Last Topic: 5:55:17pm, 11/03/2022
Last Post: 1:45:32pm, 12/30/2018
So I felt like procrastinating a little bit on this topic, so before this purges (and before we reach New Year), I wanna thank everyone for their comments of support towards my debut on The Show. I was a little worried about the outcome, but I'm truly grateful to everyone who commented on the subject. I also want to thank Ng, yo and Leon for helping me feel more comfortable about the actual recording part (it was awesome talking to you in the backstage about chilaquiles and stuff, lol), I was affraid to be interrogated from the start and I turned out to be the one asking questions and talking a lot in the backstage. I was also very happy to see that the board was so cool and chill, more than I thought.
Fun fact: I usually go to bed pretty early and sleep a lot. That night though, we finished recording at 3:30 a.m. where I lived, so the next day I slept all day, and that particular day was incredibly short, as you can imagine, to the point where it practically didn't exist. Still, it was a blast hanging out with you guys and it was really worth it.
Another fun fact is that I remember Ng posting a topic just before the contest started, offering anyone who posted an invitation to The Show. I didn't post since I was affraid I wouldn't do a good job; but when I won the Guru, I knew it was my opportunity to get over my own fears and experience something different.
Some other things I'd want to cover and clarify as well:
-I ran out of words about the start times thing, but ultimately what I was trying to say was that you'll never have everyone happy with one specific start time, since there are tons of factors that have an influence, not only about people preferring morning, day, or night start times, but also people doing lots of other activities around the globe. I guess you can make a case out of GFAQs being a site primarily for U.S. residents, but other than that, there's not much you can do about it.
-Link vs. Link as a mini-bracket may be a good thing to do as a bonus if they don't get to retire him just yet. But if it was done before a contest starts so they face off against Division Winners or Noble Niners, the opponents should be paired up accordingly. Adult/Young Link, as well as maybe TP Link would be way too powerful for the rest of the field, but I can see the rest of them having fairly debatable matches.
-I loved BYIG as opposed to most people, so when I said that Best System would be like BYIG 2.0, I meant that I would love it, but surely the rest of the board won't.
-Similarly, Best Song sounds awesome to me on paper, but as everyone said, it has too many cons to make it viable.
-Game of the 90's was that kind of contest that I wasn't so sure of running it at the beginning since I thought the whole purpose of Game of the Decade was to exclude OoT and FFVII from a main bracket with newer games, as well as I conceiving GotD to be a contest that happened every future decade and not going back to something like the 90's. I actually changed my mind about all that when the podcast ended since not only did I grow up with lots of 90s games but also OoT may still become vulnerable to Chrono Trigger based on 2015, and FFVII Remake hype (or even its release by then) may also keep FFVII fresh again. It would be awesome to have that contest, especially since I could root for underrepresented series like the Soul Blazer trilogy (or other Enix games), as well as Crash Bandicoot, for example.
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