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Round 2 Division 3 Day 19
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 64.06%
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 35.94%

Prediction Percentage 74.96%

A Link Between Worlds becomes the second of the competing Game of the Year winner to exit competition. It did however lose to another Game of the Year winner, so there was no way around one of them going out today. ALBW is really one of the most screwed games in the bracket when it comes to bracket placement. The adjusted x-stats showed it in fifteenth, so not only did it exit perhaps two rounds earlier than it deserved, it also didnt get to have the least bit interesting match, not only getting one of the best games in the bracket, but getting one that likely SFFd it a lot.

I know we dont want to have Zelda games destroying the bracket, but there were only two of them anyways and ALBW wouldnt have been too dominant. Im sure it just didnt get the nominations it needed to get higher, but theres only one other #1 seed thatd suck more to put it against. After it was snubbed in 2015, we might have finally got a real read on it, but no. It likely wont be coming back either, because the console Zelda will have priority in future nomination periods. This was its best chance.

A Link Between Worlds is a fantastic game. I know it didnt win the prize anywhere else that it did here and many believe The Last of Us should have won back then. In any case, ALBW was really good and did a lot of things every Zelda fan missed. Being the handheld game after Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks is easy, but more people seemed more positive towards it upon any other release since perhaps Ocarina of Time. Twilight Princess, Wind Waker and even Majoras Mask had people a bit more split upon release. Hell, even Breath of the Wild, which largely overshadowed it, had people more split. Breath of the Wild even got all the credit for being nonlinear, but ALBW was that too! It deserves a bit more praise than what were giving it at the end of the decade.

Its hard to tell how much SFF there is here, but if you believe there is a lot, then Ultimate once again doesnt look as good as Super Mario Odyssey does. Its tough to truly determine anything because usually Zelda is before Smash Bros in the Nintendo hierarchy. If you believe the same here happened today, then it looks extremely good, but thats unlikely. The hierarchy is more a rule of thumb when it comes to the games, it doesnt apply for every single entry obviously. Exactly where A Link Between Worlds stood today also wasnt too apparent, so this round wasnt very good for comparing Ultimate and Odyssey.

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