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<3 MVC2
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How many votes do we usually get after Europe goes to sleep, let's say after 7PM? (midnight in the UK)
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From: MoogleKupo141 | #198
And like every one of those weak MvC polls is from 2003 or earlier. This poll is the first time in over seven years that MvC2 has been in a poll.

But MvC3 was doing pretty well in hype polls, so I just uh... extrapolated it or something into an MvC2 win.

Hmmm. Good point actually.

When quickly digging through polls I neglected to look at those. Damn. I could've beat that damn Analysis Crew! (Because yeah I really think MvC2 is gonna win this at this point)
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Mario is going to win by 204 votes.

Lock it up.
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My God, did that predict good!
Dr_Football-l-l it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'...

Mario is now winning in Oceania for those who care.
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From: Ultimaphazon | #193
Shouldn't that have been your first post in this topic. A bit slow are, we? >_>

I woke up at 1:30 and thought today was Friday. I'm more than a bit slow.
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I've split the States by time zones (states in more than 1 times zone were put in the one where more people lived in, I also added Alaska and Hawaii to Pacific)

Their percent breakdown for MvC2 is as follows.

Pacific - 56.67%
Mountain - 47.80%
Central - 48.79%
Eastern - 50.49%

Remember while Pacific will get a larger percent of the votes later it still only accounts for about 1/6 of the US population.
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BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls
GotD Bracket: 41/48 Today's Matches: MGS3 & NSMBW

From: UltimaterializerX | #207
I woke up at 1:30 and thought today was Friday. I'm more than a bit slow.

True story, I woke up at 1pm and thought today was Sunday.

Not that waking up around 1pm is particularly strange for me...
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From: charmander6000 | #208
Pacific - 56.67%
Mountain - 47.80%
Central - 48.79%
Eastern - 50.49%

Hmmm.... I don't think I like MvC2's chances as much anymore.

Pacific's percentage is particularly dubious because they're the only time zone that hasn't really started into the day vote yet. They might start to tank.
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Damn, my bracket is about to be taken for a ride.
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Completely decimated by Dr. Football in the Guru Contest!

If SMBW can't widen the gap soon, I can see MvC2 coming back with some huge cuts in about 3-4 hours.
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The Pacific Time Zone is well into the day vote; it starts around 8-9 AM on the weekend.
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Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest.

The US map here is very interesting. NSMBW is winning almost all of the Midwest, part of the Rocky Mountain states, and almost all of New England (except Connecticut). The South and West are in favor of MvC2.
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From: red sox 777 | #213
The Pacific Time Zone is well into the day vote; it starts around 8-9 AM on the weekend.

Ehhhh. It does and it doesn't.

The day vote shift is less pronounced on the weekend due to starting earlier, but I wouldn't really say it starting at 8-9AM is entirely accurate.

Just watch Pacific's percentage. If it doesn't tank at all I'll concede defeat there but I expect a good 1-2% drop there from now till match end.
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You know, I've always wondered something. Why don't we have an "After Work Vote", anyway? The age of the normal Gamefaq user is over 18 these days, anyway. Has anyone ever looked into those trends to see if theres ever been anything significant after 5 PM in different regions?
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dayvote at 8-9am pacific?


Man that aint right
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My God, did that predict good!
Dr_Football-l-l it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'...

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but I wouldn't really say it starting at 8-9AM is entirely accurate.

Well, around 8 AM (in weekend polls) is when North America starts to recover from its terrible night vote/early morning vote. If you want to see North America in action when its recovering from its terrible night vote, look at this:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdHpEYmJDdktneHBQQXNoVXdLcUY3cEE&gid=1

That shows the percentage of votes that each option got during each update. Also lists the vote intake for each option during every update. You can notice North America slowly recovering as more people begin to wake up.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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The day vote has always started around 8-9 on weekends and in the summer. The latest day votes (KH and Western stuff) get going by 10, 11 at latest. Nintendo stuff tends to get going closer to 8 AM and is usually in full force past 9 AM. It used to be that Nintendo would actually peak in the late morning, and would start falling off past 1 PM. More recently, Nintendo doesn't seem to drop off in the afternoon anymore, but it doesn't go up either.
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Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest.

Weird, MvC2 has its biggest update on the match and nobody says anything about it but me? Did people just stop watching the match?
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Damn this is close.

Hang in there mario, I need these battle points!

Almost every single debatable match in this contest actually turns out to be insanely close.
My heart can't take much more!

Well it "starts" sure but it's not all full throttle like on the weekdays so it keeps going longer too. More gradual drop and I don't think the west coast has hit the majority of it yet.

Then again with the power hour vote existing in the morning now who really knows.
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Weird, MvC2 has its biggest update on the match and nobody says anything about it but me? Did people just stop watching the match?

Nah, it's just that individual updates don't mean that much, and after 3 hours of back and forth, it's sunk in.
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Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest.

YES, do it marvel !

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It's currently the closest it's been in over two hours, to be fair.
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btw, europe has HORRIBLE taste
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This match actually reminds me of Crono/Missingno. MvC2 would take it based on that, as long as Mario doesn't rally/cheat like Missingno did. Of course, he is Mario, so......
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Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest.

MvC2's increasing percentage in North America is all due to the US, because MvC2's percentage in Canada has been staying fairly steady for like the past 3 hours.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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Marvel should end up winning this hour cleanly.

I think Marvel's got this. I've rarely been this happy to miss a match in both Bracket and Battle.
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And it's now the closest it's been in over 3 hours.
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hell ya go marvel vs capcom 2! Makes up for my crisis core pick
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Next up: eh ; Awaiting: meh

I feel my large streak being ripped out of my soul...

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the cuts are still coming.
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Is MvC3 takin' Mario for a ride?
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*MvC2

too much MvC3 hype for meeee
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At least if NSMB loses I won't be losing too many points since I somehow forgot to pick a winner for BG2 vs SoA. I could have sworn I picked SoA, but I guess I just completely forgot about picking a game that match since I had no intention of banking.
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It doesn't really matter how many points I have now.

I want to be banking XXX amount of points by a certain match. A loss anytime by then will ruin it!

Let's see over the past few hours around the world.

Europe has gone slightly up for NSMBW
Canada has gone slightly down for NSMBW
South America has gone down a lot for MvC2
Oceania has flipped to NSMBW
US has slowly risen with MvC2
North America now slightly favours MvC2
Asia has stayed the same.
The West Coast hasn't changed that much overall, though Hawaii has gone up a lot for MvC2.
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GotD Bracket: 41/48 Today's Matches: MGS3 & NSMBW

NSMBWii's gonna need a bigger lead than this.

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NSMB by the hour:

1:00 | 51.87%
2:00 | 50.40%
3:00 | 50.09%
4:00 | 49.29%
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Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest.

Europe is going to bed soon, leaving Canada alone to deal with North America.
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BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls
GotD Bracket: 41/48 Today's Matches: MGS3 & NSMBW

welp, back to stalling
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This has been quite the contest so far! Have we had such an intense first round before in a contest, as far as close matches?

Winners < 55% (in fact, these are all 53% or closer):
Mega Man 9 - 53.00%
Halo 3 - 52.53%
Valkyrie Chronicles - 52.41%
Skies of Arcadia - 52.40%
Persona 3 - 52.35%
Tales of Symphonia - 52.17%

Winners < 51%:
Dead Rising - 50.91%
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald - 50.77%
Deux Ex - 50.76%
Street Fighter IV - 50.75%
Morrowind - 50.45%
Team Fortress - 50.03%

Then, today, we will most likely have a winner with under 51%.

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Europe is going to bed soon, leaving Canada alone to deal with North America.

Canada cannot do this alone... </lordoftherings>
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Well the day vote is in full swing and Mario is still winning.
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Just want to take a moment and say let's not forget neither game has proven to be strong at all yet. We've seen dominantly-Dreamcast games like SA2, Shenmue, and SoA so far...none of them look very good. We've seen other traditional fighting games flop in recent times, ranging from Street Fighter 2/4 to Soul Calibur. We've seen NSMBW get taken to town in last year's GotY-polls. We can safely assume SMG is significantly stronger here than NSMBW, and SMS might be too. MvsC3 may be hyped and it may be a new Mario-game, but frankly, I doubt those factors mean much here. These two are probably just jobberific.

I also wouldn't use NSMBW to say much about SSBB. Mario's strength in games hasn't represented its series well for two generations now, the Wii was still liked when SSBB came out, SSBB still murdered MKDS like it killed MKW, and LoZ:TP still looked good. It's not a good measuring stick
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Europe is going to bed soon, leaving Canada alone to deal with North America.

Not going to happen until about 6:00 PM, because that's when Europe started falling apart in that continent poll.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3741

Man, the geolocation results are almost identical to this match...
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