Crossfiyah posted...
What about if they did a character contest, tag team, like this, but have 128 characters. Whoever would have been first seeded is paired with seed 128, 2 with 127, etc, so you have 64 entrees.
Statistically, pairing Link with the weakest character against a 63 and a 64 seed should be closer, right?
Nope. Link is that powerful. Maybe if he was paired with an anti-vote magnet, but that won't happen because the lowest seeds are determined by vote-ins.
...Actually, maybe it is possible. Link's first-round opponent in the most recent 1v1 Character Battle was Thrall, a character from World of Warcraft. "Link Always Wins" anti-votes aren't enough to actually prevent him from winning on their own, but if he were paired with a character from huge anti-vote magnet WoW? ...He'd probably still win at least three matches, but by the division finals he might actually be challenged.
MasterOfHunters posted...
I think we just need a little break from the characters. A mini tournament featuring 32 consoles/handhelds would be nice.
Could we actually get 32 consoles/handhelds that would be worth including? Nintendo has 6 consoles and 4 (or 5, depending on if the original GB and the GBC are considered separately; I've seen it both ways) handhelds...oh, right, and the Virtual Boy, which was so awful that I nearly forgot about it; Sony has 3 consoles and two handhelds (and yes, I'm including not-yet released systems like the Vita and the Wii U in these calculations); Microsoft has 2, or three if you include the PC; Sega has 4 consoles (5 if the Sega CD is counted as being separate from the Genesis) and 1 handheld...and sadly, the iPhone/iPod has to be included. Let's take a look at how this would shake out.
(1) Super NES
(8) Virtual Boy
(4) Game Boy Color
(5) XBox
(3) Game Boy
(6) Vita
(2) PC
(7) Wii U
(1) Playstation 2
(8) CD-I
(4) Dreamcast
(5) Arcade Games
(3) Nintendo DS
(6) PSP
(2) N64
(7) Game Gear
(1) Genesis
(8) PC-98
(4) Wii
(5) iPod/iPhone
(3) XBox 360
(6) Atari 2600
(2) Playstation
(7) TurboGrafx-16
(1) Playstation 3
(8) Sega Master System
(4) Macintosh
(5) Nintendo 3DS
(3) Game Boy Advance
(6) Saturn
(2) NES
(7) Commodore 64
I'm not sure which is sadder--that the CD-I and Virtual Boy get in as joke entries due to their legendary badness, or the fact that nominations would be so sparse in this thing that similar to the likes of Sol Badguy/Ky Kiske avoiding the vote-ins in this rivalry contest, the PC-98 would be able to get in solely on the backs of rabid Touhou fans.
My picks for this contest:
(1) Super NES
(5) XBox
(3) Game Boy
(2) PC
(1) Playstation 2
(5) Arcade Games
(3) Nintendo DS
(2) N64
(1) Genesis
(4) Wii
(3) XBox 360
(2) Playstation
(1) Playstation 3
(5) Nintendo 3DS
(3) Game Boy Advance
(2) NES
(1) Super NES
(3) Game Boy
(1) Playstation 2
(3) Nintendo DS
(1) Genesis
(2) Playstation
(1) Playstation 3
(2) NES
(1) Super NES
(1) Playstation 2
(1) Genesis
(2) NES
(1) Super NES
(1) Genesis
(1) Super NES
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