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This match doesn't stand out at all today. Even at the time, it was generally seen as a tossup. Tidus was the slight favourite (51% in the oracle), but Kirby won big and so what?

This match is the first true indication we had of the Nintendo Boost. There were a lot of matches here that went for Nintendo. The next day, Bowser demolished Ryu. The day after that, Donkey Kong of all characters almost beat Master Chief. At this point we believed that the Boost was real.

What caused it? Who knows. My personal take on it is that Nintendo would have always beaten Square on this website.. but that Nintendo kinda sucked in the Gamecube era when it came to their heavy hitters. You went from Mario 64 and Ocarina to Sunshine and Wind Waker (which only became loved years later). Hold a contest in 2001 and I think Nintendo does awesome.

Then, by the time 05 rolls around, you start seeing Twilight Princess trailers and getting psyched over the next generation ("Revolution"). The DS hit in November 2004 and with it came Super Mario 64 DS and, yeah, Kirby's Canvas Curse. The DS was a surprise hit that everyone was into at the time and it trickled down. Meanwhile, Square put out KH in 2003 and just kinda faded away. That lack of permanence, along with Square turning into Square-Enix, just sorta pushed the contest along naturally.

Anyway, this match itself is only so-so but it's always been my indication that, yeah, Nintendo is real, Crono is in trouble and watch out Cloud.
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