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Round 3 Division 3 Day 27
Shovel Knight 27.19%
Super Mario Odyssey 73.81%

Prediction Percentage 51.49%

This is one of the most boring matches in the contest as Super Mario Odyssey was always going to win very easily and the match cant even be used as a good indicator for anything because of possible overlap between these two games that may or may not be there. Shovel Knight gets the honor of being the only indie game to get this far in the contest, which is something. Its not necessarily the strongest, most people seem to think that honor goes to Cuphead or Stardew Valley. Shovel Knight would end up below several layers of SFF, so its hard to determine.

One interesting this about this match is the lack of a rally. Everyone remembers when the creators of Shovel Knight, Yacht Club Games, tweeted about the match against Octopath Traveler making Shovel Knight win a battle of rallies. The comments to that tweet pointed out that Super Mario Odyssey was ahead and correctly recognized that it would be a tough match. Yacht Club Games responded to that saying We cant give up! Not even if pitted against our beloved mustachioed main man!. They made it pretty clear they were going to attempt once more.

Did anyone expect it make the match interesting? No, of course not. The gap was way too big and the affect of the tweet had already slowed down a good bit by the end of the previous match despite coming up with an hour to go. I did however expect them to try and cut off a significant chunk of percentage and finished somewhere between 30% and 40%. They seemed dedicated, but nope, they never tweeted about the match. I dont know if they simply forgot, it would be my best bet. No one cared to remind them because why would we, it wouldnt matter. Even if it had made no difference, it sure was anticlimactic.

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