Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1296

(+) Yeah! (+)

None of the KH characters had a great day vote in round 1 though.

Pokemon has been absurdly frontloaded this year though, even by Nintendo's standards.
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KH's day vote is slightly better than Pokemon's, but with the nerfed votals it will still be hard to put up any sort of a comeback.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Kingdom Hearts tends to trends upward as the match progresses. Bad early vote, okay night vote, great day vote.

That wasn't really true against Ryo Hazuki, Sora's % steadily declined throughout the day. Pokemon is probably even more frontloaded though, so who knows.

BabyFAQs confirmed. The more cartoonish and less realistic the character design, the bigger the boost they get.

Also why did we trust Sora?

Few are coming on here over a month out from launch to discuss the game, so KH3 hype isn't going to affect voting much. He is still an outside chance to come back though, right?

Europe numbers are weird right now but Red is throttling Sora over there RN
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Keyblade
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Another Sora stall.

Kefka's percentage continues to drop.
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Alright let's do this Sora.

After the weekend I had, I need to get one of these matches right.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Europe numbers are weird right now but Red is throttling Sora over there RN

well there are probably very few votes coming in from Europe since it's midnight or later right now
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Alucard slaughtered Yuna that update, wow
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The US just flipped in Sora's favor.

Game on.
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Alucard might beat Kefka at this rate.
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LeonhartFour posted...

well there are probably very few votes coming in from Europe since it's midnight or later right now

That's still early enough that we should get enough of an idea of how they're gonna vote, especially in the UK.
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I'm expecting the bracket killing Red update any time now
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ExThaNemesis posted...

That's still early enough that we should get enough of an idea of how they're gonna vote, especially in the UK.

eh not really

their early vote is probably more skewed than the B8 vote because of the small sample size

KamikazePotato posted...

Alucard might beat Kefka at this rate.

yeah Kefka is plummeting at an uncomfortable rate right now

I mean I always believed in Kefka > Yuna but Bomberman > Yuna is a different story
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13 people fell off the Top 50. FlyingForever, xxIron_Dragonxx, paulg235, Xcarvenger, Ulti69, CaptainOfCrush, Bolto4, ffmasterjose, Tekashi69, Xeybozn, dankoismad, ad_absurdum and ExBahamut did not have Zero, Wario, Yoshi and Pikachu winning.

8 people got a match wrong but survived. SamusOverCloud, 8Sunshine6, BradyFumbled, Captain_Sorzo, Wreath, art_of_the_kill, lordjers and darthsidius also did not have Zero, Wario, Yoshi and Pikachu winning.

Former first place huntmaster17 only scored half points but managed to survive based on their strong performance in previous matches.
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I'm shaking in my boots!
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whew Kefka went up that update at least

Red gained percentage too though
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oh no
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Finally Big Boss got a nice update
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Kefka will be one of the furthest advancing FF characters.

Beating out every FFX character.
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I mean probably not Auron, he was basically handed an entire division

Fuck, not a good update for Sora.
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LeonhartFour posted...

Pokemon has been absurdly frontloaded this year though, even by Nintendo's standards.

Except for Charizard, he didn't seem to have any clear advantage over Terra with the early vote.
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Guys my bracket is exploding =0 ;_;
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LusterSoldier posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

Pokemon has been absurdly frontloaded this year though, even by Nintendo's standards.

Except for Charizard, he didn't seem to have any clear advantage over Terra with the early vote.

Well, we've seen the early vote FFVI has, too, so it probably canceled out.
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I have Sora and Yuna winning next round, so...this division tore me up.
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Sora is doing a good job at stalling. A random cut would be nice right about now, though.
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CasanovaZelos posted...

I have Sora and Yuna winning next round, so...this division tore me up.

Same. Sora Vs. Yuna ohhhhhh yeahhhhhhh
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I've got Big Boss and Kefka next round

like who feels good about whoever they've got winning next round regardless

this division man
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I don't know, I'm pretty sure both Red and Sora would do better than 52% on Crash Bandicoot
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KamikazePotato posted...

I don't know, I'm pretty sure both Red and Sora would do better than 52% on Crash Bandicoot

we all thought Ganondorf would break 60% on Chun-Li too (literally no one in the Oracle had under 60%)

we've been wrong about a lot of things this contest!

I'd feel a lot better if we got user made pics next round so we could get rid of that old man pic but it probably ain't happenin'
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darn it Sora
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KamikazePotato posted...

I don't know, I'm pretty sure both Red and Sora would do better than 52% on Crash Bandicoot

An hour ago I'm guessing you were pretty sure Big Boss would do better than 52% on Crash.
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Literally Crash Bandicoot is keeping his match closer.
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WOW that Red update

Okay I can stop watching this match obsessively for a while
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Crash cut BB and Sora flopped

Not a great update
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:)
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mnkboy907 posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

I don't know, I'm pretty sure both Red and Sora would do better than 52% on Crash Bandicoot

An hour ago I'm guessing you were pretty sure Big Boss would do better than 52% on Crash.

Big Boss did very badly against Ridley. This match, while very surprising, is not nearly as surprising as Red/Sora being in this situation would be.
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too bad Jak missed the contest this year

these Playstation platforming mascots look stronger than ever

Ratchet could've won multiple matches...!
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Red and Sora were supposed to be similar in strength in 2010, right? It would be one thing if KH3 hype seemed to matter but if anything it's Smash hype that's taking over.

Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood the previous post.
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There goes my bracket, battle challenge, oracle, crew point, hope and everything.

Is it time to get PaRappa back into the contests yet?
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not good enough Sora
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not even an MGS3 picture could help big boss save face at this rate

fuck's sake
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I'm just happy Crash is at least making a match out of this when no one was expecting Big Boss to struggle.
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not good enough sora