All Match Results

Entrants are listed by final votes, so the first line is the winner. Click a column heading to sort, or an entrant / contest in the table to filter.

See also: All Match Pictures — the same matches with their contest artwork.

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By margin: closest (%) · biggest blowout (%) · closest (votes) · biggest blowout (votes)

By Oracle: consensus nailed it · wrong-winner calls only

Filtered: entrant = Samus Aran [×] — 49 of 1,514 matches show all

49 matches · 2-entrant 33 · 3-entrant 5 · 4-entrant 10 · 6-entrant 1

#	Poll ▼	Contest	Date	Round	Division	Result	Total	Margin (%)	Margin (votes)	Bracket Pick %	Oracle Consensus	Oracle MAE
1	7383 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle X (2018)	2018-12-10	Redemption	—	Mario 14,343 · 50.03% Samus Aran 14,324 · 49.97%	28,667	0.07%	19	17.66%	Mario 50.97% Samus Aran 49.03%	0.94
2	7381 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle X (2018)	2018-12-09	Redemption	—	Samus Aran 14,725 · 56.48% Solid Snake 11,345 · 43.52%	26,070	12.97%	3,380	15.05%	Samus Aran 51.84% Solid Snake 48.16%	4.64
3	7377 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle X (2018)	2018-12-06	Redemption	—	Samus Aran 16,531 · 58.60% Tifa Lockheart 11,679 · 41.40%	28,210	17.20%	4,852	24.04%	Samus Aran 58.06% Tifa Lockheart 41.94%	0.52
4	7373 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle X (2018)	2018-12-04	Quarterfinal	—	Mario 14,765 · 51.42% Samus Aran 13,950 · 48.58%	28,715	2.84%	815	39.18%	Mario 56.04% Samus Aran 43.96%	4.62
5	7364 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle X (2018)	2018-11-30	Legends	—	Samus Aran 17,343 · 58.93% Tifa Lockheart 12,085 · 41.07%	29,428	17.87%	5,258	55.23%	Samus Aran 55.09% Tifa Lockheart 44.91%	3.84
6	5266 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle IX (2013)	2013-09-15	Final	—	Draven 73,396 · 49.13% Solid Snake 49,025 · 32.81% Samus Aran 26,981 · 18.06%	149,402	16.31%	24,371	—	—	—
7	5264 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle IX (2013)	2013-09-13	Final Nine	—	Samus Aran 20,097 · 38.48% Mega Man 17,401 · 33.32% Pokemon Trainer Red 14,724 · 28.20%	52,222	5.16%	2,696	—	—	—
8	5259 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle IX (2013)	2013-09-08	Division Final	Division 7	Samus Aran 21,836 · 41.70% Tifa Lockheart 17,705 · 33.81% L-Block 12,826 · 24.49%	52,367	7.89%	4,131	—	—	—
9	5243 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle IX (2013)	2013-08-28	Round 2	Division 7	Samus Aran 16,029 · 61.85% Knuckles the Echidna 5,528 · 21.33% Catherine 4,359 · 16.82%	25,916	40.52%	10,501	—	—	—
10	5197 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle IX (2013)	2013-08-05	Round 1	Division 7	Samus Aran 17,326 · 68.51% Sandbag 4,769 · 18.86% Isaac Clarke 3,193 · 12.63%	25,288	49.66%	12,557	—	—	—
11	3852 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VIII (2010)	2010-03-18	Quarterfinal	—	Cloud Strife 31,335 · 52.81% Samus Aran 27,999 · 47.19%	59,334	5.62%	3,336	63.08%	Cloud Strife 55.70% Samus Aran 44.30%	2.89
12	3846 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VIII (2010)	2010-03-15	Division Final	Varia	Samus Aran 32,292 · 63.85% Zelda 18,286 · 36.15%	50,578	27.69%	14,006	53.29%	Samus Aran 60.59% Zelda 39.41%	3.26
13	3834 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VIII (2010)	2010-03-09	Round 3	Varia	Samus Aran 34,062 · 67.31% Sub-Zero 16,543 · 32.69%	50,605	34.62%	17,519	66.90%	Samus Aran 63.75% Sub-Zero 36.25%	3.56
14	3810 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VIII (2010)	2010-02-25	Round 2	Varia	Samus Aran 35,025 · 67.52% Jill Valentine 16,852 · 32.48%	51,877	35.03%	18,173	80.53%	Samus Aran 66.91% Jill Valentine 33.09%	0.61
15	3762 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VIII (2010)	2010-02-01	Round 1	Varia	Samus Aran 39,941 · 78.69% Prince of Persia 10,814 · 21.31%	50,755	57.39%	29,127	89.92%	Samus Aran 75.12% Prince of Persia 24.88%	3.57
16	3304 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VII (2008)	2008-11-17	Semifinal	—	Link 50,315 · 38.45% Crono 33,087 · 25.28% Mario 25,594 · 19.56% Samus Aran 21,871 · 16.71%	130,867	13.16%	17,228	46.50% / 12.53% 8.13% / 1.31% — —	Link 38.51% Crono 24.02% Mario 20.96% Samus Aran 16.25%	0.79
17	3301 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VII (2008)	2008-11-14	Quarterfinal	—	Samus Aran 37,909 · 30.91% Crono 31,041 · 25.31% Vincent Valentine 30,963 · 25.25% Pikachu 22,736 · 18.54%	122,649	5.60%	6,868	29.31% / 15.74% 14.50% / 9.11% — —	Samus Aran 31.71% Crono 25.11% Vincent Valentine 25.62% Pikachu 17.69%	0.55
18	3294 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VII (2008)	2008-11-07	Division Final	Division 3	Samus Aran 44,550 · 34.84% Vincent Valentine 38,855 · 30.38% Gordon Freeman 22,782 · 17.82% Ganondorf 21,691 · 16.96%	127,878	4.45%	5,695	54.54% / 13.09% 26.31% / 8.13% — —	Samus Aran 33.12% Vincent Valentine 30.40% Gordon Freeman 17.16% Ganondorf 19.47%	1.23
19	3280 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VII (2008)	2008-10-24	Round 2	Division 3	Samus Aran 49,439 · 40.21% Ganondorf 30,282 · 24.63% Frog 24,502 · 19.93% Nightmare 18,744 · 15.24%	122,967	15.58%	19,157	72.30% / 12.40% 55.72% / 9.73% — —	Samus Aran 37.70% Ganondorf 27.30% Frog 19.09% Nightmare 15.92%	1.68
20	3252 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VII (2008)	2008-09-26	Round 1	Division 3	Samus Aran 64,408 · 52.19% Nightmare 27,999 · 22.69% Crash Bandicoot 20,841 · 16.89% Raz 10,162 · 8.23%	123,410	29.50%	36,409	66.60% / 28.70% 36.41% / 17.48% — —	Samus Aran 52.64% Nightmare 23.25% Crash Bandicoot 15.29% Raz 8.79%	0.79
21	2923 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VI (2007)	2007-11-02	Semifinal	—	Link 55,996 · 39.02% Cloud Strife 40,836 · 28.46% Samus Aran 24,078 · 16.78% Sephiroth 22,582 · 15.74%	143,492	10.57%	15,160	18.57% / 30.90% 15.71% / 38.20% — —	Link 35.56% Cloud Strife 28.23% Samus Aran 15.58% Sephiroth 20.64%	2.45
22	2919 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VI (2007)	2007-10-29	Quarterfinal	—	Cloud Strife 59,587 · 41.23% Samus Aran 41,623 · 28.80% Mega Man 26,641 · 18.43% Ryu 16,682 · 11.54%	144,533	12.43%	17,964	40.16% / 33.46% 25.48% / 25.33% — —	Cloud Strife 37.05% Samus Aran 25.51% Mega Man 22.10% Ryu 15.34%	3.74
23	2911 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VI (2007)	2007-10-21	Division Final	Division 1	Samus Aran 49,872 · 33.10% Mega Man 45,857 · 30.43% Yoshi 28,823 · 19.13% Scorpion 26,126 · 17.34%	150,678	2.66%	4,015	26.00% / 48.12% 17.17% / 35.44% — —	Samus Aran 32.80% Mega Man 29.87% Yoshi 20.12% Scorpion 17.27%	0.48
24	2896 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VI (2007)	2007-10-06	Round 2	Division 1	Samus Aran 61,543 · 45.96% Scorpion 32,150 · 24.01% Frog 23,372 · 17.45% Midna 16,834 · 12.57%	133,899	21.95%	29,393	78.89% / 9.54% 27.07% / 2.44% — —	Samus Aran 43.05% Scorpion 23.06% Frog 19.62% Midna 14.29%	1.94
25	2865 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle VI (2007)	2007-09-05	Round 1	Division 1	Samus Aran 70,546 · 51.75% Frog 25,410 · 18.64% Axel 25,282 · 18.55% Sarah Kerrigan 15,075 · 11.06%	136,313	33.11%	45,136	58.33% / 38.60% 25.40% / 17.34% — —	Samus Aran 53.28% Frog 21.15% Axel 14.94% Sarah Kerrigan 10.71%	2.00
26	2562 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle 2006	2006-11-14	Battle Royale	—	Link 43,679 · 27.41% Cloud Strife 37,779 · 23.71% Sephiroth 26,178 · 16.43% Solid Snake 20,903 · 13.12% Mario 18,473 · 11.59% Samus Aran 12,335 · 7.74%	159,347	3.70%	5,900	—	—	—
27	2561 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle 2006	2006-11-13	Final	—	Samus Aran 67,947 · 53.11% Solid Snake 59,987 · 46.89%	127,934	6.22%	7,960	12.54%	Samus Aran 48.30% ✗ Solid Snake 51.70%	4.82
28	2559 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle 2006	2006-11-11	Semifinal	—	Samus Aran 72,890 · 55.27% Zelda 58,985 · 44.73%	131,875	10.54%	13,905	41.16%	Samus Aran 53.73% Zelda 46.27%	1.54
29	2555 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle 2006	2006-11-07	Quarterfinal	—	Samus Aran 72,773 · 50.49% Tifa Lockhart 71,355 · 49.51%	144,128	0.98%	1,418	63.86%	Samus Aran 57.41% Tifa Lockhart 42.59%	6.92
30	2547 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle 2006	2006-10-30	Division Final	Spazer	Samus Aran 85,439 · 69.00% Rikku 38,387 · 31.00%	123,826	38.00%	47,052	83.95%	Samus Aran 66.80% Rikku 33.20%	2.20
31	2531 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle 2006	2006-10-14	Round 2	Spazer	Samus Aran 98,352 · 79.78% Ada Wong 24,923 · 20.22%	123,275	59.57%	73,429	93.61%	Samus Aran 74.34% Ada Wong 25.66%	5.44
32	2499 updates graph writeup (md)	Character Battle 2006	2006-09-12	Round 1	Spazer	Samus Aran 95,533 · 81.85% Nidoran F 21,180 · 18.15%	116,713	63.71%	74,353	97.13%	Samus Aran 90.03% Nidoran F 9.97%	8.18
33	2122 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2005 Character Contest	2005-09-13	Quarterfinal	—	Mario 58,304 · 59.79% Samus 39,215 · 40.21%	97,519	19.57%	19,089	54.23%	Mario 50.37% Samus 49.63%	9.42
34	2115 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2005 Character Contest	2005-09-06	Division Final	Zebes	Samus 53,776 · 59.66% Ganondorf 36,363 · 40.34%	90,139	19.32%	17,413	49.86%	Samus 62.43% Ganondorf 37.57%	2.77
35	2100 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2005 Character Contest	2005-08-22	Round 2	Zebes	Samus 68,106 · 70.05% Frog 29,112 · 29.95%	97,218	40.11%	38,994	85.98%	Samus 67.05% Frog 32.95%	3.00
36	2070 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2005 Character Contest	2005-07-23	Round 1	Zebes	Samus 74,493 · 87.32% Yuri Hyuga 10,813 · 12.68%	85,306	74.65%	63,680	96.76%	Samus 85.53% Yuri Hyuga 14.47%	1.79
37	1779 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2004 Character Contest	2004-10-02	Semifinal	—	Cloud Strife 59,867 · 59.01% Samus Aran 41,584 · 40.99%	101,451	18.02%	18,283	55.11%	Cloud Strife 59.70% Samus Aran 40.30%	0.69
38	1777 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2004 Character Contest	2004-09-30	Division Final	Chaos	Samus Aran 48,589 · 57.51% Sonic the Hedgehog 35,897 · 42.49%	84,486	15.02%	12,692	52.46%	Samus Aran 57.09% Sonic the Hedgehog 42.91%	0.42
39	1773 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2004 Character Contest	2004-09-26	Round 3	Chaos	Samus Aran 57,627 · 65.85% Sora 29,880 · 34.15%	87,507	31.71%	27,747	71.58%	Samus Aran 67.57% Sora 32.43%	1.72
40	1765 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2004 Character Contest	2004-09-18	Round 2	Chaos	Samus Aran 65,809 · 80.97% Sam Fisher 15,464 · 19.03%	81,273	61.95%	50,345	82.85%	Samus Aran 75.29% Sam Fisher 24.71%	5.68
41	1749 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2004 Character Contest	2004-09-02	Round 1	Chaos	Samus Aran 68,889 · 82.39% Lara Croft 14,721 · 17.61%	83,610	64.79%	54,168	91.74%	Samus Aran 76.47% Lara Croft 23.53%	5.92
42	1361 updates graph writeup (md)	Summer 2003 Character Contest	2003-08-26	Division Final	North	Link 67,294 · 62.06% Samus Aran 41,139 · 37.94%	108,433	24.12%	26,155	72.17%	Link 60.38% Samus Aran 39.62%	1.68
43	1354 writeup (md)	Summer 2003 Character Contest	2003-08-19	Round 3	North	Samus Aran 65,582 · 58.20% Squall Leonhart 47,103 · 41.80%	112,685	16.40%	18,479	64.90%	Samus Aran 59.14% Squall Leonhart 40.86%	0.94
44	1340 writeup (md)	Summer 2003 Character Contest	2003-08-05	Round 2	North	Samus Aran 78,948 · 69.75% KOS-MOS 34,246 · 30.25%	113,194	39.49%	44,702	82.29%	Samus Aran 70.94% KOS-MOS 29.06%	1.19
45	1312 writeup (md)	Summer 2003 Character Contest	2003-07-08	Round 1	North	Samus Aran 81,123 · 75.34% Isaac 26,560 · 24.66%	107,683	50.67%	54,563	93.80%	—	—
46	999 writeup (md)	Summer 2002 Character Contest	2002-08-29	Division Final	West	Sephiroth 51,177 · 52.64% Samus Aran 46,047 · 47.36%	97,224	5.28%	5,130	38.34%	—	—
47	994 writeup (md)	Summer 2002 Character Contest	2002-08-24	Round 3	West	Samus Aran 41,973 · 50.02% Sonic the Hedgehog 41,939 · 49.98%	83,912	0.04%	34	31.75%	—	—
48	985 writeup (md)	Summer 2002 Character Contest	2002-08-15	Round 2	West	Samus Aran 39,293 · 57.85% Ryu 28,630 · 42.15%	67,923	15.70%	10,663	58.02%	—	—
49	966 writeup (md)	Summer 2002 Character Contest	2002-07-27	Round 1	West	Samus Aran 40,857 · 65.31% Ken Masters 21,698 · 34.69%	62,555	30.63%	19,159	80.12%	—	—

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

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