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Every match going forward is going to have some level of madness in it. That's just what makes a good match great.

I don't have the words -- or more specifically, the data -- to do this one justice. It was a "you had to be there" moment. The only thing comparable to what Starcraft did was Draven, and we never truly saw Draven in a close match due to, well, we'll get there soon. Starcraft looked like it had met its match and then the most insane rally I've ever seen just springs to life. There was one update (15 minute, of course) that it won by like 900 votes. The vote total spiked by 500.

Starcraft had finally gone too far, and Ceej ended up killing votes that he could find via public proxy lists or some such. Melee was just out of its league. Personally, I think the Wind Waker result was too much for gamefaqs to handle. You know how people liked L-Block in 2007, but then 2008 came and everyone recoiled in terror? That was what happened after the Wind Waker match. Starcraft was cute when it was beating bad games, but when you come at the king and tumble it like that, people take you seriously. Starcraft could never stand up to Melee on traditional grounds so it went dark.

Now, was there cheating in Wind Waker? Honestly, who the hell knows. Starcraft was nuts, a good kind of nuts. A kind of nuts that could eventually lose to a stronger game and with an admin that paid close attention. Things weren't as tight on the security side of the internet in 2004. It was thanks to stuff like Starcraft and George Romero that we've had relatively legit results since. Some may dispute that, but I know Starcraft when I see it, and outside of Draven or Undertale we haven't seen it since.
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