Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 531 ft Alex Trebek, Luma, Garet (GS)

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This is a topic to rate the contest strength of potential newcomers in the current contest environment.

I will pick the characters to rate and discuss for each day from user nominations - whoever the 3 most nominated characters are at that time. If there are more than 3 I will pick randomly. You can nominate any number of characters at any time, but you cannot nominate the same character twice.

All characters who were present in the 2018 Character Battle will NOT be eligible. Otherwise you can nominate any character that has appeared in video games; even comic book characters. This will exclude real-life athletes who have only appeared in long running sports series, however I will accept those who have their own games such as Shaq. I will accept nominations for iconic gaming duos too, if there is a compelling reason for both characters to be linked (either co-starring in a game ala Banjo & Kazooie, or always appearing together like Callie & Marie from Splatoon).

Each day will have a separate topic, and nominations will carry over. As far as actually rating the character's contest strength; I ask that users rank a characters potential strength with one of the following qualifiers - LAW Fodder, Low Fodder, Mid Fodder, High Fodder, Fodder Line, Low Midcarder, Midcarder, High Midcarder, Near Elite, Elite, LAW Tier (capable of beating Link). I will average all the ratings given to a character to come up with their final ranking. I have included a highlighted entrant from Character Battle X on each tier of the strength rankings below, to provide a baseline for each.

Note that LAW Fodder is meant to be a tier reserved for the weakest possible characters to put into a contest. A character will only be placed there if at least 3/4ths of the voters for that day agree on the LAW Fodder rating, and no ratings above Low Fodder are given. If either of those conditions are not met, the character will not be eligible for the LAW Fodder tier.

Current Character Strength Rankings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1AIhHywBiLd6VAMZMNEGX-HW2td8u1D0Iw_tzHsORw/edit?usp=sharing

Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KnSBDzppzPK5Ug1zmx8_x0bG4tqFDMPPH2k8J3s8sk/edit?usp=sharing

If you feel that a character has been over or under-ranked, or if a new development has come up that would affect their contest strength, you may nominate them for a re-ranking. You may nominate one character per day for this, and 3 votes are needed to get them on the slate. One character with 3 votes will come up for re-ranking today.

Re-ranking Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6dx-tu-FD1rCxbX69eQwEzE7x1F6nNRNFochYHu1dc/edit?usp=sharing

Results from Day 530:

Eivor Varinsdottir (Assassin's Creed Valhalla) is Low Fodder
Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) is Low Fodder
Claude C. Kenny (Star Ocean the Second Story) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

M. Bison (Street Fighter) is now Fodder Line

Here is today's trio to rank:

Alex Trebek (Jeopardy!)
Luma (Mario series)
Garet (Golden Sun)

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Mid Fodder for all today.

RIP Trebek. The man hosted the most popular game show in the world for the entire lifetime of the Gfaqs demographic, and won't be forgotten anytime soon.

Gfaqs loves the Galaxy games and Luma also appears along with Rosalina in Smash Bros 4 and Ultimate, plus its cute. I think that should give enough to be mid.

Mid Fodder for Garet. Not sure how much people care about him, but he is in the party for almost the entirety of GS 1 and appears in the following 2 games as well.

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Nominate:
Tae Takemi (Persona 5)
Perry the Platypus (Phineas and Ferb)
Arsene (Persona 5)
Alice Liddell (American McGee's Alice)

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Alex Trebek (Jeopardy!) - Mid fodder
Luma (Mario series) - Mid fodder

I feel a little bad about giving it even that much credit, though.

Garet (Golden Sun) - Low fodder
Maybe this is a weird line to draw but I'm not really convinced many people care at all about Garet and I don't think he's got any other factors that should substantially help him. And while he appears in the third game, I don't think anyone at all is voting for him based on what he does there.

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Low Fodder for all. The Luma is a complete non-factor of a character who I refuse to give more contest credit than above average Mario enemies, and while our demographic will miss Trebek to some extent, it's a bit too late by now for me to see him escaping Low Fodder as a real-life person.

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nominate Wakko Warner, Yakko Warner, Dot Warner (Animaniacs) and Pinky and The Brain (Pinky and the Brain)

Day 532 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79151351

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