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SC2k6 Oracle Challenge - Round 1 - Aeon, Patriot, Destiny and Blast Divisions
From: King Morgoth | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:31:22 PM | Message Detail
Note the change to Rule #5

Welcome to the Oracle Challenge, the contest that tests your prediction abilities down to the hundredth of a percent!

The Challenge

For each match in the GameFAQs Summer Contest you need to pick a winner and predict the percentage of the vote they will receive. New participants are still being accepted until at least the end of round 3 (please indicate that you are new and make a minimum of three picks).

Post your predictions in this topic, one prediction per line. Your predictions must start with the name of your winner and end with your predicted percentage. Examples:

Link with 85%
Link 55.13%
Link over CATS with 67.55%
Link - 77.5%

Please use one of these formats, and always remember to include the % sign. Predictions are entered into our database by a script, which may miss your predictions if you use a weird format.

The Scoring

For each match you will earn points based on how close your guess was to the actual outcome. Scoring is cumulative and the winner of the Oracle Challenge will be the person with the most points at the end of the final match. For each match you can earn anywhere from 0 and 50 points. The scoring system works as follows:

Correctly choosing the winner earns you 50-x points.
Incorrectly choosing the winner earns you 45-x points.
(Where x is the difference between your guess and the character's actual percentage.)

Example:

Your guess: Link with 65%
My guess: CATS with 55%
Actual result: Link 60%, CATS 40%
Your score: 50 - (65-60) = 45 points
My score: 45 - (55-40) = 30 points

The Rules

It is necessary to have a few rules to keep the challenge running smoothly. They are:

1) A valid entry consists of a clear pick and prediction (i.e. Link with 85.03%). The prediction must be greater than or equal to 50.00%.
2) Your prediction does not need to be different from everybody else's. However, intentional and continuous prediction mimicry will not be allowed.
3) All predictions must be made five minutes before the usual start time of that match?s poll (approx. 11:55pm EST, 10:55am CST, 8:55pm PST). Predictions submitted after this time will not be counted or may be subject to penalty. No predictions will be accepted after a poll has started, regardless of the start time.
4) You may change your prediction for any match at any time, subject to the rules above. Please indicate clearly that this is a change to a previous entry.
5) You may not delete any post in a prediction topic (if you do, please post immediately after to explain the deletion). This is to prevent abuse of the above rule and to reduce confusion.
ANYONE CAUGHT CHEATING (Including but not limited to deleting changes after the start of a match) WILL IMMEDIATLY BE DIQUALIFIED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CONTEST.

6) If you post with an alt, you must clearly state the name of your main account. (Exception: if the alt is listed on your user profile page <http://oraclechallenge.com/profiles.php?type=users>, I already know about it).
7) You may predict matches in advance if you need to. Please tell me beforehand so we can arrange this.
8) I reserve the right to disqualify a pick for any justifiable reason.

Team Challenge

The popular team challenge is returning for a second contest. The rules for the team challenge are simple:

1. Sign up with a partner before the beginning of the first match.
2. Make just one prediction per match - it counts for the Oracle Challenge and the Oracle Team Challenge.
3. Your team score for the day is equal to both team members' scores added together.
4. If one player misses a prediction, the team will get either (partner's score * 2) or (partner's score + average score for the day), whichever is lower. This is to keep teams from being eliminated by one missed prediction, and ONLY applies to the team scores.
From: King Morgoth | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:31:36 PM | Message Detail
ORACLE WEBSITE
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/

Oracle Discussion Topic
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=30525291

We are now accepting predictions round 1 matches in the Aeon, Patriot, Destiny and Blast Divisions:

Aeon Division
Chun Li vs Kasumi
Lara Croft vs Alyx Vance

Patriot Division
Solid Snake vs Soma Cruz
Squall Leonhart vs Tidus
Riku vs Yoshi
Dante vs Ryu Hayabusa

Destiny Division
Sora vs Tingle
Phoenix Wright vs Gordon Freeman
Kratos (God of War) vs Ryu (Street Fighter)
Mega Man vs Axel

Blast Division
Sonic the Hedgehog vs CATS
Ganondorf vs Vincent Valentine
Kirby vs The Prince of Persia
Luigi vs Zero

Let the Oracle Challenge test your prediction abilities down to the hundredth of a percent!
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It looks like I got Z1mZum'd! Congrats to the greatest Guru!
SpC2k4 Triple Crown WINNER (Oracle, Betting, Spread Betting)
From: Haste_2 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:34:59 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 77.87%
Ganondorf with 51.00%
Kirby with 70.56%
Zero with 51.78%

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Sign the Petition for more stats in the GameFAQs Contests here:
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=7&topic=30693799
From: LusterSoldier | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:35:36 PM | Message Detail
NEW PICKS

Sonic the Hedgehog with 80.27%
Ganondorf with 51.63%
Kirby with 69.92%
Luigi with 52.19%
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Luster Soldier - Pwned by Repus_Yortsed
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=7&topic=30445079
From: AlecTrevelyan006 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:36:00 PM | Message Detail
*tags for when he gets home*

-Wangbeater
~-~-~
Icehawk: A wife beating wang lover. Sounds like a good gimmick to me
From: King Morgoth | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:38:48 PM | Message Detail
Sincere apologies for the 588 seconds without any Oracle topic, I got stuck in traffic...
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It looks like I got Z1mZum'd! Congrats to the greatest Guru!
SpC2k4 Triple Crown WINNER (Oracle, Betting, Spread Betting)
From: KleenexTissue50 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:38:50 PM | Message Detail
Blast Division
Sonic the Hedgehog with 80.18%
Vincent Valentine with 53.04%
Kirby with 73.45%
Luigi with 51.59%
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CB5 Points: 12/13, Current Oracle placement: 20/156
Now playing: Xenosaga 3 (kinda)
From: meche313 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:38:53 PM | Message Detail
Patriot Division
Solid Snake with 70.3%
Squall Leonhart with 59.22%
Yoshi with 56.13%
Dante with 64.49%

Destiny Division
Sora with 73.21%
Gordon Freeman with 60%
Ryu (Street Fighter) with 58.99%
Mega Man with 70.81%
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Happy Happyists 4th on the Oracle Team Challenge. 3rd on Spread Betting!
From: Ness26 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:39:18 PM | Message Detail
Bleh.

CHANGE again.

Chun Li with 63.84%
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Best. Board/Card Game. Ever Contest:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=171196
From: Janus5000 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:42:55 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 82.33%
Ganondorf with 50.59%
Kirby with 67.31%
Luigi with 53.44%
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"Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=2916&diff=4
From: Janus5000 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:44:10 PM | Message Detail
CHANGE:

Sora with 73.89%
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"Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=2916&diff=4
From: Starion | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:44:21 PM | Message Detail
Just a tag. Will put some safety picks for the male brackets later.
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Currently playing: Dark Cloud 2 - Medal hunting (303/396)
From: SephirothG | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:45:54 PM | Message Detail
I'm doing them all now if that's okay.

Solid Snake with 77.94%
Squall Leonhart with 60.54%
Yoshi with 57.09%
Dante with 63.33%

Sora with 82.75%
Phoenix Wright with 50.00%
Ryu (Street Fighter) with 59.12%
Mega Man with 74.50%

Sonic the Hedgehog with 81.37%
Vincent Valentine with 50.13%
Kirby with 68.97%
Zero with 54.43%

Crono with 74.01%
Bowser with 64.00%
Auron with 59.99%
Master Chief with 51.01%

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Z1mZum:Me :: solarshadow:Tai
My boyfriend is uncut and I laugh at him and ask him if I can put pennies in there. He doesn't appreciate it much.~ Ryoko
From: Draco1214 | Posted: 9/25/2006 3:46:42 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 81%
Vincent Valentine with 52%
Kirby with 62%
Zero with 54%
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Character Battle V Score - 13/13 points
Current Prediction - Joanna Dark vs. Cortana
From: Salient | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:03:40 PM | Message Detail
CHANGE

Chun Li with 61.14%
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~~Teh Frue Blob of Pwnage~~
http://www.geocities.com/bernardalgain/Lufia2/Lufia2_Wacky/Salient.png
From: red sox 777 | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:07:48 PM | Message Detail
Change

Chun-Li with 60.00%
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"........!" ~Magus
From: Seginustemple | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:10:54 PM | Message Detail
Chun Li with 68.76%

Destiny Division
Sora with 72.76%
Gordon Freeman with 57.87%
Ryu (Street Fighter) with 65.65%
Mega Man with 75.54%

Blast Division
Sonic the Hedgehog with 85.54%
Ganondorf with 53.87%
Kirby with 68.65%
Zero with 67.76%
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I've been called an idiot many times, mostly by people with poor grammar and a small vernicular. - ExtremeM65
From: TheKnightOfNee | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:11:26 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 81.88%
Ganondorf with 51.07%
Kirby with 62.11%
Zero with 54.89%
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Sushi, Kamikaze, Fujiyama, Nippon-Ichi...
"i love you and aiya" - An IM from Richie259. Awww.
From: TurnTurnTurn | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:13:27 PM | Message Detail
Sora with 88%
Phoenix Wright with 50.8%
Kratos With 64%
Mega Man with 78%
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Xuxon: I just had a dream that Snakes on a Plane cost 3000$ on opening night
DauntlessHunter: 3000 US DOLLARS?! More like Snakes on a Playstation, M I RITE??!?
From: Jecht | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:15:21 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 84.7%
Vincent Valentine with 52.3%
Kirby with 52.1%
Zero with 59.4%
From: phlyerphan1 | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:18:09 PM | Message Detail
NEW PICKS

Sonic the Hedgehog with 79.63%
Vincent Valentine with 54.18%
Kirby with 67.24%
Luigi with 56.82%
From: Radix | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:18:12 PM | Message Detail
Blast Division
Sonic the Hedgehog with 77.46%
Vincent Valentine with 53.58%
Kirby with 76.89%
Zero with 54.03%
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This is my signature!
There are many like it, but this one is mine!
From: LotteryTicket | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:30:01 PM | Message Detail
CHANGE

Chun-Li with 62.17%

Sonic the Hedgehog with 87.18%
Vincent Valentine with 54.19%
Kirby with 61.70%
Zero with 61.00%
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Current Score: 13/13 Next Match: Joanna vs. Cortana
~~Stingers135~~
From: Big Bob | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:32:57 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 80%
Ganondorf with 53%
Kirby with 62%
Luigi with 51%
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My bracket is so screwed.
From: Paratroopa1 | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:41:51 PM | Message Detail
CHANGE

Chun Li with 66.66%
From: Menji76 | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:42:07 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 83.00%
Vincent Valentine with 50.55%
Kirby with 62.32%
Zero with 53.04%


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Board 8's #1 Duke Fan - Be HonestŠ
SC2K6; 12/13; 12 Points; T-2nd; Next Pick: Joanna
From: XxSoulxX | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:44:24 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 79.85%
Ganondorf with 54.50%
Kirby with 64.53%
Zero with 56.42%
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"ertyu is actually a language. For example, 'dum' is ertyunese for 'godly'." - Topaz Kitsune
RIP Eddie Guerrero. 1967-2005. Deputy Chief!
From: Dekar TKB | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:47:57 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 84.82%
Vincent Valentine with 50.82%
Kirby with 64.82%
Zero with 54.82%
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Chief of Patrol in Sir Chris' police force DA!
Captain Falcon for Sc2k6! www.rpgdl.com
From: The n00b Avenger | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:54:13 PM | Message Detail
Lara Croft with 67.92%
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ertyu and VeghEsther are truly proof that there is much about this world we still do not understand.
From: Darkash | Posted: 9/25/2006 4:58:36 PM | Message Detail
Chun-Li with 60.72%

"The fodder Duke, the fodder!"
"I'm fodderblind, kid."
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1st place in scientist pg's TLoZ MM riddle contest!
12th in the SpC2k4 Oracle Challenge!
From: Shivan Reincarnated | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:08:43 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 81.85%
Vincent Valentine with 50.19%
Kirby with 75.47%
Zero with 50.06%

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Let the snow fall deep, the rain drive down, and the wind buffet my cloak. I care not for I've a road worth walking ~ Drizzt Do'Urden
From: DSRage_Revived | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:23:35 PM | Message Detail
Change!

Chun-Li with 63.11%


-D§R-
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A stupid spiteful comment by transience. Why am I not surprised?~Vlado
Currently 1st out of 156 in the Oracle Challenge.
From: King Morgoth | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:31:13 PM | Message Detail
The other topic is in the database now

Yeah, I saw the moving arrows. It was updated last night. My question was, when will it be updated again? Or perhaps, is that the normal time that it gets updated?

There is no normal time, and as Kaxon is on vacation right now, I am the only one updating the database instead of both of us doing it (as usual), so things get done a little less often than usual...
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It looks like I got Z1mZum'd! Congrats to the greatest Guru!
SpC2k4 Triple Crown WINNER (Oracle, Betting, Spread Betting)
From: WarThaNemesis | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:37:18 PM | Message Detail
CHANGE

Chun Li with 67.35%
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War13104 had something weak beating something strong and he looks smarter than you or something - TessaTestarossa
From: charmander6000 | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:43:37 PM | Message Detail
Chun-Li - 60.94%
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"I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work." - President Bush
From: Rodri316 | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:48:01 PM | Message Detail
Change

Chun Li - 70.23%
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Character Battle V Score: 13/13
Current Prediction: Joanna Dark vs. Cortana
From: Ikon | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:49:38 PM | Message Detail
Blast Division
Sonic the Hedgehog over CATS with 78.90%
Ganondorf over Vincent Valentine with 51.00%
Kirby over The Prince of Persia with 66.75%
Luigi over Zero with with 55.00%

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%$*&@!!
From: Ngamer64 | Posted: 9/25/2006 5:49:39 PM | Message Detail
I have no idea what to expect here. Fighter SFF?

Chun Li with 65.71%

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thengamer.com/xstats - "lol x-stats," The Contest Simulator
thengamer.com/gamefaqs - The Contest Archives
From: Rodri316 | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:00:51 PM | Message Detail
Solid Snake - 75.03%
Squall Leonhart - 56.33%
Yoshi - 53.88%
Dante - 58.11%

Sora - 71.32%
Gordon Freeman - 57.27%
Ryu (Street Fighter) - 65.34%
Mega Man - 77.88%

Sonic the Hedgehog - 76.10%
Vincent Valentine - 50.91%
Kirby - 63.46%
Zero - 53.42%
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Character Battle V Score: 13/13
Current Prediction: Joanna Dark vs. Cortana
From: FastFalcon05 | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:01:55 PM | Message Detail
Chun Li with 72.55%
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Revenge is a dish best served by Z1mZum in the 2k6 Series Guru Contest.
From: Menji76 | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:10:16 PM | Message Detail
Kasumi doesn't have a revealing picture....

CHANGE

Chun Li with 66.54%

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Board 8's #1 Duke Fan - Be HonestŠ
SC2K6; 12/13; 12 Points; T-2nd; Next Pick: Joanna
From: yoshifan823 | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:11:39 PM | Message Detail
Sonic the Hedgehog with 85.65%
Ganondorf with 55.73%
Kirby with 67.34%
Luigi with 53.45%
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*Yoshifan*
From: KleenexTissue50 | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:14:07 PM | Message Detail
Change

Chun-Li with 64.67%
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CB5 Points: 12/13, Current Oracle placement: 20/156
Now playing: Xenosaga 3 (kinda)
From: GrapefruitKing | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:16:05 PM | Message Detail
CHANGE
Chun-Li with 64.04%
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CB5 Oracle Challenge - Today's prediction: Joanna Dark with 58.33%
From: Aprosenf | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:16:50 PM | Message Detail
CHANGE:

Chun Li with 67.77%
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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: Ed Bellis | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:17:30 PM | Message Detail
Chun Li with 66.34%.
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This was Ed Bellis, servant to the mighty Guru Z1mZum. Congrats, buddy!
From: LusterSoldier | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:17:55 PM | Message Detail
Going to increase the distance between my prediction and Cokes prediction (my partner for the team).

CHANGE

Chun Li with 65.99%
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Luster Soldier - Pwned by Repus_Yortsed
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=7&topic=30445079
From: trannyscience | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:22:54 PM | Message Detail
change:

Chun Li with 66.67%
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xyzzy
From: Team Rocket Elite | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:24:55 PM | Message Detail
Chun Li with 64.00%
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I got pwnt by Z1mZum in the July 2006 Guru Contest.
Support Toadette for the Summer 2006 Contest!
From: Weird Kirby Dude11 | Posted: 9/25/2006 6:26:46 PM | Message Detail
Chun-Li with 63%
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Weird Kirby Dude - spud2002 is alive! >_>
Minnesota Twins: 89-61
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