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Easy Allies (former GameTrailers) Switch Event - Betting Special

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Axass

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Fanart by Alvaro A Nunez JR.
 
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Obliterator

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Caipirinha said:
Ian just does not give a shit, he's made comments that suggest he's not gay but at the same time he has never openly discussed it, not that I would expect him to.. In fact I think he'd rather we didn't even consider it worthy of discussion, which isn't, but which I am doing?

Whatever, Ian is a legend and that's what matters.

My favourite thing about Ian is that he has extremely good taste in the things he's passionate about. Gameplay, controls, art style - he sees through all bullshit and truly appreciates perfection. He's like.. Jonny Ive or something. A true aesthete.
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Ian is interesting. I didn't really watch them during their GT days and only really jumped on board with them right when they became EZA. At first I didn't like Ian at all and thought he just came across as sort of eccentric and maybe a little "too" into only smaller weirder games.

But as I got used to his personality I think he's awesome now. In fact there isn't one Ally I don't like. The current line up is great. Only thing that would be cool to see one day is for them to add a woman gamer perspective to the group

Eric the Red said:
Shu is amazing. The other part I noticed was the awkward silence from the other 3 when Shu said that into awkward laughter that sounded like they were laughing at the idea of what Shu was saying.
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Tim I know is a fan of EZA. I don't get the impression Colin or Greg are however but I could be totally off on that. It's just sorts the vibe I've gotten from them
 
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Uno Venova

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Alright tonight is the night, haven't purchased a Nintendo console in a decade and I'm hoping the Switch has what I want to bring me back and make me pre-order.

I leave work at 9 so hopefully I can make it home to watch it live with the Allies.
 
schaft0620

schaft0620

Member
Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes
- Will Wario reveal himself? yes
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? Yes
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) No
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? No

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 17
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 3
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 5
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 5
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 6
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? 0

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 20


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) 249.99
 
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FlashbladeGAF

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Caipirinha said:
Ian just does not give a shit, he's made comments that suggest he's not gay but at the same time he has never openly discussed it, not that I would expect him to.. In fact I think he'd rather we didn't even consider it worthy of discussion, which isn't, but which I am doing?

Whatever, Ian is a legend and that's what matters.

My favourite thing about Ian is that he has extremely good taste in the things he's passionate about. Gameplay, controls, art style - he sees through all bullshit and truly appreciates perfection. He's like.. Jonny Ive or something. A true aesthete.
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Could have sworn he admitted he wanted to marry Elyse, then found out she was already married in an episode of Mandatory Update/Nights.


Obliterator said:
Ian is interesting. I didn't really watch them during their GT days and only really jumped on board with them right when they became EZA. At first I didn't like Ian at all and thought he just came across as sort of eccentric and maybe a little "too" into only smaller weirder games.

But as I got used to his personality I think he's awesome now. In fact there isn't one Ally I don't like. The current line up is great. Only thing that would be cool to see one day is for them to add a woman gamer perspective to the group
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Back in the GT days they had just that.
Elyse Williams, partner/co-anchor to Mandatory Update which transformed into Easy Update when Ian went solo.

Unfortunately Elyse saw GT's closing coming so she jumped ship to her husband's group.

Wish she would come back.
I love EZA, but I want the band back together again.
As well as Matt Blair and his Shenmue loving self.
 
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uomoartificiale

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These are nightmare hours for me here in europe. I'll sleep it off and watch it in the morning. I'll probably catch the preshow live if I manage not to collapse before that.
 
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Obliterator

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Relaxed Muscle said:
Seems weird to make it so late in EU, they want to minimize the impact of no Zelda on EU at launch.
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It's because Europe is their smallest market. Doing a global event Nintendo had to prioritize Japan / NA the most when looking at time zones.

It sucks for people in Europe but I get why they did it
 
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UrbanRats

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uomoartificiale said:
These are nightmare hours for me here in europe. I'll sleep it off and watch it in the morning. I'll probably catch the preshow live if I manage not to collapse before that.
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Getting up early, instead of staying up, may be a better option, even then though, it's pretty brutal timing.
If it was either 2 or 5AM it wouldn't be as bad.
 
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ChrisD

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Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? No
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) Yes
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? ......I want so much to say yes. It will most probably be no. But screw it, I'm saying yes.

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 12
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 2
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 4
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 2
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 13
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? 2

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 0


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) 249.99 USD
 
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jett

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Wagram said:
Totally expecting a $249.99 and $299.99 SKU.
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249 with just the Switch, two joy cons and the dock.

299 with the controller adapter thing for the joy cons and Super Splatoon.

I'd like to believe Nintendo would launch at a lower price, but I doubt it.
 
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Budi

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AAK said:
I think Colin's feelings are relatively blatant. Colin took Kyle Bosman's TFB joke on them way too personally.
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I don't know, did he? I can't see that in the video. I just see Tim doing really poor job of explaining what was the context for the Kinda Funny mention. Colin had no idea what actually was in the video and it was poorly explained, still doesn't seem that hurt by it. He did talk against of them being sellout, since the move to Patreon was opposite of that. And Kyle never even claimed that they were sellouts, I don't know where Tim got that from.

And thinking that Colin was giving some kind of silent treatment to Brandon, or didn't want to be there with him is really ludicrous.
 
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Burt

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Come with me and bask in the levity of zero expectations

Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes, as in Metroid Prime: Federation Frenzy
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes, in the Switch's launch flagship, Wario Party - because it's a switch, geddit?
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? Yes, in Splatoon's not-sequel enhanced Wii U port
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) Yes, in Wario Party
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? Sure, next to an official summer release date


Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 16
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 1
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 4 - Smash port, Kart port, Wario Party appearance, Mario Switch to be released Fall 2017
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 7
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 16, to start and at the end of every trailer and every other possible pause
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? Twice - once because it's an obvious pun, twice because Nintendo will have to have it overstay its welcome

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 30


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU)
$300 for the lower end SKU that Nintendo thinks is acceptable to put out with an 8GB hard drive in 2017, $350 for the system you would actually want to buy

-Personal FINAL BET - More than 8 continuous minutes of horribly boring tech talk
 
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Jay RaR

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I'll play along just for fun.

Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? No
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) Yes
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? No

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 16
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 7
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 5
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 4
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 10
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? 5

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 12


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) $249.99
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Kirye

Kirye

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I'll play along just to see how wrong I am later. :p

Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes, but it'll be a VC thing
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes, we'll see him in Mario Kart
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? Yes, to advertise Spla2oon.
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No, maybe VC but I doubt it's a big enough deal
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) Yes, similar to Wario
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? No, it'll be a playable Zelda.

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 30
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 1
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 3, Smash, Mario Kart and new Mario
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 13, mostly in Smash
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 15, I dunno why just first number that came to mind.
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? None

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 19, which eldritch witch makes the best sandwich?

Counting these is going to be a bitch.


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) 249.99 with 299.99 for the Spla2oon pack in.
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th4tguy

th4tguy

Member
I'll take a stab at this.
Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? No (Please be wrong)
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes (MarioKart)
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? No
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) No
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? No

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 0
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 0
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 4
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 2
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 14
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? 0

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 18 (which)


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) $199.99
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Ashtar

Member
Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? No
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes (Mario/Rayman rpg)
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? No
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) No
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? No
Bolded the 2 bets that I woulnd't have been involved in so my score will be comparable

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 73
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 3
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 3
- How many Double Jumps? 25
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 12
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? 5

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 10 (which)


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) $249.99

Loved the betting special, my favorite character was Brand manager jones, he actually reminded me of whats his face from GTAV
Blood looks so different with no beard..... grow it back man #Beardgang
 
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orthodoxy1095

Banned
I should get my bet in:

Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? No
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) No
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? No

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 1
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 0
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 3
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 5
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 12
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? 0

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 6


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) $299.99
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N° 2048

N° 2048

Member
Why not ? <3

Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? Yes
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? No (I hope I am so so wrong though)
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) Yes
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? No

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 23
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 3
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 2
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 3
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 10
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? 2

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 8


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) $249.99
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Brian_FETO

Banned
For Iowa
Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Nope
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? Yes
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? Yes
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) No
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? Nope

Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? 27
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 2
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 4
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 8
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 13
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? -0

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 3


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) $249.99
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Spaced Harrier

Member
Simple Bets:

- Will the word "Metroid" be spoken? Yes (in a smash bros reference. When Ripley is announced)
- Will Wario reveal himself? Yes (showing off touch gyros or some new equivalent)
- Will the phrase "You're a kid now, you're a squid now" reveal itself? Nope. Just stay fresh.
- Will Wave Race be shown in any form? Nope.
- Will Waluigi speak? (This includes grunts, laughs, etc.) Yep Mario Kart.
- Will Link reveal HERSELF? Noooooooo chance.
Dirty Bets:

- How many Rupees will we see? One rupee, worth 20 and sound effect.
- How many Fire Flowers will appear? 1
- How many Switch games shown will star Mario? 3 (new game, smash,Kart) + tekken outfit for paul
- (The Elyse Special) How many Double Jumps? 14
- How many Switch clicks will we hear during the presentation? 16
- How many times will the phrase "Make the Switch" be said? - none (unless in context of this is hope we made the switch console)

Double. Down. on. Don.:

- How many times will a word be spoken out loud that rhymes with the word "Switch"? 8


FINAL BETS:
- What will be the US retail price of the Switch (Price of lowest SKU) $249.99 of course.
 
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