Match 125: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vs. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

BotW 18203
SSBU 8661

Okay now this is just getting silly. With 67.76% of the vote, Breath of the Wild put up the second-most dominant performance in a semifinal match. There have been four doublings in the semifinals or later of a contest, all in the semifinals: Link over Mega Man in Character Battle III, The Legend of Zelda over Metal Gear in the Series Contest, Ocarina of Time over Super Mario RPG in BGE III, and this match. (Zelda over Metal Gear is by far the #1, clearing 73%; the other two performances mentioned here were also in the 67.XX% range, but lower than BotW's 67.76%). Obviously there's a common thread there, but there's also something about this match that stands out--namely, the strength of the loser. The Series Contest was never going to have enough strong series to avoid having some lopsided semis--we knew right off the bat that it was Zelda vs. Final Fantasy, nothing else. Mega Man has never been one of the stronger Noble Niners--he has only three wins against the NN and none since 2005, all against Sonic and Snake (who, remember, was thought to be the weakest of the NN before 2006). And SMRPG, it turned out its strength had been hidden by unfortunate SFF situations in the first two BGE contests, but still, it was the beneficiary of a pair of spanisions with little Nintendo/Square competition, which seemed almost intentional as Allen wanted at least one outsider in the Final Four. But a Smash game? The SFF-hammer was strong here, and it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Breath of the Wild would romp in the finals. The only question remaining was how it would fare in the inevitable bonus match against Majora's Mask.

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Tsunami's Post-Contest Analysis (should not need a second topic)

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