Gamefaqs is actually very supportive of Chrono Trigger (though not Chrono Cross!), as far as the contests go. CT made the finals of the Spring 2004 Best Game Ever Contest, and is the 3rd most popular game on the site, behind Final Fantasy VII and Zelda: Ocarina of Time, based on that contest (where OOT did a bit better against FFVII than CT did.) and the Top 10 Games list last fall. Crono, of course, is Mario's equal, having lost to him twice with 49.95% of the vote, beat him once with over 53%, and lost once with 46%. Now, CJayC says that Chrono would probably lose quickly as a 7-seed?
HAHAHAHAHA
Metroid, today's loser (against Zelda) is a 2 seed. How would Chrono do against it? Let's see.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1639The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 74% 53413
Super Metroid 26% 18763
TOTAL VOTES 72176
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1658Chrono Trigger 50.18% 49494
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 49.82% 49132
TOTAL VOTES 98626
So Chrono would win pretty easily against a series that couldn't break 53% on Pokemon, and would have advanced until today's match (where sadly it would have been pummeled by Zelda, because Zelda >>> LttP, and Chrono won't be much stronger than CT.) if it had been put where Kirby is in the bracket.
The next 2 seed is Kingdom Hearts... which folds against anything it shares a fanbase with, the closer than fanbases, the more votes get sucked away from KH!
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1317Sora 33.34% 32614
Aeris Gainsborough 66.66% 65196
TOTAL VOTES 97810
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2116Solid Snake 65.26% 63664
Sora 34.74% 33887
TOTAL VOTES 97551
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=997Crono 52.93% 52517
Solid Snake 47.07% 46697
TOTAL VOTES 99214
(Snake is significantly stronger than Aeris, and beat her directly, but Aeris, as a Square character, was able to use more "SFF," or Same Fanbase Factor.)
In the games contest, KH lost to Starcraft, which lost to Super Smash Bros. Melee, which lost to FFVII by more than CT did. So Chrono would not even need any SFF to beat Kingdom Hearts comfortably. The 2nd game on the Square hierarchy would not lose to the... 7th. Had Chrono been placed here instead of Harvest Moon, it would have beaten Castlevania in Round 2, and advanced until it faced Metal Gear in a close, debated, match tomorrow for the title of the 4th strongest series (after Final Fantasy, Zelda, and Mario)
The next 2 seed, the only one with a realistic chance of actually beating Chrono, is Super Smash Bros. Nonetheless, Chrono would be the favorite for a very simple reason. Neither the original SSB nor Chrono Cross would add many votes either series on Gamefaqs. So it comes down to Chrono Trigger vs SSBM. And they share a common opponent.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1662Final Fantasy VII 62.43% 54264
Super Smash Bros. Melee 37.57% 32654
TOTAL VOTES 86918
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1663Chrono Trigger 41.76% 41647
Final Fantasy VII 58.24% 58077
TOTAL VOTES 99724
So, Chrono here would probably have beaten SSB in a fairly close match in round 1, soundly defeated Sonic in Round 2 (as SSB beat Sonic with 57%), and then lost to Mario in Round 3. While Crono is Mario's equal, CT + CC stands no chance against all of Mario's games.
The last 2-seed is Resident Evil, which yesterday defeated Street Fighter with less than 51%.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2448Street Fighter 49.27% 60308
Resident Evil 50.73% 62087
TOTAL VOTES 122395
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1610Super Mario RPG 56.24% 54390
Street Fighter II 43.76% 42314
TOTAL VOTES 96704
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1637Chrono Trigger 67.06% 53516
Super Mario RPG 32.94% 26288
TOTAL VOTES 79804
So another fairly easy win for Chrono. Had Chrono been placed here, it would have beaten RE in round 1, Street Fighter in Round 2, and then lost to Final Fantasy in round 3.
Now, guess what was placed as the 7 seed here instead of Chrono? Shadow Hearts, which could not break 13% on RE. How does total fodder like that get in over Chrono, the 4th or 5th strongest series on Gamefaqs? Among the people of the Gamefaqs Contests Board, Chrono would be the favorite over all the 2 seeds, and possibly over Metal Gear. It would beat around 90% of the series in the bracket.
This is not the first time that C(h)rono has been a victim of unjustness in the contests. Crono, despite consistent strong performances, has never been given a 1-seed in the character contests, even when the top 3 (Link, Cloud, and Sephiroth) were removed from the main bracket to the tournament of champions. While that matters almost nothing, Mario's victory in the second Mario vs. Crono was a total travesty.
That match got 133,000 votes- the 3rd highest single day Gamefaqs poll ever, and the 2nd until Final Fantasy vs. Megaman scored higher 2 days ago. After losing by 115 votes at the wire in 2002, when his comeback was stopped by the time running out and CJayC removing 490 votes for cheating (deserved), Crono opened up the first night vote by amassing an 800 vote lead. Morning hit, and Mario came back, and took the lead. But he could not extend it past 200 votes, and as afternoon came along, Crono regained the lead. As evening and night came, Crono continued to extend his lead. He was now rapidly returning to his best time, the late night, the time during which he had launched his comeback against Mario the previous year.
With around 2 hours left, and the lead about 800, Mario began to come back. Both characters, but especially Mario, had very high vote intakes for this time of day. With an hour left the lead was under 600, and now Mario really accelerated. Crono's vote intake dropped, as is natural for midnight, but Mario defied the pattern of every match ever and did not drop. There were many accusations of cheating against Mario, and the evidence based on voting patterns seems very incriminating, even if CJayC did not catch it, as he has at other matches. But he apparently did not catch the closing time of the match either. The match had begun at 11:40 the previous day; in 2003, the start times were different each day, but usually around 11:45. Well, after 24 hours, Crono still had a lead of around 170, but the poll didn't close! 27 minutes later, at 12:07, the poll finally did close, after Mario had posted his largest gains of the whole day, resulting in a Mario win by 137 votes with... 50.05%.
Since then, of course, people have often accused CJayC of either hating Crono or being a Mario fanboy. This spelling mess gives a bit more credibility to the former...
