Board 8 > Looks like it's Link vs Cloud once again

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Seriously, whose bright idea was it to have 2007 go up against Final Fantasy 7 in the 2nd goddamn match?!

It was ME, Austin! It was me all along!
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Were they actually nominations and seeding in this contest?
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...Did you think 2007 was gonna go on a run or something?
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I wonder if it's possible for the eventual champion to beat one franchise in all five rounds of the contest.

...Probably not, and the closest we can expect would be the champion's own lead's franchise.

Round 1: Link's Awakening
Round 2: A Link to the Past
Round 3: Wind Waker (seems to be the favorite)
Round 4: Neither of the two favorites have a Zelda game
Round 5: If 1997 (or 1996) takes it, no, but the Guru favorite is still 2001, which has Oracle of Ages/Seasons.

...Wait, I stand corrected. There actually is a major franchise that works (actually, there are probably a bunch of them, because some franchises seem to have a new game out every year, but...let's try Sonic:

Round 1: Sonic CD
Round 2: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Round 3: If 2003 (the favorite) wins, the best we've got is Advance 2. If 2005 wins it, we at least get something on a console...but it's Shadow the Hedgehog. Either way, blech.
Round 4: Either Sonic 1 or Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Round 5: If 2001 is still the favorite, that's Adventure 2.

I'll take it.I'm sure Mega Man is a viable choice because those come out pretty much annually in some form or another, though it's so degraded that I don't think counting anything from the 2003/2005 match as being in the same franchise as the early nineties stuff is really accurate.

...Oh, but I'm just assuming that 1998 will win it all. Granted, that's a safe assumption, but I should really at least try to put up some possibilities for 1998 losing in the final, just for completion's sake. I did say "is it possible", after all. ...Well, if it is, the franchise in question won't be Zelda, because the only year in the entire top half of the bracket to lose in the round of 32 despite having a Zelda game was 2009, and the year it lost to already lost in round 2. Actually, there are a bunch that could, theoretically, pull off the trick, but would have to defeat 1998 at some point before the finals to do it and would probably have to pull a number of other upsets as well or have other upsets in front of them. I suppose it depends on how far into spinoffs you want to reach for "Final Fantasy". Definitely confirmed, however, is that the original Tactics would be the only non-numbered one you'd have to count if either 2002 or 2011 went on a run--they beat XIII and XII resepectively in R1 and are set to face IV and VI, then the other one, and then Tactics before wrapping up with, presumably, X.

Actually, if either 1991 or 1994 loses this round, but not both, 1998 losing in the semis works either way for the "one franchise", because whereas 2002 and 2011 both beat FF games in R1, 1991 and 1994 both beat Zelda games (Zelda 2 and Four Swords Adventures), and both 2002 and 2011 can provide those (Four Swords and Skyward Sword). Not major ones, but they're there. And of course, both 1998 and 2001 can provide both a Zelda and a Final Fantasy. Sadly, the other "major franchises" of 1998 are too sporadic; Pokémon might have enough spinoffs that you could squeeze something out but Metal Gear is just too narrow.
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StealThisSheen posted...

...Did you think 2007 was gonna go on a run or something?

scarletspeed7 posted...

It was ME, Austin! It was me all along!

Oh sonuva bitch!



Also lol 2007 The only relevant thing(contest wise) about that year was L Block. And that train long since ended its run.
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