LogFAQs > #914031770

Cloud managed to complete his salty runback against Mario that first started 16 years ago. It took us about 16 years to get another 1v1 Cloud/Mario match, and they also haven't faced each other in 4-ways or 3-ways either. Cloud pulled off his salty runback by out-rallying Mario. Here were the rallies that I spotted for both characters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasy/comments/a5d7oi/cloud_vs_mario_on_gamefaqs_best_character_contest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasy/comments/a5mcg4/cloud_needs_your_help_in_the_gamefaqs_character/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVII/comments/a5m7a5/cloud_needs_your_help_in_the_gamefaqs_character/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFRecordKeeper/comments/a5m2ko/cloud_needs_your_help_in_the_gamefaqs_character/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a5lym2/mario_vs_cloud_on_gamefaqs_vote_now/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SuperMarioOdyssey/comments/a5lktb/mario_is_losing_in_the_gamefaqs_character_battle/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mario/comments/a5lgyw/mario_is_losing_in_the_gamefaqs_character_battle/

While the rally on the gaming subreddit was a neutral rally, it was clearly going to favor Mario a lot more than Cloud. The most successful Mario rally was on the Mario subreddit, where it reached the number 1 spot on the subreddit at one point.

Ulti also attempted to rally for Cloud on Twitch by donating money to a streamer who really loves FFVII in exchange for a shout out to his subscribers to go vote for Cloud. The effect of the shout out produced a small spike for Cloud for about 15 minutes, confirming that Twitch rallying is fairly ineffective.

I estimated there were about 800 rallied votes, with about 600 for Cloud and 200 for Mario. At the 12 hour point in the match before most of the rallying started, Mario had 51.91% with registered users and 46.63% with anonymous users, which is still slightly over a 5% difference.
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