Board 8 > What is the strongest Division in the GOTD Contest?

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In Game of the Decade contest, What division you think has the most stacked video games? Rank the divisions from the strongest to the weakest in terms of quality games!

My rank: Strongest --> Weakest
5>2>6>1>7>3>4>8

2>5>4>8>3>1>7>6

To go into more detail:

Every game that got out of round 1 in Division 2 is legit. Even looking at what didn't, you see stuff like Deus Ex, Bloodstained, and the most underseeded game in the bracket Resident Evil 7.

Division 5 has Witcher and God of War on top and Galaxy 2 and New Vegas a ways under. The middle is a bit suspect with stuff like Mass Effect 3, Dark Souls 3, and Stardew. The round 1 losers are interesting with stuff like Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Starcraft 2 and Dishonored. This division could be a lot more powerful than I think, or it could be a lot weaker.

Division 4 is pretty up in the air, but of the round 1 winners the only one that looked terrible was Overwatch. On the other hand the only decent round 1 loser was South Park. Depending on how things turn out I might put this one above 5, but as of now there's too much we don't know for sure.

Division 8 has Skyrim, Pokemon, and Nier all with a shot at winning. The FFXIV/Mario Kart fourpack is pretty interesting to me, though we'll see about that pretty soon. Celeste and Bayonetta 2 aren't bad.

More later.

I'm going to the Nintendo onslaught in Division 3. Smash and Odyssey could have both possibly contested for the final in a lower division.There's also a Zelda game in there which, while nowhere near BotW, would still tear through most of this bracket. And Shovel Knight has a claim to being the strongest Indie, or at least in the top 2-3.

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I'd say Division 2 probably has the highest average. It doesn't have any crazy peaks but it's just solid all around. Division 3 is the other big contender but it's a lot more top heavy cause of the Smash-Mario-Zelda trinity propping it up.

Weakest is EASILY Division 8. What a shoddy bracket. Bayonetta 2 the 15 seed. Indie fluff like Necrodancer and Night in the Woods near the bottom. Celeste and Rayman probably being low midcarders at absolute best. Journey, Divinity, Hearthstone, Fate Gacha, these are all middle seeds. Mario and FF get repped with a Kart game and an MMO. I also suspect Nier is gonna disappoint a lot of ppl, Bayo 2 was one of the best opponents it could have drawn. So much talk of Witcher SFF but no one pointed that match out.

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Division 3 is weird. Obviously Smash and Mario are both huge, but then you have Spider-Man and Shovel Knight, which I suspect got two of the weakest fourpacks in the contest. Then you have Link Between Worlds and Bayonetta, which both got completely wasted so we have no real idea how strong they are.

Division 1 has Breath of the Wild, followed by Dragon Quest which got a really weak fourpack that probably inflates its strength. I don't think very highly of Monster Hunter and Sekiro, but maybe Monster Hunter redeems its fourpack by holding up okay against Dragon Quest. If that happens I'd be inclined to rate this division higher.

Division 7 has Dark Souls and Last of Us on top, followed by Batman, and then...MGSV? Bioshock? Xenoblade 2? Very top-heavy.

Precontest I thought the only games in Division 6 with real strength were Persona 5 and Portal 2. Considering we're now seeing Portal flop against a game that flopped against Disco Elysium, it's down to just Persona - and I don't see that game doing too hot against Witcher 3.