The True Zelda Tournament

Due to the appearance of a Zelda poll perceived by many members to be biased, Pinkie Pie has elected to create a truly unbiased poll through the randomization of the contestants. Threads will appear shortly with match-ups. Links to the polls will be provided here shortly after creation, providing access to the first round.

Let the choice be made without any sort of rigging!

Round One:

1. Oracle of Seasons vs. Phantom Hourglass.
2. A Link to the Past vs. Spirit Tracks.
3. Link's Awakening vs. Four Swords Adventures.
4. Ocarina of Time vs. Twilight Princess.
5. Minish Cap vs. Oracle of Ages.
6. The Adventure of Link vs. Skyward Sword.
7. The Legend of Zelda vs. Four Swords.
8. Majora's Mask vs. Wind Waker.

NOTICE:
All polls will close on December 24th. Make sure to finish voting by that date so the second round can commence.

Whelp I have seemed to mostly vote for the underdog.

A random and seeded big contests now exists now everyone can be happy.
However, it does take up a lot of space in the general forums.

Yes! I'm 7 for 8! +1 for me!

I came to vote because I was threatened and drug in here by Pinkie Pie.

Now this is a tournament I do support. I'll be glad to vote in this one.

Cool idea pinkie! You have my support.

I have voted!

This is awful no offense... Oracle of seasons and spirit tracks have NO business making it to round 2 -___- nobody believes that those are top games. They should be out in the first round that's why the seeding system is how it should be..

Originally Posted by iJuke24

This is awful no offense... Oracle of seasons and spirit tracks have NO business making it to round 2 -___- nobody believes that those are top games. They should be out in the first round that's why the seeding system is how it should be..

The seeding system was being used to deliberately push more popular games ahead without giving the others fair chance. By randomizing it, all games are treated equally.

Originally Posted by iJuke24

This is awful no offense... Oracle of seasons and spirit tracks have NO business making it to round 2 -___- nobody believes that those are top games. They should be out in the first round that's why the seeding system is how it should be..

Excuse me?

Oh I'm so sorry, I did not know that only your opinions mattered, Mr. High and Mighty.

The reason there is this new tournament is to give other games a more fair advantage through RANDOMIZATION, therefore, the thing is supposed to be unpredictable.

Goddamn.

Originally Posted by The Goron Moron

Excuse me?

Oh I'm so sorry, I did not know that only your opinions mattered, Mr. High and Mighty.

The reason there is this new tournament is to give other games a more fair advantage through RANDOMIZATION, therefore, the thing is supposed to be unpredictable.

Goddamn.

I'm not high and might lol. If FS was a better game it would beat OoT in a vote, BUT IT'S NOT!!! Now we have an unnecessary 2nd best game vote going, cluttering up the section. I guess every sport in the world got it's seeding system wrong... The reason all those games are making it to the next round is because they are the better games!

Originally Posted by iJuke24

I'm not high and might lol. If FS was a better game it would beat OoT in a vote, BUT IT'S NOT!!! Now we have an unnecessary 2nd best game vote going, cluttering up the section. I guess every sport in the world got it's seeding system wrong... The reason all those games are making it to the next round is because they are the better games!

Populations can be wrong.

Just look at religion.

(Ooh, controversy.)

If Ocarina of Time is truly the best game, then it will win. If Ocarina of Time wins, it doesn't matter how far Four Swords advanced. People will still vote for their preferred game, regardless of who it's up against. Randomization eliminates the sensationalism that seeding tries to instill by allowing more powerful/popular contestants to move up with no challenge.

And what sort of clutter are you referring to? Pinkie Pie sees none.

Originally Posted by iJuke24

I'm not high and might lol. If FS was a better game it would beat OoT in a vote, BUT IT'S NOT!!! Now we have an unnecessary 2nd best game vote going, cluttering up the section. I guess every sport in the world got it's seeding system wrong... The reason all those games are making it to the next round is because they are the better games!

Of course I don't expect something like FS to win against OoT.

But as Pinkie Pie stated before, seeding is unfair. This tournament aims to see what people prefer over games paired with certain games, through randomized pairings.

FS may lose to OoT, that's no brainer given how damn "perfect" OoT is. But what if FS was paired with FSA, or with PH? What then? We get to see what people like between the two.

By all means, I expect the 3D games to get to the finals. Because after all, everyone hates the handhelds and everyone loves the consoles. But it'll be something to see even a couple of handheld, unpopular games get to the second or maybe even third rounds.

But to say that OoS and ST shouldn't even be given the chance to get to the second round just because they're OoS and ST? That's like saying that the tournament should only focus on console 3D games, and last time I checked, those aren't the only Zelda games in existence.

Originally Posted by Pinkie Pie

Populations can be wrong.

Just look at religion.

(Ooh, controversy.)

If Ocarina of Time is truly the best game, then it will win. If Ocarina of Time wins, it doesn't matter how far Four Swords advanced. People will still vote for their preferred game, regardless of who it's up against. Randomization eliminates the sensationalism that seeding tries to instill by allowing more powerful/popular contestants to move up with no challenge.

And what sort of clutter are you referring to? Pinkie Pie sees none.

Half of the threads in this section are 'favorite Zelda game poll' threads. That's the clutter I'm talking about. And by nature your tournament is a popularity contest so by saying that it doesn't matter what the masses says is contradicting your whole tournament, because your tournament is a popularity contest!!! So you're just being contradictory.

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Originally Posted by The Goron Moron

Of course I don't expect something like FS to win against OoT.

But as Pinkie Pie stated before, seeding is unfair. This tournament aims to see what people prefer over games paired with certain games, through randomized pairings.

FS may lose to OoT, that's no brainer given how damn "perfect" OoT is. But what if FS was paired with FSA, or with PH? What then? We get to see what people like between the two.

By all means, I expect the 3D games to get to the finals. Because after all, everyone hates the handhelds and everyone loves the consoles. But it'll be something to see even a couple of handheld, unpopular games get to the second or maybe even third rounds.

But to say that OoS and ST shouldn't even be given the chance to get to the second round just because they're OoS and ST? That's like saying that the tournament should only focus on console 3D games, and last time I checked, those aren't the only Zelda games in existence.

What I'm saying is what's the difference of OoS getting blown out in the first round or the 3rd? Why have WW get eliminated before OoS when WW is clearly the superior game by majority opinion?!

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Originally Posted by The Goron Moron

Of course I don't expect something like FS to win against OoT.

But as Pinkie Pie stated before, seeding is unfair. This tournament aims to see what people prefer over games paired with certain games, through randomized pairings.

FS may lose to OoT, that's no brainer given how damn "perfect" OoT is. But what if FS was paired with FSA, or with PH? What then? We get to see what people like between the two.

By all means, I expect the 3D games to get to the finals. Because after all, everyone hates the handhelds and everyone loves the consoles. But it'll be something to see even a couple of handheld, unpopular games get to the second or maybe even third rounds.

But to say that OoS and ST shouldn't even be given the chance to get to the second round just because they're OoS and ST? That's like saying that the tournament should only focus on console 3D games, and last time I checked, those aren't the only Zelda games in existence.

What I'm saying is what's the difference of OoS getting blown out in the first round or the 3rd? Why have WW get eliminated before OoS when WW is clearly the superior game by majority opinion?!

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Sorry about the double post, posting from my phone..

Originally Posted by iJuke24

Half of the threads in this section are 'favorite Zelda game poll' threads. That's the clutter I'm talking about. And by nature your tournament is a popularity contest so by saying that it doesn't matter what the masses says is contradicting your whole tournament, because your tournament is a popularity contest!!! So you're just being contradictory.

It would be far more of a popularity contest if the bigger games were thrown in with the smaller ones. There would be no competition. 3D would clean house and evict the other titles.

You have yet to explain how the seeding system is superior. All it does is allow certain games/teams to move up quickly because they are more popular.

LOOK HERE.

Since you don't seem to notice it every time Pinkie Pie posts it, she threw some catchy font up to grab your attention.

Randomizing the contestants will not, Pinkie Pie repeats NOT affect the outcome of the tournament, assuming preferences do not change when certain games are paired together. "Weaker" teams/games will make it further into the brackets, but they will still be eliminated when met with a sufficiently powerful opponent. The end result will be the same as a game that was seeded.

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What I'm saying is what's the difference of OoS getting blown out in the first round or the 3rd? Why have WW get eliminated before OoS when WW is clearly the superior game by majority opinion?!

Why shouldn't Wind Waker be voted out if the voters genuinely prefer another game? The Oracle games are not responsible for Wind Waker losing a popularity contest to Majora's Mask.

Originally Posted by iJuke24

What I'm saying is what's the difference of OoS getting blown out in the first round or the 3rd? Why have WW get eliminated before OoS when WW is clearly the superior game by majority opinion?!

You're not listening. OoS and ST are currently paired PH and ALttP respectively in Pinkie Pie's tournament, other titles that most people don't think of as much as the 3D console games. Okay ALttP is probably thought a little more of, but in comparison to things like OoT? Not as much.

It is NOT about OoS versus TWW. It is about OoS versus PH. That is the current focus, and people are seeing which of those two are the more better or popular ones. It will ONLY be about OoS and TWW if the two happen to be paired to each other. But since they're not, that is not the focus.

You say that this tournament is a popularity poll. However you keep referring to Zeldaoot's tournament, which is the tournament that's currently OoT vs FS and OoS vs TWW.

However, Zeldaoot is really no different from this one. It's still a popularity contest, and from the impression I'm getting, you think Zeldaoot's tournament is better than Pinkie Pie's tournament even though they're both" popularity contests".

That is biased.

I never said there was anythig wrong with it being a popularity contest though, she did! I know it's a popularity contest. And if it doesnt change the outcome why have ST make it past round one, and have WW eliminated by MM when WW is CLEARLY superior to ST. WW deserves to be in the next round. ST doesn't. Eliminating WW in the first round is a tragedy when ST, an awful game is making it to the next round!

Originally Posted by iJuke24

I never said there was anythig wrong with it being a popularity contest though, she did! I know it's a popularity contest. And if it doesnt change the outcome why have ST make it past round one, and have WW eliminated by MM when WW is CLEARLY superior to ST. WW deserves to be in the next round. ST doesn't. Eliminating WW in the first round is a tragedy when ST, an awful game is making it to the next round!

You make it sound like that if ST and TWW got to the second round, they would be paired up. I'm pretty certain that all rounds will have randomized pairings, you can't assume stuff like that.

And who ♥♥♥♥ing cares if TWW is eliminated and ST gets to the second round. That is the damn point of this entire tournament, to see what games the majority of people prefer.

And if you were really paying attention to the results, you'd see that ALttP is beating ST.

By the way, that is your opinion. I personally liked ST, but I also liked TWW, ALttP and MM. Point is, I don't hate ST and therefore you cannot expect everyone to think the same. Again, you're acting like only your opinion matters.

Originally Posted by iJuke24

I never said there was anythig wrong with it being a popularity contest though, she did! I know it's a popularity contest. And if it doesnt change the outcome why have ST make it past round one, and have WW eliminated by MM when WW is CLEARLY superior to ST. WW deserves to be in the next round. ST doesn't. Eliminating WW in the first round is a tragedy when ST, an awful game is making it to the next round!

YOU.

DO.

NOT.

GET.

IT.

For the last time, if Wind Waker loses to Majora's Mask right now, it is losing to MAJORA'S MASK.

MAJORA'S.
MASK.

Not Oracle of Seasons. Not Phantom Hourglass. Not any of those other games you hate so much. Wind Waker will have lost to one of the other titans. If it loses now, then it would have lost further down the road. Its departure does not damage the integrity of the tournament in the slightest. If you take issue with Spirit Tracks' moving up, take it up with the people who voted for it.