Guru Contests

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 Topics. Ngamer and UltimaterializerX have run Guru competitions for Spring 2004 (Games), Summer 2004, Spring 2005 (Villains), Summer 2005, Fall 2005 (Top Ten Games), July 2006 (Series), and Fall 2006.

Past Guru Champions
Spring 2004 - UltimaterializerX (185 pts)

Summer 2004 - nifboy (190 pts)

Spring 2005 - yoblazer33 (75 pts)

Summer 2005 - Jman (205 pts)

Fall 2005 - voltch (14 pts, by tiebreaker over transience)

Top Ten Matches - Kaxon (20 pts)

July 2006 - Z1mZum (79 pts)

Fall 2006 - Rufus Shinra (209 pts)

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