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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| transience 03/03/20 11:15:48 PM #11: | WORST #5: Mario Kart over Mega Man Mega Man 58.12% 62075 Mario Kart 41.88% 44727 TOTAL VOTES 106802 This is only in my bottom 5 because it was literally the only debatable match in the bracket. (We'll ignore the final.) The series contest was awful, a constant mess of blowouts by the big franchises that was only equal to the amount of whining from randos. We occasionally would debate matches that were kinda undebatable, like Star Ocean over Pokemon (sup HM) or Soulcaibur over Metal Gear (sup Janus), but the rest of the time was spent parsing this thing. The case for Mega Man: it's Mega Man! You know, the noble nine guy? The games aren't particularly strong on their own but the brand is big and there are a billion games. The case for Mario Kart: Mario Kart 64 would beat every Mega Man game in existence, and Super Mario Kart might too. (This might still be true.) Voters aren't going to have played more than a couple of Mega Man games, and everyone has a pretty positive impression of Mario Kart. These debates went on for weeks. Then the match came and... oh, Mario Kart is dead and so is my bracket (hooray one upset in the whole bracket). It wasn't the worst upset pick, but the way that it just immediately ended the contest for a lot of people in such an anticlimactic way made it a really memorable L. --- xyzzy ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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