LogFAQs > #910979946

To most, it's two worthless fodder characters duking it out. I can understand that opinion. Most people haven't played their games and haven't heard of them, and thus they don't care. It's not a match worth more than 1 point, and it's not even a close fight. By contest metrics, it's a total filler match. As someone who spends way too much time analyzing these things, I feel the same way about a lot of matches.

But for me, it's two characters I really like - who have never been in a contest before - getting to be on the front page. It's awesome that Velvet has a chance to win a match, even if she wouldn't beat 98% of the rest of the bracket. And even if it's a shame that it comes at the expense of James, just seeing him there on the front page is nice. I have no idea how he got in but I'm glad he did.

Velvet is going to get brutalized by Yoshi next round, and that's okay. This match gave me a chance to sit back and watch two (very underrated!) characters I love get some recognition. We've seen so many contests that it's hard to get hyped for your characters doing well sometimes - like, is it really that special if Luigi wins for the tenth time? Every match becomes about analyzing percentages, and while I really enjoy doing so, it was nice to enjoy a contest match on a simpler level. It doesn't come around often for me as a lot of my favorite characters would (and have) gotten wrecked even against soft competition.

That's a lot of words for Fodder vs. Fodder, but hey.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.