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Site Updates / Re: A Time for Crono
« on: November 10, 2006, 07:14:10 pm »
And Crono has just won his first update in 3 and a half hours by 1 vote. An anomaly? Or the beginning of the second night vote?
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Site Updates / Re: A Time for Crono
« on: November 10, 2006, 06:47:32 pm »
This is a crisis. Crono had a 2207 lead last night, but has lost it with the day vote, and Sonic now leads by 762. If Crono does not retake the lead tonight, this will be the largest successful comeback in the history of these contests. Admittedly Crono's prospects are very dim right now, but here are a few hopeful points:
Knuckles' lead on Magus last year peaked at 5:50 Eastern- in 5 minutes. Vincent Valentine was able to come back some 300 votes in the last 2 hours against Sonic this year despite being down by over 5000. That means Crono's potential to come back is larger, as he needs less of a percentage swing to swing the same number of votes. The trends today will probably be between the trends of those matches, as some people have school today (Veterans' Day) but many do not, whereas Vincent/Sonic was on a normal school day and Knux/Magus was in the Summer.
I think 900 or so is the point of no return here. That's the most I think Crono can come back tonight. Go Crono! Rally the hordes!
Knuckles' lead on Magus last year peaked at 5:50 Eastern- in 5 minutes. Vincent Valentine was able to come back some 300 votes in the last 2 hours against Sonic this year despite being down by over 5000. That means Crono's potential to come back is larger, as he needs less of a percentage swing to swing the same number of votes. The trends today will probably be between the trends of those matches, as some people have school today (Veterans' Day) but many do not, whereas Vincent/Sonic was on a normal school day and Knux/Magus was in the Summer.
I think 900 or so is the point of no return here. That's the most I think Crono can come back tonight. Go Crono! Rally the hordes!
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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono is in his Div final
« on: November 09, 2006, 04:51:42 pm »
Oh, and remember that Crono is the king of the night vote, while Sonic is really good with the day vote. Crono will want to get at least 54% before he starts to lose percentage in the early morning if he wants to win.
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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono is in his Div final
« on: November 09, 2006, 04:46:31 pm »
Alright everyone, tomorrow is the big day!
Crono vs. Sonic. This is probably Crono's biggest challenge in winning the male bracket, and after Samus's disgraceful performance against Tifa (albeit without her power suit, making her unrecognizable to much of her fanbase), I'd say the main bracket too. Although, Snake is trying to tell us he can beat Crono today as he is flattening Megaman after Megaman beat him 2 years in a row earlier. But I still think Sonic is the greater threat, as Megaman just looks like he's dropped considerably this year.
Anyway, Crono vs. Sonic should be close; I can't see Sonic winning with more than 52% and can't see Crono winning with more than 54%. Although, in the past 6 days, Square characters have exceeded expectations in 5 of them, and the remaining match didn't have any Square characters, lending credence to the theory that Final Fantasy XII is having an effect on this contest. (It's really 4, but Snake based on past matches acts as a Square character, so he helps the FFXII theory.)
My prediction: Crono with 51%, pretty much what last year's extrapolated standings say.
Go Crono!
Crono vs. Sonic. This is probably Crono's biggest challenge in winning the male bracket, and after Samus's disgraceful performance against Tifa (albeit without her power suit, making her unrecognizable to much of her fanbase), I'd say the main bracket too. Although, Snake is trying to tell us he can beat Crono today as he is flattening Megaman after Megaman beat him 2 years in a row earlier. But I still think Sonic is the greater threat, as Megaman just looks like he's dropped considerably this year.
Anyway, Crono vs. Sonic should be close; I can't see Sonic winning with more than 52% and can't see Crono winning with more than 54%. Although, in the past 6 days, Square characters have exceeded expectations in 5 of them, and the remaining match didn't have any Square characters, lending credence to the theory that Final Fantasy XII is having an effect on this contest. (It's really 4, but Snake based on past matches acts as a Square character, so he helps the FFXII theory.)
My prediction: Crono with 51%, pretty much what last year's extrapolated standings say.
Go Crono!
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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Chrono is in his Div final
« on: November 01, 2006, 06:28:19 pm »
Based on past results, Crono should beat Auron pretty easily. The question is whether he can match the number he posted against Bowser. Crono beat Vincent 55-45 last year, who beat Ganondorf 53-47 this year, who beat Auron 54-46 last year. His first real challenge is against Sonic in round 4. Last year Crono beat Megaman 51-49, who barely beat Sonic.
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Site Updates / Re: Nominations Open on Gamefaqs Character Battle
« on: August 20, 2006, 06:41:56 pm »
Update:
It looks as our efforts have paid off- Crono has received his first ever 1-seed.
Only the 1 and 8 seeds have been announced thus far, but the full bracket will be up soon, and Crono's 1 seed makes me optimistic on other Chrono characters' chances. Looking at Crono's possible opponents for round 1, Crono would of course crush all of them, but I can see 90% on Tingle, who is hated by his own fanbase.
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=30027263
1s:
Solid Snake, Sora, Sonic, Crono.
Samus, Zelda, Tifa, Yuna.
8s:
Soma, CATS, Captain Falcon, Tingle.
Roll. Carmen Sandiego, Ivy, Nidoran F.
It looks as our efforts have paid off- Crono has received his first ever 1-seed.
Only the 1 and 8 seeds have been announced thus far, but the full bracket will be up soon, and Crono's 1 seed makes me optimistic on other Chrono characters' chances. Looking at Crono's possible opponents for round 1, Crono would of course crush all of them, but I can see 90% on Tingle, who is hated by his own fanbase.
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=30027263
1s:
Solid Snake, Sora, Sonic, Crono.
Samus, Zelda, Tifa, Yuna.
8s:
Soma, CATS, Captain Falcon, Tingle.
Roll. Carmen Sandiego, Ivy, Nidoran F.
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Site Updates / Re: Nominations Open on Gamefaqs Character Battle
« on: August 01, 2006, 03:06:22 pm »
I suppose it might be worthwhile to post this here. We're currently at the finals of the Best Series Ever contest, and it is Final Fantasy vs. The Legend of Zelda. The current results:
The Legend of Zelda 51.65% 52386
Final Fantasy 48.35% 49033
TOTAL VOTES 101419
Zelda leads by 3353 votes. That is a very large margin, but with the extremely high total votes today (100k before 2 pm est), FF might just have a slim chance at pulling off the largest comeback ever. Last night Zelda jumped out to a 2200 vote lead in the initial voting surge, before FF pulled it down overnight to 1400. After morning, Zelda began making big gains, but has slowed very much in the last hour. Zelda's best time is over, FF is beginning to stall Zelda, and it will only get better for FF as we get closer to the end of the match. The current lead, however, is vast.
The largest successful comeback was made from 2100 votes down, ending at 1500 votes up, by Master Chief against Donkey Kong last summer, with much lower vote totals. But of course, Zelda is no DK. Starcraft came back from 2000 down against Zelda: Wind Waker in 2004, to win by less than 200. Duck Hunt came back from 3200 votes down against DK, only to run out of time at the end and lose by about 100. Master Chief came back from 3000 against Frog, getting to 600 votes up, before Frog made his own comeback at the very end, and won by 7 votes. That match had both the largest vote swing and the closest result. Today's match could set all kinds of records if FF can pull off the miracle and come back. (Even if it doesn't, it's got the record for most votes in a Gamefaqs poll.)
The Legend of Zelda 51.65% 52386
Final Fantasy 48.35% 49033
TOTAL VOTES 101419
Zelda leads by 3353 votes. That is a very large margin, but with the extremely high total votes today (100k before 2 pm est), FF might just have a slim chance at pulling off the largest comeback ever. Last night Zelda jumped out to a 2200 vote lead in the initial voting surge, before FF pulled it down overnight to 1400. After morning, Zelda began making big gains, but has slowed very much in the last hour. Zelda's best time is over, FF is beginning to stall Zelda, and it will only get better for FF as we get closer to the end of the match. The current lead, however, is vast.
The largest successful comeback was made from 2100 votes down, ending at 1500 votes up, by Master Chief against Donkey Kong last summer, with much lower vote totals. But of course, Zelda is no DK. Starcraft came back from 2000 down against Zelda: Wind Waker in 2004, to win by less than 200. Duck Hunt came back from 3200 votes down against DK, only to run out of time at the end and lose by about 100. Master Chief came back from 3000 against Frog, getting to 600 votes up, before Frog made his own comeback at the very end, and won by 7 votes. That match had both the largest vote swing and the closest result. Today's match could set all kinds of records if FF can pull off the miracle and come back. (Even if it doesn't, it's got the record for most votes in a Gamefaqs poll.)
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Site Updates / Re: Nominations Open on Gamefaqs Character Battle
« on: July 28, 2006, 05:47:40 pm »
I just tend to carried away with regards to the Gamefaqs contests. Over the past 3 years, I have spent more time on them than on gaming. But then, I suppose I don't actually play video games very much...
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Site Updates / Re: Nominations Open on Gamefaqs Character Battle
« on: July 27, 2006, 08:24:10 pm »
I'm glad this has been posted here for the sake of Chrono characters. It's great to see CJayC moving quickly to start up the new contest after the long delay in the "spring" contest which started in July. I am concerned for certain characters making the bracket: namely, Magus and Frog. Frog has been in the bracket the past 2 years, and Magus the past 3, but I fear their ability to make the bracket again because of the tremendous change in the Contest Message Board's opinion on them after the Summer 2005 Contest.
First off, Crono is the 5th strongest character (some would say 6th) in the contest after Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, and Mario. He is in no danger of missing the bracket; he has made it comfortably all 4 years, and this year CJayC even spelled his name correctly on the nomination page as an example of correct spelling. (I theorize the Aeris/Aerith spelling issue is also why Aeris did not make the last 2 contests despite being a near-elite character in voting strength.) But anyway, I think Crono's past performance would get him a spot, even if he received no nominations. The contest board, of course, will not be nominating him, for the simply reason that they don't want to waste a nomination on a character who is guaranteed to get in.
Magus and Frog, on the other hand, I think are in danger. After Crono's dream run in 2002, Magus was touted as a potential contest champion on the theory that people liked him more than Crono. While few believed that, expectations were high, and Magus proceeded to beat Ganondorf and get an astounding 34.93% on Link. That's very high, for an opponent of Link. That put him up on the level of Sonic, and Magus was touted as the #1 potential Noble Nine breaker (The NN are the 9 top characters in the contests who have never lost to anyone but themselves, with a combined 95-0 or so record against outsiders. They are: Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, Mario, Crono, Samus, Megaman, Sonic, and Solid Snake.) The fact that Magus used to be the contest board's favorite character didn't hurt their optimism. Well, in 2004, Magus didn't get an opportunity to prove his worth because he had to face Crono early, and got crushed.
In 2005, people had high hopes for Magus. While he couldn't break the NN because the first member he could face that year was again Crono, that wasn't until round 4 of 6, and so Magus could, and was the favorite to win his division. He just had to beat Squall and Vincent. But before that, he had to face Knuckles in round 1. Nobody dreamed that Magus could lose. The most ardent Squall > Magus supporters wanted Knuckles to get like 45% at max. Then the poll opened... with Magus at 57% or so. This was already lower than most people's predictions, but Magus is a master of both the night vote and the board vote (the first 15 minutes or so), while Knuckles was the king of the day vote, so people were concerned, and rightly so. As time passed, Magus's percentage fell rapidly, while he increased his lead out to about 600... and then stopped. And it wasn't even morning. After morning, Knuckles began to come back. Magus held out for a couple hours, but then Knuckles just flat out dominated, took the lead, and explanded it to 2700. Magus tried a comeback at night, but the lead was simply too large, and Knuckles won by about 1700 votes.
That was a long digression, but the result of the match was that Magus went from the Contest Board's favorite character, the #1 near-elite, to the definition of overrated. On the Contest Board, in a tally of the board's brackets, there were 153 picks for Magus, 0 for Knuckles. That is the only match the Contest Board has ever been unanimously wrong on. Consequently there is much less motivation to nominate Magus. They'd rather nominate new characters than characters who have already been in 3 contests and whose strength they have lost faith in.
As far as Frog goes, he entered the 2004 contest with high hopes based on Crono and Magus's performances, and he very very very narrowly beat Liquid Snake and Master Chief before losing with over 48% to Solid Snake (who had a horrible picture next to Frog's awesome one). In 2005, he won with 51% against Riku from Kingdom Hearts before getting crushed 70-30 by Samus, revealing his true weakness that his match vs. Solid Snake had managed to mask. So there's not much enthusiasm for renominating him on the contest board either.
People would have thought there was a general Chrono decline in 2005, except that Crono performed just fine, excellent as usual, and getting to the main bracket finals, and that and other previous matches confirm that it was just Magus and Frog being extremely overrated.
So, basically, the conclusion of all this is that it is especially important that you nominate Magus, and also Frog.
First off, Crono is the 5th strongest character (some would say 6th) in the contest after Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, and Mario. He is in no danger of missing the bracket; he has made it comfortably all 4 years, and this year CJayC even spelled his name correctly on the nomination page as an example of correct spelling. (I theorize the Aeris/Aerith spelling issue is also why Aeris did not make the last 2 contests despite being a near-elite character in voting strength.) But anyway, I think Crono's past performance would get him a spot, even if he received no nominations. The contest board, of course, will not be nominating him, for the simply reason that they don't want to waste a nomination on a character who is guaranteed to get in.
Magus and Frog, on the other hand, I think are in danger. After Crono's dream run in 2002, Magus was touted as a potential contest champion on the theory that people liked him more than Crono. While few believed that, expectations were high, and Magus proceeded to beat Ganondorf and get an astounding 34.93% on Link. That's very high, for an opponent of Link. That put him up on the level of Sonic, and Magus was touted as the #1 potential Noble Nine breaker (The NN are the 9 top characters in the contests who have never lost to anyone but themselves, with a combined 95-0 or so record against outsiders. They are: Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, Mario, Crono, Samus, Megaman, Sonic, and Solid Snake.) The fact that Magus used to be the contest board's favorite character didn't hurt their optimism. Well, in 2004, Magus didn't get an opportunity to prove his worth because he had to face Crono early, and got crushed.
In 2005, people had high hopes for Magus. While he couldn't break the NN because the first member he could face that year was again Crono, that wasn't until round 4 of 6, and so Magus could, and was the favorite to win his division. He just had to beat Squall and Vincent. But before that, he had to face Knuckles in round 1. Nobody dreamed that Magus could lose. The most ardent Squall > Magus supporters wanted Knuckles to get like 45% at max. Then the poll opened... with Magus at 57% or so. This was already lower than most people's predictions, but Magus is a master of both the night vote and the board vote (the first 15 minutes or so), while Knuckles was the king of the day vote, so people were concerned, and rightly so. As time passed, Magus's percentage fell rapidly, while he increased his lead out to about 600... and then stopped. And it wasn't even morning. After morning, Knuckles began to come back. Magus held out for a couple hours, but then Knuckles just flat out dominated, took the lead, and explanded it to 2700. Magus tried a comeback at night, but the lead was simply too large, and Knuckles won by about 1700 votes.
That was a long digression, but the result of the match was that Magus went from the Contest Board's favorite character, the #1 near-elite, to the definition of overrated. On the Contest Board, in a tally of the board's brackets, there were 153 picks for Magus, 0 for Knuckles. That is the only match the Contest Board has ever been unanimously wrong on. Consequently there is much less motivation to nominate Magus. They'd rather nominate new characters than characters who have already been in 3 contests and whose strength they have lost faith in.
As far as Frog goes, he entered the 2004 contest with high hopes based on Crono and Magus's performances, and he very very very narrowly beat Liquid Snake and Master Chief before losing with over 48% to Solid Snake (who had a horrible picture next to Frog's awesome one). In 2005, he won with 51% against Riku from Kingdom Hearts before getting crushed 70-30 by Samus, revealing his true weakness that his match vs. Solid Snake had managed to mask. So there's not much enthusiasm for renominating him on the contest board either.
People would have thought there was a general Chrono decline in 2005, except that Crono performed just fine, excellent as usual, and getting to the main bracket finals, and that and other previous matches confirm that it was just Magus and Frog being extremely overrated.
So, basically, the conclusion of all this is that it is especially important that you nominate Magus, and also Frog.
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Site Updates / Re: Chrono fans have done it again
« on: July 26, 2006, 02:27:34 pm »
Gamefaqs is actually very supportive of Chrono Trigger (though not Chrono Cross!), as far as the contests go. CT made the finals of the Spring 2004 Best Game Ever Contest, and is the 3rd most popular game on the site, behind Final Fantasy VII and Zelda: Ocarina of Time, based on that contest (where OOT did a bit better against FFVII than CT did.) and the Top 10 Games list last fall. Crono, of course, is Mario's equal, having lost to him twice with 49.95% of the vote, beat him once with over 53%, and lost once with 46%. Now, CJayC says that Chrono would probably lose quickly as a 7-seed?
HAHAHAHAHA
Metroid, today's loser (against Zelda) is a 2 seed. How would Chrono do against it? Let's see.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1639
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 74% 53413
Super Metroid 26% 18763
TOTAL VOTES 72176
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1658
Chrono Trigger 50.18% 49494
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 49.82% 49132
TOTAL VOTES 98626
So Chrono would win pretty easily against a series that couldn't break 53% on Pokemon, and would have advanced until today's match (where sadly it would have been pummeled by Zelda, because Zelda >>> LttP, and Chrono won't be much stronger than CT.) if it had been put where Kirby is in the bracket.
The next 2 seed is Kingdom Hearts... which folds against anything it shares a fanbase with, the closer than fanbases, the more votes get sucked away from KH!
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1317
Sora 33.34% 32614
Aeris Gainsborough 66.66% 65196
TOTAL VOTES 97810
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2116
Solid Snake 65.26% 63664
Sora 34.74% 33887
TOTAL VOTES 97551
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=997
Crono 52.93% 52517
Solid Snake 47.07% 46697
TOTAL VOTES 99214
(Snake is significantly stronger than Aeris, and beat her directly, but Aeris, as a Square character, was able to use more "SFF," or Same Fanbase Factor.)
In the games contest, KH lost to Starcraft, which lost to Super Smash Bros. Melee, which lost to FFVII by more than CT did. So Chrono would not even need any SFF to beat Kingdom Hearts comfortably. The 2nd game on the Square hierarchy would not lose to the... 7th. Had Chrono been placed here instead of Harvest Moon, it would have beaten Castlevania in Round 2, and advanced until it faced Metal Gear in a close, debated, match tomorrow for the title of the 4th strongest series (after Final Fantasy, Zelda, and Mario)
The next 2 seed, the only one with a realistic chance of actually beating Chrono, is Super Smash Bros. Nonetheless, Chrono would be the favorite for a very simple reason. Neither the original SSB nor Chrono Cross would add many votes either series on Gamefaqs. So it comes down to Chrono Trigger vs SSBM. And they share a common opponent.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1662
Final Fantasy VII 62.43% 54264
Super Smash Bros. Melee 37.57% 32654
TOTAL VOTES 86918
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1663
Chrono Trigger 41.76% 41647
Final Fantasy VII 58.24% 58077
TOTAL VOTES 99724
So, Chrono here would probably have beaten SSB in a fairly close match in round 1, soundly defeated Sonic in Round 2 (as SSB beat Sonic with 57%), and then lost to Mario in Round 3. While Crono is Mario's equal, CT + CC stands no chance against all of Mario's games.
The last 2-seed is Resident Evil, which yesterday defeated Street Fighter with less than 51%.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2448
Street Fighter 49.27% 60308
Resident Evil 50.73% 62087
TOTAL VOTES 122395
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1610
Super Mario RPG 56.24% 54390
Street Fighter II 43.76% 42314
TOTAL VOTES 96704
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1637
Chrono Trigger 67.06% 53516
Super Mario RPG 32.94% 26288
TOTAL VOTES 79804
So another fairly easy win for Chrono. Had Chrono been placed here, it would have beaten RE in round 1, Street Fighter in Round 2, and then lost to Final Fantasy in round 3.
Now, guess what was placed as the 7 seed here instead of Chrono? Shadow Hearts, which could not break 13% on RE. How does total fodder like that get in over Chrono, the 4th or 5th strongest series on Gamefaqs? Among the people of the Gamefaqs Contests Board, Chrono would be the favorite over all the 2 seeds, and possibly over Metal Gear. It would beat around 90% of the series in the bracket.
This is not the first time that C(h)rono has been a victim of unjustness in the contests. Crono, despite consistent strong performances, has never been given a 1-seed in the character contests, even when the top 3 (Link, Cloud, and Sephiroth) were removed from the main bracket to the tournament of champions. While that matters almost nothing, Mario's victory in the second Mario vs. Crono was a total travesty.
That match got 133,000 votes- the 3rd highest single day Gamefaqs poll ever, and the 2nd until Final Fantasy vs. Megaman scored higher 2 days ago. After losing by 115 votes at the wire in 2002, when his comeback was stopped by the time running out and CJayC removing 490 votes for cheating (deserved), Crono opened up the first night vote by amassing an 800 vote lead. Morning hit, and Mario came back, and took the lead. But he could not extend it past 200 votes, and as afternoon came along, Crono regained the lead. As evening and night came, Crono continued to extend his lead. He was now rapidly returning to his best time, the late night, the time during which he had launched his comeback against Mario the previous year.
With around 2 hours left, and the lead about 800, Mario began to come back. Both characters, but especially Mario, had very high vote intakes for this time of day. With an hour left the lead was under 600, and now Mario really accelerated. Crono's vote intake dropped, as is natural for midnight, but Mario defied the pattern of every match ever and did not drop. There were many accusations of cheating against Mario, and the evidence based on voting patterns seems very incriminating, even if CJayC did not catch it, as he has at other matches. But he apparently did not catch the closing time of the match either. The match had begun at 11:40 the previous day; in 2003, the start times were different each day, but usually around 11:45. Well, after 24 hours, Crono still had a lead of around 170, but the poll didn't close! 27 minutes later, at 12:07, the poll finally did close, after Mario had posted his largest gains of the whole day, resulting in a Mario win by 137 votes with... 50.05%.
Since then, of course, people have often accused CJayC of either hating Crono or being a Mario fanboy. This spelling mess gives a bit more credibility to the former...
HAHAHAHAHA
Metroid, today's loser (against Zelda) is a 2 seed. How would Chrono do against it? Let's see.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1639
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 74% 53413
Super Metroid 26% 18763
TOTAL VOTES 72176
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1658
Chrono Trigger 50.18% 49494
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 49.82% 49132
TOTAL VOTES 98626
So Chrono would win pretty easily against a series that couldn't break 53% on Pokemon, and would have advanced until today's match (where sadly it would have been pummeled by Zelda, because Zelda >>> LttP, and Chrono won't be much stronger than CT.) if it had been put where Kirby is in the bracket.
The next 2 seed is Kingdom Hearts... which folds against anything it shares a fanbase with, the closer than fanbases, the more votes get sucked away from KH!
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1317
Sora 33.34% 32614
Aeris Gainsborough 66.66% 65196
TOTAL VOTES 97810
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2116
Solid Snake 65.26% 63664
Sora 34.74% 33887
TOTAL VOTES 97551
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=997
Crono 52.93% 52517
Solid Snake 47.07% 46697
TOTAL VOTES 99214
(Snake is significantly stronger than Aeris, and beat her directly, but Aeris, as a Square character, was able to use more "SFF," or Same Fanbase Factor.)
In the games contest, KH lost to Starcraft, which lost to Super Smash Bros. Melee, which lost to FFVII by more than CT did. So Chrono would not even need any SFF to beat Kingdom Hearts comfortably. The 2nd game on the Square hierarchy would not lose to the... 7th. Had Chrono been placed here instead of Harvest Moon, it would have beaten Castlevania in Round 2, and advanced until it faced Metal Gear in a close, debated, match tomorrow for the title of the 4th strongest series (after Final Fantasy, Zelda, and Mario)
The next 2 seed, the only one with a realistic chance of actually beating Chrono, is Super Smash Bros. Nonetheless, Chrono would be the favorite for a very simple reason. Neither the original SSB nor Chrono Cross would add many votes either series on Gamefaqs. So it comes down to Chrono Trigger vs SSBM. And they share a common opponent.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1662
Final Fantasy VII 62.43% 54264
Super Smash Bros. Melee 37.57% 32654
TOTAL VOTES 86918
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1663
Chrono Trigger 41.76% 41647
Final Fantasy VII 58.24% 58077
TOTAL VOTES 99724
So, Chrono here would probably have beaten SSB in a fairly close match in round 1, soundly defeated Sonic in Round 2 (as SSB beat Sonic with 57%), and then lost to Mario in Round 3. While Crono is Mario's equal, CT + CC stands no chance against all of Mario's games.
The last 2-seed is Resident Evil, which yesterday defeated Street Fighter with less than 51%.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2448
Street Fighter 49.27% 60308
Resident Evil 50.73% 62087
TOTAL VOTES 122395
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1610
Super Mario RPG 56.24% 54390
Street Fighter II 43.76% 42314
TOTAL VOTES 96704
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1637
Chrono Trigger 67.06% 53516
Super Mario RPG 32.94% 26288
TOTAL VOTES 79804
So another fairly easy win for Chrono. Had Chrono been placed here, it would have beaten RE in round 1, Street Fighter in Round 2, and then lost to Final Fantasy in round 3.
Now, guess what was placed as the 7 seed here instead of Chrono? Shadow Hearts, which could not break 13% on RE. How does total fodder like that get in over Chrono, the 4th or 5th strongest series on Gamefaqs? Among the people of the Gamefaqs Contests Board, Chrono would be the favorite over all the 2 seeds, and possibly over Metal Gear. It would beat around 90% of the series in the bracket.
This is not the first time that C(h)rono has been a victim of unjustness in the contests. Crono, despite consistent strong performances, has never been given a 1-seed in the character contests, even when the top 3 (Link, Cloud, and Sephiroth) were removed from the main bracket to the tournament of champions. While that matters almost nothing, Mario's victory in the second Mario vs. Crono was a total travesty.
That match got 133,000 votes- the 3rd highest single day Gamefaqs poll ever, and the 2nd until Final Fantasy vs. Megaman scored higher 2 days ago. After losing by 115 votes at the wire in 2002, when his comeback was stopped by the time running out and CJayC removing 490 votes for cheating (deserved), Crono opened up the first night vote by amassing an 800 vote lead. Morning hit, and Mario came back, and took the lead. But he could not extend it past 200 votes, and as afternoon came along, Crono regained the lead. As evening and night came, Crono continued to extend his lead. He was now rapidly returning to his best time, the late night, the time during which he had launched his comeback against Mario the previous year.
With around 2 hours left, and the lead about 800, Mario began to come back. Both characters, but especially Mario, had very high vote intakes for this time of day. With an hour left the lead was under 600, and now Mario really accelerated. Crono's vote intake dropped, as is natural for midnight, but Mario defied the pattern of every match ever and did not drop. There were many accusations of cheating against Mario, and the evidence based on voting patterns seems very incriminating, even if CJayC did not catch it, as he has at other matches. But he apparently did not catch the closing time of the match either. The match had begun at 11:40 the previous day; in 2003, the start times were different each day, but usually around 11:45. Well, after 24 hours, Crono still had a lead of around 170, but the poll didn't close! 27 minutes later, at 12:07, the poll finally did close, after Mario had posted his largest gains of the whole day, resulting in a Mario win by 137 votes with... 50.05%.
Since then, of course, people have often accused CJayC of either hating Crono or being a Mario fanboy. This spelling mess gives a bit more credibility to the former...
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