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@SabotageTheTruth We can certainly come up with a way to break a tie for future bets. I think some sort of bet we all come up with and agree upon which involves numbers as a tie-breaking-bet would work the best. For now we'll just make it a boring tie.

@Sentinel-Beach can't be stopped.

@Brannox usually being a pessimist works out in your favor for betting, as Sentinel Beach would proclaim.

@TokyoSlim I didn't know yours was a weak bet until afterwards because you could have madlibbed that game title together for all I knew. In the future we all should call each other out for weak bets. My job isn't video games so I can't be Bosman yelling at people to make it spicier, but by our powers combined we might just stand a chance.

Time for me to go back into hibernation until the next betting special.

So the winners are Tragosaurs, @Dario, @Brannox, and @Sentinel-Beach

SentinelBeach is still the forum betting special champion with 5 total wins. See you all next betting special!

@germanscientist
Ok so that knocks the number down to 34. I'm still leaning towards only in conference because of how I interpreted the rules, and because I don't see Kyle and Huber sitting down trying to count every single game that was announced during E3. I think they would leave it just to the conferences, even if it was a stink bomb bet. It is a lot easier for them since they would only need to count to a certain point to determine a winner between 2 opposed to a whole group of people, but I still think its just from conferences.

Also TokyoSlim most certainly made a weak final bet after the game was teased earlier that day. Yeah its a shame we don't have anyone here policing final bets making sure they are spicy enough so we just have to come to an agreement among ourselves. I would say the final bet should be disqualified. Sorry bro.

That currently puts us at a 4 way tie, unless someone has a case that would swing the number a bit more?

@germanscientist That's a huge help.

Couple things:
I think Sea of Solitude was an announced at EA?
I would consider Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice as an announcement as we had no idea what it was before then, other than From Software was making a new game.
I think Session was an announcement at Microsoft?
Its not on your list but I would not consider the Tales remaster a new game announcement.
I think Assassins Creed Odyssey would be disqualified since the tweet was official before the conference.
I almost have to say Super Smash Bros is not an announcement. They announced it before, we just didn't know the official name.

All of the bets were specifically only for the 7 main press conferences unless otherwise stated so PC Gaming Show and Devolver do not count, along with anything announced outside of an actual conference.
If we did go with a combination of your list and all of my suggestions as it stands we would be at 36.

Also I didn't note @TokyoSlim got his final bet until just now. I know nothing about Metal Wolf Chaos and if that is a valid pie in the sky bet or if he was being cute but I'm giving him the points unless convinced otherwise. And with the 3 points he got from that it made him the clear winner.

So I finally got around to watching the Easy Allies E3 2018 Betting Special Results Show. I was hoping there would be a clear winner and we wouldn't have to tally how many new games got announced but alas there is a 5 way tie as it stands, with 3 contestants a point behind who could end up taking a tied win as well. If anyone just so happens to have this information lying around that would be great, otherwise I will begin rewatching the conference streams during my podcast games. Haha.

@germanscientist You are in! And that's a fancy graphic.

Dreams:
Will the Star Fox racing game have powerslides and hidden shortcuts? Yes
Will a character from the Star Wars prequel trilogy appear in Kingdom Hearts 3? No
Will Skate 4 have a solid showing? No
Will we see the HUD of From Software's next game? No

Nightmares:
Will a previously non-speaking character receive a voice? No
Will there be zero large scale shadow drops? Yes
How many new games will be announced? 15
Will the Square Enix Avengers game have bad faces? No

Actual E3:
Will the Smash Bros demo have more than 3 new characters, excluding the inklings? No
Will an official Pickachu and Eevee roam the floor? Yes
The number of times Lara Croft leaves the ground with both feet + The number of times we see a shot from the periscope view? 21
Will Raccoon City be physically manifested in Capcom's booth? No

Reveals:
Will Kazooie reveal herself? No
Will Sam Lake reveal himself? No
Will Cortana reveal herself? Yes
Will Shuntaro Furukawa reveal himself? / Will Dante wear a red coat? No / Yes

Wild:
Will Brandon Jones be familiar with the celebrity Fortnite Pro-Am? Yes
Will Hideo Kojima take a seat? No
Will there be a burp? No
Will a big boy slip? No

Final Bet:
Both Project Prelude Rune from Square Enix and Project Re Fantasy from Atlas will be revealed with at least a release year attached to it

It is that time everyone. E3 starts, right now.

I haven't been here since the PSX betting post and I didn't see a post about E3 yet so here it is. We will all give our own responses to the bets in the Easy Allies E3 2018 Betting Special video. Post your bets here before the start of the EA conference, I'll throw them all into this Google doc and then tally up the forum winner after EZA post their Results Show. All the the bets are pretty straight forward and exactly what Brad and Ian did. We will still give our responses to the bet Benzilla nuked, we will have to answer BOTH of the bets for the one that Ian used Babality on, and we will ignore Don's bet for Don's Dirty Deal (whichever of us is the closest gets the point). Don't forget to make an outrageous final bet as well.

Dreams:
Will the Star Fox racing game have powerslides and hidden shortcuts?
Will a character from the Star Wars prequel trilogy appear in Kingdom Hearts 3?
Will Skate 4 have a solid showing?
Will we see the HUD of From Software's next game?

Nightmares:
Will a previously non-speaking character receive a voice?
Will there be zero large scale shadow drops?
How many new games will be announced?
Will the Square Enix Avengers game have bad faces?

Actual E3:
Will the Smash Bros demo have more than 3 new characters, excluding the inklings?
Will an official Pickachu and Eevee roam the floor?
The number of times Lara Croft leaves the ground with both feet + The number of times we see a shot from the periscope view
Will Raccoon City be physically manifested in Capcom's booth?

Reveals:
Will Kazooie reveal herself?
Will Sam Lake reveal himself?
Will Cortana reveal herself?
Will Shuntaro Furukawa reveal himself? / Will Dante wear a red coat?

Wild:
Will Brandon Jones be familiar with the celebrity Fortnite Pro-Am?
Will Hideo Kojima take a seat?
Will there be a burp?
Will a big boy slip?

Final Bet:

I'm just now seeing how the top 5 played out here. I've never been more proud of you guys than right now. Making it right.

@ib0show I think we should too. Even if the Allies don't do an exhibition of sorts we should all come up with our own bets and do something.

The results are in and we have winners.
Congrats to @Sentinel-Beach and @Haru17!

Everything was pretty straight forward except "Which Street Fighter V character will get the further in the Capcom Cup". I used this link to find out which characters went furthest. Since no one chose a character until 9th place for our bets the answer is Karin and Mika.

That gives Sentinel Beach another win under his belt and makes it that much harder for someone to dethrone him as Betting Grand Wizard. Haru17 is now on the board.

See you all at E3, unless we want to try and make our own betting event for the Nintendo Direct that's supposed to happen in January.

I'm currently slowly playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I haven't really put that much time into it at all due to work, school, and life being petty crazy for the past few weeks but I'm enjoying it so far. There are a few voices I'm not a fan of but I am in love with Pyra's English VO, such a beautiful voice in my opinion.

I picked up Halo Wars a little bit ago and have been slowly chipping away at it. I'm not very good at RTS games but I love them. I think this one is decent, but maybe only because it's a Halo game.

I thought I was over Call of Duty at this point in my life but my friends who I used to play with all the time on MW2 through Blops2 all finally have PS4s. We all set aside one night to rent WW2 from a Red Box and it was a lot of fun so we are ended up getting it. I never play solo but it's always a good time playing a good CoD with buddies. The campaign was also pretty good, definitely better than Ghosts and Blops3.

I picked up Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted Lost Legacy when they were on sale recently. I'm really excited to get into both of those once I finish Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

@Kneefoil Ok cool I'll update them in my spreadsheet accordingly.

@ib0show I'm almost inclined to just give @DisturbedSwan a freebie point just for the truly astounding final bet. I legitimately loled. Bravo.

@TokyoSlim Dang that's actually a pretty big increase.

Yeah we should definitely try to group up for the Playstation Presents thing. When were you planning on going on Sunday? Were you going to leave PSX relatively early?

@TokyoSlim Word. May have to meet up at some point Friday if you don't mind a lost puppy. If anyone else is planning on going we should all meet up.

@Kneefoil Just to be clear, for these forum bets the Brim to Brim Bomb Bets are just normal bets for us. That is, you want to answer what you think will happen to get the point.

I also have no clue who LanDi is.

Are there any other meetup plans outside of the official EZA meetup yet? Were people planning on going to Disney at some point?

Also, spreadsheet updated. Get your bets in by 7:59 Friday.