Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1281

(+) Yeah! (+)

abandon the spider-ship guys
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ZenOfThunder posted...

abandon the spider-ship guys

Good

I'm okay with that. Dark Link is still safe
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Ok I'm in on Dark Link

Spidey is not pleased
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But Shaq is an exception right?
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Kerrigan won that contest, for what it's worth.

Also, Vader would probably get like 40% on Link tops.

Yeah, I can't imagine a non-VG character being strong enough to beat Link without an outside rally (which I guess he is afraid of happening).

I mean the dude 60/40'd Santa on Christmas Eve
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He said nobody read the rules anyway. Now I wonder what the highest-nommed character from 2013 was that was banned from the bracket.
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Yeah, there's very little doubt that Link would win a fictional character contest barring a rally. Darth Vader or Batman at best would "only" threaten the lower-mid members of the noble nine.
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A reminder that Gamespot had Gordon Freeman, Kerrigan, and Launchpad McQuack win character contests.
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While he was rallied, Gordon Freeman winning isn't so crazy outside of GameFAQs.

At least back then.
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Up to 26720 nominations.
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So we're now officially more popular than the 2013 Character Battle?

Careful gang, votals about to shoot through the roof!


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I mean when you think about it we have to be more popular

20 noms vs 15 in 2013

If we had less or even equal it would be embarrassing
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If we get a banner throughout the site like we got in 2013 (IIRC), we can definitely expect a lot of votes... Although, it could mean rallying potential.
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Oh look, the nomination link disappeared off the front page.
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We are at 26846 with the nomination form now off the front page.
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Darn it! I gotta think fast to fill up my remaining slots!
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Advokaiser posted...

Darn it! I gotta think fast to fill up my remaining slots!

Merchant from Reaident Evil 4

Professor Oak

Jimmy the Wizard from Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

I mean when you think about it we have to be more popular

20 noms vs 15 in 2013

If we had less or even equal it would be embarrassing

Yeah, I imagine SBAllen gave us more nominations to offset the lower site traffic compared to five years ago.
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Wreath posted...

Advokaiser posted...

Darn it! I gotta think fast to fill up my remaining slots!

Merchant from Reaident Evil 4

Professor Oak

Big Bob posted...

Jimmy the Wizard from Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.

I'll trade these for Hector (Castlevania: Curse of Darkness). Sounds good?
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Will trade Professor Oak for Hat Kid (A Hat in Time)
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Advokaiser posted...

@Wreath posted...

Advokaiser posted...

Darn it! I gotta think fast to fill up my remaining slots!

Merchant from Reaident Evil 4

Professor Oak

@Big Bob posted...

Jimmy the Wizard from Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.

I'll trade these for Hector (Castlevania: Curse of Darkness). Sounds good?

Ya I've got a few spots left. Good with me !

Great! I'll put in Merchant.

Edit: Done.
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Give me bracket.
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Advokaiser posted...

Great! I'll put in Merchant.

Edit: Done.

I switched to Oak.
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Advokaiser posted...

Advokaiser posted...

Great! I'll put in Merchant.

Edit: Done.

I switched to Oak.

Either one is glorious

Up to 27124 nominations now.
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It seems like removing it from the front page hasn't really stopped people from still entering a lot of noms.
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I made an LL thread about the contest and I bump it like twice a day to get more noms

I also am trolling around Twitter and Tumblr shilling for Metal Sonic noms

Im sure there are links to the form in other places too
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I literally logged onto Facebook today to see Zen asking people to nominate Metal Sonic
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LeonhartFour posted...

I literally logged onto Facebook today to see Zen asking people to nominate Metal Sonic

yes and i got someone who texted me that they did it, so it was a success! they even nominated a bunch of darkstalkers characters who have no shot at getting in so that's nice too i guess
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27330 nominations now. Just over 200 more than the same time yesterday.
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sounds like it's time to shut it down
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I looked at my Metal Sonic shill tweets and they had like 100 total "impressions" w/e that means so maybe I got a few people to nom?

if there's only 200 new noms total in 24 hours then it's time to stop tho
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Now I've been tagged by Zen in a "Nominate Metal Sonic" Facebook post
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Did u nominate Metal Sonic tho
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I nominated Knuckles
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Leonhart4 posted...

I nominated Knuckles

The hero we need

if i had more room i would nom knuckles

if SB asked me if i wanted to give knuckles' spot to Metal Sonic i would def say "no"

it's fucking knuckles
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Currently up to 27354 nominations.
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Leonhart4 posted...

I nominated Knuckles

Good choice!
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So assuming The Boss gets in again (15 seed in 2010, 16 seed in 2013 - without vote-ins, her chances probably aren't great), how do people think she does?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5230-character-battle-ix-division-2-round-2-the-boss-vs-sub-zero

Was this performance actually as legit good as it looked?
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27436 nominations right now.

If nominations are planned to be taken down sometime today, then I'll want to provide an update on the total nominations.
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The Boss has looked like a low midcarder in most of her performances.
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The Boss is lucky she hasn't dropped past the Fodder Line, I don't think after 5 years of inactivity (outside of the MGS3 Pachinko Remake) that she'd boost at all
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I mean I don't know why everyone assumes "no games = big drop" considering this is a site that loves old games above all others

The Boss is probably still fine.
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I think the strength of characters without new games coming out is kind of a bowl-style graph. High at their peak, but then there's a drop as they fade into irrelevance, but after a while they might come back up as people get nostalgic for them.

With MGS characters, we're kind of getting to that point where people are losing interest in the franchise. I'd say the franchise hit its peak strength after Snake's inclusion in Brawl, and at this point it's starting to dip, and we're not far enough along to start feeling nostalgic.
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