This year had all the makings of a forgettable experience before it even began. We know Ocarina of Time is the game to beat, so you want to stack the bracket so it has as good of a chance of going down in the finals as it will ever get. However, the year format conjoins it to Pokemon Red/Blue, one of the few entities that could take it down, reducing the chances significantly of anything ever happening.
And then, you get all the problems in execution. Asking for write-up blurbs, only to do nothing with them. Keeping the process of how each year is presented to the front page a secret until an hour before bracket lockdown. The scrolling pictures and lack of standards in what games go on them, which may be the worst executed contest gimmick we've ever seen, giving us the rise of pic-dickery. The lack of communication from day one to final battle is just astounding.
And then 1997 puts on a performance that suggests it could have a chance at cracking '98, so it becomes a victim of pic-dickery and loses to 2001, which has no chance of taking down 98, leaving us to what could be a doubling in the final match.
Yeah, this has to be the worst. Imagine if the Trainers beat Ryu/Ken, but then Pokemon Trainer Red was taken out of the next match and replaced with Full Throttle. That's what this contest was.
Agent Triple Zero at your service!
This line reserved for 2017 Guru champion.