WWN Character Battle 2011 - THE FINAL!!! Miror B vs. Luigi

[HPD]

So, after well over three months, we're finally there. The final battle. Yeah, I know that took forever. All in all, I think it took about 15 weeks to get to this point.

30 characters did not make it. Two remain: Miror B and Luigi. They need no introduction anymore. Instead, I've made this chart for you to enjoy:


Yeah, I know it's crude. Better than nothing, though.

Have fun picking your winner! There's four days for this poll, just like all the others.

In any case, I'd like to thank you all for your support and your votes throughout this Character Battle. There's a surprising amount of effort involved with hosting and especially keeping up with it, and I'd never have been able to make it to the end without your enthousiasm and activity!

[Narts]

[Dragonite]

Miror B used a Dragonite at some point.(A stolen corrupted one, but STILL, you get to steal it from him as well, score!)

[Terragent]

Guess I'm doing that Miror B cosplay after all.

[Frankdeslimste]

Obvious (and last) Luigi vote.

[Xenesis]

Guess I'm doing that Miror B cosplay after all.

[ThunderWalker]

I've voted for Miror B, despite I dislike Pokémon. Just because Luigi is one of the dumbest video-game characters I've ever seen in my life.

[Pkdragon]

voted luigi

i think this is proof of my theory. if i hadn't voted luigi clearly he would be winning right now

[Crystal Guard 292]

One more time, let the music spin!

[Bonesy]

this board has no fudge taste

[Dragonite]

I guess that's the point for some, compared to how the Gamefaqs battles go.

[Chilly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6nSW39a9E

[HPD]

Hey guys! We have a winner!

Miror B is the winner of the 4th WWN Character Battle!

Congratulations, WWN are now officially just a bunch of Pokémon fanboys... which is nothing new, really.

I hope you've had fun with this whole contest. I certainly did, and I thank you again for your support and your votes.

I'll keep this topic open for some post-contest discussion. I'll Pool Room it eventually though. Maybe you can give your thoughts on the tournament's setup and stuff like that, as well as ideas on how to improve things next time and ideas for new battles. I'd personally like to see a female only character battle next time, seeing as we pretty much only had guys this time around. We were seriously lacking females :/

[Dragonite]

Yup, pokemon fanboy right here>_> It was a fun contest, although I didn't like/know the majority of characters. Link was booted fairly quickly, and Samus also didn't make it, so Mirror B and Luigi were the only characters I care about besides those . I noticed a characters chance of winning is influenced on the earlier battles. I think Mirror B winning is because a lot of the nominees were either odd characters like mirror and murray , and a lot of gritty characters not everybody knows and loves.

Also, female battle? Inb4 samus vs mia final.

[Pkdragon]

in other words dragonite you are part of the cancer that killed this contest

i think we all learned a very important lesson: certain people need to play moar video games.

including me, of course.

[Chilly]

I thought the contest went well. Granted, I could have been a bit more knowledgeable about some characters from games I never played, but... <3 Miror B.! :3

[Pkdragon]

of course you thought the contest went well

you pretty much voted against everyone i voted for

[Crystal Guard 292]

I say next time, it'd be better if each character had a photo linking to a wiki article or something in the earlier rounds. Made choices more interesting for characters I didn't know.

[HPD]

I don't really like linking to wikis for things such as this. That could really spoil things for people who haven't yet played the game. And those who have don't really need it anyway. I think it's probably better to write a few lines as host, or (if the host doesn't really know either) ask one of the people who nominated the character to write a little bit.

But yeah, spoilers are a no, and wikis means spoilers.

[Pkdragon]

you could always wiki them yourselves

however by that same logic, hpd could provide the link and a spoiler warning, and thus it's your choice whether to go to the link or not

also with a character like sinistar there's nothing to spoil, but wiki'ing him was enough to convince me to give him his vote- not just for the lulz but because the game mechanics behind him seem interesting.

i still think there probably should be a better nomination method. Essentially in this contest, we were able to force in characters we liked regardless of their appeal to WWN as a whole, which might account for why the contest was so odd. Maybe by allowing people to nominate 20 characters, we might get more overlap and thus can do a "if a character gets more than 1 nomination, it's in!" sorta thing.

on the other hand that just might result in the contest being a bunch of nintendo characters, which would indeed more adequately represent WWN's interests as a whole, but be a much lamer contest imo. so i dunno if i like that way better, or hpds' way.

[Crystal Guard 292]

We could make the number of nominations matter a lot more than the rank of the nomination. Maybe stick all the people who only get a single nomination in their own bracket?

[HPD]

Actually what happened with this system was that the points given to each nomination was largely irrelevant and only really mattered to me personally to decide on the seeding. The characters who eventually made it in were all characters who were mentioned more than once (minus only the Prince from Prince of Persia who scored only 3 points from two nominations), together with the eight remaining 10 point nominations (who got seeds 6 and 7).

So yeah, the difference between last time was pretty non-existent. But yeah, of course I'm open to different nomination schemes. One requirement I'd like to give it, though, is that we shouldn't end up with a bigger bracket than 32, and no elimination rounds, as that only makes it drag on a lot longer than it should. Keep in mind that this already took over three months to complete, and that was with me being actually punctual with the battles for once (ok yeah so I was out for three weeks halfway through but still).

[Pkdragon]

oddly enough this didn't feel all that long

i suppose that's just compared to normal wwn pacing, though

[Treedweller]

Wait, this contest was happening for three months?

[HPD]

Post subject: WWN Character Battle 2011 - Nominations
PostPosted: Fri 03 Jun 2011, 19:14:12

[Crystal Guard 292]

I'll be pondering new ideas for nomination systems.

[HPD]

http://www.warsworldnews.com/hpd/cb11nominations.txt is the URL for the full nominations list, btw. This one is from after the re-count when I realised I'd made a few errors when counting points (Eddie Riggs didn't make it in for example, though he had enough points).

[HPD]

oddly enough this didn't feel all that long

i suppose that's just compared to normal wwn pacing, though

Maybe that is because yours took at least double that time... <_<;

[HPD]

I'm triple-posting, but whatever.

Maybe an idea for a nomination system. How about some kind of double nomination? With which I mean that everyone can nominate their own characters but also give additional points for characters who've already been nominated.

For instance:
Everyone gets 5 (or 10) new characters to nominate, with the weighted list as this time (maybe 5 points max or something). But on top of that, they may also distribute totals of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 points on characters from the existing nominations contributed by others. If the host keeps a running list of nominations and point totals, it's pretty clear to see who will make it and who won't during the nominations themselves.

This might maybe give us a better representation of characters popular on WWN. Not sure how it'll work out, but it's one thing.

[Pkdragon]

oddly enough this didn't feel all that long

i suppose that's just compared to normal wwn pacing, though

Maybe that is because yours took at least double that time... <_<;

i never did a character contest

did i do a character contest?

i don't remember doing a character contest

[HPD]

viewtopic.php?p=300550#p300550

<_<;

absolutely no effort required on my part so i see no reason why it'll die.

Which it did, of course. Fal took it up afterwards and finished it. Still I laugh when I read this again, though.

If this is your way of expressing your shame then I'm sorry to have brought it back up. BUT YOU ASKED

[Pkdragon]

oh i did do one didn't i

well that was a mistake on all our parts, letting me take initiative and start something

silly young me, i still hadn't come to the realization that i cannot actually be trusted with anything.

EDIT: read through the topic i made it through the WHOLE NOMINATIONS TOPIC without losing interest

i consider that a success

man the vitality of youth i miss it

[Shift Breaker]

Great. I don't have internet for a while and you fudge vote Murray out of the contest.

I mean, damn. You guys suck.