LogFAQs > #939231767

Because for the most part, the rivalries just functioned as proxies for the heroes with a couple of exceptions, so it just thinned the field dramatically. Instead of having Bowser or Ganondorf or Magus or Zero as seperate entries from their heroes, they are effectively removed from the bracket by being chained to their rivals. This is then compounded by a lot of our upper midcarders being side characters that don't have rivalries, think your Yoshi, Tifa, Aeris, Vivi, Auron, Vincent, Zelda, etc, alongside characters that had multiple options for rivalries, so we got characters like Knuckles and Wario being snubbed to boot.

All the format really did was remove most of the debatable characters that usually end up being in the most interesting matches.

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