Tetris L-block wins GameFAQs character battle

by Ross Miller on Nov 5th 2007 12:55AM

Out of 128 video game characters entered into this year's GameFAQs Character Battle, the one to come out on top and conquer the rest is nothing more than four boxes glued to one another. The L-block of Tetris fame has been crowned winner of the tournament, personally defeating Kirby, Laharl (Disgaea), Nathan Hale (Resistance: Fall of Man), Kratos, Solid Snake, Cloud and Link in the process. The green-clad Hyrulian from Legend of Zelda series came in second place.

Outside of Imaginationland, the human winner of Character Battle VI is Joystiq reader Samiam779 (full disclosure: he's also a real-life friend of this writer and, yes, there's an extra '7' in his GameFAQs screen name), who told us he plans to donate his prize money, a $400 online gift certificate, to Child's Play charity.

The current poll, which is unrelated to the Character Battle, pits L-block against the Pong paddle, the Weighted Companion Cube and a '? block. As of this writing, our tetromino protagonist is still in the lead.

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Reader Comments (48)

L-Block FOR THE WIN!

And now maybe these stupid contests will end.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/

L-Block
Paddle
WEIGHTED COMPANION CUBE
? Block

http://www.gamefaqs.com/

Joystiq, don't let me down! THE WCC HAS NEVER LIED TO US! IT HAS FOOD, AMMO, AND IMMORTALITY!

http://www.gamefaqs.com/

Now vote for the Weighted Companion Cube!

He is most definitely going to win next year. I can see the Joystiq headline now:

Weighted Companion Cube's Cinderella Victory Over L-block; "L is for Loser" says Cube.

The amount of fanboy tears flowing on their message boards right now is epic. Check out the poll message board for some good laughs.

The people who go to gamefaqs and this contest are the reasons why I hate the site.

GameFAQs was great when it and Gouki's page of whatever were the only game in town for fighting game info. And of course USENET.

I mean, I still use it but I haven't seen the front page since I started using Fire Fox. I made myself a search plug-in and that's that.

I honestly can't believe this annual poll is still news, though. That's like telling me people still go to Newgrounds.

and gamefaqs was cool before they sold to gamespot

now I just go there for faqs every once in a while

I never said cool...

Yeah, you don't go there to read quality writing. But, to obtain raw info from the incredible number of faqs and boards on every single obscure game you can think of, it really serves its purpose well.

Yes. But it always hurts my face when I see an enormous disclaimer, followed by sucking ass to cjayc, followed by instructions on how to use the faq, maybe follwed by some unnecessary anecdote on how they were the first to discover everything and how anyone else that writes a guide is "stealing" from them, followed finally by the actual information you were looking for in the first place.

I agree with the idea that GameFAQs was better prior to selling out to CNet.

The site has gotten better itself after CJayC left, however. SBAllen/Sailor Bacon is so much more down to the userbase than CJayC was and we actually got some new features...

classic song

At a gathering of engineers in my University (maybe a thousand), someone hummed the first few bars into a microphone, and EVERYBODY chimed in.

lol 4chan

lol, rules one and two

/r/ing rule 34 on L Block and Weighted Companion Cube

It's all ebaumsworlds fault.

;)

Big puyos would crush the L tetris blocks.
Why were they not included! (they would have lost anyway)

YAAAAAAY L-BLOCK!!!

Now everyone vote for Weighted Companion Cube! Remember, the companion cube will never threaten to stab you, which is more than I can say for the L-Block.

Also, kudos to the winner for donating his prize to charity.

The funniest moment out of this whole big thing was when I looked that the contest leaderss just before the poll closed. All 50 had picked Link. Then I clicked it after the contest was over. The winner had picked L-Block!

L-Block for the win!

It had gotten to the point where I thought it was pointless, but to see people come together and pull for the L-block was awesome...it brings a smile to my face. :)

the thought of L-block beating the crap out of any character in the poll make my heart happy...even if I do feel bad for a few of them, damn isn't that like the real world equivalent of a (blind)senior citizen knocking the crap out of a few varsity football team members or something? the thought of that make me laugh as well....

Who gives a shit?

You voted for Link, didn't you?

while I applaud your rebelious comment (it's telling me I spelled rebelious wrong, I call bs) anyway what was I saying?...right, was Megaman not on the list? I wouldn't know I didn't vote, apathetic voters...gotta love 'em

No Werbal, I've never voted in any GameFAQs poll ever. In fact I'm only aware of it still going on because sites like this still give it attention.

Slow news day?

Albino if I had to guess I'm sure some form of mega man was on the list.

if I remember, isn't it a bannable offense saying, "slow news day?" to the bloggers. *rubs chin in thoughtful manner* Hmmmm.....

Isn't it a bannable offense calling out potential bans?

Oh wait. Damn.

Man, seeing L-block win makes me want to play Tetris once again. This game is such a classic, and has a replay value that can be considered by most through the roof.

Also, I just checked the poll and ? Block is about to reach L-block, although it's sad to see WCC on third place in the poll.

Hard choice. L-block or WCC...

Link more like Lowned.

Gives me hope, gamers still have at least some sense of humor.

They had something like this in Nintendo Official Magazine (UK) a couple of years ago, and the Chain Chomp won...

I voted for the square. I demand a recount.

Please insert L-block in Super Smash.

SONIC CONFIRMED FOR BRAWL

Your mom was confirmed for Super Smash.

Seriously though, we know that already: that's old news.

Oh, and your mom is fucking King Dedede, not Zero Suit Samus.

As of this post, the ? Block(from Mario games) is winning by a few points... So its the L Block Vs the ? Block. That is seriously the coolest poll ever. Everyone knows Mario and Tetris are like one of the oldest games out there(besides Pong) so everyone should vote.

Honestly, Gamefaqs, heres the internet, go pwn it now.

I voted for L-block as well, mostly because I'm fucking tired of Link or Cloud winning the polls. But yeah I agree that gamefaqs needs to stop doing these polls, or change the characters considerably(no more snake, link, or cloud)

Oh come on! Everyone knows the I and T blocks are better!

Finally. Neither Cloud nor Sephybishypoopoopants won.

L-Block for president! Stephen Colbert as Vice President!

Hahaha, that is excellent. Though, we all know the line block is the best tetrad of the bunch. How else would you get your precious tetrises?

Can someone tell me where i can download that tetris song? lol Tetis theme song ringtone FTW

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