Northwest Division: Round 3 - Match 56 – (1) Squall/Seifer vs. (2) Sora/Riku
Moltar’s Analysis
Squall/Seifer
Round 1 - 73.65% vs. Laharl/Mid-Boss
Round 2 - 66.76% vs. Siegfried/Nightmare
Squall doubles the SC pair
Sora/Riku
Round 1 - 60.21% vs. B.J./Adolf
Round 2 - 50.85% vs. Dante/Vergil
KH barely beats DMC (lol chokers)
Well this might have been something if we haven’t seen Squall/Sora face off twice in both 2007 and 2008, and Squall is 4-0. This time, the format is different, but the result is probably going to be the same.
The different format does give KH a chance here. Riku is a much better rival for Sora than Seifer is for Squall here. We’ve seen Riku in contests and know he’s legit, while Seifer seems to be hurting Squall. Still, KH looked bad in 2010, and doesn’t seem to have recovered going off their previous matches. Squall looks to be fine, and I doubt Seifer holds him back enough to win this.
Moltar’s Bracket: Squall/Seifer
Moltar’s Prediction: Squall/Seifer - 54%
Lopen’s Analysis
My LOGIC says that Sora and Riku will win this. Leon loses his KH fan support when he has that little kid Seifer with him, and the KH boost helps Squall quite a bit. I also think the pairing of Sora vs Riku is stronger than Squall vs Seifer. However, it's still up in the air, because Squall can very well SFF Sora.
Problem is, this contest is this contest, so an upset simply won't happen, and well, if you think it might be close? You know the drill.
Lopen's prediction:
Squall vs Seifer with 60.40%
Leon’s Analysis
Squall wins while Lopen continues to firebomb our Oracle Team by picking a bad upset with lame reasoning expecting to reverse the result of a match we’ve seen several times with the same result. Good day.
The only thing that gives Sora/Riku a chance to win here is if limiting Squall just to FFVIII appeal and expecting that to cause KH fans who normally sided with him before to side with Sora/Riku now actually holds true. I won’t completely rule it out just because it would add insult to injury to this bad contest, especially considering almost all the rivalries I wanted to win this round have lost.
Just as a side note to SBAllen (since I know he reads the Analysis Crew): Please put some more thought into Squall’s bracket placement next year because he doesn’t need to face Cloud for the 4th time, Snake for the 4th time, or Sora for the 6th time next year. Many thanks.
Leonhart’s Prediction: Squall Leonhart vs. Seifer Almasy with 58.88%
Kleenex’s Analysis
WARNING SALVO etc etc. Link/Cloud might end up being a good match after all. Probably the only thing left to look forward to in this contest.
Oh yeah, match today. Well, uh...Squall and Seifer win. Maybe Seifer is an anchor, maybe Sora ended up getting pretty close to Squall in one of those 4-way matches, but eh. Squall probably wins pretty easy. 60/40. Blah blah blah. Thank god there's only a week of this left.
Kleenex's Prediction: Squall vs. Seifer with 60% DON'T CAGE ME BRO
Applekidjosh’s Analysis
It's weird to me that this contest is already winding down, and it sucks that we have so few matches left to look forward to. Trainers vs Samus is going to be a blast though so i'll just sit tight and wait for that. Before we get there, though, it's time to test the Square Heirarchy again!
And nothing will have changed, Sora would need a Kingdom Hearts 3 release to be game of the year to catch up, and I don't see that happening. This match will be simple and dirty awwww yeah
AKJ predix Squall vs Seifer with 58.00%