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This match is somehow the biggest blowout of Frog's wonky 2004 run - he edged out Liquid Snake in a close one and then had an insane match with Master Chief that ended up with a miracle win after dropping the ball hard in the day to the day vote king. But this match with Solid is the only one on this list.

You can argue it should be much higher: there was so much to unpack here. Frog came in as the new hotness in 2004 after Magus was the hotness in 2003. He had a bit of bandwagon behind him, back before the idea of that was a concrete thing. But there was also Solid Snake's sprite pic to try to consider, and the general feeling was that Frog massively overperformed on Snake. This is probably the closest the N9 came to dropping a match up to that point, and it firmly established Solid Snake as the rear end of the N9.

In reality, 2004 was more likely just Chrono Trigger's year. Crono beat Mario handily in 2004 and CT beat LTTP. Those results just don't happen in most other years. The site shifted in 2005 to be more Nintendo-friendly and Frog's miracle run almost didn't matter. Frog made such an impression though that it was hard to convince people he wasn't this great contest performer until his pathetic day vote came to pass in 2007 when Axel put it on him in a real bad way.

Having written this, this probably belongs a lot higher. Oh well.
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