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The internet was alive this weekend. I vividly remember L-Block/Link being on a weekend and thinking that it helped L-Block. Kotaku, engadget, neogaf, they were all talking about this match. Twitter was nascent and reddit was essentially nonexistent, so blogs and forums were really our main source of gaming news in those days. And everyone was super freaking high on this match.

I"m pretty sure this is our biggest vote total ever, which feels right. This match is probably the most anticipated match ever. It certainly was for me. The first 10 minutes of this match is something I will probably carry into old age. L-Block came out killing everything at the freeze. 55% on Link, Cloud and Solid Snake. An 825 vote lead over Link. The lead is 1330 at :10. By :20 we've already passed 2000 votes which was the magic number for comebacks in those pre-Draven, pre-Undertale days. L-Block held strong at 45% after one hour and had a lead of 3500 votes. I could go back and read the stats topic for this one and just relive everything.

The match ended up looking kinda respectable at the end: a mere 7000 vote win. But it was up 5000 votes after 2 hours. Link was never even close to being in this match. That fact alone was just amazing to see for anyone who had followed these contests for 5 years. This is a internet moment. People still talk about "do you remember seeing that shit when a Tetris block beat Link in the gamefaqs character battle?" casually. That's why this match is important.

The following contest, we nominated Sandbags and Cubes and you name it. L-Block brought on a whole new list of contest terrors for us to have to deal with. By 2013, we had seen ? Blocks, Matt the Mii, Hogger, Mudkip, WWF No Mercy, you name it. That isn't the half of it with this match though. An organic rally that nobody really initiated turned into the biggest gamefaqs contest match of all time.
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