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Mega Man routed Ganondorf in the losers bracket and made the pre-match expectations look far too conservative. The writeup spends much of its analysis rejecting claims that Ganondorf's sprite picture caused the poor result.

Bowser eventually pulled away from Alucard, but Alucard stayed competitive long enough to validate his surprising divisional run. The writeup treats the loss as a strong final statement for Alucard rather than an embarrassment.

Solid Snake crushed Auron and used the matchup as another counterexample to complaints that Snake's old sprite hurts him. The writeup treats Auron as the weakest Legends Bracket entrant and Snake as clearly above him.

Tifa upset Sephiroth after controlling the early hours and held on despite his later recovery. The writeup treats the result as the burial of Sephiroth's old elite status and one of Tifa's defining wins.

SFF: The writeup explicitly calls Tifa's win the first confirmed case of Reverse SFF, with the usual same-fanbase hierarchy flipping against Sephiroth.

Mega Man reversed his earlier loss to Pikachu and controlled the rematch after the opening minutes. The writeup calls the revenge satisfying but less meaningful because it happened in the losers bracket.

Crono beat Bowser in an almost exact repeat of their earlier Legends Bracket match. The writeup criticizes the double-elimination layout for producing a rematch with nearly identical trends and no new information.

Solid Snake beat Sonic more decisively than Zelda had, reigniting arguments about the usefulness of extrapolated statistics after Zelda had beaten Snake directly. The writeup uses the result to emphasize that individual matchups do not obey clean transitive logic.

Samus crushed Tifa again in a nearly identical rematch of their earlier Legends Bracket meeting. The writeup sees the repeat as unnecessary but definitive proof that Tifa was not on Samus's level.

Crono erased Mega Man's lead, survived a long stretch of back-and-forth voting, and finally won a close match late. The writeup celebrates the result as rare clutch success for a character associated with painful contest losses.

Samus crushed Solid Snake and reinforced the writeup's long-held view that Snake loses much of his support against Nintendo characters. Historical rallying from their 2013 meeting is discussed, but not treated as part of this match.

Cloud beat Crono again by almost the same margin as their sprite-round meeting. The writeup uses the near-identical rematch to reject claims that the earlier sprite pictures materially distorted the result.

SFF: The writeup says there was likely a small amount of SFF between Cloud and Crono because their fanbases overlap as flagship Square RPG protagonists.

Mario survived Samus by the narrowest margin after hours of lead changes and an extraordinary final stretch. The writeup treats it as the best match of the contest and a reopening of their supposedly settled rivalry.

Rally · Cheat: The writeup describes active late match vote pushes, including Samus rallies, porn-site rallies, workplace solicitation and the author's own last-minute requests for Mario votes. It also reports contemporaneous accusations that Mario supporters were vote stuffing, though no fraud is established.

Cloud finally beat Mario in their long-awaited 1v1 rematch, reversing the old trend pattern and surviving Mario's late reputation for clutch finishes. The writeup credits Cloud's Smash-era boost and possible anti-Mario sentiment rather than a confirmed current rally.

Cloud erased Zelda's early lead with the same night-to-day trend reversal he had just used against Mario. The writeup treats the loss as Zelda finally running out of momentum after her extraordinary run rather than evidence that her breakout was false.