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MetalmindStats posted...

And on the other side, this is some suspect revisionism. The entire board knocks on Skyrim's weakness this contest for the first three rounds, and now that it's finally shown a bit of life, you're going to pretend it's right back to being clearly better than 44% on Melee pre-rallies? That's not even getting into how the votal erosion and doubled registered votes should have boosted GSC from 2015. Maybe Skyrim would beat GSC specifically in this contest because GSC isn't of this decade, but it doesn't seem like that's all you're implying.

Not at all. Look at my posts, I was never down on Skyrim. The only performance that looked off was round 2, and every time that came up I pointed out that there is absolutely no way that Journey has not gotten substantially stronger, not least because it was made free to everybody with a PS4 days before the match. A third of the site have a PS4 with no PS+, and many who do have PS+ would have missed it. Of course it was going to boost, I was very clear about this. I never thought Skyrim has gotten weaker. I took The Witcher because The Witcher is a beast, not because Skyrim got weaker. So those anti-Skyrim arguments are nothing to do with me, it wasnt the entire board.

And to the second point, I have always argued that GSC is one of the most overrated games in contest history. This goes right back to GotD1 when I was one of the biggest MM>GSC proponents on the board. I never regarded that game as elite, because it isnt, and I argued against the people saying that it would beat almost the entire field this time. In fact I pointed out that it would probably rank lower here than in GOTD1, which I stand by. To that issue I have raised the point that GotD1 GSC is likely overrated due to MMs bandwagon and rallies. Skyrim would have beaten GSC in 2015 (which was possibly overrated there too) and I have never believed that would not still be the case, and said as much recently.

This is all stuff I have been consistent about. Please dont lump me in with arguments I not only never agreed with, but actively argued against. And please do not accuse me of revisionism. I have made a bunch of bad calls, Im not trying to big myself up here. But seeing through GSC has always been one of my strengths. In GotD1 you literally had people insisting after the match that the result made no sense and GSC was still an elite, the blinders are firmly clamped on for a lot of people regarding that game. So give me some credit!

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