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Round 1 Division 2 Day 3
Borderlands 2 59.1
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 40.9%

Prediction Percentage 80.77%

Another match that fueled the thought of indie games being legit. Borderlands 2 is a previous Game of the Year winner here, and while I think everyone agreed it had a good year to take such a price, this still wasnt very convincing. While Final Fantasy XV would end up fighting for the title, Borderlands 2 probably goes out of round 1 looking like the weakest GotY, just like it went into the contest as. I suppose one could make an argument for Smash 4, but it isnt in the bracket, so well never know for sure.

Borderlands 2 actually performed better than the average oracle expected of it. This shows that the indie fear was now for real. The Borderlands series is hardly what it used to be. The humor is outdated, and the gameplay isnt as fun as it used to be. We even saw a handful pick against it after the first few days of indie success. This could be a place where another indie game could do damage. The fear was in full force. It probably wouldve performed below expectations if it had been up the first day.

Borderlands 2 is still good enough, however, it was never going to drop this. It doesnt look all too great yet, but it had hope going forward, since trashing Horizon trashing Fortnite tells us nothing about its chances in another match. The Walking Dead only barely lost against its indie opponent, and I doubt anyone would consider TWD to get close to Borderlands 2. Looking back, Bloodstained looks like one of the better indies in the contest. Its exactly the kind that could have damaged brackets given better bracket placement.

At this point, the idea that indie games from the second half of the decade were legit was starting to form. Hollow Knight and Bloodstained had looked really good. Bastion won, but only barely against what was expected to extremely bad and VVVVVV was looking terrible in a match next to this. It was a good idea, that would end up having some truth to it and is probably a good rule of thumb, though it does not come without exceptions.

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