Board 8 > [B8VGC] And the winner is... (Postscript Topic)

(+) Yeah! (+)

Miles Edgeworth, by a 22-18 margin over Phoenix Wright! The top four Ace Attorney characters all looked incredible this whole contest, so it's not all that surprising to see these two as the finalists. The result of their match, however, is somewhat unexpected: Phoenix gave it all he had, but even with a late surge, he couldn't force a proper turnabout. That should make the (LOL) X-Stats very interesting; expect to see those a bit later.

Congratulations to @ben10kenobi, who won predictions by a margin of nearly 100 points. Your bracket simply proved the most solid overall, up to and including calling the winner, though swirldude would have barely won the prediction contest if Phoenix had triumphed in the finals.

For posterity, here's the full bracket: https://challonge.com/B8VGC

And the previous discussion topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78019344

I owe an apology to @MZero11 for signing you on as an unnecessary co-host, and thus preventing you from voting in any matches. As you surely guessed by now, the vacation I was supposed to be taking last month didn't happen, and won't until at least Spring 2020. Thank you for being there anyways; I very much appreciate your vote of confidence in me and willingness to discuss specific details pre-contest.

An additional thank you is in order to @ZenOfThunder, both for letting me use your pictures and even making Kazuma and Spyro images just for this contest, as well as being someone who I feel privileged to be able to call a friend here, even though we don't talk that often. I promise I'll put up that top 5 topic soon!

Last but not least, thank you to all of you who took the time out of your day to vote in most or all of this contest's matches, and those of you who posted in the results and discussion topic. I was hoping it would be a bit more active, but I suppose I'm not good at fostering that activity myself.

I'll be frank: I was disappointed with this contest's turnout. For such a broad-ranging format that used to hold so much sway here, I was hoping for more than seeing a typical match struggle to hit 20 votes, and it's hard to call these results truly representative when half or more of active B8ers aren't even voting in most matches. Based on what I've seen, I have no intention to host another contest of its ilk in the future.

So where will I go from here, you might wonder?

I'll be co-hosting the Board 8's Best Original Character contest, which should start soon. Even if you don't have or wish to create an original character to enter (here: (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78048724), I encourage you to vote in the matches.

After that will be the holiday season, and then 2020. I might finally get around to hosting that Best Story in Gaming contest then, if GotD doesn't get announced at least.

Well, that's about all I have to say. Please sound off with anything you have to say about this post or this contest in general!

<3

i'll always be your bro bro
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I stopped caring after a while because it became predictable and I felt like many of my favorites weren't amounting to anything (though many of them never got into the bracket in the first place). Best moment was easily Hat Kid upsetting Rikku, for me anyway.

Given the way this format turned out, I do think my change in format for B8BOC will work a lot better, and I'm intrigued to see if advertising this will drum up any further interest. If you guys want to nominate, you still can. Hope to start matches Thursday or Friday :)
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I liked the part where Donkey Kong went on an upset run. He's a good boy, should do that more.

Honestly the starting rounds were pretty exciting with some interesting trends - Yakuza up, Persona down, Mario down, Ace Attorney up, all of that - before kind of just evening out by the end. Not much ado about that, but I always enjoyed tuning in.
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Oh hey I won.

Fun contest despite the low turnout on most days. It definitely had enough surprises aside from the expected ace attorney domination to keep me interested.

The highlight of the contest for me was probably Sonic > Samus - I always thought of this board as a stronghold for Samus so seeing him win convincingly was nice - especially since public opinion of him has only weakened in recent years. Also really happy with Missile's performance - him keeping it respectable vs phoenix (on b8!) was pretty great!

Finally, thanks to Metalmind and MZero for hosting the contest, and Zen for the great pics as always!
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LOL X-Stats ahoy:

1. 50.00% Miles Edgeworth
2. 48.28% Kirby
3. 45.00% Phoenix Wright
4. 44.00% The Boss
5. 37.78% Midna
6. 36.38% Shadow the Hedgehog
7. 35.45% Missile
8. 34.78% Vivi Ornitier
9. 34.48% Maya Fey
10. 33.52% Big Boss
11. 33.00% Zelda
12. 32.95% Raiden
13. 32.85% Makoto Niijima
14. 31.78% Kazuma Kiryu
15. 31.57% Bowser
16. 31.30% TaliZorah nar Rayya
17. 31.20% Estelle Bright
18. 31.15% Sans
19. 31.03% Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy)
20. 30.11% Spyro the Dragon
21. 29.89% Sonic the Hedgehog
22. 29.71% 9S
23. 29.04% Garrus Vakarian
24. 28.57% GLaDOS
25. 28.54% Sephiroth
25. 28.54% Travis Touchdown
27. 27.88% Dick Gumshoe
28. 27.66% Kyle Hyde
29. 27.39% Godot
30. 27.39% Velvet Crowe
31. 27.27% Miles Tails Prower
31. 27.27% Squirtle
33. 26.20% Link
34. 26.18% Shulk
35. 26.00% Ren Joker Amamiya
36. 25.97% Monika
37. 25.79% The King of All Cosmos
38. 25.73% Luigi
39. 25.09% Solid Snake
40. 25.00% Mario
40. 25.00% Pikachu
42. 24.96% Morrigan (Darkstalkers)
43. 24.87% Yuna
44. 24.84% Chiaki Nanami
45. 24.46% Futaba Sakura
46. 24.38% Zelos Wilder
47. 24.37% Leon Kennedy
47. 24.37% Mordin Solus
49. 24.20% Johnny Cage
50. 23.81% Auron
50. 23.81% Mewtwo
52. 23.48% Samus Aran
53. 23.32% Kratos Aurion
54. 22.99% Lloyd Irving
55. 22.96% James Sunderland
56. 22.79% Tidus
57. 22.50% Jill Valentine
58. 22.43% Yuri Lowell
59. 22.42% Lucina
60. 21.89% Nathan Drake
61. 21.73% Alucard
62. 21.60% Donkey Kong
63. 21.00% Dante
63. 21.00% Scorpion
65. 20.96% Naoto Shirogane
66. 20.94% Zidane Tribal
67. 20.89% Pokemon Trainer Blue
68. 20.66% Rise Kujikawa
69. 20.59% Max Caulfield
70. 20.54% Commander Shepard
71. 20.46% Gundham Tanaka
72. 20.16% Ganondorf
73. 20.00% Goro Majima
74. 19.93% Isabelle
75. 19.90% Magus
76. 18.78% Hat Kid
77. 18.38% Meta Knight
78. 18.35% Rikku
79. 18.18% Ike
80. 18.09% Cloud Strife
81. 18.01% Yoshi
82. 17.97% Liquid Snake
83. 17.84% Mega Man X
84. 17.76% Kefka
85. 17.71% A2
86. 17.33% Charizard
87. 17.31% Knuckles the Echidna
88. 17.22% Kanji Tatsumi
88. 17.22% Rydia
90. 17.16% Red XIII
91. 17.09% Captain Falcon
92. 17.08% Victor Sully Sullivan
93. 16.99% Wheatley
94. 16.96% Squall Leonhart
95. 16.74% Lara Croft
96. 16.62% 2B
97. 16.43% Chloe Frazer
98. 16.25% Lee Everett
99. 16.09% King Dedede
100. 16.08% Celes Chere
101. 15.98% Tharja
102. 15.98% Amaterasu
103. 15.87% Claire Redfield
104. 15.78% Revolver Ocelot
105. 15.40% Urdnot Wrex
106. 14.78% Joel
107. 14.67% Luke fon Fabre
108. 14.12% Mega Man
109. 14.10% Luca Blight
110. 14.06% Zero
111. 13.85% Lightning
112. 13.51% Sheena Fujibayashi
113. 13.15% Crono
114. 12.64% Banjo
115. 12.34% Papyrus
116. 12.00% Tifa Lockhart
117. 11.89% Ellie
118. 11.84% Wakka
119. 11.62% Shantae
120. 11.30% Jecht
121. 10.99% Roxas
122. 10.88% Proto Man
123. 10.26% Matt Engarde
124. 9.96% Chloe Price
125. 8.86% Geno
126. 8.54% Balthier Bunansa
127. 7.28% Chrom
128. 4.89% Undyne
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Hey no problem man. Sorry to hearabout your vacation.

I wish I could have voted, but Tidus and Joker both ran into unwinnable matches so I'm not too devasted about it

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MetalmindStats posted...

124. 9.96% Chloe Price

good contest

Phoenix/Edgeworth quality final too
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