Board 8 > I searched "Guru" and didn't find anything

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Are we doing it for this Contest? DP got screwed out of his rightfully deserved Nomination pick, this is definitely something we can't overlook or else it wouldn't be fair.
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I think the consensus is there will be a Guru contest, and there will just be two Guru nominations for the next contest.
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That's fair!
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not enough topics with my name in the title, I agree.
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could be me, but to me the guru was never about the nomination, it was all about being able to compete against board 8.

N, you should probably confirm/deny that we're doing one this year
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I always liked the possibility of being able to potentially impact the Contests with a Nom pick. I'm sure there's been some duds but haven't there been at least 2 that made some waves?
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ffmasterjose posted...

I always liked the possibility of being able to potentially impact the Contests with a Nom pick. I'm sure there's been some duds but haven't there been at least 2 that made some waves?

Most picks have been duds.

Toadette
Wario
Altair
Yoshi's Island
Prinny
No Mercy
X vs. Zero
Yuri Lowell
S3&K (sabotaged by SBAllen, never forget)

So yeah, two good ones.
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ffmasterjose posted...

I always liked the possibility of being able to potentially impact the Contests with a Nom pick. I'm sure there's been some duds but haven't there been at least 2 that made some waves?

One Guru nomination that helped the contests out was the "Mega Man X vs. Zero" pick for the Rivalry Rumble. It was a very good pick because Allen never updated his nomination database (a list of suggestions that can appear when trying to make a nomination) after the first day of nominations to include Mega Man X vs. Zero. Thanks to this Guru pick, we managed to get a 1 seed for Mega Man X vs. Zero, all without ever being in the nomination database.
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I'm still pissed No Mercy bombed. GameFAQs doesn't know good taste!
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I mean it was doomed to fail from the outset but it was still fun to have it in
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CONFIRMED that it will return, but I'm not going to put up the topic for another week because I don't want any brackets posted until they're final (making edits once they're in the database is a pain).


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what about that other b8 offshoot, the elimination pick challenge thing
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good to hear it's back. yeah, I wouldn't put it up early.

now we just need to figure out Oracle and we're good. Oracle will be tougher, probably, though I'm sure someone will track it in a google doc if it comes to that.
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I posted a topic about the Oracle Challenge here:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75238180
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LusterSoldier posted...

I posted a topic about the Oracle Challenge here:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75238180

Thank you so much, Luster.

Edit: Taken down...?
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Yeah, the topic purged.
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haloiscoolisbak posted...

what about that other b8 offshoot, the elimination pick challenge thing

That's very fun, I'd love to see it come back, but won't have time to run it again this year myself.
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Ngamer64 posted...

(making edits once they're in the database is a pain).

Note to self
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Bump for Guru hype.
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Itching for the guru to start
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Just remember I'm always available for Guru Data Entry
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Hurray. I have a feeling this will be a very interesting guru just because we're so open-ended on how things will play out. I'm also very curious to see how many B8'ers are taking the longshots that I am.

It is now one week since Ngamer's confirmation.
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swirIdude posted...

It is now one week since Ngamer's confirmation.

it'll most likely be the weekend before, aka 2-3 days before brackets lock down/contest starts so people can't change
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Bracket entry is LIVE!

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75282412

If anyone would like to assist Ange and I with entering brackets into the site, let me know in this topic. Not sure how much help will be needed, should be much easier this time around with the miniature sized Contest, but having more volunteers certainly wouldn't hurt.


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What's involved? I take it there's more than just copy-pasting?