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Checkered Deck seems really good but I just cannot win with it

D5: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80717555
hoping to catch up on votals tomorrow

It's User of the Year, but with Pokemon! And, y'know, a modified format, to fit the bajillion entries. I could use help with votals!
-Rounds are posted whenever I get to them, daily-ish.
-Regardless of when they are posted, they will last 24 hours unless stated otherwise (ie they might overlap)
-No alt-voting
-No being a jerk
-No deleting posts, this will be enough of a headache to count already.
-No changing votes, see above.
-One Pokedex number, one entry. I believe that means you get Paradoxes, but not Megas, -maxes, regionals, and Formes. You are welcome to factor that into your vote, or not, however you wish.
-I will never vote, but I will serve as the final tiebreaker, including in seeding.
-I'm not unblocking people just so I can count their votes.
-I can modify these rules however I want. Don't be the reason I do so.

ROUND 1 RULES
-Give +3, +2, +1, -1, -2, and -3 to Pokemon however you see fit.
-There are two divisions per day to do this for.
-Please use the Easy Vote form.
-Bottom three scores per division are eliminated (most divisions, 7/10 survive, but there are a few 11-mon divisions that will send 8 through)
-However, the top 11 scores from 8th (or 9th, in the bigger divisions) place finishers will survive.
-Top 26 scoring winners will receive a bye next round.
-1,025 Pokemon will enter, 730 will leave.

Google sheet (has all the info available, if you can follow my thought processes): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13DKkynMv81TbEDq5ENihw5qsc2GNY4Beb9Xb5e4YTfs/edit?usp=sharing

Iron Head Division
Absol
Heracross
Hoppip
Klang
Ledian
Litleo
Maractus
Pecharunt
Wigglytuff
Zacian

Storm Throw Division
Appletun
Armarouge
Cosmog
Druddigon
Hoothoot
Kyurem
Mantine
Mareanie
Pidgeot
Varoom

Easy Vote Form
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3

I tried to keep things pretty close to UotY format where I could, so this is still kinda a glorified play-in/seeding round

Ifrit posted...

The florges hate is unwarranted. Florges is awesome. It was on my team in X/Y and it kinda kicked ass.

I would've thrown it a +1 :(

ZenOfThunder posted...

In general NPS gave me appreciation for a lot of Pokemon I didn't think twice about after seeing them in their natural habitat with cool animations

agree! the standout for me was Corsola.

mnk posted...

Very pleased with Dwebble's showing there.

also agree!

oh and:
D4: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80716113

Searing Shot
Raikou 54
Clodsire 36
Ponyta 24
Tutrwig 14
Poliwrath 11
Fraxure -3
Grimer -18
Snover -29
Florges -33
Type:Null -56

Rain Dance
Hawlucha 69
Annihilape 57
Xatu 36
Dwebble 10
Diglett -11
Sinistea -13
Pawmot -15
Azurill -28
Bergmite -42
Barbaracle -63

Star of the day: Xatu
I had him pegged as like a +6, but there he is with a solid bronze medal!

Dud of the day: Type:Null
I figured legendaries and such should at least have a pretty easy time of the first couple rounds. This guy got a -56 in a division people were complaining was underpowered.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/07/aaron-bushnell-fbi-anarchism-extremist/

It's User of the Year, but with Pokemon! And, y'know, a modified format, to fit the bajillion entries. I could use help with votals!
-Rounds are posted whenever I get to them, daily-ish.
-Regardless of when they are posted, they will last 24 hours unless stated otherwise (ie they might overlap)
-No alt-voting
-No being a jerk
-No deleting posts, this will be enough of a headache to count already.
-No changing votes, see above.
-One Pokedex number, one entry. I believe that means you get Paradoxes, but not Megas, -maxes, regionals, and Formes. You are welcome to factor that into your vote, or not, however you wish.
-I will never vote, but I will serve as the final tiebreaker, including in seeding.
-I'm not unblocking people just so I can count their votes.
-I can modify these rules however I want. Don't be the reason I do so.

ROUND 1 RULES
-Give +3, +2, +1, -1, -2, and -3 to Pokemon however you see fit.
-There are two divisions per day to do this for.
-Please use the Easy Vote form.
-Bottom three scores per division are eliminated (most divisions, 7/10 survive, but there are a few 11-mon divisions that will send 8 through)
-However, the top 11 scores from 8th (or 9th, in the bigger divisions) place finishers will survive.
-Top 26 scoring winners will receive a bye next round.
-1,025 Pokemon will enter, 730 will leave.

Google sheet (has all the info available, if you can follow my thought processes): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13DKkynMv81TbEDq5ENihw5qsc2GNY4Beb9Xb5e4YTfs/edit?usp=sharing

MYSTICAL POWER DIVISION
Corvisquire
Darumaka
Froakie
Numel
Oricorio
Oshawott
Polteageist
Timburr
Tyranitar
Yveltal

MIRROR SHOT DIVISION
Clefable
Cloyster
Grotle
Kakuna
Lickilicky
Machoke
Shieldon
Uxie
Volcanion
Volcarona

EASY VOTE FORM
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3

a couple a week

a lot of BAD ones but not to the threshold requested

AriaOfBolo posted...

I'm not sure what's "better" between that and your more pragmatic angle.

which, to bring it full circle, is the conflict I have been trying to express every time this has come up. Do I stick to my principles and waste a vote on a third party? Or do I compromise those principles in the name of harm reduction? I'm idealistic enough that that's a hard choice for me, even though I know damn well Biden is the best option out of the two we're being given. It'd be easier if I saw a bigger gap between D and R, and I'm mad that there's not.

KamikazePotato posted...

The only way to fix that is just elect a bunch of people who aren't okay with it, and that will take...a while.

and in the meantime, my (idealist) response is to get a little mad about that. I'm not sure what's "better" between that and your more pragmatic angle.

KamikazePotato posted...

Most of the people who listen to 'man this election sucks' and stop voting are the people who lean left.

Go yell at those guys then!

KamikazePotato posted...

the entire government is in on that s***show

that's....that's my point.

KamikazePotato posted...

For the other stuff you're going to have to be more specific.

Chicago and NYC are very big fans of the police, including, as I recall, in the middle of the George Floyd protests. NYC, specifically, just called in the national guard so they can have ARMED searched of "random" commuters on the subway. Lots of states are pushing anti-trans legislation through, not just the deep red ones. KOSA has Biden's backing, and a lot of the Dems in Congress. California has had a couple things, but the only one I can remember three hours after my bedtime is a local thing from a red area, so I'll temporarily retract that.

KamikazePotato posted...

I'm also not going to allocate emotional bandwidth to something that can't possibly be changed.

I find this difficult for genocide-level events. This is not intended as a value judgment, part of me thinks you're the smarter one on this point.

KamikazePotato posted...

Maybe not on B8 (although we already have 3rd-party voters here...), but in other places you have discussions.

b8 is probably the most centrist place I talk politics >_> I'm vaguely aware that there are somehow people out there for whom Biden/Trump (only two options, gun to your head) is not a settled issue, but I sure don't interact with many of em.

KamikazePotato posted...

Real question: what can actually be done in states where GOP votes outnumber left-wing voters 2 to 1?

Not much! I sure do wish Biden would do something about TX and FL, but I understand it's a bit more complicated than "do something about it." I will begrudgingly extend him some grace there. My issue comes in where the Dems DO have power, and are either refusing to use that power for good or actively using it for bad. I think our conflict boils down to you being much more okay with the status quo they represent than I am. They had their chance to show me they are the force that will stop Trump. I'm not even that convinced they WANT to.

KamikazePotato posted...

Over the past few years I've just grown very tired with the way that the left handles optics and rhetoric as a whole. It feels like watching them constantly shoot themselves in the foot.

Fair.

KamikazePotato posted...

Personal feelings don't matter anywhere near as much as how a person votes.

my vote doesn't mean shit. i do not live in a swing state. there are people you could make this argument against but I am not one of them. I will vote, but Biden's not gonna move left even if I scrunch up my face real good as I extend his lead in Illinois to 500,001. (and, no, De La Cruz is not going to win, either. hell, I could actually vote for Trump and it's not going to matter. I won't, since you seem unsure of that point. But my point is my vote is not actually going to matter more than my "feelings") There's a difference between "man this election sucks" and "I'm not voting and you shouldn't either." It seems lost on a lot of liberals.

KamikazePotato posted...

Or at least someone not willing to actively oppose Trump

who do you think I'm proposing as an alternative? this is not 2016 bolo who threw a vote to mcconnell, this is 2024 bolo who is only going to be considering third parties that are farther left. just because I'm outside of the Overton window doesn't mean I'm a fan of the guys on the far end of it.

KamikazePotato posted...

Like, if anything bad policy-wise ever happens in the US, 95% of the time it's because a Republican got elected somewhere.

like California? and NYC? and Chicago? and all the purple states? and Biden's foreign policy?

SirChris posted...

They have sucked at trying tbh. Like. A complete failure. Their messaging sucks. It is horrific tbh.

But they are my only hope. Sad times lol

as usual Chris has made my point, but better

KamikazePotato posted...

I certainly wouldn't be trying to convince other people not to vote Democrat.

man it's a good thing I have never done that, I haven't even convinced myself of that yet! I also like how you remember the two times I have expressed displeasure with the Dems, and not the active anti-trans stuff being advanced by the Republicans, which I talk about a lot more but get responded to a lot less.

Sarcasm (and, to the extent possible, anger) aside, my stance has been and continues to be that both third party and Biden are pretty crummy choices. I can't super fault anybody for choosing one or the other, but you'd better vote, and it'd better not be R. I don't know why that's not coming across, I've said both times that I might myself wind up voting Biden. We have covered that the Republicans are pretty pure evil. For about 9 years now. The horse is chunky salsa. I'm extremely frustrated that the best they're willing to give us as an alternative is a guy with softer versions of the same policies and more professional demeanor. I'm doubly frustrated that I can't express that frustration without being called a GOP psyop. Four years ago I shared your optimism, and your faith in the Dems, and your willingness to settle. I have, since then, seen a Biden administration. I've seen all the stuff he ran against happen anyway, without much effort to change it. It's better than the alternative. It's not nearly good enough. You're talking about "perfect as the enemy of good" but from where I'm standing, I'm begging this country to give me "halfway decent" and not seeing any signs of getting it. I'm trying to figure out how to flee the country and you're telling me to vote harder. I'm watching states get ticked off the list of "can I travel through here without getting shot or charged with sex crimes" and you're telling me (factually) "well it could be worse!" I'm watching my country gleefully chip in on ethnic cleansing and I'm told I'm not having a good enough attitude about it.

anyway I'll try to be a bit more pleasant in the future about the utter despair I feel about this country and the terror I feel about the next ten years, gotta send them positive thoughts and prayers to the NICE ethnic cleansing guy! he's gonna actually do something about fascism any day now

Can you perhaps understand why I'm looking for a bit better than lip service in the face of that? Can you maybe grasp that I might be upset that they're generally just ... Letting them? People are dying and if you really need me to stop and stay trump bad for the millionth time in eight years then sure. Trump bad. But don't tell me to be thrilled about four more years of your slower, nicer descent into a hellscape. I'll root for Biden on election night. I might even hold my nose and vote for him, especially if my vote somehow was going to matter. But you don't get to tell me to like him and you damn sure don't get to call me a trump supporter.

KamikazePotato posted...

"The GOP Doesnt Want to Punish Trans PeopleIt Wants to Eradicate Them"
https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-transgender-republicans-trump-christian-conservatives-election-83becc009d8123d96a75c2e4940ab339

If you want to purity test yourself into tacitly supporting that, I guess I can't stop you.

Do you really think I need to be told what half the country thinks of me

I'd like to believe we'll get better candidates someday. I don't think I do. It's another in the category of, the other sides worse but how much are we gonna put up with?

KamikazePotato posted...

the Republican alternative would do far worse

I think we're kinda out of room for anybody to do "far worse." Legitimately, what can he do that Biden and the Dems aren't doing?

KamikazePotato posted...

he party that doesn't want to murder trans people?

You say this like the Dems are trustworthy and dedicated allies. They aren't trying to kill us, but they're not doing a whole lot to stop the other guys, either. It can be worse on this front, but its already pretty shit, on their watch.

Important update: my wife fell asleep with the speech on double speed

I'd be willing to settle for a combo of 1) not genocidal and 2) I get to live long enough to see 2030. Sorry if that's too picky for y'all

the liberals are into it, the leftists refuse to be placated

neither I but we are the minority in my circles apparently

this is the only place I know that's not going on and on about the sotu

If I remember! (there is not a great chance >_>)

D3: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80714993

It's User of the Year, but with Pokemon! And, y'know, a modified format, to fit the bajillion entries. I could use help with votals!
-Rounds are posted whenever I get to them, daily-ish.
-Regardless of when they are posted, they will last 24 hours unless stated otherwise (ie they might overlap)
-No alt-voting
-No being a jerk
-No deleting posts, this will be enough of a headache to count already.
-No changing votes, see above.
-One Pokedex number, one entry. I believe that means you get Paradoxes, but not Megas, -maxes, regionals, and Formes. You are welcome to factor that into your vote, or not, however you wish.
-I will never vote, but I will serve as the final tiebreaker, including in seeding.
-I'm not unblocking people just so I can count their votes.
-I can modify these rules however I want. Don't be the reason I do so.

ROUND 1 RULES
-Give +3, +2, +1, -1, -2, and -3 to Pokemon however you see fit.
-There are two divisions per day to do this for.
-Please use the Easy Vote form.
-Bottom three scores per division are eliminated (most divisions, 7/10 survive, but there are a few 11-mon divisions that will send 8 through)
-However, the top 11 scores from 8th (or 9th, in the bigger divisions) place finishers will survive.
-Top 26 scoring winners will receive a bye next round.
-1,025 Pokemon will enter, 730 will leave.

Google sheet (has all the info available, if you can follow my thought processes): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13DKkynMv81TbEDq5ENihw5qsc2GNY4Beb9Xb5e4YTfs/edit?usp=sharing

Power Trick Division
Anorith
Arcanine
Basculegion
Darkrai
Drifloon
Drowzee
Floragato
Huntail
Necrozma
Poipole

Morning Sun Division
Archen
Gastly
Haunter
Iron Crown
Morpeko
Scovillain
Seadra
Seel
Shedinja
Terapagos

EASY VOTE FORM
Power Trick
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3

Morning Sun
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3

Poison Jab
Scyther 66
Gliscor 34
Hydrapple 5
Whimsicott 2
Fletchinder -3
Overqwil -6
Glalie -9
Klawf -15
Cutiefly -32
Hypno -41

Cutiefly might've been my +3, dang! Hypno takes a big hit, maybe this won't be a Gen1 party after all!

Dragon Rage
Cubone 82
Noivern 30
Regice 11
Lunatone 2
Whiscash -2
Espathra -3
Slaking -4
Nacli -27
Dedenne -35
Elgyem -54

Very strong performance from Cubone, albeit in a weak division. I thought people liked Dedenne but guess not!

tossup between queer rights and foreign policy, but only one of those is really on the poll

KamikazePotato posted...

who the fuck on B8 is a Kamala stan

well she goes with biden and you're not allowed to vote third party so

FFDragon posted...

i am a simple man

i see cop

i don't vote for them

careful, you'll get raked over the coals here if you don't vote Kamala

As long as you don't vote with both accounts, it's fine!

D1: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80713736
D2: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80714107

It's User of the Year, but with Pokemon! And, y'know, a modified format, to fit the bajillion entries. I could use help with votals!
-Rounds are posted whenever I get to them, daily-ish.
-Regardless of when they are posted, they will last 24 hours unless stated otherwise (ie they might overlap)
-No alt-voting
-No being a jerk
-No deleting posts, this will be enough of a headache to count already.
-No changing votes, see above.
-One Pokedex number, one entry. I believe that means you get Paradoxes, but not Megas, -maxes, regionals, and Formes. You are welcome to factor that into your vote, or not, however you wish.
-I will never vote, but I will serve as the final tiebreaker, including in seeding.
-I'm not unblocking people just so I can count their votes.
-I can modify these rules however I want. Don't be the reason I do so.

Searing Shot division
Clodsire
Florges
Fraxure
Grimer
Poliwrath
Ponyta
Raikou
Snover
Turtwig
Type: Null

Rain Dance division
Annihilape
Azurill
Barbaracle
Bergmite
Diglett
Dwebble
Hawlucha
Pawmot
Sinistea
Xatu

Easy Vote Form
Searing Shot
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3

Rain Dance
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3

Good question!

heck ya

The way I did it it works out to 51 days for round 1 :D
200 days for the whole thing :D
I'm gonna die :D;;

https://gyazo.com/2cda316d3801a219f6ce0eb3ff22c326
I'm in the -handsize for every $5 challenge and this a heck of a way to learn that that affects Arcana draws as well

I can either sell a Joker or be softlocked >_>

It's User of the Year, but with Pokemon! And, y'know, a modified format, to fit the bajillion entries. I could use help with votals!
-Rounds are posted whenever I get to them, daily-ish.
-Regardless of when they are posted, they will last 24 hours unless stated otherwise (ie they might overlap)
-No alt-voting
-No being a jerk
-No deleting posts, this will be enough of a headache to count already.
-No changing votes, see above.
-One Pokedex number, one entry. I believe that means you get Paradoxes, but not Megas, -maxes, regionals, and Formes. You are welcome to factor that into your vote, or not, however you wish.
-I will never vote but I will serve as the final tiebreaker, including in seeding.
-I'm not unblocking people just so I can count their votes.
-I can modify these rules however I want. Don't be the reason I do so.

ROUND 1 RULES
-Give +3, +2, +1, -1, -2, and -3 to Pokemon however you see fit.
-There are two divisions per day to do this for.
-Please use the Easy Vote form.
-Bottom three scores per division are eliminated (most divisions, 7/10 survive, but there are a few 11-mon divisions that will send 8 through)
-However, the top 11 scores from 8th (or 9th, in the bigger divisions) place finishers will survive.
-Top 26 scoring winners will receive a bye next round.
-1,025 Pokemon will enter, 730 will leave.

Google sheet (has all the info available, if you can follow my thought processes): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13DKkynMv81TbEDq5ENihw5qsc2GNY4Beb9Xb5e4YTfs/edit?usp=sharing

Poison Jab division
Cutiefly
Fletchinder
Glalie
Gliscor
Hydrapple
Hypno
Klawf
Overqwil
Scyther
Whimsicott

Dragon Rage division
Cubone
Dedenne
Elgyem
Espathra
Lunatone
Nacli
Noivern
Regice
Slaking
Whiscash

EASY VOTE FORM
Poison Jab
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3
Dragon Rage
+3
+2
+1
-1
-2
-3

It's User of the Year, but with Pokemon! And, y'know, a modified format to fit the bajillion pokemon. I could use help with votals!
-Rounds are posted whenever I get to them, daily-ish.
-Regardless of when they are posted, they will last 24 hours unless stated otherwise (ie they might overlap)
-No alt-voting
-No being a jerk
-No deleting posts, this will be enough of a headache to count already.
-No changing votes, see above.
-One Pokedex number, one entry. I believe that means you get Paradoxes but not Megas, -maxes, regionals, and Formes. You are welcome to factor that into your vote, or not, however you wish.
-I will never vote but I will serve as the final tiebreaker, including in seeding.
-I'm not unblocking people just so I can count their votes.
-I can modify these rules however I want. Don't be the reason I do so.

ROUND 1 RULES
-Give +3, +2, +1, -1, -2, and -3 to Pokemon however you see fit.
-Please use the Easy Vote form.
-Bottom three scores per division are eliminated (most divisions, 7/10 survive, but there are a few 11-mon divisions that will send 8 through)
-However, the top 11 scores from 8th (or 9th, in the bigger divisions) place finishers will survive.
-Top 26 scoring winners will receive a bye next round.
-1,025 Pokemon will enter, 730 will leave.

Google sheet (has all the info available, if you can follow my thought processes): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13DKkynMv81TbEDq5ENihw5qsc2GNY4Beb9Xb5e4YTfs/edit?usp=sharing

please send me thoughts and prayers, this is a terrible idea

I ain't posting all 102 divisions, please use the sheet if you want that info for round 1 >_> These divisions, and their names, are randomly assigned, but most things will be at least slightly seeded, going forward.

Think that covers it??

It just ain't clickin for me. I haven't found a particular problem but I think it's just too.......Netflix-y. It looks nice but just doesn't appeal to me most of the time.

L-Block
Sora
Vincent
Draven

I have two wins, and both of them rolled the 8 boss pretty easily and immediately got WRECKED by 9

AriaOfBolo posted...

I usually like aesthetics like this but for some reason I am violently not vibing with this presentation

I got over it and turned some of the options down, game rules

I usually like aesthetics like this but for some reason I am violently not vibing with this presentation

Pepperoni
Sausage
Extra Cheese
Veggie (or if that doesn't count, mushroom)

FFDragon posted...

I feel like there was a six month stretch where I got nothing but Dr. Squatch

I was perfectly happy forgetting that existed

never heard of it but raided into a stream and wowee <3