Hyrule Round 1 --- Lost to (1) Link, 10025 [12.17%] - 72344 [87.83%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 58th Place [12.17%]
As a contest entrant, few characters have more board support than CATS
does. Most of the members of board 8 nominate CATS into the contest,
and you'll be hard-pressed to not see CATS hold his own fir the first
few seconds of the poll. The reality of CATS in the contest, however,
is the fact that he can make literally anyone look like top-tier
material. No matter who CATS goes up against, they'll probably score at
least 80% on him. Most of CATS' fans are people who have never even
played Zero Wing in the first place, by the time his polls are done, it
shows.
Regardless of all of this, CATS still continues to get the board
support necessary to make it into the field, and even though CJayC has
openly admitted that CATS is a joke character, CATS still receives love
and support from his unwaivering fanbase. CATS was even seen recently
sabotaging a poll between Ryu Hayabusa and Jill Valentine, which goes
to show that the creator of All Your Base may never die.
Spring 2005 Contest
Triforce Division - 5 Seed
Triforce Round 1 --- Lost to (4) Ansem, 31153 [45.96%] - 36637 [54.04%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 15th Place [19.66%]
In every contest before Spring 2005, CATS was treated as if he were a
joke and his performances backed up the claim. However, Spring 2005
helped people get over the psychological barrier than CATS cannot win a
match or that he has a ceiling for vote totals. On the contrary, CATS
(or anyone else except Tanner) can definitely win a match against the
right opponent. He didn't beat Ansem, but he gave Ansem quite the scare
through the first few hours of the match. Not only did CATS take it to
Ansem early and build a small lead, but Ansem needed the morning vote
to pull away from CATS and eventually beat him. Before Spring 2005,
CATS doing this was practically unhead of, and we
must see CATS in a match against someone weaker than him in the stats one of these days.
Or we can just see a match between CATS and Gordon Freeman.
Summer 2005 Contest
Flood Division - 8 Seed
Flood Round 1 --- Lost to (1) Master Chief, 29446 [31.17%] - 65022 [68.83%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 49th Place [17.64%]
Another contest, another fodder ranking and another loss for CATS.
However this time he showed true potential for being able to win a
match in the future, especially if given a favorable opponent and the
face pic. Holding Master Chief almost 10% under what he was expected to
score after Halo 2 is no joke.
Summer 2006 Contest
Blast Division - 8 Seed
Blast Round 1 --- Lost to (1) Sonic the Hedgehog, 20925 [19.25%] - 87757 [80.75%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 56th Place [16.25%]
With Gordon Freeman finally winning, CATS remains the lone loveable loser in our contests. Will he ever draw someone of Mr. Driller proportions and break through?
Summer 20007 Contest
Division 3 - First Group
Division 3 Round 1 --- 4th place, 15068 [11.22%] - Sephiroth, 74190 [55.23%] - Meta-Knight, 24453 [18.20%] - Princess Peach, 20613 [15.35%]
People came into this contest hoping that this would finally be the year CATS breaks through. After all, his dedicated fanbase would be helped by adding more characters into the mix. Plus, Sephiroth would suck up a large quantity of votes, leaving very little left for the other three to fight for. Then there was the possibility of Meta-Knight and Peach hindering one another enough for CATS to squeak by into glory.
Well, the theory was sound in principle, but not so much in practice. CATS bombed once again, not even able to stay out of last place before the first freeze. And so the faithful continue to wait.
-Ulti
