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Topic	All 25 Best Game of the Year Tournaments discussed here, one time only!
ZeroSignal620 02/21/21 7:45:42 PM #14:	Best Game of 2001 https://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?1&tid=315879 Ran: March 2009 Overall top seed: Final Fantasy X 1 seeds: FFX, Super Smash Bros Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2, Halo Final Four: FFX, SSB Melee, MGS2, Silent Hill 2 Ultimate Loser: Diablo II - Lord of Destruction Championship: Super Smash Bros Melee defeated Final Fantasy X 48-43 Not long after 2000's tournament ended, I opened up nominations for the 2001 tournament. Considered to be a huge year in gaming, 2001 was PlayStation 2's first full-fledged year in the new generation, and we also had the Gamecube, Game Boy Advance, and Xbox make their debuts, while the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, and Dreamcast were quietly on their way out. Despite that last statement I just mentioned, all four systems mentioned still got at least one game in... No big upsets this time around in the opening round of the tournament; the lowest seed to win in round 1 was #11 seed Klonoa 2, knocking off Mario Party 3 by a couple votes. Only two matches went to overtime; Luigi's Mansion with a 17-16 win over Rogue Squadron II and ICO's crazy Sudden Death victory over Dark Cloud in the second round. Otherwise, it was mostly par for the course. The most impressive #1 seed when it was all said and done was a tossup between Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2. FFX outscored Tennis 2K2, Wario Land 4, and Oracle of Ages 64-16, before having a (slightly) closer bout with Golden Sun, winning 40-28. Metal Gear Solid outscored its first two opponents by an alarming 42-2 (Syphon Filter 3 and SSX Tricky). Snake delivered a 22-10 beatdown to Pikmin, before escaping by the skin of his teeth in a 31-27 win over Paper Mario. Finally, Super Smash Bros. Melee lived up to its following on Board 8, administering beatdowns to a GBA Klonoa and Civilization III, before doubling Shadow Hearts and a respectable 35-23 finish over Devil May Cry. And then there was Halo. Sound familiar yet? With the way this board was toward Halo, I wouldn't have been surprised if Magi Nation upset it. Halo even got an impressive 17-5 win over Red Faction, another science-fiction FPS. Then it ran into a Pyramid Head-sized brick wall and Silent Hill 2 proceeded to embarrass the #1 seed 21-10. Halo wasn't the only top seed to underperform in its region either; Grand Theft Auto III was the only 2 seed to miss the Elite Eight, getting easily beaten by Conker's Bad Fur Day 17-11. Silent Hill 2 disposed of the foul mouthed squirrel 14-9 for the last final four spot. In the final four, neither match was truly that close. Melee took out Metal Gear Solid 2 33-25, while Final Fantasy X made easy work out of Silent Hill 2 35-22. A lot of this sounds familiar, doesn't it? A Final Fantasy game mowing down its competition and getting an underseeded game in the semifinals? A Nintendo game having to prove its worth against a highly touted 1 seed? A meeting between Nintendo and Square in the Finals? Yep, 2001's tournament would end the same way 2000 did, only by 5 votes instead of 3. Two months after Brawl failed to get the job done, its predecessor seals the deal with the 2001 championship. 2001's retroactive tournament would pretty much be on par with 2000's, only with less compelling matches. Nevertheless, this would be the last tournament for 9 months, though my intentions of completing the decade were still there. Rankings so far 2008 2000 2001 2007 2005 2006 --- Formerly known as Raven 2 https://twitch.tv/ZeroSignalX <cite>ZeroSignal620 posted [p:950923745] in All 25 Bes... [t:79297411]...</cite> <quote>Best Game of 2001 https://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?1&tid=315879 Ran: March 2009 Overall top seed: Final Fantasy X 1 seeds: FFX, Super Smash Bros Melee, Metal Gear Solid 2, Halo Final Four: FFX, SSB Melee, MGS2, Silent Hill 2 Ultimate Loser: Diablo II - Lord of Destruction Championship: Super Smash Bros Melee defeated Final Fantasy X 48-43 Not long after 2000's tournament ended, I opened up nominations for the 2001 tournament. Considered to be a huge year in gaming, 2001 was PlayStation 2's first full-fledged year in the new generation, and we also had the Gamecube, Game Boy Advance, and Xbox make their debuts, while the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, and Dreamcast were quietly on their way out. Despite that last statement I just mentioned, all four systems mentioned still got at least one game in... No big upsets this time around in the opening round of the tournament; the lowest seed to win in round 1 was #11 seed Klonoa 2, knocking off Mario Party 3 by a couple votes. Only two matches went to overtime; Luigi's Mansion with a 17-16 win over Rogue Squadron II and ICO's crazy Sudden Death victory over Dark Cloud in the second round. Otherwise, it was mostly par for the course. The most impressive #1 seed when it was all said and done was a tossup between Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2. FFX outscored Tennis 2K2, Wario Land 4, and Oracle of Ages 64-16, before having a (slightly) closer bout with Golden Sun, winning 40-28. Metal Gear Solid outscored its first two opponents by an alarming 42-2 (Syphon Filter 3 and SSX Tricky). Snake delivered a 22-10 beatdown to Pikmin, before escaping by the skin of his teeth in a 31-27 win over Paper Mario. Finally, Super Smash Bros. Melee lived up to its following on Board 8, administering beatdowns to a GBA Klonoa and Civilization III, before doubling Shadow Hearts and a respectable 35-23 finish over Devil May Cry. And then there was Halo. Sound familiar yet? With the way this board was toward Halo, I wouldn't have been surprised if Magi Nation upset it. Halo even got an impressive 17-5 win over Red Faction, another science-fiction FPS. Then it ran into a Pyramid Head-sized brick wall and Silent Hill 2 proceeded to embarrass the #1 seed 21-10. Halo wasn't the only top seed to underperform in its region either; Grand Theft Auto III was the only 2 seed to miss the Elite Eight, getting easily beaten by Conker's Bad Fur Day 17-11. Silent Hill 2 disposed of the foul mouthed squirrel 14-9 for the last final four spot. In the final four, neither match was truly that close. Melee took out Metal Gear Solid 2 33-25, while Final Fantasy X made easy work out of Silent Hill 2 35-22. A lot of this sounds familiar, doesn't it? A Final Fantasy game mowing down its competition and getting an underseeded game in the semifinals? A Nintendo game having to prove its worth against a highly touted 1 seed? A meeting between Nintendo and Square in the Finals? Yep, 2001's tournament would end the same way 2000 did, only by 5 votes instead of 3. Two months after Brawl failed to get the job done, its predecessor seals the deal with the 2001 championship. 2001's retroactive tournament would pretty much be on par with 2000's, only with less compelling matches. Nevertheless, this would be the last tournament for 9 months, though my intentions of completing the decade were still there. Rankings so far 2008 2000 2001 2007 2005 2006 --- Formerly known as Raven 2 https://twitch.tv/ZeroSignalX</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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