Board 8 > Safer_777's Contest Analysis!

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Okay my first topic got purged so here I go again. I didn't know topics get purged so fast here! As I said before I just do all these for fun since I am here since 2003 and this is the 10th character contest so I just want to take part. So here are some analysis stuff. Not expert stuff or anything though. We have other people for that!

Round 1 Division 1

Dante VS Cuphead
Dante(71.59%) defeated Cuphead(28.41%)

This is the first match of the contest so of course easy win for Dante. Dante was always good in these things. Not the strongest of course but good. Had some nice matches in some of these contests. I still remember the Ryu/Dante match from so long ago with the Hockey Factor! Nice. As for Cuphead he is newcomer and from an indie game. So don't expect much. Still he did okay I believe. He has a unique appearance so people recognize him easy. As for Dante I never seen pics of him with the New Dante look. Hey don't kill me! I am just saying! Yeah I know everyone hates New Dante. Still nice win.

Chloe Price VS Lightning
Lightning(74.19%) defeated Chloe(25.81%)

Chloe is a newcomer and there were some fears for rallies for her since her game is liked in certain circles. Nothing happened of course. As for Light you all know her of course. She is not strong and I believe Chloe is really weak. Like bottom 5 for sure. Come on we don't care for Adventure games here except Monkey Island. All 4 people that nominate this thing(don't beat me please!). I have seen playthroughs of LIS and it is really good. It manages to focus on everyday things that people face.Especially young adults. Good writing too. Anyways at least Chloe managed to avoid a tripling. But don't be fooled, Light is weak. But still FF always wins so she won here of course.

Spyro The Dragon VS Chun-Li
Chun-Li(56.17%) defeated Spyro(43.83%)

Spyro is a PS 1 icon. He was really famous back in the day. Chun-Li is the most iconic female fighter from the most famous fighting series. Still she barely scored above 56% here. As time goes on we care less and less for fighting games here. Spyro also is in Skylanders which is HUGELY popular! Not here of course. Still she managed to win and that is that I guess. Man I remember when I first saw Street Fighter 2 in an Arcade machine when I was young. I was so impressed! What else to say? Spyro is really weak in these things. Chun-Li is slightly stronger. But as the years go on, fighthing characters keep doing worse and worse and we have fewer and fewer in the contests. Remember when DOA characters were in these things? Yeah.

Ganondorf VS Neku
Ganondorf(78.6%) defeated Neku(21.4%)

This was a massacre. Neku's game was always a favorite of mine and it recently released again on Switch. BUT Ganondorf is in Smash and oh yeah in Hyrule Warriors too! Oh I guess he is in the Zelda games too or something. Ganondorf was always strong. I mean in the Villains contests he did really good on Sephiroth and back then FF7 was THE SHIT here. But now? Now he can take down N9's for sure. Bad guy yeah but an iconic bad guy since he appears in a lot of Zelda games. Poor Neku. I always liked him.
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Vivi VS Yu Narukami
Vivi(74.89%) defeated Yu(25.11%)

Vivi would win here for sure. I mean he has beaten Mario you know! Yeah rallies! Anyways Yu is the main guy from Persona 4. Here is the thing. I like Persona games. They are way too good. But man both the games and their characters suck in the contests! Too bad I say. People should play them! They are so good! At least Yu managed to evade a tripling. Barely. Vivi is also THE black mage. Seriously look at him! How can you not like this guy??? Stronger than the main guy of FF9 too. Oh yeah FF won again. Also people can you stop nominating Persona games/characters? I don't want to see them losing all the time!

Sully VS Aya Brea
Aya Brea(59.56%) defeated Victor Sullivan(40.44%)

Now this was the first debatable match of the contest. Sully is from Uncharted series who is critically acclaimed but as you know we don't play new games here. We are old. Aya is from a series that the last good game was like 20 years ago. And she is from an RPG. So she won easily here, what did you expected? I find it hard though that she got in this contest. I mean why? The last good game as I said was many years ago. Also a strange fact, Aya got her 2nd win here and she hadn't win since the 1st ever contest! Better late than ever! Nothing else to say here. She won and that was it.

Tidus VS Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong(56.93%) defeated Tidus(43.07%)

Now this match was hilarious. It was somewhat debatable but man DK winning easily? Yeah I know he is in Smash but we are talking about the main guy from FF 10 which is in Top 3 of the main FF games! Damn! Man Tidus sucks in these things if you check his history. I guess FF doesn't always wins?Also DK has defeated 2 main FF protagonists! Proof that Kongs always win!

Leon VS DragonBorn
Leon(68.68%) defeated Dragonborn(31.32%)

Leon is the strongest RE character. RE 4 is considered the best RE game and after that RE 2 and guess what? He is the protagonist in both of these and a remake of RE 2 is coming soon as the time of this writing. Dragonborn isn't really a character. It is an Avatar of you. No personality, no nothing. You can't get attached to this kind of characater. Skyrim is pretty strong and popular game here but Dragonborn isn't even really a character as I said. So Leon won with more than a doubling. Go Leon!
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Division 2 Round 1

Zero VS Primorse
Zero(74.18%) defeated Primorse(25.82%)

Zero was always decent in these contests. And he is from a really popular franchise. Primorse is a newcomer. So no problem for Zero. Primorse is from a new RPG game that people say it is good and it reminds them the good old days. She managed to avoid a tripling at least. Also Zero is a name or a code name or something? Any Mega Man fans around? Nothing more to say.

Zidane VS Knuckles
Knuckles(56.8%) defeated Zidane(43.2%)

Man another hilarious match. Seriously Knuckles won? Damn! It was a debatable match true but seriously. Zidane sucks! Strangely enough almost all victories of Knuckles are against FF characters! What? And it is not that he is strong or anything. Still he is from the Sonic series and that makes him recognizable aI guess. Or most FF characters suck now. So congrats to him I guess.

Noctis VS Master Hand
Master Hand(57.55%) defeated Noctis(42.45%)

If I thought the previous match was hilarious this I don't even! Okay Noctis is from the newest FF game. Fine. Master Hand is from Smash. Fine. But seriously? A Hand won? How? Yeah more votes I get it. Still I can't understand why this happened. I know we don't play new games here but seriously this match was pathetic for Noctis. I guess congrats to the Hand??? Sad day for FF. We got another main FF character losing in the 1st round too.

Monika VS Wario
Wario(64.56%) defeated Monika(35.44%)

Now this match had a small rally for Monika. She is from a game called DDLC(the initials of course)and it is a visual game. She is a newcomer too. It is very popular in some sites. But here? Yeah you know what? It is a new game so of course nobody played it in this site. Wario you know him. Still I guess she evaded a doubling with the help of the rally I guess? What else to say? Wario won of course easily.
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Yoshi VS Shantae
Yoshi(74.27%) defeated Shantae(25.73%)

Shantae is a newcomer. Yoshi is in Smash and in the Mario games. Yeah pretty easy win for Yoshi. He has a lot of victories in the contests actually. Didn't expected that. Well he is a dinosaur and everyone likes dinosaurs. Or is he a dragon? Actually I think it is a Yoshi species? Anyways he won easily. At least Shantae evaded a tripling barely.

Velvet VS James
Velvet(61.04%) defeated James(38.96%)

This was a somewhat debatable match. James is from SH series and man I like these series. But Konami decided to mess all up because they don't care about good games anymore, they care about stupid pachinko machines. Also James is a generic guy and with a generic look too. Both of these were newcomers but Velvet is from the Tales series which is a JRPG series as you know. So since James is really weak she defeated him easily. At least a victory from the Tales series!

Pikachu VS Scorpion
Pikachu(66.41%) defeated Scorpion(33.59%)

POKEFEAR baby! But seriously Pikachu managed a doubling here. Pokemon characters were weak at the start of the contests, reached their peak in strengthat 2013 which they did REALLY good and now are weaker true than 2013 but don't get fooled. EVERYONE and their mothers know what Pokemon are. I believe Pikachu is the most recognizable video game character now. So they can get the casual votes or something like that.Anyways as I said above as the years go on we care less and less about fighthing game character. Scorpion was a beast in the 1st ever contest but that was it for him. Nothing since then. He can beat some weak characters of course but yeah.

Kratos VS Marston
Kratos(73.18%) defeated Marston(26.82%)

Here is what I don't get about this match. Of course Kratos would win. But this much? When this match happened RDR 2 was days away from release and I thought Marston would have some power based on the hype. Seriously the hype was huge. But seriously? I know GOW 4 came out in this year but man Kratos either gained really much power from that game or Marston is really weak? This proves that strong games don't equal strong characters. RDR is a popular game and it is the best Western game ever made. Man too bad for Marston. I really like him.
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Division 3 Round 1

Sora VS Ryo
Sora(69.08%) defeated Ryo(30.92%)

KH 3 boost confirmed! Or not? This is what I believe. Sora always does good but man he hasn't a victory against a strong opponent. As for Ryo he is here because of the upcoming title as the time
of writing called Shenmue 3. Shenmue games were amazing back in the daythen but they didn't good financially. Anyways for here to Sora not even break 70% I consider it a bad result. Some KH 3hype boost must exist I believe at least he should have done better. Or is Shenmue 3 hype boost too? Don't know. Guess we shall see in the next round.

Neptune VS Red
Red(75.32%) defeated Neptune(24.68%)

I have a question here. Why it says Pokemon Trainer Red? Is Red a generic word? What about Link? Cloud? Aren't these generic words? Don't get it. Anyways Red won with more than a tripling against a newcomer from a series that we haven't seen again here too. Well I consider it a good result. I mean a tripling is always good. Neptune has to be a weak character too I guess. But man seeding really doesn't mean anything in these contests. Now where Red stands in the Pokemon hierarchy is the question I ask. Still awesome win for Red.

Crash Bandicoot VS Cecil
Crash(54.18%) defeated Cecil(45.82%)

This match was sad. I didn't know when the match happened but Cecil is one of the few people that have taken part in 5 contests and hasn't a single victory! As for Crash he was a PS 1 icon. The Sony mascot back then! Then he fell from grace. But last year some Crash games were re-released updated of course and they did really good in sales. The Trilogy was in 1st place on sales on UK at least! Guess people really want Crash? Nostalgia? Anyways at least an icon won. But man yet ANOTHER FF protagonist fell on the 1st round!

Big Boss VS Ridley
Big Boss(56.66%) defeated Ridley(43.34%)

BB would win of course. But people expected higher. But I have to say 2 things here. Ridley is in Smash so Smash boost and Ridley has taken part in 5 contests and has lost all matches too! Yet if you see the results here it doesn't make sense. So I searched a bit and man he always get the strong characters against him thus he loses. But seriously he can take down some characters in this bracket for sure now. Maybe next time he will win! So I can't really say that Big Boss here did bad. But man what is with these MGS names? They all look strange! Yeah I guess they are code names or something.
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Alucard VS Peach
Alucard(56.81%) defeated Peach(43.19%)

So guess what. These 2 are both in Smash! Doesn't matter than Alucard isn't playable. He is there! Alucard has a decent record in these contests. Peach is a low tier Nintendo character. So Alucard won here with a decent win. I guess Smash boost for Alucard and he SFF'ed Peach? Or something like that? But man in a few years every match in these contests will have a character that has appeared in Smash! Damn! Guess we should have a contest with just characters that have appeared in Smash!

Yuna VS Godot
Yuna(72.56%) defeated Godot(27.44%)

Yuna is the main character in FF X and FF X-2. Yeah I know that technically Tidus is the main character of FF 10 but come on now, everything revolves around Yuna. As for Godot he is from the Ace Attorney games. This board LOVES the Ace Attorney series. Seriously. But the rest of the site doesn't. So Yuna did really well. I guess Godot was lucky to avoid a tripling. Still the board get's their favorite characters but yeah don't expect them to have any wins unless they face each other or something. At least
a FF character managed to advance on the next round. Not many of them did that you know! But in all seriousness Godot is probably pretty weak.

Kefka VS L-Block
Kefka(60.19%) defeated L-Block(39.81%)

You can't judge Kefka. Seriously. His contest history doesnt' make sense. He loses to weak opponents and beat strong opponents. Then sometimes he does as expected. And other times not. L-Block was the champion from 2007 as people said. Now the strange thing. In the contests after 2007 L-Block always managed to advance to the 3rd round! And now it lost to Kefka in the 1st round! I tell you,nothing makes sense anymore! So Kefka did good here. Or did he? Who knows? FF always wins against old champions I guess?

Kazuma VS Bomberman
Bomberman(60.87%) defeated Kazuma(39.13%)

Yakuza is an awesome series. But I don't understand how Kazuma got a 2 seed. Seriously? We don't play games after 2005 here! As for Bomberman he is an icon of the really old times. But guess what. Just guess. He is in SMASH! Need to say more? Of course he won. Now I believe he would win even if he weren't there. If you are above a certain age you have played a Bomberman game. You just have. Still nice to see an icon of old days to grab a win even against an awesome character like Kazuma.
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Division 4 Round 1

2B VS Cayde-6
2B(77.8%) defeated Cayde-6(22.2%)

Both of these characters have numbers in their names! Now the question that everyone asked when they saw the bracket. How Cayde-6 got in? Even Destiny players don't like Destiny! What? As for 2B look at her. Just look at her. Ms Fanservice right there! So of course a very easy win with more than a tripling. But something happened after this match too. 2B got announced for Soul Calibur 6! What? I guess that means that she will get a boost in power too and that is good for the matches. What else? Cayde-6 is bottom 3 for sure.

Shadow VS Ness
Ness(53.26%) defeated Shadow(46.74%)

A close match here. And I don't get why. Ness is in Smash and he is in one of the most beloved games of all time. As for Shadow he was strong in the 1st contest but that was it. Even Tidus has beaten him! Damn! Ness is weak of course but as I said his power comes from Smash. Shadow is low tier Sonic character I believe. Still Ness won and that it is I guess. What more to say?

Terra VS Charizard
Charizard(52.8%) defeated Terra(47.2%)

Look at this result! Just look at it! Charizard is a fraud confirmed! Probably? Charizard in the 2010 contest was massive power house. Just look at the percentages of his wins! He did amazingly back then. At 2013 he did really good too. SFF helped him a lot there too. But now? And he is the 3rd most popular Pokemon too! As for Terra she never does good in these things unfortunately. Now in this contest either Terra is strong or Charizard is weak. But I guess both. Pokemon isn't as big as it used to be back in the day but still they do good. Still I feel bad for Terra. No matter what though really bad result for Charizard. Still a win is a win I guess. Even a win such as this one.

Bowser VS Gordon
Bowser(77.39%) defeated Gordon(22.61%)

Gordon does so bad in the contests that we had a meme. Gordon Freeman Never Wins! Although he has won some matches. But here is what I don't get it. Gordon has taken part in all contests! Seriously! Valve doesn't care about Half-Life, why we keep nominating him? I know that Half-Life games are good but still they came so many years ago.So why Gordon is always in these things? Bowser is strong and he keeps getting stronger. Well he is the most iconic enemy of the Mario Brothers. And he is in Smash. So more than a tripling here. Nice win for Bowser! And he will be able to take revenge on Charizard too! Man I feel sorry about the Zard!
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Phoenix Wright VS Chris Redfield
Phoenix(56.93%) defeated Chris(43.07%)

Have I mentioned that this board REALLY likes the Ace Attorney games? Because it does! Now I believe Chris is the weakest of the 4 RE protagonists. Also now Phoenix is considered old since he first appeared in a game over 16 years ago! Man time passes. Also even I who have never played the games know about the Objection Meme. So I think he did good here. It is not that Chris is super weak or anything. Nice win for Phoenix is what I say. Hey this board deserves to see at least 1 of their favorite characters win!

Ike VS Joel
Ike(62.31%) defeated Joel(37.69%)

Ike is from a SRPG series and Joel is from a series that debuted after 2005. So yeah Ike won easily. Duh. Never mind that TLOU is considered on the best games ever! And we will get the sequel soon! But seriously as you have noticed new characters/games do bad here. Hey we like our past, thank you very much! At least Joel avoided a doubling. And games doesn't equel characters I know.

Estelle VS Isaac
Isaac(64.63%) defeated Estelle(35.37%)

I thought first that this Estelle was from the Tales series but no, it is another Estelle. They are both from an JRPG series but Golden Sun is more famous. Also Estelle is a newcomer. Still she evaded a doubling and that is decent I guess. Oh and Isaac is weak. Don't forget that. Meaning his win isn't impressive or anything. Still he won.

Kirby VS Guile
Kirby(74.54%) defeated Guile(25.46%)

So why Guile and not Ken is here? Don't get it. Anyways for Kirby. As years go by he becomes stronger. And I don't get it. I have never seen anyone saying that Kirby games are his favorite. Or anyone beeing hyped for a new Kirby game. A few years ago I thought no more Kirby games were coming out! Yeah I am stupid I know. But I thought that because nobody ever talks about Kirby games! Also Kirby is in Smash as everyone knows. So of course Kirby did really well, barely missing a tripling here. As I said before fighting characters are doing worse and worse every year.
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Division 5 Round 1

Squall VS Hat Kid
Squall(75.88%) defeated Hat Kid(24.12%)

Squall is damn strong. Some people said he might even be the strongest character in the bracket. Of course that is a lie but still you get the idea. Hat Kid is a newcomer and she is from an indie game. Obviously pretty easy win for Squall with a tripling. But man Hat Kid is so adorable! Just look at her! Squall is a monster that dares to go hard to such a cutie! But in all seriousness nothing else to say. Man I just want to see a FF main character do good in this contest at least! Maybe Squall will give this to me!

Garrus VS Ramza
Garrus(50.63%) defeated Ramza(49.37%)

This match was debatable before the contest. And just see the result. Great match for the fist time in this contest. We had lead changes, Ramza winning for 12 hours, then Garrus coming back and taking the lead, Ramza trying to catch up and all drama with the close matches. Anyways good match. One of the closest wire to wire matches I believe. Garrus is from Mass Effect and Ramza is from FFT. ME has fallen and Andromeda hurt the ME name even further and as for Ramza I feel sorry for him actually. FFT is an AWESOME game! And oh yeah ANOTHER FF main character didn't advanced! Still awesome match. Nobody can deny that.

Metal Sonic VS The Boss
The Boss(56.52%) defeated Metal Sonic(43.48%)

The Boss isn't that strong in the contests and she was facing a character from a Sonic game. As for Metal Sonic I know next to nothing about the Sonic games but I think he has appeared in a lot of games but never as the main antagonist but I think I may be wrong on the 2nd one. Anyways of course The Boss won with above 55%. Don't think anyone didn't expected The Boss to win. As for Metal Sonic don't know what to say. Guess he did all right? Still this proves that women can beat robots. Or something?

Zelda VS Ezio
Zelda(75.33%) defeated Ezio(24.67%)

We had the same match before and Zelda had won with around 61%. And check this result. Man Smash and Breath of the wild made everyone from the Zelda games a beast. Okay almost everyone. I feel sorry about Ezio. He is an awesome character. AC doesn't really have a representative so I guess Ezio is the closest one. Losing with more than a tripling is always bad of course. AC games are good games. But they are new so we don't like this thing here. Also Zelda is damn strong. N9 breaker even!
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Aloy VS D.Va
D.Va(52.94%) defeated Aloy(47.06%)

Now this match had 3 fun facts. Both are female, both are newcomers and both are from western companies! So this match was debatable. And look at the results. It was a close match. D.Va is from Overwatch which is extremely popular thus she managed to score a win. Aloy's game is newer too so fewer people would have heard of her. Nothing else to say. Close matches are always good though.

Jill VS Fox
Fox(54.1%) defeated Jill(45.9%)

Fox would never going to lose here. Come on now, he is Smash and Jill is not. Need to say more? Still Jill did good. I think people expected Fox to win with a higher percentage and Fox barely scored 54%. Man if only Jill was in another match. Also I will say it there even though it doesn't matter. Jill has lost 2 matches and both times she has lost with 27 votes! Damn! Anyways Fox won and that is it. But as for the result...Don't know. I think it is decent. Not bad, but not good either. Still seems almost a lock that he will go to Round 3.

Shovel Knight VS Captain Toad
Captain Toad(52.57%) defeated Shovel Knight(47.43%)

Another debatable match and as you can see it was close. Also this match had the lower prediction percentage so far. Around 30%! Don't know why. Toad is from Mario Galaxy! Do you know this game has 97 on Metacritic and it is one of the highest rated games there? As for Toad. Everyone knows him. But I think this is another Toad or something like that? Sorry don't really understand. Still Shovel Knight did good. I just wish he could win. But he is from an indie game so he can't be strong. Still nice match. All close matches as I said above are always good to see.

Waluigi VS Aerith
Aerith(57.43%) defeated Waluigi(42.57%)

Look at this match. Nobody knew what to think. Obviously Aerith would be stronger. But Waluigi is a Troll character. And of the best troll characters too! Plus he is in Smash too! So he could get a rally thus winning. Plus anti FF 7 votes. Also joke votes too! But nothing happened. Aerith won. FF 7 is getting weaker every year but not that weak to lose to such characters without a rally. So about this win...Don't know. I guess it is a decent one? Also another 2 seed lost here. Yeah I know seeding doesn't mean anything.
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Division 6 Round 1

Geralt VS Rosalina
Geralt(56.03%) defeated Rosalina(43.97%)

Man this match suddens me. This is why other sites make fun of us. Geralt who is in one of the best games ever and he is an awesome character barely defeats a low tier Nintendo character. Yeah she is in Smash I know. I recently finished Witcher 3 GOTY. Just play this game. Seriously. Do it. Then you will see how good a writing in a video game can be! And how main characters should get written! Still Geralt won I guess. Even if only someone could contact CD Project and get a rally for Geralt I don't believe
anyone would complain if Geralt won the whole thing. Seriously just play the damn game if you haven't!

Ruy Hayabusa VS Simon Belmont
Simon(50.78%) defeated Ruy(49.22%)

This match had the whole Crew picking Ruy. And almost everyone on the board picked Ruy. So Simon won of course. Wait what? Seriously though this was a huge surprise. Ruy isn't that strong or anything but look at him. Pure ninja! And he does have some wins. As for Simon he has taken part in 5 contests and he finally scored a win. So why that happened? You are not going to believe it. Simon is in Smash! Yeah what else could boost him? Ruy has appeared in some Warriors games but we don't care about there here. As for the match. A really close one which is good. Simon was winning for a lot of hours and suddengly Ruy was coming back. He kept winning updates and it looked that he could do it. Then Simon started stalling. We are talking about Simon winning updates with like 2 votes. So Ruy eventually couldn't do it. Still awesome match.

Sans VS Pac-Man
Pac-Man(71.38%) defeated Sans(28.62%)

There were going to be 2 ways for this match to go. Either Sans(which is from Undertale)would take a rally and win or not and Pac-Man would win. As you can see he didn't get a rally. Pac-Man won. But here is the thing. Pac-Man did really good. Why? I will tell you why. Pac-Man is in Smasn and Sans is not! And it is not that Sans did get a lot of anti-votes or something. He did better with registered users anyways. So yeah Sans is REALLY weak which is to be expected. Still when Pac-Man scores more than 70% in a win you don't know what else to say! Oh wait I have a fun fact. The day after the match the creator of Undertale released a new game! Damn! Nice coincidence I guess.

Bayonetta VS Riku
Bayonetta(64.4%) defeated Riku(35.6%)

KH 3 boost oh yeah! Yeah I am kidding. Bayonetta won easily. She is in Smash you know. As for Riku...He does really bad in these contests. At least he avoided a doubling I guess. But man if only Riku was in Smash or something! But yeah I guess if KH 3 comes out he will gain a boost or something. But as for now he sucks. Also I believe that Bayonetta 3 is a Nintendo exlusive so we can consider her a Nintendo character now correct?
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Auron VS Lucina
Auron(65.44%) defeated Lucina(34.56%)

Auron is awesome. If you don't agree you are wrong and you know it. Auron always manages to advance to at least to Round 2 in all contests he has appeared. He is the strongest FF 10 character too for sure. Here he faced Lucina who I believe that she is the most famous FE female. But because of FE Heroes(I know it is a gatcha game but man is it popular!)she did good. She avoided a doubling! Still nice win for Auron. And for next round we should have another fine performance for him too. And I will say it again. Auron is way too cool. He wears sunglasses! What more to say! Just look at him!

Magus VS Vincent
Vincent(51.89%) defeated Magus(48.11%)

When Vincent first appeared in the contests he was strong. Really strong. We called him the N9 breaker! In fact he did beat a N9er(twice)but that was in multi way matches. So damn strong! And he kept doing good. But in 2013 something happened. There were rallies sure. But man he was in a 3-way match and he finished last. Okay fine. Mewtwo was strong back then. But the guy that came 2nd? Phoenix Wright? What? Man I heard so many people back then screaming about the bad picture that Vincent got(I was one of them too!). I don't know what happened then. Anyways for this match. It was a toss up actually. Most favored Vincent to win and he did that. But look at the result. Pathetic. Magus is weak you know nowadays! Also there is something that people said after this match that I hadn't think about. Vincent is mysterious and he has a cool design. And that is. I mean he is an OPTIONAL party member and his Limit Breaks suck! Seriously! In a game where Cloud, Barret and Cid can hit multiple times with their Limit Breaks, Vincent turns into a monster for his Limit Breaks and we can't even control him! And he got a spin off game too! Guess if you have a cool design you deserve anything. Still he managed to win I guess. A bad victory is still a victory.

Shulk VS Sub-Zero
Sub-Zero(62.57%) defeated Shulk(37.43%)

I always liked Sub-Zero. From the first time I played a MK game which was MK 2 to a friend of mine he was always my favorite MK character. Anyways of course SZ here won. Nobody expected anything else. Even though Shulk is in Smash! Like almost every video game character ever it seems! Still it is not that he scored a really big win. But Sub-Zero is so cool! Did you see what I did there? Did you? Yeah I know. I am stupid.

Ren Amamiya/Joker VS Claire Redfield
Claire(53.58%) defeated Joker(46.42%)

This match was strange. When I made my bracket I didn't even thought for a second there, I picked Joker. The whole Crew picked Joker too. Claire was in 3 contests before and she hadn't a win. But I made a mistake. Persona is weak here in this site. Really weak. There was even a controversy with Joker's real name so we got both names! Not that it mattered in the end. I know the board loves Persona too but yeah. Also the instant RE 2 remake was announced it is in top 10 boards in the PS 4 section here. And you know who is in RE 2? Leon and Claire. So Claire managed to win a victory. Strangely enough for a while Joker was winning! Persona 5 is in my top 3 JRPG's. It is way too good! Still out of the 5 main RE characters only Leon and Claire advanced. RE 2 remake boost confirmed! And oh yeah another 2 seed lost.
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Division 7 Round 1

Luigi VS Miles Edgeworth
Luigi(77.47%) defeated Miles(22.53%)

This match was brutal. Nobody doubted that Luigi would do good but this good? Damn! More than 77%. Miles is from the Ace Attorney series. Have I mentioned that this board loves this series? But anyways a Luigi domination. Also Miles joined the 0-5 club, meaning a character that has taken part in 5 contests and hasn't a single win! Maybe he will get one eventually. Which I doubt it.

Frog VS Monokuma
Frog(76.38%) defeated Monokuma(23.62%)

Look at this result. Frog won a match with more than a tripling! Damn. I don't know anything about Monokuma. Haven't even heard about the game too. But I bet my ass that he is really weak. Frog was a beast in his 1st ever contest appearance. Also I believe he is the only character that has a win with 50% percentage against another character! Not even Link has done that! But anyways of course he won big here. Nice to see him get a win.

Master Chief VS Goro Majima
MC(69%) defeated Goro(31%)

Ah yeah. MC. The XBOX mascot. We hate XBOX here I believe. Anyways of course he would win. He went against a Yakuza character and man this series is extremely weak in this site. Now his percentage is actually his 2nd highest ever! That is how weak Yakuza is. But man. If only Frog and Tails had the reverse position. We could have the rematch of one of the best match ever in these contests! But alas. At least we will see them again fighting in the same day! And once again nice win from MC.

Nathan Drake VS Tails
Tails(56.73%) defeated Nathan(43.27%)

Before the contest this match was debatable. But as the contest went on it was obvious that Nathan would lose. He is from a new series and we hate new things here. So Tails won easily. At least Nathan has a win because he will never get another if he appears in another contest anyways. And he is PS All Stars too! Also for Tails this is his chance to finally reach a 3rd round in a contest too!
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Tifa VS Geno
Tifa(73.19%) defeated Geno(26.81%)

Tifa is from FF 7 but she doesn't get antivoted as much as the guys. I think there are 2 good reasons for this. Have you checked her gloves? They are awesome! Anyways Tifa is strong. She manages to advance to Round 3 all the time except 1 time where in a multi way poll Sephiroth was there so SFF'ed. As for Geno I learned something. He is a record holder! Seriously! He has taken part in 6 contests and hasn't a single victory! Damn! Who keeps nominating him? But there is a twist now. He got in Smash!
As a costume. But it doesn't matter. He will be in the next contest and maybe he will get his 1st win too! Which I doubt.

GlaDOS VS Mewtwo
Mewtwo(62.48%) defeated GlaDOS(37.52%)

There were some voices that Mewtwo is a fraud and GlaDOS could do it. I don't understand why. Sure GlaDOS did good in 2013. So did Mewtwo. And in 2013 we had rallies everywhere. So Mewtwo won easily here in this match. You know he is one of the 3 most famous Pokemon right? Anyways nice and easy win for Mewtwo. Oh yeah he is Smash too in case you are wondering.

King Dedede VS Revolver Ocelot
Ocelot(50.49%) defeated Dedede(49.51%)

For this match almost everyone had Ocelot. The Crew had him too. But you aren't going to...Okay screw it. King Dedede is in Smash. Duh. So of course he put a major fight here. Still it is not that Ocelot is strong or something. I mean even Pac-Man has beaten him! So this match had Dedede going up at the start and after a hew hours he was winning with around 200 votes. But then Ocelot came back and he was winning with around 300 votes! Damn! Dedede started cutting though but Ocelot managed to hold on and he woon with exactly 300 votes. Also I noticed something strange here, for me at least. Dedede had over 51.50% at USA which is where most votes coming from and he still lost because Ocelot was
winning in almost everywhere else. I think this is the first time in the contest that a character won in USA but lost eventually. Don't quote me on that though. And as always a close match is always good. I think one of the closest wire to wire matches too!

Megaman X VS Isabelle
MMX(80.65%) defeated Isabelle(19.35%)

Look at this result! Damn! Okay I know MMX is strong but a quadrupling? Isabelle is a newcomer yeah but seriously. We are talking about a heavy beatdown here. I wonder how MMX would do in 2013 if there wasn't a rally back then. Eh we will never know. What else to say? MMX is a beast! I wonder though why the first contest for MMX was 2008. Why not in any of the previous ones? I am not sure. Maybe there is something that I don't know.
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Division 8 Round 1

Sephiroth VS Wesker
Sephiroth(70.28%) defeated Wesker(29.72%)

Finally a N9'er! We haven't seen one of them in a long time! Anyways people were expecting for Seph to do around 70% and see how he did. RE has boosted I believe. All RE characters did well and 2 managed to advance too. Seph maybe the weakest N9'er yeah but come on he can take out almost all the cast in the bracket ven now. So okay performance I say.

Richter Belmont VS Captain Falcon
Falcon(60.4%) defeated Richter(39.6%)

Richter is in Smash! But Falcon is in Smash too so SFF here! If you are in Smash you are a Nintendo character! Or something! Listen even I know the Falcon Punch thing now. Now way he would have lost. So a win above 60% is pretty good for Falcon. Punch them Falcon! Just punch them! What else to say?

Amaterasu VS Draven
Amaterasu(88.15%) defeated Draven(11.85%)

Look at this result. What to say? If Draven could get a rally he would win. But if not he would lose. But back in 2013 he was losing to Jak and Chie without a rally. And 5 years have passed since then and LOL isn't as big as it used to be. So Draven would be weaker. And he didn't get a rally. But one of the biggest wins of all times and Amaterasu did it? Damn! Most people were ecstatic to see Draven doing that badly. Me not so. Like it or not he was the Champion! And the board was butthurt back then it was fun to see all the memes and the discussions and the mayhem. I liked this! Of course most didn't and I get it. But then again another champion lost in the 1st round too. Still no matter what this prooved that no rallies were in Round 1. Rallies make things exciting. Yeah it is my opinion and all that. But man! I think Draven is the weakest character in the bracket! So the strongest character in 1 contest goes to be the weakest in the next one! Amazing win for Amy of course.

Lara Croft VS Metal Man
Lara(67.89%) defeated Metal Man(32.11%)

For people that know their Megaman games Metal Man is an iconic enemy. For the rest of us he is just an enemy. Lara was a 1 seed in the very first contest! And even though she is an icon and she is from back then when we were playing games as a site she never did good. But no way she would lose against a random robot master! So she won with more than a doubling. Still seeing icons getting wins is always nice.
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Just a bump in order for this thing to not get purged again.
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Up again. Why topics gut purged in this board anyways? I mean they should get yeah, but after the contest ends.
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Ruy VS Lloyd
Ruy(68.44%) defeated Lloyd(31.56%)

Well Ruy is the most popular fighting game character here. He is good enough in these things. He has always in all 10 contests managed to reach at least the 2nd round. As for Lloyd he is in one of the Tales games. And Tales games don't do well here. So of course Ryu won easily. He almost reached 70% too. So what else to say. Supposedly Ruy has a chance to even beat Sephiroth now but we will see about that. Ryu is an icon. Icons deserve to win matches!

Shepard VS King K. Rool
Shepard(51.43%) defeated Rool(48.77%)

Look at this result. Need to say more? And people were saying that Shepard is the strongest western character too! But after Garrus barely beat Ramza people got worried. Plus Rool is in Smash. So yeah. In fact Rool was winning for a while at the start! Man Smash does wonders. Eventually Shepard managed to recover and won with no problems in a close match. So why this happened? Mass Effect Andromeda came out recently and man this game had so much negativity when it came out it is frightening. I played it out recently with the patches and it was good. But when it first came out? Yeah sure. It was so bad that EA cancelled the series! And Shepard wasn't in the game but since he is the face of the ME series he of course have suffered. At least he managed to win I guess. And without Smash boost for Rool he would have win even easier.Still close matches are always good especially ones where there are some lead changes like this one.

Ellie VS KOS-MOS
KOS-MOS(54.45%) defeated Ellie(45.55%)

Before the contest this match was debatable. But after some matches it was clear that Ellie would lose. I mean she is from a new game. And you know what we think of new games here. KOS-MOS is from Xenosaga series. I haven't played any of this series but people say that the series is good. I know KOS-MOS though from the Project X games. Plus she is a hot Android. Bonus points for that. Anyways she managed to win with no problems. And this is also her chance to finally advance to Round 3 even for the first time!

Aqua VS Quiet
Aqua(64.11%) defeated Quiet(35.89%)

Another debatable match pre-contest start. And from the final results you wouldn't know. KH isn't doing well in the contest. And both of these characters are newcomers too. Quiet is from MGS 5 and even though that game got a ton of rewards apparently this site doesn't like it. So Aqua won easily. But it is not that Aqua is strong or anything. Quiet is just weak I believe. Still KH managed to score a victory against MGS. So that is something I guess?
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So my thoughts after the end of Round 1.

Pretty boring. Yeah we had 2-3 few good matches and 2-3 suprising results but that is. No good rallies or anything like that.

Yeah yeah most hate rallies. I get it. But they make things exciting. Also if everything always goes as expected where is the fun in life?

Anyways seems Round 2 started strong at least. Let us see if it continues like that.
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Good effort, hope people reply and prevent this topic from purging.
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@igordebraga Hey thanks man! At least 1 person saw that! I am happy!
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I like reading your thoughts, Safer! Keep it up.
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@MarquessLaus Hey thanks. As for today's results...yeah.
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I read it too. and more important i like what i read

Division 1 Round 2

Dante VS Lightning
Dante(65.62%) defeated Lightning

1st match of Round 2 and of course Dante won easily. Duh. Well everyone thought that Chloe was really weak and she was. Probably bottom 5 here. Light is weak. People hate FF 13. Maybe the most hated main FF title! I don't really understand why. I am not saying that is great but the worst of them all? Don't think so. Funny enough in FF13 you can't go back and such and the game opens up after a lot of hours. Okay. But in FF 10 which you can't go back(okay you techically can)and the game opens up after a lot of hours and nobody complains there. I really like FF 10 and it has my favorite mini game of all time but I am saying. Eh whatever. So for the match. Light is weak and thus Dante beat her easy. Dante is looking good. Let us see if can continue to win!

Chun-Li VS Ganondorf
Ganondorf(58.91%) defeated Chun-Li(41.09%)

Remember when I said that Ganon can beat even N9's now? Yeah I was stupid. Check this result. People were expecting around a doubling for Ganon. And he didn't even reached 59%! What? And it is not that Chun-Li is strong or anything. Nor that she boosted recently of a game or something. Ganon is in Smash and in almost all of Zelda games. So him, Bowser and Sephiroth are the strongest bad guys here. But for this result? Is it because he is a bad guy and people don't like him? He dropped for same strange reason? I just don't get it. So why I thought that he was that strong? Well because back in the Villains contests he was the finalist and after that contest he was again doing really good. So I thought that he would have boosted now. Guess I was wrong. Still it is not that he isn't strong. He isn't as strong as we thought.

Vivi VS Aya Brea
Vivi(75.45%) defeated Aya(24.55%)

Look at this! I believe Aya maybe the weakest character to reach Round 2. So here we have a rare result of a character doing better in Round 2 that he did in Round 1! Damn! Of course Vivi won with more than a tripling. But we have another strange thing. We can't really judge Vivi's power because
he has faced 2 really weak opponents. So yeah he is Round 3 but haven't really seen what he is capable for. Well we shall see in the next match!

Donkey Kong VS Leon
Donkey Kong(55.67%) defeated Leon(44.33%)

This is the strangest result of the contest so far for me. Donkey Kong defeated Leon almost as much as he defeated Tidus. And you know how many people saw that? We had around 90% of the Gurus having Leon advancing to Round 3! Hell more people picked Tidus than Donkey Kong to reach Round 3! So what happened? Okay DK is in Smash. Fine. And he had some games in the last few years. Okay. Leon of course has nothing in the last years. But here is the thing. The instant RE 2 remake was announced I see it in the PS 4 top 10 message boards all the time. And so many articles talking about it. Also RE 4 recently got announced for the Switch. And in both of these games Leon is the protagonist. So it is not that people forgot who Leon is. But DK winning this much? Seriously? As I said around 4% of the Gurus had DK advancing. So I don't know what to say. Maybe DK is a really strong character now? Or is Leon and Tidus that weak? Or a combintion of both? Anyways an Icon won so that is cool I guess.
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Zero VS Knuckles
Zero(56.15%) defeated Knuckles(43.85%)

This match was never in doubt of course. Zero would win. And he did, duh. The question is, is this a good victory? I think it is good. Knuckles isn't that weak. He was never strong true but not weak either. As I said above almost all his victories are against FF characters. So Zero did good here. Nice win for Zero! That proves that Zero isn't a zero! Okay yeah I am stupid. What else? I know him from the Project X Zone games myself. Haven't played a MM game ever.

Master Hand VS Wario
Wario(60.97%) defeated Master Hand(39.03%)

After the suprise win against Noctis I thought that Hand would get the joke votes or a rally or something. But alas nothing happened. Wario won fair and square. He scored more than 60%. I guess if you have a legitimate character, even though that character is Wario, he can beat a proxy character from Smash. Yeah I know that Master Hand is the Boss but man you can't really say that it is a real character. I mean it just a hand! No personality! So congrats to Wario. First time he reaches Round 3 too!

Yoshi VS Velvet
Yoshi(70.63%) defeated Velvet(29.37%)

When a character wins a Round 2 match and isn't a N9'er with above 70% you can't help but wonder how the opponent even reached Round 2! Of course Velvet would be realy weak duh. So Yoshi with above 70% for the 2nd time in this contest! Yoshi is so strong! But seriously I say that I can't judge Yoshi. He has beaten 2 super weak opponents and both of them were newcomers too. So there you go. Of course Yoshi is in Smash and he is recognizable from the Mario series so he has some power of course but how much? We shall see in the next round for sure. Oh and also Yoshi has always managed to reach at least Round 2 in all contests he has appeared.

Pikachu VS Kratos
Pikachu(63.41%) defeated Kratos(36.59%)

This match was never in doubt. Of course Pika would win. Now people say that Pika did worse than expected. But here is the thing. Pretty sure that Kratos has boosted. I mean GOW 4 came out recently and it was instantly beloved. Haven't seen anyone talking anything bad about that game. As for Pika you know him. The face of Pokemon. The best selling franchise of all time? The one character that almost everyone knows? Anyways I think Pika is legit. This win is good. Kratos has boosted as I said before. No way that Marston is that weak. Still another win for Pokemon. Man they always win these things! But next round we shall see if Pika is legit or not.(Spoilers=He is.)
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I normally read all of these contest analysis things but I just wasn't feeling it this year.

Barely even read most of the crew write-ups
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@pjbasis Hey I get you man. As years pass things change. Me I don't know why but I am always excited for these contests as I was in 2003 which I first took part! Don't know why.
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Antibump.
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Division 3 Round 2

Sora VS Red
Red(50.9%) defeated Sora(49.1%)

KH 3 boost man! Yeah I am jesting of course. Well this match was somewhat debatable. We thought that with KH 3 hype Sora would win because who cares about Human Pokemon characters? Seriously. But as you see Red won even though the match was close. I know in the previous contest Sora lost to a Pokemon character again but there were rallies back then. Red had a big lead but Sora started fighting back and was either cutting or stalling. Man after all these years and KH still can come back with ASV. If that thing even exists anymore. Kiddies have smartphones now from what people told me. So Sora was dissapointing again. Also he is the first 1 Seed to lose and in Round 2 too! Come on now! I guess if KH 3 was out he would win for sure. But at least the match was good. Also Pokefear baby! Pokemons always win! Except when they don't. Also for Sora he always has a high seed in these things. I guess people really like KH series?

Crash VS Big Boss
Big Boss(52.87%) defeated Crash(47.13%)

Obviously Big Boss would win. But man nobody expected the match to be this close. I know in this contest old icons do really well but still. Big Boss is good. Or at least he should be. MGS characters don't do so good. So as I said old icons are doing really well for some strange reason. Still that means that Crash can beat a lot of other characters in this bracket. Who would have thought that? I guess that Big Boss should have dropped too. But man. Anyways Big Boss managed to do it I guess so that is. Still a hollow victory but a victory none the less.

Alucard VS Yuna
Alucard(59.62%) defeated Yuna(40.38%)

Alucard was the favorite to win true but people hadn't Yuna out. But man look at this result. Alucard won easily. I guess that Yuna scoring above 40% at least is something. Obviously FF 10 has fallen. But I didn't expected that much. I know Alucard isn't weak or anything but still. Also that means Peach>Yuna I guess? Find it hard to believe but the stats don't lie! He even has a chance to win the next round too! Proof that beeing a Vampire is a good thing. Still Alucard is looking good in the contest so far.

Kefka VS Bomberman
Kefka(59.82%) defeated Bomberman(40.18%)

After Kefka beat the champion in the previous round of course he wouldn't lose now. Bomberman is an icon but against Kefka what could he do? So Kefka did good. I guess? You can never be trully sure with Kefka. Still next round we will finally see if Kefka can be trully good! Yeah? Bomberman scored above 40% too so that means he too can beat the champion? Stats don't lie! I don't know what else to write in Kefka matches. He is too unpredictable.
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A bump before I go to sleep.
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Division 4 Round 2

2B VS Ness
2B(53.72%) defeated Ness(46.28%)

Now this result was a suprise. We have a newcomer defeating a Nintendo/Smash character in Round 2 no less! Damn! Don't know what to say. I guess the SC6 boost is real? Maybe the fanservice is so strong? Okay I know that Ness is weak and such. Still you would think that he would be able to defeat a newcomer from a new game. We don't play new games here as you know! But anyways I guess 2B has some strength with the recent announcent of her beeing in SC 6. Still nice win from her.

Charizard VS Bowser
Bowser(56.55%) defeated Charizard(43.45%)

Obviously after the first match of Charizard nobody had any doubt that he would lose to Bowser. Yeah Charizard was damn strong when he first appeared with the release of HG/SS. And in the next contest he did good with the SFF and such and won some matches. But yeah he isn't strong. But since he was my first Pokemon ever I can't say anything bad about him. I guess that Bowser not going above 57% is something. Bowser is legit I of course. And Charizard has fallen a lot. I think Pokemon is doing good. And they are strong. We saw Pikachu and Red winning and advancing. Also Pokemon seems that it isn't SFF'ed against other Nintendo characters. Still Bowser won fair and square.

Phoenix VS Ike
Phoenix(50.67%) defeated Ike(49.33%)

Another suprise win! Obviously Phoenix is the favorite character of this board. But that doesn't say anything. Ike is from FE and he is in Smash so most people had him winning. But Phoenix managed to win! He had a lead but Ike kept coming back and pushing but Phoenix hold on and did it. Also I believe this is the 2nd time where a character wins in USA but loses the match. Ike had in USA more than 52%! But since Phoenix won in almost every region he did it. Still nice to see a Board favorite going to
Round 3! Phoenix is legit now! His games are old and like everyone knows the Objection thing now. And as always as with all close matches this was good too. Also I believe this is the first match where with the new rules that Ike would win instead of Phoenix. Still Phoenix won and is all that matter.

Isaac VS Kirby
Kirby(70.29%) defeated Isaac(29.71%)

I can't understand why Kirby is so strong. I just can't. Yeah he is the hero of Smash supposedly but still. I have wrote some stuff about Kirby in my first analysis of his match so go check out why I don't get it. So obviously Kirby scored a massive victory here. When you see a non N9 character winning in Round 2 with above 70% you know that something is going on. Kirby takes the division for sure. Also a plus thing I understand is that you can't hate Kirby because just look at him! How can you hate that? Unless you hate round things I guess? Kirby is too cute and strong!
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I might recommend some use of bold and italics for your match result formatting to make it a bit easier to read. Bold the match italicize the result or something. I dunno.
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If only I could edit the posts. Guess I shall do that from now on. Also why can't I edit my posts? I thought we could do that whenever we wanted?
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Editing window is an hour long.
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Man I must have missed that. Okay.
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Division 5 Round 2

Squall VS Garrus
Squall(64.02%) defeated Garrus(35.98%)

Squall winning this round was never in doubt. And after Garrus barely beating Ramza this was a lock. But Squall didn't scored a doubling here. I wonder why. I thought he would do it for sure. Is it anti-votes? Squall has gotten weaker? Both? Who knows. Maybe the result is good and I am beeing strange. Maybe. This is my opinion. It is not that result is not good, don't be fooled. Man next round Squall has to step up his game or else he is out.

The Boss VS Zelda
Zelda(70.7%) defeated The Boss(29.3%)

Man Zelda dominated here. A victory above 70%? And I know that The Boss isn't any good. But Zelda is a beast. Number 2 female character here for sure. Well beeing in Legend Of Zelda and Smash series does wonder for you. Also people say that MGS characters don't do good in this contest. I don't see that myself. I mean Quiet lost yeah but apparently we don't like MGS 5 or something. Big Boss won 2 matches as it was expected. And of course The Boss lost to Zelda. Eh whatever. Still seems that
next round Zelda has to step up her game or else she is out. I think I wrote that before?

D.Va VS Fox
Fox(71.52%) defeated D.Va(28.48%)

Man D.Va is really weak. I thought maybe she would get a rally or at least did a little better but rallies are out in this contest. Fox dominated. I know that he is a midcarder but man this victory is impressive no matter how you look at it. We really hate new games here. Even though the polls say we play new games but it is a lie. We don't play new games here! Anyways what else? Oh yeah. I still remember when I played Fox's game on SNES. I was so impressed back then! They were simplier times. Also once again awesome win for Fox.

Captain Toad VS Aerith
Aerith(59.99%) defeated Toad(40.01%)

After Aeris(that is how it was spelled in the game back in my day you know!)beat Waluigi we knew that she would win the 2nd round match of course. Also funny enough that means that Waluigi>Toad! Damn! Anyways Aeris was lucky that she got 2 weak opponents and she advanced to Round 3. But I believe next round she loses. Also both wins were under 60%. I like when the results are closer myself. Well at least FF7 scored some wins. Maybe she can win too though I doubt it. Still that proves that FF 7 always wins.
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Division 6 Round 2

Geralt VS Simon
Geralt(52.19%) defeated Simon(47.81%)

This match was a debatable match of course. For the first 5 hours either Simon was winning, Geralt went ahead and Simon was winning again. Eventually though after around 5 hours Geralt managed to fight back for good and won with no problems. So we have a newcomer beating a smash character! Take notes people! Not something you see many times! I also want to say that Simon was winning in USA with around 51,5% but as you see he lost. Americans ruin everything! And they REALLY like Smash! I believe Simon's peak is this. He will be weaker from now on at the next contests. As I said in the previous match analysis Geralt is AWESOME! Man wish he won the whole thing. Still good match with back and forths, lead changes, and all that drama we have in close matches. Also SC 6 boost>Smash Boost confirmed!

Pac-Man VS Bayonetta
Bayonetta(52.07%) defeated Pac-Man(47.93%)

Before the contest nobody believed in Pac-Man. But after the 1st match people thought that maybe he had a change? And look at this. Sure he lost but scoring almost 48% on Bayonetta? She is a Nintendo character now. Not only she is in Smash but Bayonetta 2 and 3 are only on Nintendo consoles. Also guess what. Pac-Man was winning in USA with around 51% but he lost! 2nd time in a row where a character wins in USA but loses. Also both of these are in Smash so there is that. Still a win is a win. Wish though that an icon such as Pac-Man would have reached round 3. Next match will be a good one!

Auron VS Vincent
Auron(55.8%) defeated Vincent(44.2%)

After the previous round Auron was the absolute favorite. And he won. BUT the strange thing is that people expected Auron to win with more. Also Vincent kept raising the whole match! He started at the 5 minute mark with around 36% and look where he ended. It is FF 7 yeah but still, didn't expected that. Auron is an elite of course. And I believe that even though Vincent lost he still has some power. If people don't give him bad pictures on purpose. He is not the N9 breaker but still. I wonder why he did so good back in the day? Not sure. Both of these characters are so cool based on their designs. Come on now, Auron wears sunglasses as he fights! What more you want? Also funny that not the protagonist of FF 10 is the strongest character from that game, but a party member.

Sub-Zero VS Claire
Sub-Zero(66.26%) defeated Claire(33.74%)

This was the only normal match this day. People were expecting around a doubling from Sub-Zero and guess how much he won? With a doubling! Sub-Zero is cool! Get it? Man I still remember when I first played MK 2. Sub-Zero was my favorite since then and he still is. I also believe he would beat Scorpion on this site. Sub-Zero has to be the 2nd strongest pure fighting game character. I don't count the Smash ones of course. As for Claire well she did okay. RE did bad in this contest unfortunately. She did earned an upset win at least. Divisions should be like this one. We barely knows who will win the next matches!
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In the stats topics and the crew topic barely any posts were. I guess the matches are going as expected.
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Pretty slow day yeah. Doesn't stop me from losing points though.

Division 7 Round 2

Luigi VS Frog
Luigi(61.63%) defeated Frog(38.37%)

This match was never in doubt. Both of these characters defeated really weak opponents. But man here we have Luigi. You know the brother of Mario? Also Frog...He isn't strong anymore. As for Luigi always managed to advance to at least Round 2. He is good. Still I believe Frog did okay here. I don't know if CT characters are still good. Maybe they are? We have to wait to see Chrono. I mean Magus lost to Round 1 and Frog lost to Round 2. Not good right? Still Luigi looked good here. Let us see how he
does in the next rounds.

Master Chief VS Tails
Tails(55.49%) defeated Master Chief(44.51%)

Afer Tails won the first match he was the favorite to win. MC wasn't out though. But as you see Tails won easily. I mean in the first round a lot of people had Tails losing and here he is in Round 3. Damn! Man can you believe that Master Chief has reached a Semi final match WITHOUT rallies once upon a time? Yeah old times were strange! Still I believe MC did decent here. Obviously he is weak now but still he reached Round 2 at least. As for Tails...I am not sure how he reached round 3. I guess Sonic characters do good now? Or western characters are really weak? I mean in most contests he has lost in Round 1! So congrats to Tails I guess.

Tifa VS Mewtwo
Tifa(58.1%) defeated Mewtwo(41.9%)

If this was the same Mewtwo we had at 2013 he would win pretty easily here. But he wasn't. FF 7 has fallen but still Tifa managed to win easily here. Also apparently there was a poll on Board 8 that people voted Mewtwo to be the strongest non N9er? What? I am not sure why. He is decent yeah but so much strong? No. Not without rallies. But anybody with rallies can be strong. As for Tifa she looked good here. As you know Tifa is hot and people well they like hot women. Especially fictional ones! Well we have 2 FF 7 characters going in Round 3 and both are females...I wonder does this say anything about this site? Also I like Pokemon so I can't say anything really bad here. Mewtwo did good in multi way matches though.

Ocelot VS MMX
MMX(68.41%) defated Ocelot(31.59%)

This match was never in doubt. But after Ocelot barely beat Dedede people wanted to see how much MMX would win. And he did really good of course. Almost 69%! I believe MMX might even be the strongest non N9er. Or at least one of the top 3. So nothing else to say. MMX dominated. People say that MGS characters have done bad in the contest but I don't see why. Let us see how much MMX can reach.
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Division 8 Round 2

Sephiroth VS Falcon
Sephiroth(64.93%) defeated Falcon(35.07%)

People were expecting Sephiroth to score around 65% and he did that. So what else to say? Obviously Seph would win here. Also he beat a Smash character! Smash boost my ass! But in all seriousness this match was good if you are a fan of Seph like me. Seems that Seph still has some power and it makes sense. Man if only this FF7 remake would come out! What happened to it? As for Falcon of course he did as he was expected. Even I know the Falcon Punch thing now. So yeah pretty normal stuff here.

Amaterasu VS Lara Croft
Amaterasu(54.91%) defeated Lara Croft(45.09%)

I can't understand why Amaterasu does so good. She is on Okami which is a good game yeah. But you know what this game is famous for? For not selling well! Guess people have played a remake or something? She is also in Marvel VS Whatever series too I believe. Or is it the design of Amaterasu? She is a wolf and she does look cool. As for Lara we all know her. The first video game sex symbol! Yeah! Okay she is in Tomb Raider games where back in PS 1 days they were AWESOME! Man I remember me and a friend of mine where huge fans! We would buy them at the same day and then compare our plays and what secrets we found too! These were the days. Also Amaterasu has advanced to at least Round 2 in all contests too. As for Lara...even though she keeps having games it seems that people don't care at all now. Too bad. The new games are good. Also the win was nice for Amaterasu.

Ryu VS Shepard
Ryu(66.55%) defeated Shepard(33.45%)

Since Ryu beat Shepard with more that Squall beat Garrus obviously everyone said Ryu>Squall. And it makes sense. Almost always the main character is stronger than the other characters. There are expections like Vivi from FF9 who is the strongest and Auron who is from FF 10 who is the strongest. But I am not sure about that. But who really knows? Still bad match from Shepard. Seriously losing with a doubling? Come on now. ME Andromeda wasn't that bad. And Shepard wasn't even in that game! As for Ryu he is the strongest fighthing game character and it seems he has boosted from beeing in Smash too. Still as a ME fan this saddens me. And we thought that Shepard would be the strongest western character too! Well Ryu does good at least and he is an icon so that is fine.

KOS-MOS VS Aqua
KOS-MOS(57.38%) defeated Aqua(42.62%)

This result is strange. Based on this that means that Ellie beats Aqua. How many people would pick that before the contest? Nobody I would say. Seems that KH boost wasn't real. When Sora loses to a human Pokemon character well you see how things are. I know KOS-MOS from the Project X Zone games. She is a hot android with big tits! Yeah sorry about that but I don't know about the Xenosaga series. Sorry again! But man KH sucks. Hope KH 3 comes soon. But even then it will boost the characters for like 1 year and that will be. Still nice win for KOS-MOS. Nice to have such characters winning. Also this is the first time that KOS-MOS reaches Round 3. She faces Ryu next and he has beaten her so that is for her without a rally. Still she reached round 3 at least!
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So thoughts after Round 2 ended.

We had some interesting matches but nothing really exciting. Rallies are needed! Yeah I know rallies suck. Hey it is my opinion anyways. But still I believe Round 3 will be better at least.

Onwards to more matches!
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Division 1 Semifinal

Dante VS Ganondorf
Ganondorf(56.4%) defeated Dante(43.6%)

After the previous matched Dante VS Ganon was projected as a toss-up match, meaning Ganon was the favorite but of course Dante had a chance. And it made sense. I mean Dante did really good against Lightining while Ganon didn't do good with Chun-Li. So as you see from these results Ganon won easily. Huh? Why? Don't get it. Also according to this result Dante barely beats Chun-Li! What is going on here? Who before the contest would had Chun-Li scoring like 48% on Dante? NOBODY! I don't know. I checked around and it seems that nobody knows.
Seems DMC 5 hype wasn't real. Chun-Li must have been boosted right? But why? There was a post here from various polls considered the Street Fighter games and Chun-Li does better and better against Ryu. Is it because she is the most iconic female fighthing character? I would say Smash boost but she is not there too! I just don't get it. I guess Dante and Ganon have dropped a lot too? Not sure. Guess after the end of the contest we will have a clear picture. And congrats to Ganon. Maybe he is the strongest bad guy on the bracket now. We will see about that too.

Vivi VS Donkey Kong
Vivi(54.98%) defeated Donkey Kong(45.02%)

After the previous 2 victories of DK we thought it was finally time for him to catch a bandwagon or a rally or something. And finally beat Vivi and advancing! Also Vivi has defeated 2 weak opponents so we couldn't really judge his power. Personally I was with DK too! But guess what? Vivi beat DK. Again. For the 3rd time! First time he won with around 56.5%, 2nd time with around 56% and now with around 55%. That means that in like 10 years DK will win! So does that means that Tidus and Leon are really weak now? Guess so? I mean Vidi did as he did in all previous times so that means that DK hasn't boosted? Maybe?
Still nice to see Vivi continue impressing. His look is amazing. I mean he is the typical black mage. Look at him. Even if you don't know about FF you can recognize him as some kind of wizard. Helps that he doesn't show his face too. As for DK...too bad he didn't win. Come on now, imagine if he kept winning. It would be amazing! Just look at this face! Damn! But yeah. So nice win for Vivi. Strange that the main character of FF9 sucks and a party member is so damn strong! FF always wins it seems!
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Division 2 Semifinal

Zero VS Wario
Zero(60.25%) defeated Wario

Finally a normal match. I mean Zero winning was set in stone no matter the opponent. And he did good. A victory above 60%. So a character did better in Round 3 and he did in Round 2. Wario isn't strong or anything. He was lucky he faced weak opponents and reached round 3. So what else to say? Zero does decent in the contests anyways. He is from MM series so that helps. Hey nothing else. Pretty normal stuff.

Yoshi VS Pikachu
Pikachu(54.8%) defeated Yoshi(45.2%)

A good match here. But here is the strange thing. Others said that Pika did good, others said he did okay, and others said he did bad! What? Really? This is a good performance in my invisible book. Listen. Yoshi is good now. He gets stronger as years go by. Plus look at him. Who doesn't like Dragon-Dinosaur hybrids? Everybody likes these! Probably. As for Pikachu...Man is he getting stronger and stronger every year! Beeing the face of the best selling franchise helps too. So here he won with a good performance.
If he was above 55% nobody would complain. But anyways. Recently the Detective Pikachu movie trailer got released. And it looks good too! So maybe that will give him a boost too! Pika deserves to go really far! Yeah I like Pokemon! But what else? In all the later contests Pikachu always wins the divisions or comes 2nd in the multi way polls and advances anyways! I believe so at least. So yeah. Seems that Pika is damn strong. And oh yeah he is in Smash too. Personally I want him to win the whole thing! Man this site would be a mess! Still seems he will win the division here too.
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I'm enjoying the analysis! Keep em coming
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@Exodecai Thanks man!
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