Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1323

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Some voters like chaos, rallies, upsets, and/or just making people mad, that's why!

Draven and Undertale's contest wins also likely inspired a few contest followers to check their games out that probably wouldn't have done so otherwise.
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I'm sure some of it is bracket votes too. I mean look at the number of people that got those matches wrong. Draven was predicted to win by like 28% of people and Sans 47%

AxemRedRanger posted...

Some voters like chaos, rallies, upsets, and/or just making people mad, that's why!

Draven and Undertale's contest wins also likely inspired a few contest followers to check their games out that probably wouldn't have done so otherwise.

Even if these characters had a 100% rate of disapproval on Board 8 (and they don't, sans is actually really awesome), it's important to note that there are more registered users that remember Draven and Undertale but don't necessarily come here.
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Back to the sad POTD vote totals
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The disappointing thing is that we didn't get an age poll in 2018, which is the first year without an age poll since 2008.
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I wonder if we will have a GOTD contest, will any of the games get a rally? The only one I think is maybe Deltarune if it is out by the end of the next year but even this is a slim chance.
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So you people that keep bringing up Deltarune, have none of you read the designer's comments about the game? We'll be lucky if that game makes the 2020's GotD contest.
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Oh I see. Well no rallies then. BOTW wins.
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Allen made a serious screw up in this poll:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7459-

Allen forgot to change the fourth option to say "2019" instead of "2018", and yet the option is somehow pulling in over 3% despite this error.
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LusterSoldier posted...

Allen made a serious screw up in this poll:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7459-

Allen forgot to change the fourth option to say "2019" instead of "2018", and yet the option is somehow pulling in over 3% despite this error.

It's the Xbone poll - no one noticed or cared about the error.

I suggest you tell Allen about the error, then track the voting trends before and after the year changes.
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It's not possible to alert Allen to the error before the poll ends because he is on Christmas vacation right now. By the time he sees this, it will be near the start of 2020.
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LusterSoldier posted...

It's not possible to alert Allen to the error before the poll ends because he is on Christmas vacation right now. By the time he sees this, it will be near the start of 2020.

one hell of a vacation
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Safer_777 posted...

I wonder if we will have a GOTD contest, will any of the games get a rally? The only one I think is maybe Deltarune if it is out by the end of the next year but even this is a slim chance.

The next GotD contest will feature the lowest average game strength we've ever seen in a contest. With the right round 1 match, any game with serious rally potential can build up rally momentum against nearly every single game in the bracket unless they're going up against one of the juggernauts like Skyrim, Smash Ultimate, or BotW in round 1. There are probably less than 15 games that could technically stop a game from building up rally momentum in round 1, especially when we will probably see even lower vote totals for this contest due to the site not playing as many of the games in the bracket.
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Theres no point whatsoever in running a gotd contest. No other game can beat Bored of the Walking on NintendoFAQs.
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If it wins, it wins. It's still a great contest idea worth doing while the time is appropriate.
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Super Smash Bros Ultimate might have a chance. Either way, a game with Link in it will win though.
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If we do get a Game of the Decade contest, I could see Pokemon Switch (the "real" one) bringing POKEFEAR back. It wouldn't be able to touch BotW, don't get me wrong, but I expect that game to be a huge deal. People have been waiting for a full-fledged console Pokemon game since dinosaurs roamed the earth, it feels like.
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I fear that Gamefreak has lost their touch. Gen 7 sucked, and gen 6 wasn't as good as it should've been.
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Pokemon games are fine. I played both Sun and Ultra Sun and man even after all these years they are awesome.
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Gen 6 was great. Gen 7 was lackluster.

Bump
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Geez I didn't realize GotD 2 would have Pokemon Black/White, X/Y, Sun/Moon, and potentially another?
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PokeFear more like PokeFatigue
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3DS ownership drops to 70.11%. Less than 6 months after the 3DS set an all-time high ownership of 73.80%, 3DS ownership drops nearly 4%. It was expected that 3DS ownership would eventually drop off now that the Switch is coming up on 2 years old soon.

PS4 ownership drops to 68.88%. This result is pretty strange and could just be a case of random variation.

Switch ownership increases to 57.52%. If we ignore the 4.25% of the site that got their Switch on Christmas, that means the Switch only had an ownership of 53.27% immediately following the release of Smash Ultimate. That's considerably lower than the estimated 59% ownership of the Wii at the time Brawl was released.

Xbox One ownership increases to 27.29%. This is a very small increase over the previous poll. After Microsoft had a very strong E3 press conference this year, I originally said that their strong showing could actually have an effect on Xbox One ownership on this site. I did say that this effect probably wouldn't show up right away and any boost in ownership might not occur until sometime in 2019 or later. Despite Microsoft's strong showing at E3, the Xbox One has gained less than 0.30% in ownership.

Ownership spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iMtyUuzmT5ggmYy-xbiGf7fcloXuhkQuu4ZIC2nGI4M/pub
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pjbasis posted...

Geez I didn't realize GotD 2 would have Pokemon Black/White, X/Y, Sun/Moon, and potentially another?

Game of the Decade was an absolutely fantastic contest for Pokemon.
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