Board 8 > Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXV: Day 6 [smfffc]

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UNSAFE [28]

[1] Bahamut - junk_funk
[1] Warrior of Light - WhiteLens

[1] Minwu - Arti

[0] Ifrit -

[1] Rydia of Mist - th3l3fty

[1] Faris Scherwiz - Eddv
[1] Ghido - andylt
[1] Gilgamesh - Arti

[1] Cyan Garamonde - captaincanadian
[0] Setzer Gabbiani -
[0] Terra Branford -

[1] Vincent Valentine - GenesisSaga

[0] Adelbert Steiner -
[0] Beatrix -

[1] Jecht - TheArkOfTurus
[1] Lulu - guffguy89
[1] Paine - mnk

[1] Ashelia "Ashe" B'nargin Dalmasca - Xuxon
[1] Fran - UltimaterializerX
[1] Krjn - WarThaNemesis2

[1] Oerba Yun Fang - swordz9
[1] Sazh Katzroy - Fiop
[1] Snow Villiers - TomNook

[1] G'raha Tia - illuminatusbubu
[1] Tataru Taru - PlasmaKappa

[1] Argath Thadalfus - VeryInsane
[1] Ramza Beoulve - VeryInsane

[0] Dad -

Faris
gilgamesh

A job well done once more, FFVIII crew

this round seems less than ideal

Terra
Ramza

Rydia
Fran

Terra
Fang

Lulu
Ashe

Auto for Ghido

Sazh
Setzer

Beatrix
Steiner

Next rounder for Bahamut

Graha
Tataru

Bahamut

Free

Ghido
Terra

andylt posted...

Auto for Ghido

If you are willing to take a risk, I save at :15:58 and would get Ghido for Krjn.

Definitely understand not taking this offer though.

oh nvm

Oh Terra's safe

Vincent

Setzer
Krjn

Cyan
Steiner

Beatrix

Jecht
Minwu

Argath

Warrior of Light
Dad

Ifrit

Snow

Paine
Ifrit

Dad

Come on, right before his new movie?

Not a good year for dads so far.

maybe this was actually the year of moms all along

and cool wine aunts (Paine)

dad was always going to be on life support with apollo in, but dang

Is Apollo a dad?

damn these topics come and go quick

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/3/8/AAN7AaAAEiHy.jpg

Seeing people call this a bad year for dads made me curious. I looked up if this was the longest a contest has gone without eliminating a woman. Sadly, that record is a few days away. SMFFFC XVI was all dudes until Fuji at 92nd

We have yet to have a character that is stats eligible with no prior boots eliminated yet! Still early and oddly specific, but hey, we'll see how long that goes.

How many characters do we even have who are stats eligible without a historical boot? I'm not sure the pool to work with that scenario is that large but it's got me curious now, for sure.

At a glance last year, I don't think that occurred until FoG rounds (Yuffie 89th, Estinien 88th). Looking at XXIII and I think that wouldn't apply until Red Mage in 83rd, someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (edit: this was bugging me so I took another look and Vayne boot Day 3 fits)

But then checking even further back, Zack in XXII and Yuna in XXI went out on Days 7 and 6 respectively, so they'd fit the current timeline.

Minwu today is probably the closest to that scenario so far, and he's usually not in danger. I think we've probably got more of a fodder buffer to push off those scenarios until FoG rounds, but anything's possible!

DAD

CXIV - 33/102
CXV - 53/100
CXVI - 68/100
CXVII - 91/100 (Booted)
CXXIV - 12/100
CXXV - 95/100 (Booted)

overall STATS: 42.44% / down 7.29% - 78th/132 (down 25)
newSTATS: 42.44% / down 7.29% - 72nd/110 (down 18)

Here is the list

Minwu

Cecil Harvey

Gilgamesh

Celes Chere
Edgar Roni Figaro
Locke Cole
Terra Branford

Cloud Strife
Jessie Rasberry
Red XIII
Sephiroth
Tifa Lockhart

Laguna Loire
Squall Leonhart

Freya Crescent
Garnet "Dagger" Til Alexandros XVII
Kuja
Vivi Ornitier
Zidane Tribal

Rikku
Tidus

Lightning
Sazh Katzroy

Emet-Selch

Ardyn Izunia

Layle

Emet and Jessie become eligible this year (Also was very unsure if Ashe got booted or not someone correct me)

Thanks for putting that together! Wow, that is a bigger list than I thought.

I could've swore Terra, Ashe, Sazh and Laguna were all booted at some point but yeah, it looks like they just went out in the Day 16-25 softboot territory but were renominated in following year (twice for Laguna it seems) so it checks out. More than a few others like that too, if we reduced that list further to characters who never went out in boot rounds/had to be renominated in it'd tighten up further. I'll take a look at that later unless someone gets to it before me (edit: actually not sure I could even properly do that exercise since I don't know the boot thresholds for the raytan error, I can at least check it for newstats era...)

And yeah, the Jessie stats debuts, probably have higher hopes for that than I should, if only she had a dedicated supporter in contest XXII instead of being like, the 3rd or 4th priority for six different users, lol... but she'll ideally be nicely positioned in all three categories.

I'm gonna ask a dumb question....what game is this Dad who just got booted from?

Final Fantasy Legend II for Gameboy.

Ah, thanks. I played the other two Legend games but not that one.

Hopefully Gamefaqs doesn't compress this too bad: the "stats eligible as of this contest & never hardbooted once they made it in" club with ECC members given higher tier status (sorted by # contests, then alphabetically)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/2/AAC56kAAEiLc.png

good round

nice breakdown Martin. It's a bigger list than I thought!

Nah thank you for bringing up the idea! (and VI for doing the initial legwork on getting the list of names), I always love cobbling together stats and that's an idea I hadn't thought of before.

Better to stick with stats than some of the more outlandish game-within-a-game ideas that (very briefly) crossed my mind with the contest downtime coming up. I mean, in theory an SMFFFC fantasy league could be fun, or some kind of rest-of-contest prediction challenge... but then you think about it a bit more and can see it being a nightmare. Better to just stick with the original game.