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Division 1 Final: (1)The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vs (2)Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

(1)Breath of the Wild - 17702 [70.22%]
(2)Dragon Quest 11 - 7508 [29.78%]
Total Votes - 25210
Prediction Percentage - 76.59%

After an incredibly stupid delay to set up a gimmick secondary bracket entry phase (seriously, that stuff needs to stop), the home stretch began. And with it... MATCH PICS!! I love me some picsmithing, and as usual the gang killed it. I'm only going to pull rank on the wiki once, beyond that I don't care what image you guys use for the articles.

It isn't often that a game looks good when only getting 30% of the vote, but Dragon Quest 11 went out of this contest like a man's man. In a match where most people thought Zelda would finish in the mid to high 70s, and perhaps even break 80% again, Dragon Quest 11 actually walked right up to the Anton Chigurh of this contest and slapped it across the face. Zelda actually struggled to just break 70% in this match, and it took the actual morning and day vote to ultimately get it done.

Mad props to Dragon Quest 11 here. This was still a 70-30 blowout at the end of the day, and putting on a show like this was impressive. If you had told me pre-contest that any Dragon Quest could potentially double any Final Fantasy game on this site, I'd have thought you were nuts. Yet in a direct match based on direct results through Zelda, Dragon Quest 11 could have doubled Final Fantasy XV. That is so good.

All this said, Zelda still broke 70% four rounds in a row, which is some incredibly rarified air. Here is the entire list of everything to ever pull that off:

-Link in Summer 2002 (beat Little Mac, Strider, Jill Valentine, and Scorpion)
-The Legend of Zelda in the Series Contest 2006 (beat Civilization, Mega Man X, Metroid, and Metal Gear)
-Link/Ganondorf in the Rivalry Rumble 2011 (beat Arthas/Illidan, Amaterasu/Orochi, Mega Man/Wily, and Alucard/Dracula)
-Breath of the Wild in Game of the Decade 2020 (beat The Outer Worlds, Halo Reach, Final Fantasy 15, and Dragon Quest 11)

There's a common theme there. I'll let you guys figure out what it is.

Two notes.

-Link and Ganondorf finished over '''75%''' in its first four matches, which is a record that could only ever possibly be broken by Link or his series.
-In the 2010 character battle, Link finished over 70% in four of his first five matches, but he's not eligible for this record because Mega Man X held him below 70% in round 3 that year. He finished 3% short.

We all knew Breath of the Wild would win this contest easily, but I don't know that we knew it would be ''this'' easy.

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