My account will soon be old enough to make an account.....
Ten years ago, I was a high-schooler in Small Town, TN. I was training for my first real season of football and looking for a new game-based website as GameSages.com dwindled down in size...where GameFAQs hooked me with its first ever Character Battle coming up. Nothing was known about any of the entrants; I remember fearing how Ms. Pac-Man had a chance against Mega Man before seeing the results:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=968
God, that contest was awesome, like many others that followed it...
...but now, as the contests fade in relevance here, I find myself as a college graduate packing for New York City in hopes of chasing the dream of theatre. Somehow through-out that ten-year progression, Board 8's maintained a near-daily part of my life even when the contests no longer really are. Thanks for the good times, guys. =)
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Nominate SuperNiceDog's Guru-choice, then Epona.