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#1 Most Painful Pick - Final Fantasy X winning Game of the Decade (2010)
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4194-final-rounds-semifinal-final-fantasy-x-vs-zelda-majoras-mask

I will probably never get over this one. The fact that Board 8 decided it needed to rally around plucky underdog Zelda in order to stop Brawl from winning still boggles my mind. Final Fantasy X would've beaten Brawl, darn it! When Game of the Decade was revealed as the contest, I knew I was taking FFX to win and never looking back. I believed it could still hang with Melee and that it could beat Brawl given the opportunity. Most of the board sided with one of the Smash games, although I was certainly far from the only FFX pick.

I think a lot of people were dubious about FFX's chances as it seemingly underperformed in a lot of its matches, but I feel like they started coming around after its convincing win over Resident Evil 4. Plus, Brawl started having close matches against TP and Fallout 3 after beating Melee (it was almost certainly receiving backlash from bitter Melee fans because, once again, they're the worst, but they would've helped FFX win if it came down to it, darn it!). Then along came Majora's Mask, fresh off of beating Pokemon G/S/C, which very few people saw coming. Bah, it's still unbelievable to me! For the first (and almost certainly the last) time, we could've had the actual best game in the contest win the contest, but nooooo, you people had the crazy idea that FFX couldn't take down Brawl and we absolutely couldn't let Brawl be considered our best game of the decade, so let's just throw all our hopes and dreams behind Majora's friggin' Mask. Final Fantasy and Square have had so few reasons to celebrate in this contest since, like 2007, so couldn't you guys just let me have this? I mean, does Zelda have to win EVERY year there isn't a rally? You're all the worst.

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