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HaRRicH posted...

I like including Link in the contest albeit in smaller ways like this contest, the Battle Royale, and the Tournament of Champions all do.

One idea I've wanted to see done for years is a gauntlet. I used to advocate for a whole contest like this, starting from the least nominated character and working our way up to the most nominated character...but really, I think just removing the Noble Nine or the top sixteen nominated characters or something along those lines would be appropriate for a gauntlet after the main bracket is completed. There would be lots of close matches and it would limit the impact of our heaviest hitters.

The issue of a gauntlet is that underseeded characters could monopolized matches for a while. Aerith was a 15 seed and would have lasted days/weeks. Pokemon tend to be underseeded too, Zelda was only a 4 seed and likely would have survived over for a long time as she went through the rest of the bracket before potentially losing to Mario.

I guess we could limit the effects of long runs by splitting the bracket in 8 divisions and having them run concurrently. Sure we may have 12 straight matches of Aerith beating up Division 5, but the other divisions may have interesting stuff going on.
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