Board 8 > The Show EP 1 - The Glorious Return of GotD! Breaking down the bracket w/ Leon

(+) Yeah! (+)

439 days later, The Show is back! More importantly, so is Game of the Decade, one of the best Contests this website has ever seen. yoblazer and I had no choice but to grab Leon to talk about everything at length!

http://board8.speedrunwiki.com/interviews/theshow/20200302-TheShowEP01a.mp3
http://board8.speedrunwiki.com/interviews/theshow/20200302-TheShowEP01b.mp3

Part One - Big Picture and SB's Format/Choices In Review

• 2 games per series limit- good or bad?
• mistake to group Nintendo to the top half of the bracket?
• overall, do you like SB's seeding/bracket layout?
• respectvoterfaqs - will "GotD" be taken into account?
• what will be 2020's Undertale?

Part Two - The Full Bracket Breakdown
* discussing the most important matches in all 8 divisions
* best ways to get involved this Contest season (Crew, Oracle, Guru, Streak, Spread)
* SHOW EXCLUSIVE: Luster's official tiebreaker recommendation

It was an amazing night, I hope you enjoy listening!

Past Episodes and All Show Info:
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/The_Show


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Let us know how it was at this time tomorrow when you finally finish listening...!

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GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hype

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Not nearly enough Captain Toad

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..... 5 hours, sweet merciful god

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Welp. looks like I have my entire evening booked now.

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Probably gonna have to wait until after Super Tuesday to listen, but tag for later!

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It's time

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Tag for later. Looking forward to it!

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Full disclosure: we talked for 7 1/2 hours. Fortunately I was able to cut things down to only the VERY BEST content for your listening pleasure!

Normally we do the big picture overview and then go in depth on the first round one episode and break down the remainder of the bracket in Episode Two, but sadly I'm going to be out of town next week so we had to condense everything down to a single night. The result was the longest and most epic episode in Show history, passing the old record set by Episode Two of 2018 (also a Leon night, unsurprisingly).


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I just talk too much, I guess!

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Yay! It will be an exciting 5 days listening to all of it.

Oh there won't be a show next week so I guess I can listen even more slowly.

Yeah, spread it out! It's why we went so long.

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oh shit

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Whoa, a 2 part episode. Downloading this NOW!
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As of right now, I have just started listening to part 1 of this episode.
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XD at Leon's Link/Easter Bunny bonus match suggestion. I don't think that will happen. The bonus match after the final will probably be the winner of the contest against Majora's Mask (previous GotD winner).
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Correct, the previous contest required to pick a vote for all matches on the same day before the site allowed you to lock in your votes. Technically, you could bypass that by submitting a vote directly to the poll results page, a method used by the voters in TRE's first vote contest. So that's how vote totals for the individual matches on the same day can be slightly different from each other.

For this contest, having forced voting in all matches on the same day could hurt vote totals in the earlier rounds, but the impact should be lessened in the later rounds when we get down to 2 matches per day. But we don't know how the voting will be handled in that regard. This also makes tiebreaker predictions harder to call.
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For the format of the contest, I think we should have one extra round of 1 match per day. Extending 1 match per day to the quarterfinals would be a lot better, and would only increase the length of the contest by an extra 2 days.
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The 6 day break during the last contest was a bad idea because it reduced vote totals for the rest of the contest. This was made even worse by the complete lack of any bonus matches during the break. Bonus matches during the break would have maintained interest with the contest, especially among the casual voters who got really thrown off by this break.
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Yeah, we really need to try to press Allen to give us bonus matches during the break.

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I love that yo accused Luster of using an exploit to not vote for a match in 2018, when there's absolutely no way Luster would miss voting on a single poll.

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Wasted

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XD at yoblazer's reaction over Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair getting into the bracket over Skyward Sword or either Mario Maker game. But yeah, it's a real shame that neither Mario Maker game could make it in. I know we do have 2 Mario games in the bracket, but they are both 3D Mario games. Super Mario Maker 2 would have the 2D Mario representation locked down if it made the bracket.
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Yeah, I agree with yo on that. Should have been Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

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should've been Dual Destinies

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Ngamer is really making me lament Untitled Goose Game's snub, though I am not sure that was the intention.

Oh well, Untitled Goose for CBXI.

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I'm liking Life is Strange as a pick, because it's on every non-Nintendo platform (whereas Halo is Xbox and PC only), and it's in a much more active series, ports notwithstanding. It's a "what are you doing for me lately" pick, which might be important in a few matches in the bracket.

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PSA: Switch to official bracket, people. Like I just did while hearing yoblazer do another WTF rant about Edith Finch (at least, this one I haven't played this time around).

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What Remains of Edith Finch is a good game!

(Still voting for FFXV though)

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Fun fact: the release order of the oldest games in the contest is Bayonetta, VVVVVVV, and then Mass Effect.

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I knew Mass Effect 2 had to be up near the top because I remembered it was January 2010, but I didn't know if anything predated it there.

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Bayonetta was released in 2009 in Japan, IIRC. NOSTALGIA VOTES.

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oh snap

ban it from the contest SBAllen imhotbqh

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Tag for when I get home

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Bayonetta was released in 2009 in Japan, IIRC. NOSTALGIA VOTES.

TitS 2nd came out in 2006

Adjust brackets accordingly

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wow, that's an episode and a half. Look forward to listening.

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MZero11 posted...

TitS 2nd came out in 2006

Adjust brackets accordingly

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As of right now, I have just started listening to part 2 of this episode. I took a break of at least one hour after I got done with part 1, so I'm now ready for part 2.
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I think I would be on board with RDR > GTAV as an upset if it was RDR2. I'm not sure about RDR1 being the game to take down its Rockstar superior.

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It just occurred to me listening to the Show, that Div 5 has two kind of sort of rematches from the past two contests, in Mass Effect 3 vs. Starcraft II from 2015 and Geralt vs. Rosalina from 2018.

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XD at Ngamer referring to Aloy as a TJF waifu girl and a Korean Starcraft champ in this discussion of Aloy losing to D.Va in the last Character Battle.
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Yeah, we're definitely way too old as a userbase for Fortnite. If Fortnite had come out in 2010 instead of 2017, I think it'd more popular on this site as our average age in 2010 was around 22. This was simply a case of poor timing on the release date for Fortnite - it came out well past the time this site used to be heavily into multiplayer games. As well as being too old at the time of its release.
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Cool, will listen tomorrow.

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I see Ngamer hasn't gotten over his buttannihilation of Allen refusing to allow Spider-Man into the last Character Battle in this discussion of Marvel's Spider-Man.
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