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2007
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Summer_2007_Contest

MVP: L-Block
Confidence: 100%

Here's maybe the only other unanimous MVP outside of 2003 Cloud. L-Block kind of transcended contests and became an internet phenomenon. I see this pop up all the time on the "today I learned" subreddit, because it's so baffling and kinda fun, at least for me.

I won't recap the whole contest, but L-Block started out as a funny little joke that turned into a very serious joke when he started taking out noble niners. L-Block was the good kind of joke though because it was an honest surge that started early and then died off over time, as opposed to the stuff we would see later on when people could be mobilized via social media a lot easier. L-Block felt like CATS on megasteroids, not like some kind of epic lulz type of thing. Or that's how I took it, anyway, since I rallied for it on russia.com.

Honorable Mention: Master Chief, Vincent, Ryu

I feel bad for the Chief. Dude never really catches a break. Even his big comebacks, like MC over DK in 2005, are seen as pathetic because he shouldn't have been in jeopardy anyway. 2007 is undoubtedly Chief's best year, a shockingly strong, game fuel-induced high because of Halo 3's impending release. And L-Block came along and ruined his finals run.

2007 Chief was the equivalent of Snake in 2006, honestly, and he destroyed Yuna in the first two rounds. You could make up a lot of excuses here, like Chief doing better in fourways than 1v1, or him taking advantage of Nintendo LFF, but he was a monster. Chief was within 2% of beating out Solid Snake and making it into the finals, and once he's there, who the hell knows what happens. Damn you L.

Vincent is the other memorable character from 07. Vincent kept having great results in 2005 and 2006 but he hadn't quite broken through bigtime yet. After Crono's disappointing 2006, everyone looked forward to perhaps our #10 guy going up against the bottom of the NN. The buildup wasn't great here for Vincent, but it was damning for Crono, and Vincent ended up "breaking" the Noble Nine, though a lot of people kinda shrugged at the whole thing because these fourway thingies were a sham. Still, Vincent went over clean. It wasn't some goofy result with Magus in the poll or something.

Ryu is the only other character that really stood out to me in 2007. Ryu got demolished by Bowser in 2005, and yeah, he had some other Nintendo characters leeching him in his early matches. But Ryu kind of destroyed Bowser throughout, including an Auron/Ryu/Bowser/Shadow match where Ryu went over clean. He pushed all the way to the quarterfinals where he ran out of luck against three NNers.

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