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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| LeonhartFour 03/18/20 2:39:23 PM #316: | #5 Good Pick - Super Smash Bros. Melee winning Division 128 (2004) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1660-division-final-starcraft-vs-super-smash-bros-melee The 2004 Games Contest was my first bracket, so I made a lot of bad choices, but this was definitely my best pick. Division 128 was the most wide open division in that contest, and there was no clear favorite. For some reason, this was the one time I was not tempted by the allure of Final Fantasy X! I was still relatively new to the site at this point (I didn't stick around after SC2K3 because I couldn't find the board after it ended, whoops!), so I didn't understand how dominant Square was considered to be. I had Mario 3 winning the whole thing, for instance! But I knew what a big deal Super Smash Bros. Melee was as a game with every important Nintendo character in it, so it seemed like a natural candidate to do well. That ensemble cast might have been the difference between winning and losing, in fact! I still insist that the FFX/Melee picture, which featured a giant Tidus face against the entire Melee cast, is one of the most unfair pictures in contest history. That picture had so much potential, too! Anyway, in a match as close as this one ended up being, that could've flipped the result. Regardless, Melee advanced to face the contest darling, Starcraft, fresh off of an enormous upset of Wind Waker when we thought we were headed toward an all-Zelda Final Four (CARRIERS HAVE ARRIVED! WHAT NOW, LINK?). When the match started, Starcraft jumped out to the lead and looked to be on track to continue its Cinderella run, but once morning arrived, that infamous Smash day vote came to town and took over. Melee pushed the lead out to over 3,500 votes and then the most blatant cheating attempt in history occurred. 17:30 | Starcraft | 35757 | +0452 | 47.55% | SSBM | 39448 | +0553 | 52.45% | Lead of 3691 | (Up 101) 17:45 | Starcraft | 36719 | +0962 | 47.89% | SSBM | 39958 | +0510 | 52.11% | Lead of 3239 | (Down 452) 18:00 | Starcraft | 38156 | +1437 | 48.51% | SSBM | 40500 | +0542 | 51.49% | Lead of 2344 | (Down 895) Yes, that's right, Starcraft chopped off nearly 900 votes in a 15 minute update and posted nearly 1000 more votes than it had 30 minutes before. Naturally, CJayC had no choice but to step in and remove a chunk of those votes, which ended whatever push it tried to make. Starcraft kept chipping away at the lead for the rest of the match, but its momentum was dead and Melee survived. Mass Nintendo > Mass Carriers, after all. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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