Lurker > Haste_2

The Luigi pickers were lucky that Luigi strengthened since the last contest, as there wasn't much indication of that. And Luigi STILL couldn't pull it off, and he even had the doubled registered user vote! Picking Luigi in the first place made no sense given the high ceiling potential of MMX, Tifa, and Mewtwo.
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Shovel Knight wasn't near the bottom? Good.

I'm going to rank these more based on how I think the matches would go one-on-one, as opposed to how well they'd do on Link or somebody strong.

1. Guile
2. Gordon
3. Aqua
4. Noctis
5. Joel
6. John Marston
7. Metal Man
8. Isabelle
9. Kazuma
10. Ryo Hazuki
11. Yu Narukami
12. Aya
13. Primrose
14. Shantae
15. Cuphead
16. Monika
17. Neku
18. D.Va
19. Godot
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Only a tiny percentage of the registered voters voted for Draven because of Draven's past success. Registered voters voted 87.77% for Ammy and 88.86% of anonymous voters voted for Ammy.
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The following rankings give an idea of how oriented the CBX characters are towards anonymous voters and registered voters. Negative percentages indicate that a character is oriented towards anonymous voters, while positive percentages indicate a character is oriented towards registered voters. I can tell you right now, though, that these are not necessarily accurate (for example, notice how far apart Scorpion and Sub-Zero are). I merely got these numbers by comparing anonymous vs. registered x-stats. Monika is a distant #1 because of rallied votes, of course.

1)Monika:-19.26%
2)Primrose:-13.31%
3)Gordon:-9.35%
4)Estelle:-9.17%
5)Marston:-9.00%
6)Ezio:-8.99%
7)Scorpion:-8.39%
8)Isaac:-8.34%
9)Cecil:-8.16%
10)Kratos:-7.73%
11)Ryo:-7.50%
12)Joel:-7.09%
13)Terra:-6.66%
14)Dragonborn:-6.22%
15)Cayde-6:-6.02%
16)Guile:-5.55%
17)Sora:-5.34%
18)Yuna:-4.98%
19)Ike:-4.47%
20)Kiryu:-4.33%
21)Shantae:-4.32%
22)Neptune:-4.16%
23)Crash:-4.08%
24)Yu:-4.06%
25)Tidus:-3.98%
26)Chris:-3.83%
27)Bomberman:-3.72%
28)Big Boss:-3.69%
29)Zero:-3.63%
30)Velvet:-3.46%
31)Neku:-3.42%
32)Cuphead:-3.25%
33)Garrus:-3.11%
34)Chloe:-2.87%
35)Master Hand:-2.87%
36)Knuckles:-2.77%
37)Alucard:-2.60%
38)Crono:-2.58%
39)Godot:-2.53%
40)Charizard:-2.42%
41)Wario:-2.24%
42)Vivi:-2.07%
43)Kirby:-2.05%
44)Ridley:-1.92%
45)Aloy:-1.91%
46)Cloud:-1.74%
47)Aya Brea:-1.64%
48)Metal Sonic:-1.15%
49)Shadow:-1.12%
50)Majima:-0.99%
51)Drake:-0.95%
52)Squall:-0.87%
53)James:-0.84%
54)Yoshi:-0.80%
55)Spyro:-0.72%
56)Kefka:-0.70%
57)Aerith:-0.69%
58)Lightning:-0.68%
59)Bowser:-0.65%
60)Red:-0.56%
61)Dante:-0.39%
62)Ness:-0.36%
63)Leon:-0.32%
64)Mega Man:-0.26%
65)Ramza:-0.04%
66)Phoenix:0.12%
67)Metal Man:0.13%
68)Sully:0.13%
69)Hat Kid:0.30%
70)Geralt:0.35%
71)Ryu H.:0.42%
72)Noctis:0.50%
73)Joker:0.53%
74)2B:0.63%
75)The Boss:0.69%
76)Vincent:0.74%
77)Donkey Kong:0.81%
78)Peach:0.82%
79)Chun-Li:0.83%
80)Jill:1.01%
81)Tails:1.07%
82)Richter:1.08%
83)Link:1.11%
84)Pikachu:1.11%
85)Riku:1.15%
86)Isabelle:1.17%
87)Fox:1.30%
88)GlaDOS:1.37%
89)Claire:1.70%
90)Zidane:1.72%
91)Toad:1.97%
92)Magus:2.00%
93)Waluigi:2.02%
94)Ganondorf:2.03%
95)Lara:2.04%
96)Sephiroth:2.36%
97)Tifa:2.48%
98)Zelda:2.52%
99)Chief:2.60%
100)L-Block:2.62%
101)Shovel Knight:2.63%
102)Simon:2.90%
103)Rosalina:2.94%
104)Mega Man X:3.03%
105)Geno:3.04%
106)Quiet:3.05%
107)Bayonetta:3.15%
108)Auron:3.20%
109)Sub-Zero:3.36%
110)Shepard:3.43%
111)Wesker:3.43%
112)Amaterasu:3.50%
113)Lucina:3.53%
114)Aqua:3.61%
115)K. Rool:3.98%
116)Dedede:4.01%
117)Samus:4.15%
118)Ocelot:4.30%
119)Ellie:4.50%
120)Frog:4.60%
121)Snake:4.61%
122)Lloyd:4.77%
123)Shulk:5.02%
124)Monokuma:5.25%
125)Pac-Man:5.46%
126)Mewtwo:5.55%
127)Mario:5.82%
128)Sonic:6.10%
129)D.Va:6.35%
130)Ryu:7.19%
131)KOS-MOS:7.38%
132)Falcon:8.01%
133)Draven:8.51%
134)Luigi:8.70%
135)Sans:9.42%
136)Miles:11.02%
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Cindy Lou Who
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Awesome bracket! You have given a lot of non-Nintendo/Square games a chance at getting to at least round 3, which is GREAT!

But I think it would be REALLY awesome if you could have an entire fourth of a bracket that has no Nintendo or Square games whatsoever... or, at least, no Nintendo/Square games that have any shot at winning, as we wouldn't want another situation similar to SMRPG in the last game contest!

For example, maybe we could combine most of those various four-packs into one-fourth of the bracket....

Division 7 Example
StarCraft
Harvest Moon

Sonic 3 & Knuckles
(Duke Nukem 3D

Sonic the Hedgehog 2
NBA Jam

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Metroid II: Return of Samus

F-Zero
Twisted Metal 2

Metal Gear Solid
RollerCoaster Tycoon

Tomb Raider
Earthworm Jim

Spyro the Dragon
Donkey Kong '94

Division 8 Example
Warcraft II: Reign of Chaos
Suikoden

Mega Man X
Planescape: Torment

Mortal Kombat
The Simpsons Arcade Game

Mega Man 7
Unreal Tournament

Soul Calibur
Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals

Half-Life
Gunstar Heroes

Resident Evil 3
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Crash Bandicoot
Donkey Kong 64

Except that seeds would probably be adusted, of course.

Edit: Actually, I'll remove the Goldeneye four-pack, as that game is quasi-Nintendo.
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User-Adjusted Rankings (registered votes count double)
1)Link-50.00%
2)Samus-40.90%
3)Cloud-39.48%
4)Mario-39.29%
5)Zelda-38.65%
6)Snake-38.40%
7)Crono-35.54%
8)Pikachu-35.46%
9)Mega Man-35.39%
10)Tifa-33.59%
11)Mega Man X-33.47%
12)Luigi-32.67%
13)Sonic-32.62%
14)Bowser-32.07%
15)Yoshi-32.06%
16)Sephiroth-32.03%
17)Alucard-31.28%
18)Zero-30.81%
19)Auron-29.80%
20)Kirby-29.60%
21)Aerith-29.23%
22)Red-28.89%
23)Sora-28.38%
24)Squall-28.35%
25)Ganondorf-28.29%
26)Mewtwo-28.15%
27)Geralt-27.93%
28)Charizard-27.87%
29)Fox-27.65%
30)Big Boss-27.63%
31)Bayonetta-27.43%
32)Vivi-27.18%
33)Knuckles-27.02%
34)Peach-27.02%
35)2B-26.82%
36)Simon-26.70%
37)Vincent-26.34%
38)Terra-26.31%
39)Pac-Man-26.30%
40)Ryu H.-26.28%
41)Crash-26.04%
42)Kratos-25.95%
43)Sub-Zero-25.80%
44)Ryu-25.45%
45)Jill-25.38%
46)Kefka-25.37%
47)Magus-25.35%
48)Yuna-25.26%
49)Frog-25.07%
50)Waluigi-24.89%
51)Ness-24.82%
52)Amaterasu-24.74%
53)Dante-24.67%
54)Rosalina-24.56%
55)Wario-24.50%
56)Donkey Kong-24.47%
57)Ridley-23.95%
58)Cecil-23.87%
59)Scorpion-23.83%
60)Toad-23.39%
61)Zidane-23.35%
62)Chun-Li-23.25%
63)Shadow-23.21%
64)The Boss-22.65%
65)Falcon-22.46%
66)Lara-22.31%
67)Shovel Knight-22.19%
68)Leon-21.70%
69)Ocelot-21.15%
70)GlaDOS-21.12%
71)Tidus-21.08%
72)Dedede-20.94%
73)Lucina-20.59%
74)Garrus-20.40%
75)Bomberman-20.39%
76)Spyro-20.38%
77)L-Block-20.20%
78)Ramza-20.15%
79)Tails-19.83%
80)Metal Sonic-19.70%
81)Riku-19.53%
82)Shulk-19.31%
83)Master Hand-19.12%
84)Ezio-19.07%
85)Wesker-19.03%
86)Velvet-18.84%
87)Phoenix-18.76%
88)Ike-18.51%
89)Geno-18.01%
90)Richter-17.79%
91)KOS-MOS-17.78%
92)Chief-17.66%
93)Isaac-17.59%
94)Ryo-17.55%
95)Claire-17.41%
96)Monika-17.37%
97)Drake-17.17%
98)Shepard-17.03%
99)Lightning-16.96%
100)K. Rool-16.61%
101)Shantae-16.50%
102)Noctis-16.24%
103)Ellie-16.20%
104)Joker-16.16%
105)Chris-16.16%
106)Lloyd-16.07%
107)Kiryu-15.95%
108)Primrose-15.91%
109)D.Va-15.75%
110)Aqua-15.15%
111)Guile-15.07%
112)Sans-15.05%
113)Aloy-14.83%
114)Miles-14.72%
115)James-14.68%
116)Gordon-14.50%
117)Metal Man-14.33%
118)Neptune-14.26%
119)Cuphead-14.02%
120)Joel-13.95%
121)Marston-13.92%
122)Godot-13.86%
123)Hat Kid-13.68%
124)Yu-13.65%
125)Dragonborn-13.59%
126)Aya Brea-13.35%
127)Isabelle-12.95%
128)Estelle-12.44%
129)Neku-12.10%
130)Cayde-6-11.91%
131)Monokuma-11.84%
132)Majima-10.94%
133)Quiet-10.88%
134)Sully-10.79%
135)Chloe-8.75%
136)Draven-5.86%

I may have used more space than the other forty six posts combined will be on this page....

I'll post some stats tomorrow to show which characters have the largest gap between the user-based x-stats and the anonymous-based x-stats.
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Congrats to Advokaiser on pwning me in CBX!

Raw Total Vote Rankings
1)Link-50.00%
2)Samus-40.54%
3)Cloud-39.85%
4)Mario-38.76%
5)Zelda-38.48%
6)Snake-37.98%
7)Crono-35.96%
8)Mega Man-35.54%
9)Pikachu-35.46%
10)Tifa-33.47%
11)Mega Man X-33.30%
12)Yoshi-32.25%
13)Bowser-32.24%
14)Sonic-32.11%
15)Luigi-31.94%
16)Sephiroth-31.93%
17)Alucard-31.65%
18)Zero-31.27%
19)Kirby-29.90%
20)Auron-29.60%
21)Aerith-29.40%
22)Red-29.04%
23)Sora-28.96%
24)Squall-28.53%
25)Ganondorf-28.19%
26)Charizard-28.18%
27)Big Boss-28.06%
28)Geralt-27.99%
29)Mewtwo-27.78%
30)Fox-27.63%
31)Vivi-27.43%
32)Knuckles-27.34%
33)Bayonetta-27.25%
34)Peach-27.03%
35)Terra-26.99%
36)2B-26.85%
37)Kratos-26.71%
38)Simon-26.54%
39)Crash-26.48%
40)Vincent-26.37%
41)Ryu H.-26.33%
42)Pac-Man-25.93%
43)Yuna-25.77%
44)Sub-Zero-25.61%
45)Kefka-25.51%
46)Jill-25.39%
47)Magus-25.27%
48)Ryu-25.00%
49)Ness-24.94%
50)Frog-24.82%
51)Waluigi-24.81%
52)Dante-24.77%
53)Wario-24.74%
54)Cecil-24.61%
55)Scorpion-24.58%
56)Amaterasu-24.58%
57)Donkey Kong-24.47%
58)Rosalina-24.41%
59)Ridley-24.17%
60)Shadow-23.37%
61)Toad-23.32%
62)Zidane-23.29%
63)Chun-Li-23.26%
64)The Boss-22.68%
65)Lara-22.27%
66)Shovel Knight-22.07%
67)Falcon-22.01%
68)Leon-21.77%
69)Tidus-21.42%
70)GlaDOS-21.12%
71)Ocelot-20.96%
72)Dedede-20.77%
73)Bomberman-20.70%
74)Garrus-20.68%
75)Spyro-20.49%
76)Lucina-20.44%
77)Ramza-20.21%
78)L-Block-20.09%
79)Metal Sonic-19.84%
80)Tails-19.82%
81)Ezio-19.70%
82)Riku-19.53%
83)Master Hand-19.36%
84)Velvet-19.12%
85)Shulk-19.08%
86)Wesker-18.91%
87)Ike-18.84%
88)Phoenix-18.81%
89)Monika-18.53%
90)Isaac-18.14%
91)Ryo-18.05%
92)Geno-17.92%
93)Richter-17.80%
94)Chief-17.56%
95)KOS-MOS-17.45%
96)Claire-17.37%
97)Drake-17.27%
98)Lightning-17.05%
99)Shepard-16.91%
100)Shantae-16.80%
101)Primrose-16.66%
102)K. Rool-16.47%
103)Chris-16.42%
104)Noctis-16.26%
105)Kiryu-16.24%
106)Joker-16.19%
107)Ellie-16.04%
108)Lloyd-15.90%
109)D.Va-15.49%
110)Guile-15.40%
111)Aqua-15.05%
112)Gordon-15.02%
113)Aloy-14.96%
114)James-14.76%
115)Sans-14.66%
116)Neptune-14.51%
117)Marston-14.39%
118)Metal Man-14.39%
119)Joel-14.33%
120)Miles-14.29%
121)Cuphead-14.21%
122)Godot-14.02%
123)Dragonborn-13.92%
124)Yu-13.87%
125)Hat Kid-13.71%
126)Aya Brea-13.45%
127)Isabelle-12.96%
128)Estelle-12.87%
129)Neku-12.28%
130)Cayde-6-12.19%
131)Monokuma-11.70%
132)Majima-11.01%
133)Quiet-10.82%
134)Sully-10.81%
135)Chloe-8.86%
136)Draven-5.74%
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Congrats to Advokaiser on pwning me in CBX!

Anonymous Voter Rankings
1)Link-50.00%
2)Cloud-40.89%
3)Samus-39.62%
4)Zelda-38.02%
5)Mario-37.35%
6)Crono-37.12%
7)Snake-36.83%
8)Mega Man-35.90%
9)Pikachu-35.39%
10)Tifa-33.20%
11)Mega Man X-32.88%
12)Alucard-32.73%
13)Yoshi-32.73%
14)Bowser-32.71%
15)Zero-32.43%
16)Sephiroth-31.70%
17)Sonic-30.72%
18)Kirby-30.72%
19)Sora-30.67%
20)Luigi-29.96%
21)Aerith-29.85%
22)Red-29.45%
23)Big Boss-29.26%
24)Charizard-29.05%
25)Auron-29.03%
26)Terra-29.02%
27)Squall-29.00%
28)Kratos-28.86%
29)Knuckles-28.12%
30)Geralt-28.12%
31)Vivi-28.00%
32)Ganondorf-27.83%
33)Crash-27.71%
34)Fox-27.56%
35)Yuna-27.22%
36)Peach-26.99%
37)2B-26.92%
38)Cecil-26.82%
39)Mewtwo-26.79%
40)Scorpion-26.76%
41)Bayonetta-26.71%
42)Ryu H.-26.43%
43)Vincent-26.42%
44)Simon-26.05%
45)Kefka-25.92%
46)Jill-25.40%
47)Wario-25.34%
48)Ness-25.22%
49)Sub-Zero-25.08%
50)Magus-25.04%
51)Dante-24.97%
52)Pac-Man-24.90%
53)Ridley-24.76%
54)Waluigi-24.55%
55)Donkey Kong-24.32%
56)Amaterasu-24.18%
57)Frog-24.09%
58)Rosalina-23.94%
59)Shadow-23.81%
60)Ryu-23.77%
61)Chun-Li-23.21%
62)Toad-23.10%
63)Zidane-23.07%
64)The Boss-22.77%
65)Tidus-22.32%
66)Lara-22.19%
67)Leon-21.87%
68)Shovel Knight-21.74%
69)Monika-21.62%
70)Bomberman-21.60%
71)Ezio-21.48%
72)Garrus-21.45%
73)GlaDOS-21.08%
74)Spyro-20.77%
75)Falcon-20.76%
76)Ocelot-20.46%
77)Ramza-20.36%
78)Dedede-20.32%
79)Metal Sonic-20.25%
80)Lucina-19.99%
81)Master Hand-19.94%
82)Velvet-19.89%
83)Ike-19.80%
84)L-Block-19.74%
85)Isaac-19.73%
86)Tails-19.66%
87)Ryo-19.53%
88)Riku-19.48%
89)Phoenix-18.94%
90)Primrose-18.66%
91)Wesker-18.59%
92)Shulk-18.42%
93)Richter-17.79%
94)Geno-17.68%
95)Shantae-17.63%
96)Drake-17.45%
97)Claire-17.26%
98)Lightning-17.23%
99)Chris-17.17%
100)Chief-17.17%
101)Kiryu-17.04%
102)Shepard-16.59%
103)KOS-MOS-16.57%
104)Gordon-16.55%
105)Guile-16.38%
106)Noctis-16.29%
107)Joker-16.25%
108)K. Rool-16.08%
109)Marston-15.76%
110)Ellie-15.61%
111)Joel-15.47%
112)Lloyd-15.43%
113)Aloy-15.30%
114)Neptune-15.23%
115)James-14.96%
116)Dragonborn-14.82%
117)D.Va-14.76%
118)Aqua-14.74%
119)Cuphead-14.74%
120)Metal Man-14.58%
121)Yu-14.45%
122)Godot-14.44%
123)Estelle-14.12%
124)Hat Kid-13.78%
125)Aya Brea-13.67%
126)Sans-13.59%
127)Miles-13.14%
128)Cayde-6-13.02%
129)Isabelle-13.00%
130)Neku-12.78%
131)Monokuma-11.29%
132)Majima-11.12%
133)Sully-10.79%
134)Quiet-10.65%
135)Chloe-9.16%
136)Draven-5.39%
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Congrats to Advokaiser on pwning me in CBX!

Because of my time off from the Christmas holiday, I found some time to work on the four different kinds of (unadjusted) x-stats! Previously we only posted x-stats when counting registered voters twice.

Registered Voter Rankings
1)Link-50.00%
2)Samus-41.76%
3)Mario-40.57%
4)Snake-39.30%
5)Zelda-39.02%
6)Cloud-38.73%
7)Pikachu-35.46%
8)Mega Man-35.06%
9)Crono-34.65%
10)Luigi-34.34%
11)Mega Man X-33.94%
12)Tifa-33.93%
13)Sonic-33.70%
14)Sephiroth-32.32%
15)Bowser-31.68%
16)Yoshi-31.64%
17)Alucard-30.49%
18)Auron-30.21%
19)Zero-29.80%
20)Mewtwo-29.00%
21)Kirby-28.96%
22)Aerith-28.87%
23)Red-28.56%
24)Ganondorf-28.45%
25)Squall-27.97%
26)Bayonetta-27.80%
27)Geralt-27.78%
28)Fox-27.68%
29)Charizard-27.20%
30)Sora-27.11%
31)Pac-Man-27.05%
32)Simon-27.01%
33)Peach-26.95%
34)Big Boss-26.73%
35)2B-26.73%
36)Vivi-26.57%
37)Ryu-26.50%
38)Knuckles-26.29%
39)Vincent-26.28%
40)Sub-Zero-26.18%
41)Ryu H.-26.15%
42)Frog-25.68%
43)Magus-25.49%
44)Jill-25.37%
45)Amaterasu-25.16%
46)Crash-25.12%
47)Kefka-25.06%
48)Waluigi-25.03%
49)Terra-24.92%
50)Rosalina-24.85%
51)Ness-24.57%
52)Dante-24.40%
53)Donkey Kong-24.40%
54)Kratos-24.38%
55)Yuna-24.21%
56)Wario-23.93%
57)Toad-23.52%
58)Falcon-23.51%
59)Ridley-23.45%
60)Zidane-23.43%
61)Chun-Li-23.19%
62)Shadow-22.86%
63)The Boss-22.59%
64)Lara-22.47%
65)Shovel Knight-22.41%
66)Cecil-22.36%
67)Scorpion-22.27%
68)Ocelot-21.62%
69)Leon-21.47%
70)Dedede-21.37%
71)GlaDOS-21.17%
72)Lucina-20.93%
73)L-Block-20.39%
74)Tidus-20.34%
75)Spyro-20.12%
76)Ramza-19.98%
77)Garrus-19.82%
78)Shulk-19.82%
79)Tails-19.81%
80)Bomberman-19.72%
81)Riku-19.54%
82)Metal Sonic-19.40%
83)Wesker-19.35%
84)Phoenix-18.63%
85)Master Hand-18.59%
86)KOS-MOS-18.54%
87)Geno-18.26%
88)Velvet-18.25%
89)Chief-17.82%
90)Ike-17.80%
91)Richter-17.80%
92)Ezio-17.73%
93)Claire-17.48%
94)Shepard-17.30%
95)K. Rool-16.94%
96)Drake-16.92%
97)Lightning-16.75%
98)Ellie-16.58%
99)Ryo-16.51%
100)Lloyd-16.47%
101)Isaac-16.45%
102)D.Va-16.29%
103)Noctis-16.16%
104)Joker-16.10%
105)Shantae-15.89%
106)Sans-15.87%
107)Miles-15.70%
108)Chris-15.62%
109)Aqua-15.42%
110)Kiryu-15.36%
111)Monika-14.80%
112)Aloy-14.51%
113)James-14.48%
114)Guile-14.39%
115)Primrose-14.28%
116)Metal Man-14.25%
117)Neptune-13.75%
118)Hat Kid-13.60%
119)Cuphead-13.60%
120)Godot-13.52%
121)Gordon-13.46%
122)Joel-13.17%
123)Yu-13.16%
124)Aya Brea-13.09%
125)Isabelle-12.97%
126)Marston-12.96%
127)Dragonborn-12.91%
128)Monokuma-12.18%
129)Neku-11.73%
130)Estelle-11.56%
131)Cayde-6-11.33%
132)Quiet-11.03%
133)Majima-10.78%
134)Sully-10.71%
135)Chloe-8.52%
136)Draven-6.16%
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Keep up the good work, MMS!

Okay, on to ranking characters around the fodder line....

In my opinion, Shulk and Garrus deserve being on this list more than Nathan Drake and Lightning!

The Boss
Ocelot
Dedede
Captain Toad
Bomberman
L-Block
Lucina
GlaDOS
KOS-MOS
Wesker
Isaac
Master Chief
Nathan Drake
Master Hand
Lightning
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I think Mario/Crono 2003 is a contender for worst match of all time.

Let's do this to settle the matter!
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Regarding Sonic vs. Samus, Sonic wasn't the heavy favorite. 31% of brackets picked Samus, and keep in mind both Sonic and Samus both only had about 60% bracket support for their victories the previous round. Samus also had better odds for winning the contest... 1:36 as opposed to 1:45 for Sonic, I believe. And I thought Samus was going to beat Sonic fairly easily...

But yeah, the fact that it was a nailbiter was amazing, because we've never seen such a match before. I remember people saying a 50/50 match was almost impossible.
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Light World Dungeon


Mario Kart 64 - Moo Moo Farm


SaGa Frontier - Battle Theme 1


Lunar: The Silver Star - Determination


Shovel Knight - Strike the Earth! Plains of Passage


Unlimited SaGa - Battle Theme 1

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1. Captain Falcon
2. Jill
3. Lara
4. Ness
5. Ridley
6. Waluigi
7. Wario
8. Zidane
9. Cecil
10. Scorpion
11. Simon
12. Pac-Man
13. Ryu Hayabusa
14. Phoenix
15. Ike
16. Spyro
17. Shadow
18. Tails
19. Rosalina

@Anagram, you need to fix your Captain Falcon ranking.
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Is Day 5 coming?
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Milk chocolate candy sucks unless it's high quality. A plain hershey's bar is one of my least favorite candies. It's kind of okay with almonds, though. Even poor quality dark chocolate (like Hershey's) tastes pretty good to me.

Milk chocolate when it's not "candy" is good to me, though.
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1. Fox
2. Amaterasu
3. Knuckles
4. Peach
5. 2B
6. Vincent
7. Terra
8. Chun-Li
9. Kratos
10. Sub-Zero
11, Kefka
12. Crash
13. Magus
14. Yuna
15. Frog
16. Geralt
17. Leon
18. Bayonetta
19. Tidus
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Yup.
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Mother Brain
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40% on Zero or 43% or Aeris? I think I'll take the latter, but it's close.

Shovel Knight vs. Commander Shepard, who ya got?

>_> (Captain Shepard? Oops, I guess I had Captain Toad on my mind...)
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Ringworm posted...

For yesterday, the reason I had Tifa and MMX so far apart is, as I hinted at then, is that I think a lot of those characters are very close to each other in strength. Looking back, I possibly should have had X a bit higher, but my ranking was probably a bit biased on where I live too - MM and X always do quite badly in Europe/Australia. As I think most match ups would be within a few percent between those characters, I think X would probably lose to more of the others than he would win, based on the Euro/Aus voters.

By the exact same logic, you could say that MMX would beat all those characters because he does better than them in North America.
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At least Yoshi didn't end up kicked out of the near-elites. Yeesh.

1. Zero
2. Auron
3. Aerith
4. Red
5. Squall
6. Sora
7. Mewtwo
8. Ryu
9. Charizard
10. Dante
11. Donkey Kong
12. Big Boss
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Is it just me or are a lot of the values Link has historically been set at pretty dumb? I, uh, really, REALLY don't think 2007 Link being worth 59.90% on Base Link is a thing.

I agree that they are really dumb. In fact, I made the 2007 stats eleven years ago because it seems nobody wanted to. I used Morgoth's mult-way poll calculations, which was the prevailing x-stats method at the time, to show how terrible that method of extrapolating is. Honestly, the probability/ratio method of calculating works a LOT better. Even the linear calculations (which we use in all 1v1 matches) work better than Morgoth's, despite its inaccuracies in 3/4-way polls.

I'm wondering how 2008's x-stats were created, though, because they don't look like they used Morgoth's method. (I was completely AWOL between late 2008 and 2010.) It looks like the traditional linear calculations were used that year.

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LeonhartFour posted...

Except Zero Suit Samus doesn't even hurt Samus anymore because it's firmly become established as its own thing because of Smash.

Didn't Samus get a ZSS pic against Snake? What if a ZSS pic actually makes Samus stronger now? Unfortunately, the pics on creative's site are in pieces and scattered, so I'm not able to check on what pics were used in which matches.
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Thankfully, there is a way to address this. Notice how the problem in measuring Samus is sandwiched between two matches: Samus/Tifa and Snake/Samus. Notice the connection between those two matches? We've seen both of those matches were done in past contests... and they're considered to be a bit wonky. In other words, there is a high probability that either Samus/Snake or Samus/Tifa is wonky once again. I don't think Tifa gets 47% on Snake... not on a Snake that did as well as he did on Sonic and Auron when they (Sonic and Auron) have no reason to drop significantly...

Whether Tifa overperformed on Samus or Samus overperformed on Snake in this contest, I don't know... but one of those happening seems likely.
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7. Zelda's! I didn't use anything Zelda did after Snake. I looked at her results within her division, where she was much more 'normal', and found that her results against Ramza, Aeris, Fox, and to a lesser extent Jill, were pretty consistent (and those characters themselves were internally consistent as well).

Very good. I chose Fox as the constant when measuring Zelda and her division.

I decided to use those - her indirect 39% or whatever against Link is simply stronger than the results she put up before. So she ends up lower than Mario and Cloud in the stats but if you put Zelda against them Round 1, I don't think she competes. Snake was adjusted through Zelda's results in her division. As for what Zelda's (and by association, Snake's) final indirect non-bandwagon result against Link was derived by...I don't really remember. It involved a lot of cross-referencing. Aside from Ramza/Aeris/Fox/Jill, I think Lloyd Irving got in on the action too?

I agree that Zelda can't compete with Cloud in a normal situation. However, I disagree in exactly when you say she behaved abnormally. You set the cut off between her normal self and her boosted self as right after the Snake/Zelda match. I think the cut off point was between the regular bracket and the legends bracket.

I don't think Zelda changed much during the actual legends bracket. Yeah, you could say she was able to rSFF Mario and gain a % or two, but she did nothing special against Sonic, the very round after she pulled the upset on Snake. Yeah, maybe Zelda would have a reason to bandwagon more after she beat Mario, but then she got killed by Link the next round and not really have a big reason to maintain it in her match against Cloud.

8. Sonic and Auron made their divisions look bad. I used Sonic's result against Zelda instead of Snake, which bumped him up (and put his division more in line with what it should be), but Sonic himself still looks bad. Shrug.

This is another place where my opinion differs. There's only one match that Auron looked bad: His match against Geralt. Otherwise, Auron looked like his normal self, only slightly weaker. When basing Snake off of Zelda in the main (non-legends) bracket, then yes, of course it's going to make Auron's division and Sonic look bad.

I stated earlier that I believe that Snake shouldn't be measured from Zelda in the main bracket. Snake is better measured through the Zelda in the legends bracket, in my opinion. Yeah, it's not ideal, but I do think it's more accurate than the former. And Zelda, in the legends bracket, I measure through Cloud. This, of course, puts Snake near Cloud. And Sonic's division now looks more reasonable compared to the divisions in the top half of the bracket. (and Sonic really should be at 37.61% given how good

Now.... I am aware of one MAJOR contradiction that gets exposed when measuring Snake and Zelda in this manner: Snake vs. Samus. The problem here is that if you assume Snake vs. Samus is accurate, and put Snake near Cloud's level, this puts Samus pretty high... which is fine, I suppose. But the REAL issue is that Tifa's division is now ridiculously overrated and Luigi's now projected to compete with Crono or Pikachu. Not good at all.
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I would probably put Ganondorf at 45% on Mega Man. 44% on Mega Man means that Ganondorf is weaker than Yoshi, and I would never pull the trigger on Yoshi in a Ganondorf/Yoshi match. I would probably take Bowser over Ganondorf, but not Yoshi.

2. Ganondorf/Mega Man is a fraud result. The pic disadvantage was nuts. It makes Vivi, Leon Kennedy, Tidus, and Dante all look extremely bad. For that Division, I ended up doing Yuna's and Bowser's divisions first (two of the easiest to do outside of Phoenix Wright/Kirby), then did two comparisons: one where I set Tidus equal to Yuna and one where I set Ganondorf equal to Bowser. Think I took the middle ground of those but both comparisons ended up with very similar stats.

Noted. I chose 44% because Luigi gained about 4% on Ganondorf in the 2007 contest when Ganondorf got his Bacondorf pic in 2007, plus my adjustment is intentionally a little bit conservative. Of course, NES Bacondorf is probably even more hurtful than SNES Bacondorf, so I suppose 45% on Mega Man is better. Yoshi beating Ganondorf wouldn't surprise me, though, after proving he's on par with Bowser.

1. Division 2 and 3 needed no adjustments and were really easy to make because there weren't many SFF matches in the matches the division winners had in the Legends bracket.

Fine with me.

3. Kirby messed up his whole side of the division. I'm not buying that Ness 60-40s Ike, so I set Ike's relation to Ness equal to his relation to Ness via 2010 and called it a day. For Kirby I went back and checked some results, found some stuff that indicated he was about even to Bowser indirectly (his match against Terra being the biggest indicator), then set him slightly under Bowser and called it a day.

I just set Kirby equal to Bowser for simplicity sake, but slightly under is just as fine.

4. Knocked Geralt down a peg because otherwise his half of the division looked too strong. Arbitrary but necessary. Used Ryu Hayabusa as a comparison to Sub-Zero to help do so.

Yup, I agree.

5. Tifa's number (and subsequently, her division) was placed by comparisons between Luigi/Bowser and Mewtwo/Charizard. Setting those ones (around) equal to each other ended up with elegant stats, and lined up with prior results, so I rolled with it. Samus was then projected through Tifa's projection against Link through Tifa's result against Luigi/Mewtwo through their comparison with Bowser/Charizard - my head hurts.

Interesting. Probably the smart thing to do. I measured her through the Tifa/Sephiroth match and just chose to assume it's accurate because Luigi was pretty close to where Bowser was. (in other words, either method gets a fairly similar result, even though your method is clearly better)

6. Sephiroth's matches against Amaterasu and Mario were prioritized over his results against Captain Falcon and Ryu. That put him on the lower end of his x-stat 'potential', but he lost to Tifa straight-up so...yeah. I ignored the Tifa match and using the Ammy and Mario matches, he still ends up losing something like 51-49 in the final stats so he probably ended up where he should be anyway. Mario was projected through Sephiroth...and Cloud...I think. I looked at a LOT of different stuff to try and figure out a good number. Sephiroth caused issues. Only division that caused more issues was...

This is where my opinion differs. I do indeed think Sephiroth was inconsistent, but not because he just randomly behaves abnormally. Rather, I think he weakened once he reached the Legends bracket for whatever reason. Thus, I made an adjustment for Sephiroth's division based on the stronger Sephiroth, but Mario and Tifa are measured through the weaker Sephiroth.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Zelda was adjusted via her projected results against Aeris, Ramza, and Fox. I ignored the Link match and pretty much everything she had after Snake because she got way stronger after that match.

Sonic's division wasn't adjusted lower than normal. Sonic and Auron just did consistently bad. Sub-Zero (who was one of the constants I used) didn't end up too far away from where he usually is, so I think it turned out okay.

The other ones took a lot more adjusting than I have time to talk about. It wasn't as simple as 'Mario through Cloud' because a lot of the Legends matches were this gaping pit of bandwagons, revenge votes, SFF, and non-transitive results.

I disagree about Sonic and Auron being consistently bad, but I'm sorry for getting all of that stuff wrong. I would love to see exactly what all of your adjustments are. I know your basis for Zelda's adjustment was her division, but I thought you used Zelda's score on Link because it conveniently corresponded well with the placement of Fox/Ramza/Aeris. Guess I was wrong about that.
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2018 Adjusted Extrapolated Standings
Link - 57.66%
Samus Aran - 47.16%
Cloud Strife - 45.54%
Mario - 45.32%
Zelda (Legends) - 44.57%
Solid Snake - 44.29%
Zelda (Main) - 42.87%
Crono - 40.99%
Pikachu - 40.90%
Mega Man - 40.81%
Sephiroth (Main) - 40.50%
Tifa Lockheart - 38.74%
Mega Man X - 38.60%
Luigi - 37.68%
Sonic the Hedgehog - 37.61%
Bowser - 36.99%
Kirby - 36.99%
Yoshi - 36.98%
Sephiroth (Legends) - 36.93%
Alucard - 36.07%
Ganondorf - 35.92%
Zero - 35.54%
Vivi - 34.51%
Auron - 34.36%
Red - 33.32%
Sora - 32.72%
Mewtwo - 32.46%
Aerith - 32.42%
Ryu - 32.19%
Charizard - 32.14%
Big Boss - 31.86%
Squall Leonhart - 31.45%
Dante - 31.32%
Amaterasu - 31.29%
Knuckles - 31.17%
Princess Peach - 31.16%
Donkey Kong - 31.07%
2B - 30.93%
Fox - 30.67%
Vincent Valentine-30.38%
Terra Branford-30.34%
Crash Bandicoot-30.03%
Kratos-29.93%
Sub-Zero-29.75%
Chun Li-29.52%
Kefka-29.26%
Magus-29.23%
Yuna-29.13%
Frog-28.92%
Ness-28.63%
Geralt-28.48%
Captain Falcon-28.41%
Wario-28.25%
Lara Croft-28.22%
Jill Valentine-28.16%
Bayonetta-27.98%
Ridley-27.62%
Waluigi-27.61%
Leon Kennedy-27.54%
Cecil Harvey-27.52%
Scorpion-27.48%
Simon Belmont-27.23%
Zidane Tribal-26.93%
Pac-Man-26.82%
Ryu Hayabusa-26.81%
Tidus-26.77%
Shadow-26.76%
Captain Toad-25.94%
Spyro the Dragon-25.88%
Phoenix Wright-25.26%
The Boss-25.12%
Rosalina-25.05%
Ike-24.92%
Tails-24.87%
Shovel Knight-24.61%
Revolver Ocelot-24.39%
GlaDOS-24.36%
King Dedede-24.15%
Albert Wesker-24.07%
Lucina-23.75%
Bomberman-23.51%
L-Block-23.30%
Garrus Vakarian-22.63%
Richter Belmont-22.50%
KOS-MOS-22.48%
Ramza Beoulve-22.35%
Shulk-22.27%
Master Chief-22.14%
Master Hand-22.05%
Isaac-21.98%
Metal Sonic-21.85%
Chris Redfield-21.76%
Velvet Crowe-21.73%
Shepard-21.53%
Nathan Drake-21.52%
Lightning-21.52%
Ezio-21.15%
King K. Rool-21.00%
Geno-20.77%
Ellie-20.48%
Lloyd Irving-20.32%
Ryo Hazuki-20.23%
Claire Redfield-20.08%
Monika-20.03%
Riku-19.93%
Aqua-19.17%
Shantae-19.03%
Guile-18.83%
Joel-18.79%
Noctis-18.73%
Joker-18.64%
Kazuma Kiryu-18.40%
Primrose-18.35%
Metal Man-18.12%
Cuphead-17.79%
D. Va-17.47%
Yu Narukami-17.33%
Dragonborn-17.25%
Miles Edgeworth-16.98%
Aya Brea-16.94%
James Sunderland-16.93%
Gordon Freeman-16.72%
Neptune-16.45%
Aloy-16.44%
John Marston-16.06%
Godot-15.99%
Estelle Bright-15.55%
Neku Sakuraba-15.37%
Sans-15.35%
Hat Kid-15.17%
Isabelle-14.94%
Quiet-13.76%
Cayde-6-13.73%
Goro Majima-13.72%
Victor Sullivan-13.70%
Monokuma-13.66%
Chloe Price-11.11%
Draven-7.41%

Sorry about the formatting, I need to get to bed. Not that Sephiroth and Zelda have two versions, one in the main bracket and one in the legends bracket.
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Here are the 2018 Link-adjusted x-stats. Note that Link's 2013 x-stat is 52.23%, so Link 2018 is expected to get somewhere around 54.7% on Link 2013. Again, Crono is the constant here.

Link- 57.66%
Samus Aran - 47.16%
Cloud Strife - 45.54%
Mario - 45.32%
Zelda (Legends) - 44.57%
Solid Snake - 44.29%
Crono - 40.99%
Pikachu - 40.90%
Mega Man - 40.81%
Tifa Lockheart - 38.74%
Mega Man X - 38.60%
Luigi - 37.68%
Sonic the Hedgehog - 37.61%
Bowser - 36.99%
Yoshi - 36.98%
Sephiroth (Legends) - 36.93%
Alucard - 36.07%
Zero- 35.54%
Auron - 34.36%
Kirby - 34.13%
Aerith - 33.71%
Red - 3.32%
Sora - 32.72%
Squall Leonhart - 32.70%
Ganondorf - 32.62%
Mewtwo - 32.46%
Geralt - 32.20%
Charizard - 32.14%
Fox - 31.89%
Big Boss - 31.86%
Bayonetta - 31.64%
Vivi - 31.35%
Knuckles - 31.17%
Princess Peach - 31.16%
2B - 30.93%
Simon Belmont - 30.79%
Vincent Valentine - 30.38%
Terra Branford- 30.34%
Pac-Man - 30.33%
Ryu Hayabusa - 30.31%
Crash Bandicoot - 30.03%
Kratos - 29.93%
Sub-Zero- 29.75%
Ryu - 29.35%
Jill Valentine - 29.28%
Kefka - 29.26%
Magus - 29.23%
Yuna - 29.13%
Frog - 28.92%
Waluigi - 28.70%
Ness - 28.63%
Amaterasu - 28.53%
Dante - 28.45%
Rosalina - 28.32%
Wario - 28.25%
Donkey Kong - 28.23%
Ridley - 27.62%
Cecil Harvey - 27.52%
Scorpion - 27.48%
Captain Toad - 26.97%
Zidane Tribal - 26.93%
Chun Li - 26.82%
Shadow - 26.76%
The Boss- 26.12%
Captain Falcon - 25.91%
Lara Croft - 25.73%
Shovel Knight - 25.59%
Leon Kennedy - 25.02%
Revolver Ocelot - 24.39%
GlaDOS - 24.36%
Tidus - 24.31%
King Dedede - 24.15%
Lucina - 23.75%
Garrus Vakarian - 23.53%
Bomberman - 23.51%
Spyro the Dragon - 23.51%
L-Block - 23.30%
Ramza Beoulve - 23.23%
Tails - 22.87%
Metal Sonic - 22.72%
Riku- 22.53%
Shulk - 22.27%
Master Hand - 22.05%
Ezio- 21.99%
Albert Wesker- 21.95%
Velvet Crowe - 21.73%
Phoenix Wright - 21.63%
Ike - 21.34%
Geno - 20.77%
Richter Belmont - 20.52%
KOS-MOS - 20.50%
Master Chief - 20.36%
Isaac - 20.28%
Ryo Hazuki - 20.23%
Claire Redfield - 20.08%
Monika - 20.03%
Nathan Drake - 19.80%
Shepard - 19.64%
Lightning- 19.55%
King K. Rool - 19.15%
Shantae - 19.03%
Noctis - 18.73%
Ellie - 18.68%
Joker - 18.64%
Chris Redfield - 18.63%
Lloyd Irving - 18.53%
Kazuma Kiryu - 18.40%
Primrose - 18.35%
D. Va - 18.16%
Aqua - 17.48%
Guile - 17.38%
Sans - 17.36%
Aloy - 17.10%
Miles Edgeworth - 16.98%
James Sunderland - 16.93%
Gordon Freeman - 16.72%
Metal Man - 16.52%
Neptune - 16.45%
Cuphead - 16.16%
Joel - 16.09%
John Marston - 16.06%
Godot - 15.99%
Hat Kid - 15.77%
Yu Narukam - 15.74%
Dragonborn - 15.67%
Aya Brea - 15.39%
Isabelle - 14.94%
Estelle Bright - 14.35%
Neku Sakuraba - 13.96%
Cayde-6 - 13.73%
Monokuma - 13.66%
Goro Majima - 12.62%
Quiet - 12.55%
Victor Sullivan - 12.45%
Chloe Price - 10.09%
Draven - 6.76%

The adjusted x-stats (next post) will include the following adjustments:

Ganondorf (44% on Mega Man)
Zelda in the main bracket (Fox 2013 = Fox 2018)
Sephiroth in the main bracket (C. Falcon 2013 = C. Falcon 2018)
Kirby (equal to Bowser)
Phoenix Wright (37% on Kirby)
Geralt (Hayabusa 2013 = Hayabusa 2018)
Tails (33% on Luigi)
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KamikazePotato posted 2018 x-stats setting Link to 50%. I made a set of adjusted-standings that allow you to make comparisons between the 2013 stats and the 2018 stats. The traditional way to adjust the 2018 x-stats appropriately is to eliminate the outliers and then do least squares (or an average) of what is left. I would like to suggest that is a bad idea. If you look at each character individually, you will see that a LOT of characters have fallen in popularity. To remedy that situation, I removed all characters who appeared to have dropped significantly since 2013. From the characters that remained, Sub-Zero seemed to be the best fit as a constant between '13 and '18. However, given that KKP has given Sonic's division adjusted pretty low, perhaps using Sub-Zero isn't the best idea. Instead, I will use Crono as the constant.

Here's how I extrapolated some of the characters that made the Legends bracket:

Zelda - through Cloud
Mario - through Cloud
Tifa - through Mario/Sephiroth and Tifa/Sephiroth
Samus - through Tifa
Snake - through Zelda
Sonic - through Snake
Crono - through Alucard/Cloud, Alucard/Bowser, and Bowser/Crono
Mega Man - through Crono/Mega Man
Ganondorf - through Mega Man

By contrast, KKP measured Zelda through her direct match with Link, and then measured Snake, Sonic, and Auron's division (and Samus and Tifa, too, I think) through Zelda.
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Sounds like a good choice of game!
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It bothers me to see some of the voters have such a big gap between Tifa and MMX. It's one thing if two characters are indirectly very close to each other, but you decide to separate them a bit (e.g. Bowser and Yoshi had a similar score on a very comparable characters). But to create such a big gap when they had a direct matchup that was 50/50?

1. Crono
2. Mega Man
3. Pikachu
4. Sephiroth (I think he wasn't his normal self in the legends bracket)
5. MMX (would have beaten Tifa without the rally)
6. Tifa
7. Sonic
8. Luigi
9. Bowser
10. Kirby
11. Ganondorf
12. Yoshi
13. Alucard
14.Vivi
15. Zero
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Congrats to Advokaiser on pwning me in CBX!

Dr. Robotnik. Second to that is probably Pac-Man 2002, even though in 2006 Ocelot lost to (somewhat stronger) Pac-Man and made the third round, as well.
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Congrats to Advokaiser on pwning me in CBX!

Samus Aran
Mario
Cloud Strife
Zelda
Solid Snake
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Congrats to Advokaiser on pwning me in CBX!

Sure, why not?
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

You youngin'.
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Honestly, probably my favorite contest we've ever had. Actually, probably only second to 2002.

2002 was just... magical in some ways. Just seeing your favorite characters for your first time was great. A lot of unexpected things happened, considering people really didn't have much of an idea of what was popular. Going through round 1, only a couple of times did we see a match get above 80%. Then Mega Man vs. Ms. Pac-Man happens, and Mega Man is leading Ms. Pac-man with over 93% of the vote.
I could not stop laughing. Next round, Mega Man is leading over 92% against Serious Sam. Again, I couldn't stop laughing. Sonic/Samus was the first nailbiter match we've ever had... experiencing a match like that for the first time was... again, magical. Seeing Mario take out Cloud and then Crono was... wow. And then Samus and Mega Man had that lead over Sephiroth for so long....! But they just had to lose it.
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

16) Mewtwo is a fraud 13,040.27+97.47 -641.68 86.94 (150)

Looks like the only good that team was good for was declaring Mewtwo as a fraud. But darnn, they nailed Mewtwo!
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Huh. I was the runner-up in...Rivalry Rumble of all contests? Okay, I was wrong then.

Congrats to MZero for the hard work and to Axem Red for winning. Oh, my head is spinning!
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Captain_Sorzo posted...

Ammy obliterating Draven.

I started giggling like a madman when I saw those numbers.

Indeed. The only other matches where I couldn't stop laughing over a blowout were Link vs. Ganondorf (2004) and Mega Man's extreme blowouts over Ms. Pac-Man and Serious Sam.
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Congrats to Advokaiser for winning the Guru! Also, to do that well in the Oracle Challenge despite being a relatively new Oracle participant is impressive, too.
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Aw, yeah... my big bets toward the end paid off! 2nd place is the best I've ever done in spread betting, I'm pretty sure.
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

My favorite results include:

-Donkey Kong upsetting Leon Kennedy
-Vivi taking out the strengthened DK with ease
-Alucard killing everything in his division, getting a respectable score on Cloud, and nearly matching up with Bowser
-Phoenix Wright hanging in there and beating out Ike, even though Ike was favored at the time of the match (I think)
-Amaterasu absolutely obliterating/annihilating/utterly destroying Draven
-Aerith beating Fox and proving to be stronger than Squall
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Alucard, Alucard, Alucard....
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

It would be nice to see registered user x-stats as well as anonymous voter x-stats.
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Indeed, congrats Luster!

I think this makes...my ninth top ten finish.
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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."