Summer 2002 Contest
Has it really been over NINE years? Ironically enough, this contest started in the same summer that I got my GameCube (my first video game console, and I honestly can't believe I still have the same copy of SSBM I bought way back then...) in, and it definitely feels like a time where people were particularly high on SSBM and FFX, no doubt due to Nintendo's and Square's "excellent" reputations gained during the previous hardware generation, and hype for titles like Super Mario Sunshine, Kingdom Hearts, Metroid Prime, and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker may have been off the charts. That would be what GameFAQs contests would largely be all about during those first four years: Nintendo and Square dominating everyone else and taking on each other.
In the meantime, there was a serious air of unpredictability causing some to just pick brackets based on their favorite characters. Lots of upsets would materialize, though the presence of loads of characters no one cares about would be sure to rear its ugly head in future discussions of the contest.
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