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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| LeonhartFour 03/19/20 8:06:33 PM #357: | #2 Painful Pick - Squall > Sonic (2007) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2918-division-8-final-squall-sora-sonic-sub-zero https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2922-tournament-quarterfinal-snake-l-block-sonic-squall With the switch to 4-ways in 2007, there were many people looking for upsets, thinking the format would allow for results you wouldn't see otherwise, especially when it pertained to the Noble Nine. Probably the most popular pick was Vincent > Crono, which actually did pan out. I decided to go with Squall > Sonic. I believed Squall had the potential to do it, but Sonic was "fresh" off of Sonic 2006, which was universally hated, so I figured there was a chance it would negatively impact his performance. It was so far, so good after round 1. Squall had convincingly won his round 1 match despite Aerith in the poll with him, while Sonic had struggled against Sub-Zero. But then something happened that no one could have predicted: Sonic the Hedgehog was announced for Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the middle of the contest. The impact was almost immediate. Sonic doubled Sub-Zero in round two, and now Squall was dragging Sora into their match in round 3. It didn't look good. And yet Squall hung in there and only lost by 1.5%. In the next round, he got close, too, but they were relegated to fighting it out for a distant third since Snake and L-Block were duking it out, so they were largely forgotten in that match (although it has some of the greatest match pics ever made). There's still a part of me that wonders if Squall would've beaten Sonic if not for the Brawl announcement, or maybe simply if Sora hadn't been there. We can't know for sure, of course, but after Squall's 2018 performance, that may have been his last best chance to beat a Noble Niner, and that makes this sting even more. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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