One-line AI headline and voting-anomaly flags for every contest match, from a
ChatGPT pass over the Board 8
wiki writeups (CC BY-SA 3.0). Machine-generated — may contain mistakes.
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Anomaly:
any · SFF · LFF · Rally · Cheat · Pic · off-topic writeups
Round:
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Filtered:
entrant = Pac-Man (game) — 3 of 1,528 matches
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Poll ▲ | Contest | Round | Division |
Result |
Headline |
SFF |
LFF |
Rally |
Cheat |
Pic |
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| 1 |
1602
writeup (md) |
Spring 2K4 |
Round 1 |
8 |
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Metroid overwhelms Pac-Man and fuels early series hype |
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1 |
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Metroid turned a mildly hyped matchup into a comfortable win and strengthened early talk that the series might contend with Zelda. The writeup attributes Pac-Man's weakness mainly to the site's younger audience, with his match picture also working against him.
Pic: The writeup says Pac-Man's match picture was not doing him any favors, explicitly presenting the image as another disadvantage for him against Metroid.
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| 2 |
3447
writeup (md) |
BGE 2K9 |
Round 1 |
1972-1988 |
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Oregon Trail fades while Mega Man 2 underwhelms |
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The Oregon Trail briefly looked capable of becoming the contest's next joke bandwagon, but collapsed after a few hours and left Pac-Man safely in second. Mega Man 2 won easily yet looked much weaker than its pre-contest hype suggested.
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| 3 |
3478
writeup (md) |
BGE 2K9 |
Round 2 |
1972-1988 |
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Tetris confirms its edge over Mega Man 2 |
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Tetris beat Mega Man 2 comfortably and was never seriously threatened after the opening moments. Mega Man 2 nevertheless held up better than its first-round showing suggested, while the writeup declines to pin the result on SFF.
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What this is
Each row's Headline and (on filter) narrative come from a
ChatGPT reading of that match's Board 8 wiki writeup. The five flags
(SFF same-fanbase factor, LFF low-fanbase
factor, Rally outside rally, Cheat cheating
alleged, Pic match-picture factor) are set only when the writeup
asserts that effect — never inferred from the numbers. Hover a check for the
note. †OT marks a writeup that mostly wanders off the
match.
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