The Mount Rushmore of: CJayC's Many Crimes (+ Movie Original Song TIEBREAKER)

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2. No alts.
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5. In general, if there are two picks that can be considered the same product (i.e. Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle), I will combine them.
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9. You may nominate as much as you want and have an unlimited amount of seconds for established nominations.
10. Every Sunday, I'll post the schedule for next week. I will pick based on the number of nominations. Any ties will be determined by RNG.

Spreadsheet & Nominations

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aatA25pW6OsDn2RlAAGP1_GOGCMNvLLumAKckHOhtFk/edit?gid=1117984190#gid=1117984190

Last Topics Results

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/83780190.png

A fairly quiet topic. It's interesting that I learned twice in the same week that Gangsta's Paradise came from a movie.

Last 5 Rushmores

Video Game Earth-Related Stages: Mine Cart Carnage (Donkey Kong Country) / 1-2 (Super Mario Bros.) / Mt. Moon (Pokemon RBY) / Death Mountain (Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Video Game Air-Related Stages: Air Man (Mega Man 2) / Columbia (Bioshock Infinite) / Zeal (Chrono Trigger) / Sky Sanctuary Zone (Sonic & Knuckles)
Video Game Bonus Stages: Secret Cow Level (Diablo II) / Car (Street Fighter II) / Break the Targets (Super Smash Bros.) / Blue Sphere (Sonic 3)
Baby's First Anime: Dragon Ball (Z) / Pokemon / Naruto / Demon Slayer
Movie Original Song (Non-Musical): My Heart Will Go On / I Will Always Love You / Eye of the Tiger / TBD

This Week's Rushmores

Friday: Video Game TV Shows
Saturday: Animated Web Series
Sunday: Fire Emblem Games

Today's Parameters

You must pick "crimes" that CJayC committed.

CJayC was the GameFAQs admin from creation to the middle of 2007. He ran the GameFAQs Contests in the years 2002 - 2006.

Crimes are loosely defined, but are generally considered decisions CJayC made that received a poor response either at the time of decision or in hindsight.

Crimes can be about anything CJayC did, but considering our board, are likely to relate to the GameFAQs Contests.

https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Summer_2002_Contest
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Summer_2003_Contest
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Spring_2004_Contest
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Summer_2004_Contest
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Spring_2005_Contest
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Summer_2005_Contest
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Spring_2006_Contest
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Summer_2006_Contest

Quote contest

IDK what else

When exactly did he resign, I'm pretty certain he at least started the 2007 one.

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Mario Vs. Crono II
Quote Contest
Not Putting Solano in the Main Contest

I'm not going to include Sonic/Samus, since I think the missing hours probably would have favored Samus anyway.

ctesjbuvf posted...

When exactly did he resign, I'm pretty certain he at least started the 2007 one.

July 2007

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Quote Contest
2002 Bracket
Link vs Cloud 2003 Wind Waker pic

Mario/Crono II
Quotes Contest
"The Long, Slow Goodbye" *immediately vanishes*
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I'm giving him a pass on division by era because I'm afraid if we went back in time and undid that the 2004 contest would become less magical. The sin for that is borne by Bacon for not abolishing it for the next one (and with a supremely silly argument.) I get the last two are very related but for "Long, Slow Goodbye" I mean the - in retrospect, pretty funny - telling us all he'd still be around and present and slowly fade away and then AFAIK he just pulled the ripcord and went "see ya suckers" and was like never seen again lol

Yeah thats a good one, Im changing the 2002 bracket to saying he would stick around and then immediately vanishing. It was a bad bracket but also literally the first ever so its understandable.

I note his account is closed. Any GameFAQs historians know when this was or when he last appeared?

CJayC has no crimes

Mario/Crono 2
Quote contest
Selling the site
Splitting 2004 games by era

Can I nominate "games that came in a non-standard cartridge color" except with a special rule that all Pokemon games are consolidated into 1 entry?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/3221-the-top-10-video-games-whose-cartridge-shell-were-in-another

I saw this interesting list on the home page but it was of course terribly written. I thought it would be a cool community ranking and I thought about this topic, but then I instantly realized the flaw of our list only having 4 entries instead of 10.

Mario/Crono II
"The Long, Slow Goodbye" *immediately vanishes*
Selling the site to CNET

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Snubbing Solano
Mario/Crono II
Character Battle III Hyrule and Midgar Divisions

XIII_Rocks posted...

Mario/Crono 2
Quote contest
Selling the site
Splitting 2004 games by era

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Mario Vs. Crono II

I don't think anything else really compares at all. Even #2 is pretty trivial to #1 really

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Mario/Crono II
Quotes Contest
Intentionally setting up a bunch of SFF matches in SC2K4

Also the worst part of the original Games Contest was limiting each division to only one game per series, meaning FFVIII got snubbed

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Capping entrants from a series in earlier contests
Robbing a bunch of male characters from appearing in CBV because of the half-female bracket gimmick
Constantly forcing Solid Snake to run into one of (if not both of) Knuckles and Mega Man in contests

Underleveled posted...

Snubbing Solano

For some bizarre reason this was what I immediately thought of. Although he did give us that make good match.

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Mario vs Crono II

Disallowing spaces from usernames except you could still register space accounts by using a loophole which he knowingly left in himself which proved that the change was completely pointless because the site could still handle spaces just fine regardless.

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Can I nominate "games that came in a non-standard cartridge color"

2nded

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Yeah, that's an obvious one too.

I... wasn't around for much of the other things being mentioned here, though. I do remember his "Long, Slow Goodbye" and then his funeral when Bacon closed his account... but I can't really blame him for either of those.

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Mario vs. Crono II
Limiting nominations per company
SFF matches in 04

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Mario/Crono II
Limiting nominations per company
SFF matches in 04

"The Long, Slow Goodbye" *immediately vanishes*
Selling the site to CNET