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Round & Division

Bracket position for every match. Round and division for 2002–2006 come from the site's match database; 2007–2020 are read from the archived official bracket pages; Game of the Decade (2010) is taken from the Board 8 wiki writeup infoboxes. Division is blank for Best Year in Gaming (no divisions) and for cross-division rounds from the Quarterfinal on. Battle Royale and bonus matches are labelled and sort last by round.

Bracket Pick %

Correct picks by battle from the GameFAQs official stats pages. Blank for Character Battle IX (2013), Game of the Decade 2 (2020) and a few bonus polls, which published no bracket stats; those sort last.

For the 2007-2009 four-way contests the % Correct and Partial correct for both the first place and second place winners are given. Only the winner's exact-slot figure is used for sorting.

You can display two-entrant or multi-entrant matches only using the respective links.

Oracle columns

The Oracle Consensus cell is the Oracle Challenge crowd consensus: each entrant's mean predicted vote share, listed in the same order as the Result column so the two line up. The expected winner is bold, with a ✗ when that pick lost. Oracle MAE is the mean absolute error, in points, between the consensus shares and the real result — lower means a closer prediction. Matches with no Oracle predictions (all of Summer 2002, half of 2003, most novelty polls) show “—” and sort last.

In the three- and four-way contests each competitor was scored on its own, so the consensus percentages need not total exactly 100 — in practice they almost always do.

Name aliases

These spelling variants are treated as one entrant when you filter by name. Aliases are scoped to the contest type, so the same name can resolve differently for a character, a game and a series.

Characters

• Aerith Gainsborough — also Aeris, Aeris Gainsborough
• Albert Wesker — also Wesker
• Cecil Harvey — also Cecil
• Chun-Li — also Chun Li
• Dr. Robotnik — also Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik
• Isaac (Golden Sun) — also Isaac
• Ken Masters — also Ken
• Knuckles the Echidna — also Knuckles
• Miles "Tails" Prower — also Miles 'Tails' Prower
• PaRappa The Rapper — also PaRappa
• Prince of Persia — also The Prince of Persia
• Proto Man — also Protoman
• Ryu — also Ryu (Street Fighter)
• Samus Aran — also Samus
• Terra Branford — also Terra
• The King of All Cosmos — also King of all Cosmos
• Tifa Lockhart — also Tifa Lockheart
• Vivi — also Vivi Ornitier
• Zero (Mega Man X) — also Zero
• Zidane Tribal — also Zidane

Games

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare — also Call of Duty 4
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night — also Symphony of the Night
• Diablo II — also Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest — also Donkey Kong Country 2
• EarthBound — also Earthbound
• Final Fantasy IV — also Final Fantasy II (IV)
• Final Fantasy VI — also Final Fantasy III (VI)
• GoldenEye 007 — also Goldeneye
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City — also Vice City
• Halo: Combat Evolved — also Halo
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty — also Metal Gear Solid 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater — also Metal Gear Solid 3
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots — also Metal Gear Solid 4
• Pokemon Diamond/Pearl — also Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
• Pokemon Gold/Silver — also Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal, Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
• Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow — also Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow/Green Version
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 — also Persona 4
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 — also Sonic 2
• SoulCalibur — also Soul Calibur
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — also Knights of the Old Republic
• Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars — also Super Mario RPG
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past — also A Link to the Past, Zelda: A Link to the Past
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening — also Zelda: Link's Awakening
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — also Ocarina of Time
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker — also The Wind Waker, Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — also Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Secret of Monkey Island — also Secret of Monkey Island
• The World Ends With You — also The World Ends with You

Rivalries

• Chell vs. GLaDOS — also Chell vs. GlaDOS
• Cloud Strife vs. Sephiroth — also Cloud vs. Sephiroth

Split by era

A few titles use the same poll name for different releases, so they are split here and counted separately:

• God of War → God of War (2018) (polls 7954, 7998, 8020, 8031) · God of War (2005) (all other polls)
• Doom → Doom (1993)
• DOOM → DOOM (2016)

Same name in more than one contest type

The same name can be a character, a game and a series — each is a separate entrant, so filtering by one will not pull in the others:

• Bayonetta — character, game
• Civilization — game, series
• Cuphead — character, game
• Devil May Cry — game, series
• Diablo — character, series
• Donkey Kong — character, game
• Final Fantasy — game, series
• Fire Emblem — game, series
• Kingdom Hearts — game, series
• Kirby — character, series
• Mega Man — character, series
• Mega Man X — character, game, series
• Metal Gear — game, series
• Metroid — game, series
• Pac-Man — character, game
• Prince of Persia — character, game
• Resident Evil — game, series
• Shovel Knight — character, game
• Sonic the Hedgehog — character, game, series
• Suikoden — game, series
• Super Mario Bros. — game, series
• The Legend of Zelda — game, series
• Viewtiful Joe — character, game

CB 2006 Battle Royale

Polls 2562–2566 are the Character Battle 2006 Battle Royale: a six-way poll, then five-, four-, three- and two-way as entrants were eliminated. Vote counts come from the poll-update history — the summary table stores only two of the names for these.

Bonus / novelty matches

These ran alongside a contest but were not part of its scored bracket, so they are hidden by default. Use the show bonus link above the table to include them.

• Poll 2926 — CB VI: "? Block" novelty poll
• Poll 3308 — CB VII: Classic/CD-I/Toon/Young Link 4-way novelty
• Poll 3509 — BGE 2K9: OoT vs FFVII 2-way rematch
• Poll 4196 — GOTD: Link vs Santa Claus
• Poll 4573 — Rivalry: 3rd-place match
• Poll 5224 — CB IX Bonus 1: Last Place
• Poll 5252 — CB IX Bonus 2: Revenge Match
• Poll 5265 — CB IX Bonus 3: Runners-Up Battle
• Poll 5267 — CB IX Bonus 4: Link vs Solid Snake
• Poll 6178 — BGE 2K15: 3rd-place Melee vs SMRPG
• Poll 6179 — BGE 2K15: Grudge Match
• Poll 6180 — BGE 2K15: Grudge Match
• Poll 6181 — BGE 2K15: Grudge Match
• Poll 8090 — GOTD 2: BotW vs Majora's Mask

† Flagged matches (shown, with a note)

• Poll 1618 — poll re-run after a voting bug; one result row shown
• Poll 1626 — GameFAQs layout changed partway through the match
• Poll 1631 — two-day match
• Poll 2437 — match ran ~15 min short (delayed start)
• Poll 2455 — match ran ~30 min short (site downtime)
• Poll 2546 — 25-hour match (Daylight Saving switch)
• Poll 5205 — Vote purge late in the match; the final total shown is the official one
• Poll 5207 — Vote purge late in the match; the final total shown is the official one