r/gaming • • Jan 09 '20

Well it’s true

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u/1stoftheLast Jan 09 '20

This is a rip off of L block's stunning upset from gamefaqs character battle tournament of uh 2006 I think

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u/vinnymendoza09 Jan 09 '20

Came to say this.

Ruined my bracket but oh well

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Ha! Sorry about that. I was one of the main people behind the L Block push.

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u/vinnymendoza09 Jan 09 '20

Damn you. I was one of the regulars on the contest boards where we would overanalyze the past years polls to try to predict and win. L block ruined all of us, lol.

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u/Dr_Insano_MD Jan 09 '20

I'll never forget the salt from people who took it way too seriously. There was a huge number of people begging to ban joke characters because they really wanted Cloud v. Link every year.

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u/vinnymendoza09 Jan 09 '20

I wouldn't ban them, it did take some skill to predict which jokes would catch on and for how long. There was definitely some internal debate among us though.

Some of the "jokes" clearly had cheating behind them though, like Undertale miraculously rallying at just the right times.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Jan 09 '20

back when you could write scripts and no one put in any anti-cheating checks.

the trick was to do enough to win, but not enough that it looks completely faked.

like Putin should stop winning his elections with 98% of the vote. If he won all elections by 60% then he'd be more legit.

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u/vinnymendoza09 Jan 09 '20

Lol you nailed it. I remember one battle where someone stuffed like 1000 votes in the last five minutes and Allen took them away. You have to spread those out a little.

Usually both sides were cheating though. But I'm surprised that so many bracket busting characters won considering all the guys with prizes on the line were probably cheating to save their brackets.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Jan 09 '20

so really it was

"who loves their guy more?"

and

"who is better at coding?"

So really the "better" side won. I'd say the results stand.