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Topic	transience presents: the top 75 matches in contest history: part 2, the top 25.
transience 12/19/18 11:50:53 PM #103:	22. WHAT I'd be hard pressed to make a list of contest results that absolutely shocked me, but I have to believe this one is at least in the top five. Let's run down the history. L-Block, of course, won it all in 2007. Coming in to the 2008 contest, we were dismayed to learn that it would be another fourway affair. Brackets basically came down to a single match: round 2 with Crono, Ryu, L-Block and Amaterasu. On paper, this was the only chance we had to kill the boot that kicked our ass in 2007. We had two strong characters, a weaker one and L-Block. If you picked L-Block to advance, you had it winning the contest. If you didn't, you had Link. One problem: in round 1, L-Block faced Ryu, Meta-Knight and the duck hunt dog, pre-Smash 4. Ah, those good old days where we dumped joke characters into every battle to see if anything would stick. L-Block would easily take second here. Except... L not only came in first, but did so by somehow making a big comeback on Ryu at the end of the match. L doesn't do that! It starts out strong and fades like all jokes do. But here it was, rubbing it in our face and beating our one chance we had to get it out of here. It felt insulting. That match would have made this list if this one didn't happen. L-Block went into that big round 2 match and blasted Ryu. Crono took first but Ryu kinda never had a chance here. The dream was dead. Meanwhile, Pikachu was winning his matches, but he wasn't a star yet. He beat Arthas and Ike in the first round, but he didn't dominate them. He barely edged out Alucard to take first in his second match. Coming into this match, he was clearly weaker than Ryu - and Alucard was stronger than Amaterasu. L-Block was destined to take first or second here. Except... somehow, L-Block finally broke. It was Pikachu who started off the match in first. Pikachu gave up second to L-Block for a short while, but L's patented joke pattern came back here. It faded after the first hour and Pikachu coasted to an easy win. People celebrated in the streets. Women cried with joy. Just.. what? This was the origin of save_us.rat. Pikachu went into the next match with Crono, Samus and Vincent and lost badly. The rat literally died to save the 2008 contest. --- xyzzy <cite>transience posted [p:914425265] in transience... [t:77315604]...</cite> <quote>22. WHAT I'd be hard pressed to make a list of contest results that absolutely shocked me, but I have to believe this one is at least in the top five. Let's run down the history. L-Block, of course, won it all in 2007. Coming in to the 2008 contest, we were dismayed to learn that it would be another fourway affair. Brackets basically came down to a single match: round 2 with Crono, Ryu, L-Block and Amaterasu. On paper, this was the only chance we had to kill the boot that kicked our ass in 2007. We had two strong characters, a weaker one and L-Block. If you picked L-Block to advance, you had it winning the contest. If you didn't, you had Link. One problem: in round 1, L-Block faced Ryu, Meta-Knight and the duck hunt dog, pre-Smash 4. Ah, those good old days where we dumped joke characters into every battle to see if anything would stick. L-Block would easily take second here. Except... L not only came in first, but did so by somehow making a big comeback on Ryu at the end of the match. L doesn't do that! It starts out strong and fades like all jokes do. But here it was, rubbing it in our face and beating our one chance we had to get it out of here. It felt insulting. That match would have made this list if this one didn't happen. L-Block went into that big round 2 match and blasted Ryu. Crono took first but Ryu kinda never had a chance here. The dream was dead. Meanwhile, Pikachu was winning his matches, but he wasn't a star yet. He beat Arthas and Ike in the first round, but he didn't dominate them. He barely edged out Alucard to take first in his second match. Coming into this match, he was clearly weaker than Ryu - and Alucard was stronger than Amaterasu. L-Block was destined to take first or second here. Except... somehow, L-Block finally broke. It was Pikachu who started off the match in first. Pikachu gave up second to L-Block for a short while, but L's patented joke pattern came back here. It faded after the first hour and Pikachu coasted to an easy win. People celebrated in the streets. Women cried with joy. Just.. what? This was the origin of save_us.rat. Pikachu went into the next match with Crono, Samus and Vincent and lost badly. The rat literally died to save the 2008 contest. --- xyzzy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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