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Oracle Challenge Discussion Topic 2
From: transience | Posted: 10/4/2006 11:56:03 AM | Message Detail
Kratos's nice day vote is kicking in here. this may go under my pick, which is lower than the entire top of the leaderboard.
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From: Heroic unalo Pot | Posted: 10/4/2006 12:22:47 PM | Message Detail
Up three spots, to 14th! I keep doing fine, which is a bit surprising but I hope I keep it up somehow. Ryu has really fallen on the day hours, so my prediction will be somewhat off.
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From: King_Zog | Posted: 10/4/2006 1:33:51 PM | Message Detail
The God of War has finally been released from school!
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From: Aprosenf | Posted: 10/4/2006 1:48:07 PM | Message Detail
Aaargh, Ryu is dropping like a rock. Not good. I might fall off the top 5 after today. I've got to stop overshooting by so much.
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For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to refer to Gordon Freeman versus Tanner as Schrodinger's Match. -Phoenix Flattener
From: trannyscience | Posted: 10/4/2006 3:21:30 PM | Message Detail
he just flew below my pick like nothing, and I was one of the lower picks. awesome.
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xyzzy
"12 percent of those who liked opera had experimented with magic mushrooms." - Reuters
From: catldr24 | Posted: 10/4/2006 3:47:58 PM | Message Detail
Meanwhile, Ryu gets closer to my pick. And I hope this is Karmic retribution on the Gordon pickers, for heling the universe's implosion.
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From: Xuxon | Posted: 10/4/2006 5:18:23 PM | Message Detail
Bah, I had 57% at first due to thinking Ryu was significantly overrated by Bowser (like, around Vivi), but then I thought "Ryu can't be that weak compared to earlier..." Oh well. Maybe he isn't and Kratos just boosted more than I thought.
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From: Kaxon | Posted: 10/4/2006 5:23:47 PM | Message Detail
A Mega Man match! The Blue Bomber is my favorite contest regular (Crono is pretty close, but most of the time I like MM a little better). I really wish we had seen him face Tingle this year... it's been too long since he's put up a monstrous performance, and I don't think he's going to do it against Axel.
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From: trannyscience | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:02:40 PM | Message Detail
looks like something went wrong with the script - it didn't differentiate between Kratos and Ryu picks.
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xyzzy
"12 percent of those who liked opera had experimented with magic mushrooms." - Reuters
From: Leebo86 | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:04:35 PM | Message Detail
Strider Hiryu came out of nowhere to win, that's what happened.
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From: Camden | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:04:59 PM | Message Detail
DAMN! I would have picked Strider if I knew he was in the running.
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From: Dekar TKB | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:05:14 PM | Message Detail
Match #23 - Strider Hiryu vs Ryu (Street Fighter)
Winner: Strider Hiryu - 57.11%

Glad to see Strider got back into another contest! Looks like he got another win, too! Yay! <_<.
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From: MyWorldIsTerra | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:05:24 PM | Message Detail
XD

Strider Hiryu FTW!!

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From: trannyscience | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:05:38 PM | Message Detail
whoa, I didn't even notice that.
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xyzzy
"12 percent of those who liked opera had experimented with magic mushrooms." - Reuters
From: Haste_2 | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:05:52 PM | Message Detail
Oh, HECK YES! Strider got justice! He is one of the greatest characters of all time, and he indeed spliced them both!

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From: Ed Bellis | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:06:18 PM | Message Detail
XD

That's... random!
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From: catldr24 | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:06:28 PM | Message Detail
Whats worse it it puts me up 10 places like that. XD
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From: GoldSlime35 | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:07:41 PM | Message Detail
what the hell happened lol
From: cyko | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:20:35 PM | Message Detail
well, this completely sucks. i was totally gonna lower my pick to around 74%, but i waffled at the last second. BAH!! but, at least i have the lowest pick out of the Top 10:

1) DSRage 1044.60 +0.00 0.00 75.68%
2) cyko 1043.63 +0.00 -0.97 75.23%
3) Kaxon 1037.86 +0.00 -6.74 76.00%
4) Karma Hunter 1037.25 +0.00 -7.35 77.80%
5) Luster Soldier 1034.39 +0.00 -10.21 77.12%
6) Aprosenf 1033.99 +0.00 -10.61 75.66%
7) Ed Bellis 1032.98 +0.00 -11.62 76.55%
8) transience 1032.03 +0.00 -12.57 76.76%
9) Rodri316 1030.67 +0.00 -13.93 77.88%
10) ps2rulezzz 1029.72 +0.00 -14.88 77.77%


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i have officially been Z1mZum'D in the guru contest.
Vincent Valentine to win the Blast Division!!
From: Aprosenf | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:22:36 PM | Message Detail
Good thing I didn't leave my pick at 90 *whew*. I don't know what happened to me, I was so close to the top, and then I made like 3 or 4 terrible picks in a row. Thankfully I made a sane choice today, and it looks like I'll slip back into the top 5 by a hair, but I've got lots of ground to make up to get back to the top.
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For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to refer to Gordon Freeman versus Tanner as Schrodinger's Match. -Phoenix Flattener
From: Aprosenf | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:23:02 PM | Message Detail
And when I said 90, I meant 80. My previous pick was 80.xx, and that 90 there was a typo =)
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For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to refer to Gordon Freeman versus Tanner as Schrodinger's Match. -Phoenix Flattener
From: trannyscience | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:26:50 PM | Message Detail
looks like everyone stays the same today. I guess Lusty might fall a spot, but that's about it.
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xyzzy
"12 percent of those who liked opera had experimented with magic mushrooms." - Reuters
From: Redtooth | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:28:36 PM | Message Detail
Bah!!! I knew Strider would win. Why do I let you guys always convince me otherwise >_<

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From: creativename | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:29:09 PM | Message Detail
The oracle site is HAUNTED

dun dun duuun
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From: Seginustemple | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:47:26 PM | Message Detail
1) DSRage 1044.60 +0.00 0.00 75.68%
2) cyko 1043.63 +0.00 -0.97 75.23%
3) Kaxon 1037.86 +0.00 -6.74 76.00%
4) Karma Hunter 1037.25 +0.00 -7.35 77.80%
5) Luster Soldier 1034.39 +0.00 -10.21 77.12%
6) Aprosenf 1033.99 +0.00 -10.61 75.66%
7) Ed Bellis 1032.98 +0.00 -11.62 76.55%
8) transience 1032.03 +0.00 -12.57 76.76%
9) Rodri316 1030.67 +0.00 -13.93 77.88%
10) ps2rulezzz 1029.72 +0.00 -14.88 77.77%


Like it matters, Strider already blew us out of the water.
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From: MyWorldIsTerra | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:50:18 PM | Message Detail
The oracle site is HAUNTED

dun dun duuun



Blame Gordon's victory. He's causing the site to go haywired after implosion.

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From: DSRage_Revived | Posted: 10/4/2006 9:53:42 PM | Message Detail
damn you cyko! I thought you stayed at 78...I was happy.


-D§R-
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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 10/4/2006 10:01:09 PM | Message Detail
Alright, I didn't do that one, honestly.

Came back a few seconds ago, it'll be fixed in a minute...
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From: transience | Posted: 10/4/2006 10:03:19 PM | Message Detail
my sig gets better by the day.
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From: MyWorldIsTerra | Posted: 10/4/2006 10:04:03 PM | Message Detail
Ha Ha

Best sig ever.

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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 10/4/2006 10:07:20 PM | Message Detail
Site is fixed now...
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From: ActJef1077 | Posted: 10/4/2006 11:07:14 PM | Message Detail
held at 15th, and gained almost an entire point on DSRage
wonder what a GOOD pick woulda gotten me

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From: Kaxon | Posted: 10/5/2006 2:21:55 AM | Message Detail
I knew I was overestimating Mega Man as always. I felt good about it because I was several percent below most people's predictions, but everyone else lowered theirs after I went to sleep...
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From: Kaxon | Posted: 10/5/2006 2:23:43 AM | Message Detail
If you extrapolate Mega Man through Ganondorf against pre-KH2 Ansem, even assuming Ganon didn't get SFFed by Samus, Mega still doesn't break 78%. That alone told me the predictions were too high.
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From: Kaxon | Posted: 10/5/2006 2:50:45 AM | Message Detail
Match #23 Results
Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.11%
Kratos (God of War) 42.89%

Yesterday's match was a battle between an old time arcade star and a new PS2 character. Ryu managed to win comfortably, but Kratos made it respectable with one of the biggest day votes we've seen in a while. The consensus was Ryu with 61.12% and the average score was 44.83. There were 132 picks for Ryu and 3 for Kratos. Surprisingly, no one picked Strider Hiryu, the actual winner of the match who was later disqualified by the judges.

Best Five Picks:
1) PortugalTheMann - Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.15% (+49.96)
2) yoblazer33 - Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.00% (+49.89)
3) Dekar TKB - Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.82% (+49.29)
4) catldr24 - Ryu (Street Fighter) 56.38% (+49.27)
5) the icon ownz all - Ryu (Street Fighter) 56.31% (+49.20)

Today's top prediction goes to (ahem) PortugalTheMann! I'm not sure where this guy came from, but he seems to already know something about GameFAQs contests. Legendary Arial fan yoblazer gets second, for his first top 5 of the contest. Dekar TKB places third with a much lower 49.29 points, followed by catldr24 and the icon.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=23

Current Leaderboard:
1) DSRage - 1063.82
2) cyko - 1062.85
3) Kaxon - 1057.08
4) Karma Hunter - 1056.47
5) Luster Soldier - 1053.61

The top three spots stay the same today, and DSRage ties the tenth longest consecutive first place streak (7 days). Karma Hunter moves up one spot from fifth to fourth, and Luster Soldier returns to the leaderboard, bumping Aprosenf down to sixth.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=23

Top Team Scores:
1) Team Indie Cred - 98.32 (the icon ownz all: +49.20 / transience: +49.12)
2) Team Drunkadelict Armadillos - 96.65 (Haste2: +47.36 / Dekar TKB: +49.29)
3) Team Coincidence - 95.81 (PeaceOut64: +46.71 / marioinblack: +49.10)
4) Team Jonflufflez - 95.74 (CaptainFlufflez: +48.37 / jonthomson: +47.37)
5) Team Dieroll - 95.62 (StopPokingMe: +48.53 / Jecht: +47.09)

Team Indie Cred (icon and transience) loses even more of their indie cred by placing on top of today's team scores! Team Drunkadelict Armadillos is second, followed by three random teams: Team Coincidence (PeaceOut/marioinblack), Team Jonflufflez (jonthomson/CaptainFlufflez) and Team Dieroll (StopPokingMe/Jecht).

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=23

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 2108.67
2) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 2095.31
3) Team Rage of Warcraft (War13104 / DSRage) - 2094.00
4) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 2093.02
5) Team Happy Happyists (Camden / meche313) - 2091.87

Uneventful day on the team leaderboard today, as Team Unfinished FFP remains in first, and no one in the top 7 changes places. You have to go down to 8th place to find anything interesting happening, where Team We Have Four Perfect Oracle Predictions Combined (TRE and Xuxon) moved up one spot passing Team Romanian Potato soup. Hopefully tomorrow will be more exciting!

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=23
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From: catldr24 | Posted: 10/5/2006 3:38:16 AM | Message Detail
Wow... 4th.. and my MM pick isn't looking that bad either. O_o
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From: transience | Posted: 10/5/2006 4:45:13 AM | Message Detail
hey, icon and I went against the grain in victory! that's the definition of indie cred!
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From: BZer0 | Posted: 10/5/2006 7:59:01 AM | Message Detail
At the moment, I have 50.00 points for today. ^_^

Too bad MM's percents will keep dropping, though.
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CBV: 19/23
Next: Mega Man vs. Axel
From: KingBartz | Posted: 10/5/2006 8:32:56 AM | Message Detail
This spells danger for my oracle ranking ;_;
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SC2k6: 22/23 Today's pick: Mega Man
From: catldr24 | Posted: 10/5/2006 11:37:03 AM | Message Detail
Wow, thats my 3rd top 5 this contest. O_o
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From: King_Zog | Posted: 10/5/2006 1:03:37 PM | Message Detail
Axel is just BURNING off the % now >_>
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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 10/5/2006 2:47:07 PM | Message Detail
Hey Kaxon, at work right now can't check the database myself...
Is that really #28?
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From: ActJef1077 | Posted: 10/5/2006 6:20:35 PM | Message Detail
man, me and WKD are either gonna make Team SPO*N last this matchup or first
we both got over 80

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From: Camden | Posted: 10/5/2006 8:06:16 PM | Message Detail
Characters I don't recognize should not break 30% on Mega Man. It's just not right.
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From: Leebo86 | Posted: 10/5/2006 8:08:25 PM | Message Detail
I used Mega Man vs. Ansem x-stats to put me in the right ballpark... but I guess Axel's way stronger than Ansem.
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From: ActJef1077 | Posted: 10/5/2006 8:39:09 PM | Message Detail
aw jeez, he's under 70% now
luckily the people directly below me made almost as bad predictions as I made

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Call me Jeff Official midget of The Book Club
If you paint a W on each of your buttcheeks and do cartwheels it will say WoW MoM WoW! -C Bar
From: Leebo86 | Posted: 10/5/2006 9:32:56 PM | Message Detail
I hope Sonic performs like Snake did against Soma: staying constant throughout the day.

But I guess that's unlikely.
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From: ActJef1077 | Posted: 10/5/2006 9:36:02 PM | Message Detail
85th place that matchup
that's one of my worst so far this contest

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From: TheKnightOfNee | Posted: 10/5/2006 11:22:59 PM | Message Detail
God, I'm back into a freefall, guessing too high on everything again. Hopefully Sonic comes back a lot during the day, or I'll have been too high yet again today.
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From: Kaxon | Posted: 10/6/2006 2:12:16 AM | Message Detail
Match #24 Results
Mega Man 69.87%
Axel 30.13%

Axel manages to impress in his unwinnable match against Mega Man, making some wonder if Mega Man will fall to Snake or even Sora. The consensus was Mega Man with 78.04% and the average score was 41.72. All 136 predictions were for Mega Man.

Best Five Picks:
1) SuperSmash Master - Mega Man 69.99% (+49.88)
2) satai_delenn - Mega Man 71.88% (+47.99)
3) alpha door - Mega Man 71.89% (+47.98)
4) Dilated Chemist - Mega Man 72.00% (+47.87)
5) DragonsFury - Mega Man 72.11% (+47.76)

Today's we have a pretty low-scoring top five. SuperSmash Master got first with an excellent 49.88 points, but no one else scored over 48. Satai_delenn got second for her second top 5 of the contest, and alpha door was third, also for his second top five (9th lifetime). Spring 2005 winner Dilated Chemist gets fourth, his 28th lifetime top 5 appearance, with DragonsFury taking fifth place.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=24

Current Leaderboard:
1) DSRage - 1108.01
2) cyko - 1107.49
3) Kaxon - 1100.95
4) Karma Hunter - 1098.54
5) Aprosenf - 1097.42

Minimal changes at the top of the standings today, but cyko is getting very close to overtaking DSRage - he now trails by 0.52 points. Kaxon and Karma Hunter remain in third and fourth, respectively. The battle for fifth place rages on, with Aprosenf taking it away from Luster Soldier today. Places six through ten are all quite close together and are packed with some strong competitors as well: Luster Soldier, Ed Bellis, transience, ps2rulezz, and ad00. There are also some dangerous people right outside the top 10, like Rodri, Moltar, and Camden.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=24

Top Team Scores:
1) Team Don't Get Too Cocky - 92.59 (Lopen: +44.60 / satai_delenn: +47.99)
2) Team We Used To Be Good? - 91.52 (Kaxon: +43.87 / King Morgoth: +47.65)
3) Team Romanian Potato Soup - 91.30 (The n00b Avenger: +46.14 / GrapefruitKing: +45.16)
4) Team Drunkadelict Armadillos - 90.17 (Haste2: +43.12 / Dekar TKB: +47.05)
5) Team Awesome - 89.59 (Dilated Chemist: +47.87 / Z1mZum: +41.72)

The top team of the day is Team Don't Get Too Cocky, with Lopen and satai_delenn! This is their second top 2 in three days, so we'll have to see if they follow their own advice. The second highest scoring team is Team We Used To Be Good? thanks to King Morgoth's good prediction. Team Romanian Potato Soup gets third, followed by the Drunkadelict Armadillos in fourth and Team Awesome in fifth.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=24

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 2194.06
2) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 2186.83
3) Team Rage of Warcraft (War13104 / DSRage) - 2183.38
4) Team The Spirit of Truth (Draco1214 / Rodri316) - 2179.15
5) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 2179.00

The top three spots remain unchanged again: Team Unfinished FFP in first, Team We Used To Be Good? in second, and Team Rage of Warcraft in third. Team The Spirit of Truth returns to the leaderboard, moving up two spots to claim fourth place. Team mvp's drops from fourth place, but remains on the leaderboard in fifth for the day.

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=24
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