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Guru Contests

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The Guru Contest is not for the weak of heart

This article was the Article of the Week for the week of 5/14/06.

Guru Contests are bracket competitions held between the Contest experts (hence "Gurus") who reside in Board 8's Stats Topic. Ngamer and Ulti have run Guru competitions for every bracket since the '04 Game Contest.

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[edit] Past Guru Champions

[edit] Guru Nomination Choices

Starting with the 2006 BSE Contest, a stipulation was added to Guru signups saying that everyone who enters the competition is required to save one nominate for the next season's bracket, to be spent on an entrant of the Guru winner's choice. Here is a listing of what entrants were backed by the Gurus, and how they fared.

  • Characters 2006 - Toadette, as chosen by Z1mZum
    • After CJay limited the bracket to only 32 male characters, Z1m picked an obscure girl in the hopes of sneaking her into one of the 32 slots on the Female side of the bracket, but Toadette ended up just missing the cut.
  • Characters 2007 - Wario, as chosen by Rufus Shinra
    • Massive support made Wario the 4th most-nommed Character on Board 8 and earned him a respectable #6 seed (out of 16) in the 128 character bracket. Wario survived past Captain Falcon and Banjo before getting his face handed to him by Fox and Sephiroth in Round Two.
  • Characters 2008 - Altair, as chosen by Explicit Content
    • EC regretted this choice, as he made it before the release of Assassin's Creed, a game that ended up badly disappointing him. Nevertheless the rally was a huge success: Altair was the #1 most-nommed character on B8, earned a very impressive #2 seed in the bracket, and pulled off nice upsets over Lucario and Marth to earn a spot in Round Three.
  • Games 2009 - Super Mario World: Yoshi's Island, as chosen by FastFalcon
    • Despite some initial grumbling (there was hesitation about putting another Mario title into what was expected to be only a 64 game bracket), everyone supported YI, making it one of B8's top picks for the season. SMW2 made it into the bracket as a #10 seed, but was embarrassed in R1 by Chrono Trigger before being dealt one of the bloodiest SFF beatdowns ever in R2 by Super Mario 64.
  • Characters 2009 - Prinny, as chosen by KrahenProphet
    • Prinny received over 200 nominations, which was just enough to avoid the vote-ins which decided the bracket's final 28 spots. It successfully entered the Contest as a #13 seed; we'll see how it can do against #4 Ike.

[edit] All-Time Guru Rankings

Though 235 Gurus have competed over the years, only 15 True Gurus have been involved in every competition since Spring 2004. They have been bolded on this list. In order, the Top 25 on the All-Time Guru Rankings are...

  1. UltimaterializerX - 822 points
  2. King Morgoth - 820
  3. Sir Chris - 790
  4. FastFalcon - 787
  5. ChichiriMuyo - 781
  6. swirldude - 763
  7. Haste2 - 761
  8. charmander - 760
  9. Ngamer - 751
  10. Heroic Mario - 749
  11. red sox - 736
  12. Team Rocket Elite - 736
  13. cyko - 703
  14. Ringworm - 695
  15. yoblazer - 684
  16. Z1mZum - 676
  17. Yesmar - 672
  18. fett - 664
  19. DomaDragoon - 651
  20. MasterMage - 638
  21. HaRRicH - 626
  22. Aprosenf - 618
  23. Mac Arrowny - 616
  24. steve illumina - 614
  25. Sephirot - 611

[edit] External Links

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