Lopen posted...
In a close match, the b8 favorite will win.
No exceptions.
Thank you.
Finally, someone who understands.
The main reason that this contest has been awful (with absolutely no upsets of any kind) is because the vote totals are so low, that in close matches the bracket voters (through the B8 consensus) have skewed every match in favour of the favourite.
It's the same reason that matches that were though to have a very small chance of being an upset (like matches predicted to be in the 55-45 to 60-40 range, ended up as 75-25 blowouts throughout the entire first round -- bracket voting against the upsets.
The contest does not work with vote totals this low.
Part of the problem was the poor idea for a contest, poor alignment of the battles, not allowing more interesting entries, etc. But if the traffic on the site doesn't go back up then the contest is definitely dead.