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5. I definitely had a "Noble Nine can't lose" mental barrier going into this bracket. I was skeptical of them, but it's hard to pick against them when the bigger bracket-busters in 2013 were supercharged Pokemon with favorable conditions that weren't necessarily going to be repeated. Now we have Zelda and Tifa beating Snake and Sephiroth clean (and Pikachu coming within like 0.1% of Mega Man with the registered voter boost removed) and no one is safe anymore.

6. I like the metaphor of the Noble Nine being boss battles. It wouldn't have mattered as much with increased total voters, but the GameFAQs faithful still around these days are very contest-aware. I could easily see Snake or Mega Man or maybe even Sephiroth turning those matches around if the match was held in Round 1.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.