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Round 1 Division 3 Day 5
Minecraft 75.71%
Dota 2 24.29%

Prediction Percentage 89.25%

I do wish Dota 2 would have faced something other than Minecraft. Not because it would have won in many matches, but because its always fun to see casual bait lose a match against something far less known. Dota 2 is the type of game that would do that but look at what it faced. Minecraft. The biggest casual game ever, perhaps only rivaled by Wii Sports. Although Minecraft is probably slightly more cared about on a site like this. The prediction percentage against Dota is extremely high, so the casuals got this one right too.

Minecraft looks pretty good today, but its hard to make much of it facing a game that probably gets its share of anti-votes. The true testament of its strength would come next round. Last contest it looked decent enough against the original Halo before Halo died against Final Fantasy VII the following round. Those are all games with some share of anti-votes probably, but I dont think its a lot in Minecrafts case, which is part of the reason it won so easily. It might just be the true neutral. No one has strong opinions about it at all, but everyone knows what it is and were fine with it.

There has been talks about Minecrafts eligibility in the contest because the classic version was made available in 2009. The full game was however was released in 2011, which is why it was allowed in. Most of the people complaining seem to complain because League of Legends was not allowed in while being in a similar situation. Ive seen the same people claim both that Minecraft shouldnt have been allowed and League of Legends should, which is a weird stance, but perhaps just a wish for consistency. If Allen told us that he just specifically targeted League of Legends I wouldnt be terribly surprised. He specifically made Ocarina of Time and Majoras Masks 3D version ineligible while allowing Persona 4 Golden and theres not much consistency in that. I would also honestly believe him if he had told us it just didnt receive enough nominations, but Dota 2 being in makes it seem likely it would have. Its quite ironic in this Minecraft / League of Legends controversy, that Minecraft got to slaughter the game in the bracket League of Legends is most similar too.

My own stance? I said before League of Legends was in a similar situation and similar is the key word there. Its not the same and I dont think it makes much sense to include Minecraft in the complains about League of Legends honestly. Just because both initial releases have been called alpha does not make them the same. The League of Legends we had in 2009 was an actual release, even though it was not out everywhere, and theyve worked on it since. Basically, every place will list 2009 as the release year of League of Legends. Minecraft will be split between 2009 and 2011, but the ones saying 2009 probably acknowledges that the official release was in 2011.

Of course, it sucks for League of Legends in terms of a contest like this that its release went the way it did, where some technicality means it couldnt really compete in either Game of the Decade contest. I would not have minded it being allowed in because of this. It wouldve been an exception, but it wouldve been fair enough given the circumstances. I just wanted to point out I dont think Minecraft should have been disallowed and I dont think the decision on League of Legends should have anything to do with the decision on Minecraft. Besides, League of Legends wouldve been killed in round 1 in similar fashion to Dota 2, although probably worse because we bear a grudge on it here, so its not like were missing out on anything. Minecraft showed in this match that its worth having it in.

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