GFNW

Who is, you may have asked when you were a noob, the greatest loser on Board 8? Is it the jp? No. Is it durango? No. Is it Red? Surprisingly, no (though that's debatable). No, the real loser on board 8 is Gordon Freeman, "star" of the Half-Life series of video games. He is the laughingstock of the Summer Contests, and Board 8ers never miss an opportunity to throw the phrase "GFNW" around, which stands for "Gordon Freeman Never Wins".

Gordon's record
Gordon Freeman has, as should be obvious, never won a match in the Summer Contests of GameFAQs. However, Gordon is an extremely interesting case study. Despite having a record of 0-4, he has never allowed an opponent to score more than 60% of the vote against him. For this reason, he should be considered somewhat successful. There are, after all, contestants like Tanner, who can't even score above 4% at all. Indeed, if Jay Solano gets into SC2k6, we can imagine who our lowest-percentage holder will become. Next to these characters, Gordon seems like an outright powerhouse. However, for some reason, he is ridiculed to no end, despite making it into all four Summer Contests (a feat in and of itself). This is quite the conundrum.

As of February 2006, the legacy lives on. The board continues to hope for a CATS/Freeman match in SC2k6, and Gordon continues to sulk about getting beaten by Tina Armstrong, who is probably the second greatest example of TJF next to Lara Croft in these contests. Poor Gordon; we hope you never win a match.