Some fun facts from Round 1:
- Non-mainline game characters got destroyed in Round 1, managing to go an abysmal 4-18 (with all 4 wins coming from Tactics games).
- FFX lost the most characters out of any single game with a total of 7 characters eliminated. (Although FFT matches this number if you dont split FFT and FFTA.)
- FFVII remains the game with the most characters still alive with 12 going on to Round 2. FFVI and FFIX each come in second with 8 characters remaining.
- Only one former champion of SMFFFC lost in Round 1. That was Zell way back on Day 2. As a reward, he gets to wear the champions dunce cap for the rest of the tourney.
- There were 8 upsets in Round 1. Four in the first half, and four in the second half.