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| Topic | ~*Ultimaterializer's Post-Contest Analysis! - Part 2*~ |
| PostContestUlti 05/28/20 7:37:42 PM #313: | Contest Final: (1)The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vs (1)The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (1)Breath of the Wild - 17050 [55.91%] (1)Witcher 3 - 13446 [44.09%] Total Votes - 30496 Prediction Percentage - 37.14% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano Simply because I feel like posting one final list, here is every tournament final we've ever had. I'm cheating with a couple contests, but so what? https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1002-tournament-final-mario-vs-link https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1367-tournament-final-cloud-strife-vs-sephiroth https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1663-tournament-final-chrono-trigger-vs-final-fantasy-vii https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1780-tournament-final-link-vs-cloud-strife https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2019-tournament-final-sephiroth-vs-ganondorf https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2128-tournament-final-mario-vs-crono https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2131-tournament-of-champions-final-link-vs-sephiroth https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2455-tournament-final-the-legend-of-zelda-vs-final-fantasy https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2561-tournament-final-samus-aran-vs-solid-snake https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2566-battle-royale-final https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2925-tournament-final-link-cloud-l-block-snake https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3306-contest-final-link-crono-snake-cloud https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3508-contest-final-ffvii-zelda-lttp-zelda-oot-ffx https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3856-contest-final-link-vs-cloud-strife https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4195-game-of-the-decade-super-smash-bros-brawl-vs-the-legend-of https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4572-final-rounds-final-mario-vs-bowser-link-vs-ganondorf https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5266-character-battle-ix-final-draven-vs-solid-snake-vs-samus https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6177-best-game-ever-final-undertale-vs-zelda-ocarina-of-time https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6720-best-year-in-gaming-final-2001-vs-1998 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7387-final-battle-link-vs-cloud No real reason. Just felt like pulling this all up. Final matches are generally boring, if not screwey. Very, very few of these matches have been any good, and usually by this point we already know what's winning the contest -- even in years where the winner is out of left field. Undertale and Draven stick out, but when going through those contests live we knew what was coming. In this final, we all knew Breath of the Wild was going to cap off its run with a win -- only final percentages mattered. When the poll first started it looked like Zelda was going to deliver another giga-beating and deliver a swift 60-40 asswhipping to Witcher 3. 60-40 in a final, if you look at the list here, is a ''huge'' blowout. It's very hard to get much better than that in the finals of a contest. But once Witcher 3 weathered the early storm for a few hours, it did the unthinkable. No, it didn't win the match or come close -- but it ''did'' make Breath of the Wild look human, which hadn't happened in this contest even once to this point. With the assistance of Europe and the fanbase ''rallying their balls off'', Witcher 3 was able to turn a 60-40 blowout into a very, very respectable loss of 56-44. Breath of the Wild proved itself at or close to Ocarina of Time's strength for this entire contest, and Witcher 3 actually made it look mortal. I know the fans of Witcher were upset, but this is legitimately an amazing accomplishment. As a random side note, the Witcher series just passed 50 million units sold after only three games. To put that in perspective, it took the Resident Evil series 683 games to get 100 million in sales. All that said, this contest was the Breath of the Wild Invitational, and though a lot of people are tired of Zelda always winning contests, that sentiment tends to not be there as much when something gets to win for the first time. People were happy about Link in 2002. People were happy about Majora's Mask. People were happy about Breath of the Wild. Hell, people were even happy about Ocarina in 2009. It was such a mismatch though compared to the rest of the field that I can't wait to see this thing up against some 90s games. The obvious duel we need to have is Breath vs Ocarina, but I would also love to see it against Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, Link to the Past, Pokemon. and so on. All in all, this was a decent enough contest, though the vote totals blew. There was just one more thing to take care of... --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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