GameFAQs Contests Factors, Information, and Trivia

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

Contest Start Time (EST) Dates
CBI - SC2K2 1AM ? 7/1/02 - 9/1/02
CBII - SC2K3 1AM ? 7/1/03 - 9/1/03
Games - SpC2K4 3AM 4/2/04 - 6/6/04
CBIII - SC2K4 3AM ? 8/1/04 - 10/3/04
Villains - SpC2K5 3AM ? 5/3/05 - 6/2/05
CBIV - SC2K5 3AM 7/19/05 - 9/22/05
BSE - SC2K6 12AM 7/2/06 - 8/1/06
CB V - Fall 2K6 12AM 9/12/06 - 11/18/06
CB VI - Fall 2K7 12AM 9/3/07 - 11/5/07
CB VII - Fall 2K8 12AM 9/18/08 - 11/20/08
BGE II - Summer 2K9 12AM 4/7/09 - 6/9/09
CB VIII - Winter 2K10 12AM/12PM 1/16/10 - 3/21/10
GOTD 12AM/12PM 10/20/10 - 12/24/10
Rivalry 12AM/12PM 11/3/11 - 12/19/11
CB IX 12AM/12PM 7/9/13 - ??

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
Region Votes Percent
World 155838 100%
North America 119306 76.56%
US 100706 64.62%
Europe 23174 14.87%
Canada 15275 9.80%
UK 9370 6.01%
Asia 5031 3.23%
South America 4124 2.65%
Oceania 4047 2.60%
Australia 3356 2.15%
Brazil 2313 1.48%
Netherlands 2278 1.46%
Mexico 1987 1.28%
Sweden 1620 1.04%
Germany 1399 0.90%
Phillipines 1394 0.89%
Italy 1142 0.73%
Finland 954 0.61%

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.