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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| LeonhartFour 03/16/20 8:46:08 PM #257: | #9 Good Pick - Luigi > Ganondorf (2007) & Vincent > Ganondorf (2006) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2915-division-5-final-ganondorf-luigi-master-chief-yuna https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2524-blast-division-round-1-ganondorf-vs-vincent-valentine For the most part, I think Ganondorf sucks, and it sucks that he's considered to be among the most popular non-Noble Nine characters. He also beats a lot of really good characters, which makes it even more annoying! But I was glad to be on the right side of two picks where he got knocked out as the favorite. After Luigi's strong showing in the 2006 contest, I thought he was primed to score a big upset in the right conditions. Ganondorf was the heavy favorite to win this match (partly because most people didn't foresee Chief's GAME FUEL run, although I did have him going deep myself), but I was banking on one particular disadvantage: The third round has traditionally been the sprite round, and Ganondorf's ugly Bacondorf sprite was sure to show its ugly head. Ganondorf might be stronger when all things are equal (as round two demonstrated), but if the sprite round tradition continued, Luigi had a shot. Sure enough, that's exactly what happened, and Luigi was able to take advantage of it to edge out Ganon for second place. Now Vincent/Ganondorf was a hotly debated match. This was widely considered a match to determine the #10 character in the contest, or maybe even to be the guy to break the Noble Nine since they faced Sonic next round, who had often been the weak link in the group. There were many people picking the winner to upset Sonic, including our own Heroic Mario, who bet the most legendary B8 account of all-time on friggin' Ganondorf and lost it. Now this should not have been a round 1 match. This is probably the most high-powered first round match ever. It only ended up being a round 1 match because of the female bracket narrowing the field. I took Vincent to win here because I still had faith in my boy Squall. I thought Squall would beat Ganondorf 1-on-1 if it came down to it, so naturally since Vincent had beaten him the year before, Vincent was more likely to win this match. While my faith in Tidus has been woefully misplaced many times over, believing in Squall has worked out for me more times than not (let's never speak of 2018 again)! --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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