Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1364

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Advokaiser posted...

Politics applied to CS&D topics, huh?

Is Hillary Clinton the modern Zelda?

No, she's modern Pokemon who can't hold a candle to her Gen 1 husband.

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I always felt like Trump was like L Block. At first his results were only so-so and were taking advantage of his hardcore support to stay alive in multi way polls. But, his power grew over time until he was strong enough to start winning. Due to all the mailed ballot counting timing, I think he even had L Block like trends in some states this year.
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Its been well-established that Pac-Man is the Hillary Clinton of video games:

https://www.koopatv.org/2014/04/what-do-pac-man-and-hillary-clinton.html?m=1

unsure whether this also means Hillary Clinton is the pac man of politics

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Team Rocket Elite posted...

I always felt like Trump was like L Block. At first his results were only so-so and were taking advantage of his hardcore support to stay alive in multi way polls. But, his power grew over time until he was strong enough to start winning. Due to all the mailed ballot counting timing, I think he even had L Block like trends in some states this year.

Yeah, L-Block is the right parallel when you put it this way.

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Yep, Trump has joke trends.

Not to mention all the off-site visitors coming to mess up the results.

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AxemRedRanger posted...

Its been well-established that Pac-Man is the Hillary Clinton of video games:

https://www.koopatv.org/2014/04/what-do-pac-man-and-hillary-clinton.html?m=1

unsure whether this also means Hillary Clinton is the pac man of politics

That was my intention, yes.

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Hillary Clinton would be Samus. She won a popular vote bracket (the women's bracket) and then lost to a bunch of lamer dudes in the battle royale.

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Team Rocket Elite posted...

I always felt like Trump was like L Block. At first his results were only so-so and were taking advantage of his hardcore support to stay alive in multi way polls. But, his power grew over time until he was strong enough to start winning. Due to all the mailed ballot counting timing, I think he even had L Block like trends in some states this year.

So does that make Biden Pikachu? A much worse performance than you'd expect based on name recognition in his first runs, goes away for a while, then comes back and cleans up.

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George W. Bush was halfway through his first term when the first contest happened

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I was thinking... Is Barack Obama Vincent? He definitely gives me N9-breaker vibes because of the historical win and all that.

(I love how we're actually putting seriousness in the comparison matter.)

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Bernie Sanders is Snake. Always performs well, but is never quite able to pull it out when it matters most.

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It has finally happened. We have officially entered the 9th generation of consoles with today's release of the Xbox Series X/S.

We are also getting our first ever Xbox Series X/S ownership poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/8271-
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What's the Xbox One's most recent ownership data?

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pjbasis posted...

What's the Xbox One's most recent ownership data?

27.27% on 7/3/2020 was the most recent ownership result for Xbox One. However, the Xbox One's all-time highest ownership was 27.71% back on 7/3/2019.

Xbox One also had a launch day ownership of 4.50%, so today's result for Xbox Series X/S is actually slightly better despite being rather early in the poll so far.
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Just to ask, would we take Garrus to beat Shepard in a contest match?

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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Just to ask, would we take Garrus to beat Shepard in a contest match?

...no...(he tentatively says...)

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no

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I would take Wrex over Shepard because he actually beat the last FF character he went up against.

oh wait so did shepard. Nevermind shepard wins.

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pjbasis posted...

I would take Wrex over Shepard because he actually beat the last FF character he went up against.

as did Shepard!

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Shepard got around 10% of the vote in a battle between 2 gods. Could Wrex get that much?
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OrangeCrush980 posted...

Shepard got around 10% of the vote in a battle between 2 gods. Could Wrex get that much?

I voted for Shepard in that match too, lol.

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Wait... You're telling me Wrex > Garrus?

*goes check Wrex*...

Huh...

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Don't take the 2013 X-Stats at face value

I feel like this shouldn't need to be said but there it is

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I'd take Garrus' performance against Sub-Zero over Wrex's performance against Cecil in 2013.

Of course, Mass Effect is a lot weaker by the time the 2018 contest came around.

As for Shepard/Garrus, in 2013 Shepard easily wins, but by 2018 I would argue they are comparable.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7318-division-5-round-2-squall-vs-garrus
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7332-division-8-round-2-ryu-vs-shepard

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PS5 ownership poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/8273-

Took until vote 103 for "Yes, the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition" to get its first vote.
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I can't believe we're already in an era where the PS5 exists.

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Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

It's also notable how stable the gaming console/handheld market has become. The last big change was the introduction of the Xbox and Sega dropping out. Sony entering the handheld market was pretty big too and that happened 15 years ago. I mean, what was the best selling console/handheld over the last 20 years, the N-Gage? With VR becoming more popular we could see Oculus/Valve shake things up.

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When the first contest happened, the PS2 was two years old.

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Hey, I wanted to ask you, how do you calculate x-stats? I've been meaning to do them for my contest but I don't really know how.

Leonhart4 posted...

When the first contest happened, the PS2 was two years old.

And I was 6 y/o.

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Leonhart4 posted...

When the first contest happened, the PS2 was two years old.

The gap between the first contest and now is larger than the gap between the release of the NES and the first contest.


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The formula for calculating X-Stats is in the opening post!

I also don't mind doing the work for you (or anyone! Zen asked me to do them for Female Villain Quotes) if you can just send the numbers to me.

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charmander6000 posted...

The gap between the first contest and now is larger than the gap between the release of the NES and the first contest.

Mario 3 was as old during the first Games Contest as Twilight Princess is now.

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Leonhart4 posted...

The formula for calculating X-Stats is in the opening post!

I also don't mind doing the work for you (or anyone! Zen asked me to do them for Female Villain Quotes) if you can just send the numbers to me.

Terrific!

Here's the bracket: https://challonge.com/es/e0cpkkjf

Not sure if you need any additional info, though.

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All I need are the match results, so that should be good.

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Leonhart4 posted...

Mario 3 was as old during the first Games Contest as Twilight Princess is now.

Damn, I feel old...

Super Mario 64 is closer in release to Pong than to the present

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charmander6000 posted...

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

It's also notable how stable the gaming console/handheld market has become. The last big change was the introduction of the Xbox and Sega dropping out. Sony entering the handheld market was pretty big too and that happened 15 years ago. I mean, what was the best selling console/handheld over the last 20 years, the N-Gage? With VR becoming more popular we could see Oculus/Valve shake things up.

...Stadia? lol

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Ownership poll for FFIX:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/8274-

The options provided here allow for a playrate to be calculated, so it can also be treated as a playrate poll as well.
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Now that we've gotten ownership polls for both the Xbox Series X/S and the PS5, I can now talk about the results in more detail.

Xbox Series X/S finished with an ownership of 6.01%, which is a clear improvement over Xbox One's launch day ownership of 4.50%. It was likely that the Xbox Series X/S would have ended up with better launch day ownership than the Xbox One because the site was still in full-on Microsoft hate mode at the time and we've had 7 years for that to die out considerably. As well as Microsoft being able to turn around their brand image after the initial reveal of the Xbox One.

PlayStation 5 finished with an ownership of 8.18%, which ends up being a step down from PlayStation 4's launch day ownership of 8.48%. Even worse about this performance is that PS4's launch day ownership was for North America only, since it was released in Europe 2 weeks later and other regions got it even later than that.

PS5 doesn't look quite as bad as this performance might suggest, because Xbox Series X/S fared better than the Xbox One in terms of launch day ownership. Very few people are willing to jump on board with getting both consoles at launch, especially during a global pandemic. It seems very likely the PS5 lost some of its potential launch day ownership from people choosing to buy the Xbox instead.

Spreadsheet of all past ownership results - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iMtyUuzmT5ggmYy-xbiGf7fcloXuhkQuu4ZIC2nGI4M/pub
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LusterSoldier posted...

It seems very likely the PS5 lost some of its potential launch day ownership from people choosing to buy the Xbox instead.

As dumb as it sounds, I never thought of this before. I've always figured PS/Xbox players are always very jealous of their brands.

Even then, judging by the PS always getting nice exclusives over the Xbox, it doesn't seem so logical to me to jump on their train, unless what they actually want is horsepower.

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Europe getting the new Xbox a week earlier than PS5 probably swayed a few people.

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Hey, Leon, how are those x-stats doing?

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Among Us is two years old?!

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Among Us was a late bloomer.
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I read that as "late boomer" and became worried for a sec.

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Advokaiser posted...

Hey, Leon, how are those x-stats doing?

can you update the last match on the bracket, it's kind of important!

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LeonhartFour posted...

can you update the last match on the bracket, it's kind of important!

Oh, done.

I just remembered I couldn't update the final match for some weird reason (about 2 weeks ago).

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here are some Quadrant 1 X-Stats for you

Brown vs. the Board of Education 50.00%
Star Wars vs. Star Trek 46.67%
Batman vs. Joker 38.89%
SBAllen vs. Jane Eyre 35.00%
Gryffindor vs. Slytherin 30.00%
Dexter vs. Mandark 18.75%
Celtics vs. Lakers 18.67%
The Kid vs. The Guy 11.72%
Playstation vs. Xbox 11.12%
Jackie Chan vs. Bruce Lee 8.55%
Batman vs. Superman 7.41%
Johnny vs. Mark (The Room) 5.13%
Death vs. Taxes 2.34%
Kim Possible vs. Shego 0.24%
UltimaterializerX vs. Blizzard 0.0106%
Yoblazer vs. Shin Megami Tensei - 0.0000499%

shut outs make X-Stats difficult

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Thanks.

Brown/Board too strong. PS/Xbox and Bat/Supes surprisingly low, though.

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