LogFAQs > #927184432

In any case 2013 and 2015 were still probably more exciting contests on the whole than 2018. But I'm not going to pull an Ulti and insists that anyone who begs to differ is wrong. I just don't like the idea of telling people not to come vote on our site because they might interfere with the contest in ways we don't want.

And what did we really lose in '13 and '15 from rallies? We didn't get to see Chrono Trigger vs. Final Fantasy VII, any "fair" clash between the Mario games and RBY, and a clash between the winner of those? That would have been nice, sure, but what was what we really got that much worse? It can be inferred anyway that CT beats FFVII now (with Cloud still being stronger than Crono due to having a personality and being in Smash), and that RBY would handle the Mario games no problem. All right, so we were deprived of seeing CT/FFVII vs. RBY in the semifinals in favor of a Melee-Undertale rally-fest. Okay.

On a side note, I kept viewing Snake as underwhelming last contest until I realized that he only really looked bad against Zelda and Samus, and that IIRC Snake got a comparable percentage on Samus to what Crono got against Cloud. If Samus/Cloud is still a debatable matchup, Snake is somehow still an upper tier Noble Niner, but by this point the Noble Nine are guaranteed to no longer be the 9 strongest characters even in a "fair" setting. We probably just expected more out of Snake due to how well he did against Link in the 2013 bonus match.

I'm rather surprised by how strong Samus is in that case, being an easy top 4 character and potential top 3, but it makes sense. She just covers every base among the site's voters.
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