AI Match Summaries

One-line AI headline and voting-anomaly flags for every contest match, from a ChatGPT pass over the Board 8 wiki writeups (CC BY-SA 3.0). Machine-generated — may contain mistakes. The full narrative shows under each row (hide narratives).

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Filtered: contest = Game of the Decade 2 (2020) · anomaly = SFF · round = Round 2   — 4 of 1,514 matches   show all

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GOTD 2 Round 2 Division 3 Smash Ultimate SFFs A Link Between Worlds 1

Smash Ultimate crushed A Link Between Worlds in a badly drawn same-audience matchup. The writeup treats the loss as unusually harsh for a Zelda game but heavily distorted by Nintendo overlap.

SFF: The writeup explicitly calls Smash Ultimate versus A Link Between Worlds a standard SFF match and says the Zelda game was likely suppressed heavily by the stronger Nintendo title.

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GOTD 2 Round 2 Division 5 Witcher 3 SFFs Mass Effect 3 into oblivion 1

The Witcher 3 obliterated Mass Effect 3 and looked increasingly untouchable in the lower half of the bracket. The writeup treats the scale of the rout as partly fanbase suppression and partly genuine elite strength.

SFF: The writeup says The Witcher 3 suppressed Mass Effect 3 through what became known as Western SFF, with their overlapping Western RPG audience making the blowout even larger.

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GOTD 2 Round 2 Division 5
Nioh 25.5%
God of War crushes a partially SFFed Nioh 1

God of War demolished Nioh and continued to look strong enough for a deep run. The writeup sees some fanbase overlap in the rout but still considers God of War's underlying performance impressive.

SFF: The writeup says Nioh was probably suppressed to some extent by God of War because both games appealed to overlapping PlayStation action audiences.

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GOTD 2 Round 2 Division 6 Sonic Mania SFFs Super Meat Boy in a rout 1

Sonic Mania unexpectedly routed Super Meat Boy in what had been treated as a close matchup. The writeup attributes part of the blowout to overlapping platformer support.

SFF: The writeup explicitly calls Sonic Mania versus Super Meat Boy an SFF match, arguing that the two platformers share enough audience for Sonic to suppress the indie game.

What this is

Each row's Headline and (on filter) narrative come from a ChatGPT reading of that match's Board 8 wiki writeup. The five flags (SFF same-fanbase factor, LFF low-fanbase factor, Rally outside rally, Cheat cheating alleged, Pic match-picture factor) are set only when the writeup asserts that effect — never inferred from the numbers. Hover a check for the note. †OT marks a writeup that mostly wanders off the match.

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