The Contest Analysis Crew is one of Board 8's proudest GameFAQs Contest traditions. Every season (since the '04 Game Contest), Master Moltar assembles an elite team of Contest experts, all of whom send in predictions and short writeups on the following day's matchup. Shortly before the next poll comes online, Moltar posts all of the writeups in the Stats Topic and "The Crew"'s own B8 topic. (Traditionally, those expert predictions end up being extremely wrong, and everyone has a good chuckle.)
External Links[]
- 2018 Character Battle Crew Writeups
- 2017 Best Year In Gaming Crew Writeups
- 2015 Best Game Ever Crew Writeups
- 2013 Character Battle Writeups
- 2011 Rivals Crew Writeups
- 2010 Game of the Decade Crew Writeups
- 2010 Character Battle Crew Writeups
- 2009 Game Contest Crew Writeups
- 2008 Character Battle Crew Writeups
- 2007 Character Battle Crew Writeups
- 2006 Character Battle Crew Writeups
- 2006 BSE Crew Writeups
- 2005 Character Battle Crew Writeups
- 2005 Villains Contest Crew Writeups
- 2004 Character Battle Crew Writeups
- 2004 Game Contest Crew Writeups
The All-Time Crew[]
- Master Moltar, King of The Crew - 16 years of service (2004g, 2004c, 2005v, 2005c, 2006s, 2006c, 2007c, 2008c, 2009g, 2010c, 2010g, 2011r, 2013c, 2015g, 2017y, 2018c)
- Lopen - 10 years of service (2006s, 2006c, 2007c, 2008c, 2009g, 2010c, 2010g, 2011r, 2013c, 2018c served in protest)
- tranny - 9 years of service (2007c, 2008c, 2009g, 2010c, 2010g, 2013c, 2015g, 2017y, 2018c)
- Leon - 8 years of service (2006s, 2009g, 2010g, 2011r, 2013c, 2015g, 2017y, 2018c)
- Kleenex - 7 years of service (2010c, 2010g, 2011r, 2013c, 2015g, 2017y, 2018c)
- Ulti - 7 years of service (2004g, 2004c, 2005v, 2005c, 2006s, 2006c, 2007c)
- Ngamer - 5 years of service (2008c, 2009g served in protest, 2010c, 2010g served in protest, 2011r served in protest)
- Heroic Mario - 5 years of service (2006s, 2006c, 2007c, 2008c, 2009g)
- yoblazer - 4 years of service (2006s, 2006c, 2007c, 2008c)
- Soul - 3 years of service (2005v, 2005c, 2006s)
- Karma Hunter - 2 years of service (2006c, 2007c)
- Outback - 2 years of service (2005v, 2005c)
- Inviso - 2 years of service (2005v, 2005c)
- DpObliVion - 2 years of service (2004g, 2004c)
- Applekidjosh - 2 years of service (2010g, 2011r)
- KP - 1 year of service (2013c)
- Dante - 1 year of service (2011r)
- red sox - 1 year of service (2010c)
- Ed Bellis - 1 year of service (2009g)
- HaRRich - 1 year of service (2006s)
- Mnm - 1 year of service (2006s)
- tnote - 1 year of service (2005c)
- Vlado - 1 year of service (2005c)
- Cena - 1 year of service (2004c)
- Forsaken - 1 year of service (2004g)
- "Mystery Guest" - 11 years of service (2006c, 2007c, 2008c, 2009g, 2010c, 2010g, 2011r, 2013c, 2015g, 2017y, 2018c)
The Crew's Yearly Rankings[]
The "Crew Prediction Challenge" is very simple- each day, a point is rewarded to whoever calls the match correctly while most accurately guessing the winning entrant's vote percentage. Whoever has the most points at the end of the season wins the Crew Challenge for that year.
During the 4way Contests, however, things got a little bit more complicated. The rules were changed so that anyone correctly picking the two advancing character in the right order earned 1 Prediction Challenge point. Also, a secondary scoring system called the "Crew Accuracy Challenge" was added to the mix. 4 "accuracy points" were awarded each day, one for coming the closest to predicting the final percentage for every entrant in the poll.
Ever since the return to 1v1 matches the format has again been adjusted. Now a point in the Prediction Challenge is awarded to everyone who picks the correct winner, while Accuracy points are only awarded to the person who picks the correct winner and comes closest to the correct percentage. (Half points are awarded Accuracy Challenge ties.)
2018 Character Battle[]
- Crew Consensus Accuracy: 128/150 (85.33%)
Crew Prediction Challenge:
1. Moltar - 126
2. transience - 125
3. Kleenex - 122
4. Leonhart - 120
5. Guest - 116
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
1. transience - 38
2. Guest - 34
3. Kleenex - 33
4. Moltar - 24
5. Leonhart - 23
2017 Best Year In Gaming[]
- Crew Consensus Accuracy: 31/35 (88.57%)
Crew Prediction Challenge:
1. Moltar - 32
2. transience - 31
3. Kleenex - 30
4. Leonhart - 29
4. Guest - 29
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
1. transience - 9
2. Leonhart - 7
3. Guest - 6.5
4. Kleenex - 5.5
5. Moltar - 5
2015 Best Game Ever[]
- Crew Consensus Accuracy: 116/127 (91.34%)
Crew Prediction Challenge:
1. Leonhart - 117
2. Moltar - 116
3. Guest - 112
4. Kleenex - 109
5. transience - 108
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
1. Leonhart - 28
2. transience - 25.5
3. Moltar - 25
4. Kleenex - 23.5
5. Guest - 19
2013 Character Battle[]
- Crew Consensus Accuracy: 97/121 (80.17%)
Crew Prediction Challenge
1. KP - 100
2. Moltar - 99
3. Kleenex - 96
3. tranny - 96
3. Leon - 96
6. Guest - 94
7. Lopen - 86
Crew Expert Challenge
1. KP - 82
2. tranny - 79
3. Moltar - 77
4. Leon - 75
5. Kleenex - 69
6. Guest - 67
7. Lopen - 62
Crew Accuracy Challenge
1. Moltar - 77
2. KP - 66
3. Leon - 62
4. tranny - 60
5. Lopen - 52
6. Kleenex - 50
7. Guest - 47
2011 Rivalry Rumble[]
- Crew Consensus Accuracy: 63/64 (98.43%)
Crew Prediction Challenge:
1. Moltar - 63
2. Leon - 61
3. Guest - 60
3. AKJ - 60
5. Kleenex - 59
5. Dante - 59
7. Lopen - 57
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
1. Leon - 15
2. Moltar - 11
3. Lopen - 10
4. Guest - 8
5. Kleenex - 7.5
6. AKJ - 6.5
7. Dante - 6
2010 Game of the Decade[]
- Crew Consensus Accuracy: 111/127 (87.40%)
Crew Prediction Challenge:
1. Tran - 112
2. Moltar - 109
3. AKJ - 106
3. Kleenex - 106
5. Leon - 105
5. Lopen - 105
7. Guest - 103
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
1. Guest - 20.5
2. Moltar - 20
3. Tran - 18.5
4. AKJ - 17.5
4. Kleenex - 17.5
6. Leon - 16
7. Lopen - 13
2010 Character Battle[]
- Crew Consensus Accuracy: 111/127 (87.40%)
Crew Prediction Challenge:
1. Kleenex - 111
1. Ngamer - 111
1. Moltar - 111
1. Red Sox - 111
5. Tran - 109
6. Guest - 105
7. Lopen - 104
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
2009 Game Contest[]
Crew Prediction Challenge:
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
2008 Character Battle[]
Crew Prediction Challenge:
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
Crew Consistency Rankings:
- yoblazer (545)
- Master Moltar (514)
- Ngamer (504)
- transience (438)
- Heroic Mario (424)
- Guest (401)
- Lopen (364)
2007 Character Battle[]
Crew Prediction Challenge: unlike the other 4ways, for this season only the crewmember who came closest to the final percents of the top 2 characters got the point
Crew Accuracy Challenge:
2006 Character Battle[]
Crew Prediction Challenge:
2006 Series Contest[]
Crew Prediction Challenge:
2005 Character Battle[]
Crew Prediction Challenge:
2005 Villains Contest[]
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