Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1280

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Four matches a day is the worst possible idea in relation to rallies. The rally spillover in the last games contest was ridiculous. The only way to most likely eliminate rallies is to only allow votes from those with GameFAQs accounts. But even then, it might be possible that someone could be so powerful that he/she could get thousands of outsiders to create accounts.

Would Rachu have a shot at beating Pikachu?
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Haste_2 posted...

Would Rachu have a shot at beating Pikachu?

no
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I will never understand Pikachu's popularity and how weak Jigglypuff is in comparison.

Here are some matches for you to predict:

Pikachu vs. Mega Man X
Crono vs. Sonic
Mewtwo vs. Mega Man
Tifa vs. Kirby
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5261-character-battle-ix-division-9-final-mega-man-vs-zero-mmx-vs

Pikachu won't beat Mega Man X. Mewtwo won't beat Mega Man. Tifa is immune to the FF7 decline so I would take her over Kirby. Chrono Trigger impressed me enough that I would pick Crono over Sonic but Sonic is probably the safe pick.
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Yay time to start coming to this place more than one a month again.

stop giving me scenarios where Pokemon depresses me by beating characters they shouldn't beat
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5261-character-battle-ix-division-9-final-mega-man-vs-zero-mmx-vs

Pikachu won't beat Mega Man X. Mewtwo won't beat Mega Man. Tifa is immune to the FF7 decline so I would take her over Kirby. Chrono Trigger impressed me enough that I would pick Crono over Sonic but Sonic is probably the safe pick.

I agree with your latter two picks' reasoning, but I am not so confident in your first two opinions. Mewtwo looked way stronger than Charizard last contest, but then again, it could have been Sonic and Sephiroth really sucking.
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Mewtwo was getting bandwagoned/rallied pretty hardcore by that point

remember when he almost lost to Midna
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LeonhartFour posted...

Mewtwo was getting bandwagoned/rallied pretty hardcore by that point

remember when he almost lost to Midna

I would think a Pokemon bandwagon is one that could repeat itself. But if we're talking Mewtwo or Pikachu in Round 1, upsets are possible.
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If Charizard can't beat Mega Man in a match that includes Zero, I don't see any Pokemon winning a fair fight against Mega Man.
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Charizard literally almost lost to Zelda the round before

pretty sure he was massively overrated by his performance in 2010
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Haste_2 posted...

Four matches a day is the worst possible idea in relation to rallies. The rally spillover in the last games contest was ridiculous. The only way to most likely eliminate rallies is to only allow votes from those with GameFAQs accounts. But even then, it might be possible that someone could be so powerful that he/she could get thousands of outsiders to create accounts.

Clearly we need to limit the number of rounds that have more than one match per day. Assuming a 128 character bracket, this is the number of matches per round that I would like to see:

4 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1

This ends up being a 55 day contest, with only one round of 4 matches per day. Making Round 3 only 1 match per day would increase the length of the contest to 63 days.
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Cheking in to see that there has been an announcement for Karacteru Batteru Ekkusu!!!
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Crono vs yoshi

Who ya got
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Everyone overrated Charizard due to his performance against Bowser while forgetting his natural level is his performance against Kratos.

Also who wants to go back on Picard vs. Ridley now that Picard is fucking back.
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I don't think Yoshi's a real contender. His only big feats over the years as far as I can tell:

1. Barely beating Dante in 2006. While this was actually a slight upset at the time, it still doesn't sound very impressive at this point.
2. Overperforming on Steroid Snake in 2006 due to the sprite round.
3. Doing pretty well on Missingno. Rallied joke characters aren't consistent, so whatever.

On Pokemon vs Mega Man, there's also this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5265-character-battle-ix-bonus-battle-3-runners-up-battle

Who knows what ends up happening with rallying, year-to-year variation, or whatever else, but that doesn't look promising for Pokemon.
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Yeah, I'd be skeptical of Yoshi's strength. He's never really come that close to beating a big name, and he got rocked by Squall in 2008 (and Squall/Sora got nearly 60% on Yoshi/Fox). That 2006 win over Dante is still probably his best win.
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Looks like I timed my monthly check-in of this site well. Let's do this! New character battle should be really interesting given the amount of new characters since the last contest.
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People seem to be pretty down on the prospects of characters introduced since the previous contest. Excluding rallied entries like Tracer and Sans, I guess.
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is cuphead still popular
i might nominate cuphead

that'll probably be the only really new guy i nominate unless something new is a guru pick
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Potential new characters that could win some midcard matches:

- Tracer, D.Va, Mercy
- Cuphead
- Cappy
- Doom Marine
- Aloy
- 2B
- That shitlord from Final Fantasy 15

Would also love to see Lara Croft back in the contest, given the resurgance Tomb Raider has had lately. Ditto for Kratos.
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Oh yeah actually, Kratos and Lara are two more I'll definitely be nominating
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Yeah, I take back saying Pikachu and Mewtwo have a good shot against MMX and MM. I wish gamefaqscontests.com was working properly to look back at stuff. I had forgotten Mega Man almost beat Mewtwo and PIkachu combined. Granted, it's been five years, so who knows what could happen now? But dang, five years have past since the last character contest. On the other hand, GameFAQs' demographics haven't changed too much over the past five years, right? Still, we might be seeing some weird upsets this contest, rallies aside.

Speaking of bandwagons, Did Mewtwo/Sonic/Bowser happen after Cloud/Squirtle/Pikachu? (I would guess it was that match that gave Mewtwo a boost) Better yet, does anyone have a link to the 2013 contest bracket?

Actually, it's on the Board 8 wiki.

http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_2013_Contest

Well, whaddaya know... Mewtwo kicked the crap out of Sonic before Squirtle upset Cloud. So, the question is, why did Mewtwo get such a huge bandwagon in Round 3, when it looks like Pikachu, Charizard, and Red did not? (Or at least, not nearly as much as Mewtwo) Or, maybe Mewtwo really was above Sonic naturally? Opinions? (if we assume a Phoenix Wright overperformance in round 2, there are no other major contradictions to Mewtwo > Sonic...)
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I'm not sure how much stock I put into anything that happened in CBIX. The format was weird, rallies were everywhere, and there was a ton of LFF.
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I suspect Mewtwo was actually the most independent character in that match and that Bowser pretty much cut Sonic's legs out from under him. Mewtwo wins regardless, Sonic just might have made it respectable if Bowser hadn't been there. Think we saw a similar thing with Red's strong performance against Samus and Mega Man in one of the semifinals, although the pokemon bandwagon was going strong by then too.

And we did get to see post-reboot Lara in 2013. She looked probably the strongest she had ever been.
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Y'all should nominate Slime from Dragon Quest again. Slime's a good lad.
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Haste_2 posted...

Yeah, I take back saying Pikachu and Mewtwo have a good shot against MMX and MM. I wish gamefaqscontests.com was working properly to look back at stuff. I had forgotten Mega Man almost beat Mewtwo and PIkachu combined. Granted, it's been five years, so who knows what could happen now? But dang, five years have past since the last character contest. On the other hand, GameFAQs' demographics haven't changed too much over the past five years, right? Still, we might be seeing some weird upsets this contest, rallies aside.

Speaking of bandwagons, Did Mewtwo/Sonic/Bowser happen after Cloud/Squirtle/Pikachu? (I would guess it was that match that gave Mewtwo a boost) Better yet, does anyone have a link to the 2013 contest bracket?

Actually, it's on the Board 8 wiki.

http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_2013_Contest

Well, whaddaya know... Mewtwo kicked the crap out of Sonic before Squirtle upset Cloud. So, the question is, why did Mewtwo get such a huge bandwagon in Round 3, when it looks like Pikachu, Charizard, and Red did not? (Or at least, not nearly as much as Mewtwo) Or, maybe Mewtwo really was above Sonic naturally? Opinions? (if we assume a Phoenix Wright overperformance in round 2, there are no other major contradictions to Mewtwo > Sonic...)

The other thing to consider, is both MM and MMX have had well-received compilations in the last year, and Mega Man 11 is just around the corner. If anything the gap has widened there.
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So have nominations started?

Coincidentally I've started thinking about these contests again lately. Huh.
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I have also started thinking about contests again.

Funny how a new contest announcement makes you do that, huh?
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I've mentioned one of these a couple of times, but for characters that have had well-received franchise resurgences lately might I present BJ Blazkowicz and the Doom Slayer.
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that was one LMS of a post
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I think Doom Guy would be a great newcomer. Iconic look, shares the name of the franchise, and DooM 2016 was tremendously well received. Though I do think he'd be better served called "Doom Guy" instead of "Doom Slayer".
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plus we could use pictures of The Rock
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Wasn't Karl Urban Doomguy? He was the one in the FPS scenes

I wish I could nominate Judge Dredd
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yeah but who actually watched the Doom movie

I'm sure we could slip it past Allen like you slipped that Rikku fan art past him in 2013
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i didn't know it was fanart (kinda)

I think I convinced myself that it wasn't but I knew it was deep down
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I knew it was the instant I saw it but I knew better than to say anything before the match happened
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thanks Leon you are a true friend

i also dont know how the hell you remember a lot of this stuff, sometimes I think you know more about my Match Pic history than I do
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my memory of contest history is pretty strong

I'm good at remembering stuff I care about
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my memory has been fading, sometimes I randomly go off about contest history to my girlfriend (she usually tunes me out, I don't blame her) but lately I've been finding it harder and harder to recall specifics about matches and stats. really sad. hope I can do somewhat respectably this contest

that said 2018 the year of Agent J let's bring him back people
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Ill second that, I was trying to think about something contest related last night, and I could not recall any results from the last 3-4 contests. Its funny that I've internalized the 2003-2008 contests, but can't remember a thing since then.
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So... We're going to nominate one character for DpObliVion and another one for Sheikah, right?
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We've seen a plethora of resident evil characters over the years but have we ever has say Nemesis in a contest?
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We saw Nemesis in the villains contest. He looked like high fodder and given his lack of presence in the series since then I wouldn't expect him to have gotten any stronger.
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AxemRedRanger posted...

We saw Nemesis in the villains contest. He looked like high fodder and given his lack of presence in the series since then I wouldn't expect him to have gotten any stronger.

Well damn. Thanks for the answer
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Nemesis was also in RIVALRY RUMBLE
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I was just this weekend talking about Lightning's performances in both Character Battles and the Rivalry Rumble. Lo and behold, a contest is upon us.

Yeeeeeeees.

(nominate Metal Man)
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Ditto nomination rally.
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