Contest Facts, Information, and Trivia

Continent poll trend chart (weekend summer poll) - Courtesy of Luster Soldier

GOTD user ratings - user ratings for games in the Game of the Decade contest, courtesy of KamikazePotato

URL to call the poll upater manually:

Where XXXX is the poll id.
Additonal parameters include 'num_entrants' and 'contest' - For instance:
2K9
Where the list of valid contests is: 'Summer 2K3', 'Spring 2K4', 'SC2K4', 'Spring 2K5', 'Summer 2K5', 'BSE 2K6', 'CB 2K6', 'CB VI', 'CB VII', 'BGE 2K9', 'CB VIII', 'GOTD'

Poll update results for the latest match - created for cell phones:

Polls for which updates are missing:

Contest Start Times

Vote Total Breakdown by Region

Here is a breakdown of vote totals by region in the Ocarina of Time vs. Final Fantasy VII 2K9 final.

Secret country code options that are not linked from the poll pages include:

• Mexico - MX
• Italy - IT
• Sweden - SE
• Finland - FI

Goofs and Issues:

• SC2K3 match Mario vs. Crono II started early, and also finished late because Mario was losing at the normal finish.
• SpC2K4 match Xenogears vs. Pokemon was restarted and run again the next day, because initially only registered users could vote.
• SpC2K4 match Vice City vs. KotOR ran for two days because the site was experiencing difficulties.
• SC2K4 match Ryu vs. Jill was run twice, because initially the match picture often showed Sora/HK-47 instead due to a glitch.

Trivia

• After Link won CBV, a bonus Board 8-only poll was created in a sticky topic, Link vs. Jay Solano. Jay Solano won.