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 = Character Battle 2006 · anomaly = SFF   — 7 of 1,514 matches   show all

7 matches

# Poll ▼ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 2564
writeup (md)
CB2K6 Battle Royale
Link 42.7%
Sephiroth 16.8%
Snake survives Sephiroth in a rallied and controversial finish 3

Snake survived Sephiroth after a dramatic late comeback attempt and another last-minute Metal Gear response. The result became the capstone of Snake's extraordinary run, while Sephiroth was remembered as the Battle Royale's major disappointment.

SFF · Rally · Cheat: The writeup says Cloud heavily SFFed Sephiroth, helping leave him vulnerable to Snake. It also describes intense late rallying and records cheating allegations around the finish, while noting that CJayC said no cheating was found.

2 2563
writeup (md)
CB2K6 Battle Royale
Link 34.9%
Sephiroth 14.9%
Mario 11.2%
Link SFFs Mario out while Snake keeps surprising 1

Mario became the second elimination as Link absorbed the Nintendo support that had been shared with Samus the day before. Snake again outperformed expectations, while Sephiroth's repeated struggles to escape last place foreshadowed the next round.

SFF: The writeup says Link SFFed Mario to death, pushing Mario into last place despite his status as a traditional heavyweight.

3 2562
writeup (md)
CB2K6 Battle Royale
Link 27.4%
Sephiroth 16.4%
Mario 11.6%
Samus falls first as Nintendo SFF shapes the Battle Royale 1

The first Battle Royale largely followed expectations at the top, while Samus became the first elimination after being squeezed by the other Nintendo heavyweights. Snake finishing ahead of Mario was the main unexpected development and set up the next day's drama.

SFF: The writeup says Link and Mario SFFed Samus heavily enough to drive her into last place and eliminate her.

4 2559
writeup (md)
CB2K6 Semifinal
Zelda 44.7%
Samus beats Zelda despite a likely reverse-SFF drag 1

Samus beat Zelda in a steady semifinal that never became as dramatic as the preceding quarterfinals. The writeup nevertheless sees Zelda's unusually strong showing as evidence that shared Nintendo support suppressed Samus to some degree.

SFF: The writeup says Zelda probably reverse-SFFed Samus substantially, though not nearly enough to threaten Samus's victory.

5 2544
writeup (md)
CB2K6 Round 2 Blast
Luigi 52.3%
Kirby 47.7%
Luigi beats Kirby as SFF settles the matchup early 1

Luigi pulled away after an initially even start, and the writeup says the final closeness overstated how competitive the match really was. It also treats the result as further evidence that Kirby's prior Dream Division strength was misleading.

SFF: The writeup says SFF favored Luigi and made a Kirby comeback effectively impossible once Luigi pulled away.

6 2516
writeup (md)
CB2K6 Round 1 Patriot
Tidus 28.0%
Squall SFFs Tidus and briefly fuels upset talk against Snake 1

Squall crushed Tidus in what the writeup calls an SFF beating through and through. The result further buried Tidus's old reputation while briefly making a later Squall upset of Snake seem plausible.

SFF: The writeup explicitly calls the result an SFF beating, with Squall suppressing fellow Final Fantasy lead Tidus far beyond what their ordinary statistical gap suggested.

7 2510
writeup (md)
CB2K6 Round 1 Triforce
Marle 30.2%
Aeris beats Marle but fails to strengthen her Zelda case 1

Aeris beat Marle comfortably, with only a small amount of SFF according to the writeup. More concerning for Aeris was her failure to dominate the daytime vote, which weakened confidence that she could challenge Zelda later.

SFF: The writeup says Aeris and Marle showed some SFF from their overlapping Square and role-playing fanbases, but characterizes the effect as minimal rather than a major suppression.

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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