika one isn't working
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LeonhartFour posted...

a repeat of 2015 in an alternate universe where rallies don't work like this Monika one isn't working

Would suddenly justify a lot of my FF7 picks heh

So I'm going with that
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

Logience posted...

KanzarisKelshen posted...

So why is final fantasy doing...this? Is it just backlash against square being super awful for so long, Sonic Mania reviving the sonic franchise like a phoenix or something else? What do you guys think?

Aren't you the guy people scapegoat for the League of Draven?

Yes, that's me. Hi!

Three questions, then:

1: Why are you the one scapegoated instead of just Reddit in general?
2: If you're a longtime user here, how do you not know about FF's waning power in relation to its aging audience?
3: Where is that Ace Attorney LP you did that Solfadore talked about on Board 8 Wiki?

I would love to see Pac-Man win, but I'm afraid Sans will win.

The lowest seed character I had win was Wario.
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LeonhartFour posted...

the older character has won every match so far

save us rat

I came so close to giving the Guest yet another point

Robbed in the last second. I tried!
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well it looks like I was right and they all decided to be consistent and not vote if they couldn't vote for Just Monika...!
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Logience posted...

KanzarisKelshen posted...

Logience posted...

KanzarisKelshen posted...

So why is final fantasy doing...this? Is it just backlash against square being super awful for so long, Sonic Mania reviving the sonic franchise like a phoenix or something else? What do you guys think?

Aren't you the guy people scapegoat for the League of Draven?

Yes, that's me. Hi!

Three questions, then:

1: Why are you the one scapegoated instead of just Reddit in general?
2: If you're a longtime user here, how do you not know about FF's waning power in relation to its aging audience?
3: Where is that Ace Attorney LP you did that Solfadore talked about on Board 8 Wiki?

1) Because I (and a few others) got people onboard with rallying draven in the first place. Reddit just gave votes but we organized the effort.

2) Because age doesn't matter when the demographic remains the same. It'd be explainable if it was new blood voting, but it's not so it's just confusing why swuare is looking significantly weaker.

3) I think it's archived? It purged a long, loooong time ago.
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well my bracket's dead
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@KanzarisKelshen Man you are here! I remember you from that contest when Draven won! Man fun times...So you will stick around for this contest too right?
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Safer_777 posted...

Man you are here! I remember you from that contest when Draven won! Man fun times...So you will stick around for this contest too right?

Yup, I'm here to stay I think. People will have to put up with me a while longer still.
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