Board 8 > The Show EP 5 - DK Amazes, Phoenix Survives, Sora Tumbles. Best of R2 w/ ExTha!

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Ness is a dork
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ExTha - "i wanna get the tip"
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They're just into you Yo
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Is this conversation about self pleasure?
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Ngamer lives in the woods huh
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Osmosis Jones was decent
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Missed a day on Oracle because too many matches too quick
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Star: DK
Turd: Allen for the Captain Toad debacle
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Some of them were Crazy Hand
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Big Boss is a big number 2 apparently
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Maybe Allen likes work
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Fox beat Pikachu in 2002 didn't he yeah
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Blue > Yellow

Imagine if Pikachu was Blue
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Pikachu now has Detective Pikachu trailer
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Kirby > Crono is looking more likely all the time
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Tifa is all natural
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Oddish vs Geodude
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Oh god can we not do an all Pokemon bracket.

All Pokemon The Show
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All 800 Pokemon

1v1

1 match a day
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Zelda is The Man
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Zelda also got Dat Ass
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I thought Quiet was from some VN and never looked back.
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Zelda > Snake anyone?

AHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S CAPTAIN TOAD

Not Toad
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Because Mario and Link don't talk
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Great episode.

9/10
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RPGlord95 posted...

All 800 Pokemon

1v1

1 match a day

kill me

that contest would take two full years I think
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made this one with LeonhartFour in mind <3
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Zen, your gifs/videos are the gift that keep on giving
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LOL
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RPGlord95 posted...

Fox beat Pikachu in 2002 didn't he yeah

No that was 2003, you and yo fell into the same trap!

Time for a bold prediction: this will be the closest day in GameFAQs history!

(in terms of average wins)

(out of all the days with 4 matches)

Only thing that would shock me would be Subby > Auron, and with how uneven FF has been even that wouldn't make my top five for most stunning results so far.


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Ngamer64 posted...

Only thing that would shock me would be

Zelda being stronger than half the noble nine?
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Yes I must admit, even as the #2 driver of the BotW Bus, this one has me well and shocked!


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What's the best ExTha podcast?
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ZenOfThunder posted...

dude... *claps*
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Nothing quite as thrilling as being taken completely out of context
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i apologized in another topic!
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After posting it everywhere you could
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ZenOfThunder posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lmM2PTrV0Q" data-time="

made this one with LeonhartFour in mind <3

Thanks for destroying my ears :I
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Leon I post my gifs in the same 4 topics every time i post one
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Yes I am aware of your M.O.

Doesn't make it not suck for me though
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i dunno if anyone is specifically laughing at you though, i'm not, that was one of two pics i had in the archive of you actually talking about Zelda and I thought it was funny that it will be one month tomorrow that you made that post and had the "waiting" bit in it, it lined up too good
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BTW I did tell y'all that Aeris was gonna put the boots to Fox.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

BTW I did tell y'all that Aeris was gonna put the boots to Fox.

Truth, great call there.
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Here's a post that I think would be worth discussing on the next episode of The Show:

AxemRedRanger posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/955-east-division-round-1-solid-snake-vs-squall-leonhart
This is how Squall performed before KH1 released. With how bad KH has looked, there may be a good reason why FF decline is hurting Squall way more than most other FF characters.

(really hoping KH3 is good!)

There is a good point to be made here, as Squall, Cloud, and Sephiroth are 3 notable FF characters that boosted like crazy with the release of the original Kingdom Hearts. The game helped introduce these characters to a lot of people who weren't familiar with them through their original appearances in the Final Fantasy games. Squall and Sephiroth (and maybe Cloud later on) looking so terrible this year may be related to the same reason that Sora and Riku have looked so bad in this contest.
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For real though, I love this Contest so much. We can discuss it on the next episode but want to try to sort through my thoughts first...

I feel like every previous season the game has been to feel out the dominant trend in the first couple rounds. If you could do that, dominating the Oracle and Spread down the home stretch became a piece of cake. The site's Square crazy, now Nintendo's on the rebound, now casuals have taken over, now casuals have disappeared and the SNES/PSX are king, this year it's all about rallies and counter-rallies, etc.

And sure, Nintendo's had a boost across the board in 2018, but this time there's so much more to it than that. It's not just a matter of adjusting the X-Stat values a few points to factor in the big trend and calling it a day; voters are reacting differently to every single matchup, and it's super difficult to know which way they're going to swing. In 2010 you needed to be a mathematician to win the Oracle Challenge- this year you need to be a psychologist!

I'm not saying all Nintendo characters are joined at the hip, or all Smash fighters, or even characters from the same series, but seriously... there's no world in which Ganon's 59 on Chun-Li should be happening a week before Zelda's 63 on Squall. This is well beyond "Final Fantasy sucks this year" (no it doesn't, look what happened to Mewtwo and Fox!) or "Pokemon is having a resurgence" (Charizard barely outperformed 2B!) or "the character closer to 1998 always overperforms" or any of the other simplified explanations we'd always have used in the past.

We've seen x-stats defying trends near the end of more recent brackets that we dubbed "smart voters." That made sense- with votals cut to a quarter of what they once were, the people remaining seemed to know the expected results and occasionally they'd vote against those expectations to make things more interesting. Something like that could explain the results for Chun-Li ("I'm sure Ganon's save so I can afford to throw SF2 a bone") versus Dante ("this should be close so no funny business, got to make sure Zelda wins this time"). But it fails to account for why there's suddenly a huge gap between Pikachu and Charizard/Mewtwo that never existed before, or why Auron and Tifa and Vivi look the same as ever but Squall and Kefka got smoked, or what the heck happened to Leon.

It's more than just match pictures, more than the normal rise and fall of companies and series, more than just smart voters, more than just nostalgia, more than just who looked cool in the latest trailers. There must be some kind of formula we could apply to these matchups... but so far I can't quite wrap my head around what it could be. And that's really fun!

EDIT - Okay, just came up with a theory that might explain EVERYTHING. But I'll save it for when we're live!
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Oh god I am hype
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Ngamer64 posted...

I'm not saying all Nintendo characters are joined at the hip, or all Smash fighters, or even characters from the same series, but seriously... there's no world in which Ganon's 59 on Chun-Li should be happening a week before Zelda's 63 on Squall.

The Chun-Li result on Ganondorf could be explained through some past polls I discovered:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6239-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4828-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3967-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3395-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/840-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/73-

Here's Ryu's percentage on Chun-Li over the history of those polls:

2/12/2016 - 58.15%
8/31/2012 - 63.01%
7/10/2010 - 68.95%
2/15/2009 - 72.56%
3/24/2002 - 73.95%
2/11/2000 - 70.86%

Chun-Li has actually improved her percentage on Ryu over the history of those polls, so maybe we should have seen a Chun-Li boost coming.

Ganondorf got 58.91% on Chun-Li, so using the most recent SF2 character poll projects Ganondorf to put up 50.92% on Ryu. Given how well Ryu has looked this contest, I could totally believe that he is only slightly weaker than Ganondorf. This seems to explain the performance against Chun-Li and also makes Spyro's performance look even more impressive by getting a boost just to keep up with Chun-Li.
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So Geralt is the strongest western character now right?
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