Thursday, July 4th, 2002
Stats and Analysis Edit
Poll 943
Division North Division
Match # 4
Match Date Thursday, July 4th, 2002
Vote difference 12,586
GameFAQs
Prediction Donkey Kong - 94.18%
(15,788 brackets)
Considering the low votals of this contest in comparison to later ones, and the Gamespot contest proving that Bub is somehow easy to rally for whatever reason, I guess you could say DK was lucky just to break 60% here, but at the time, all we saw was DK doing worse against some NES puzzler character than Aya Brea did against a Fatal Fury character. That's three (really four) matches in a row where something extremely weird happened, although they were the first four matches in GameFAQs history so...let's just say this: I would've loved to follow this contest back in its day. Chaotic all around! Even when the winner was obvious!
This would also be the only contest match until 2010 to feature a character being backed by over 90% of bracketmakers, but failing to double their opponent. What's funny is that DK would actually improve a bit in later contests from his performance here, although I suppose higher votals and a site-wide Nintendo boost can do that to you.
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