Just get rid of Link.
Mario and Cloud are debatable enough now that the winner of a Link-less bracket isn't certain at all. Could be any of Snake, Cloud, Mario or Samus.
Now is the perfect time for a standard 1v1 (maybe with 12 hour round 1) to settle the questions we've had since the 4-way trainwreck started.
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Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite?