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Round 1 Division 6 Day 12
Portal 2 65.29%
Tomb Raider 34.71%

Prediction Percentage 80.20%

Portal 2 was thought to be the most likely game to make the division finals, but I dont think anyone of us had huge confidence in it. Kingdom Hearts is a more beloved franchise of ours, Red Dead Redemption 2 had good potential and even Animal Crossing could be good enough now that New Horizons had released to the best possible reception right before the contest. Back when the Portal games came out they were huge, spawned countless memes, and they were very popular here too. The board loved them. Portal 2 is only just recent enough to be in this contest. Its heydays are over. GLaDOS looked quite a bit weaker in 2018 than in previous contests. Portal 2 could only fall so much and not be out of favor for the spot.

It ended up having the worst winning percentage of the day, so it shouldnt be too dominant, but it still came out of round 1 as the favorite. Tomb Raider is a good game. Its far from the series peak, but you should pick it against the other losing games today. It can do something on name alone, particularly when we have forced voting. People that have played neither game today might vote for the franchise with the bigger name. Portal is not the best series to take advantage of that against, but it still made Portal 2 look good enough here.

We will probably never know how well the old Tomb Raider games wouldve done in a contest setting, but Im not expecting it to be much more than this honestly. Maybe if we had a contest when they were new, but they would be riding more on their name than the actual games themselves. There is probably a reason that Tomb Raider has never been in any games contests before. Even back in the early contests, Lara Croft was never that good and Im not thinking the games would be better relative to the field than she has ever been.

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