One thing in Cloud's favor is the 10% gap between Link/Yoshi in 2004 and Link/Luigi last year. That suggests that while Cloud may not be able to SFF Squall as badly as he used to in 2004, Link can't do it to Nintendo opponents either.
By the way, Cloud/Seph have been rising with the morning vote (after falling with the dead zone- we should rename it the FF8 total domination zone), so they should take the ASV today. 76% looks to be in reach.
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2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud.
Link 6, Cloud 2