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Special Honorable Mention: L-Block

So yeah, obviously I didn't pick L-Block to make the finals. I did pick it to beat Laharl but that's no big deal. That was the guru favourite because Laharl sucked.

No, the reason that I put L-Block here is that I was one of the first converts. I picked every L-Block match correctly in the Crew/Oracle/whatever except for one, the semifinal where seemingly the entire internet was alerted to L's presence after it beat two noble niners and one potential NN breaker.

L's run probably seems like an obvious bandwagon in retrospect but it actually wasn't in the moment. Those who were infused with years of contest history had the hardest time accepting that our idols were vulnerable. After all, we'd spent years digesting extrapolated statistics for breakfast. The idea that Link, or the Noble Nine for that matter, was untouchable was just a fact of life. You believed in the LAW and that was that.

Here was our 7-person Crew's record on the Block in 2007. We're never actually brilliant, but, yeah

Kirby/L/Laharl/Hale: 4-3
Kratos/L/Kirby/DK - 2-5
Snake/L/Kratos/Riku - 6-1
L/Snake/Sonic/Squall - 1-6
L/Snake/Chief/Dante - 0-7
L/Link/Cloud/Snake - 1-6

So yeah, I always considered this one of my best moments, even if my bracket obviously never had a chance of predicting this one. Other fourpack matches, even the game contest, don't even enter my thought process when thinking about the best picks because those were always weird anomalies that depended on the opponents. But 2007 L-Block was obviously different.

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