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Ganondorf beat Vivi after an early struggle, but Vivi stayed close enough to reinforce his reputation as an unusually durable Final Fantasy character. The writeup believes Nintendo and Zelda momentum were just enough to decide the matchup.

Vivi beat Donkey Kong for the third time in nearly identical fashion, continuing one of the contest's strangest recurring rivalries. The writeup concludes that Donkey Kong's apparent revival had been overstated.

Vivi demolished Aya Brea and looked much stronger than Ganondorf had in the neighboring match. Because Vivi's first two opponents were both weak, the writeup still hesitates to declare exactly how strong he really was.

Vivi handled Yu Narukami in a routine blowout and stood out as one of the few Final Fantasy characters still retaining old strength. The writeup mentions possible Square overlap only as an uncertainty rather than a confirmed explanation.

Red won comfortably, but Vivi's momentum carried him past Squall for second in the Expert Challenge ordering after the Mario upset. The writeup treats Vivi's placement as one of the contest's strangest strength reversals.

Vivi produced one of the contest's defining upsets by holding off repeated Mario comeback attempts and finally eliminating him. Nintendo vote splitting and a modest outside push helped create the opening, but the writeup still celebrates Vivi's composure against Mario's legendary clutch.

LFF · Rally: The writeup says Ganondorf leeched Nintendo support from Mario and that 4chan also rallied Vivi during the close fight.

Vivi won comfortably over Adam Jensen and Marisa, but the match was repeatedly disrupted by fraudulent votes for Marisa being removed. The writeup treats the cheating as the main story before Vivi's later breakout.

Cheat: The writeup says fraudulent Marisa votes were removed both during and after the poll, with the site administrator explicitly announcing the vote stuffing while the match was live.

Kirby beat Vivi without difficulty, but failed to look strong enough to preserve serious hopes of upsetting Sonic. The writeup treats Kirby's old four-way bandwagon strength as clearly gone.

Vivi decisively beat a heavily hyped Altair, reversing the impression created by Altair's first-round rout of Liquid Snake. The writeup views Altair and Liquid as especially unreliable contest reads after the result.

Vivi and Donkey Kong essentially replayed their 2004 matchup, with almost no change in the underlying result. The writeup treats the uncanny repetition as more notable than the match itself.

Snake delivered another statement performance, while Zero and Vivi fought a much more entertaining battle for the second advancing spot. Zero survived, but Vivi's late resistance made the race memorable.

Snake and Vivi advanced exactly as the writeup expected, with little genuine suspense. Snake's strong showing was more notable than the order of finish and fed expectations for a major run.

Leon won comfortably while Pikachu capitalized on the divided Square field to advance again. The writeup presents Tidus and Vivi as holding each other back and turning Pikachu's favorable draw into another survival.

LFF: The writeup says Vivi and Tidus split Square support badly enough that neither could catch Pikachu, allowing the outside Pokémon entrant to take the second advancing spot.

Leon and Vivi took the two advancing spots in almost exactly the straightforward order expected. The writeup repeatedly calls the match boring and finds little meaning beyond setting up Vivi's coming encounter with Pikachu and Tidus.

Zelda turned a heavily debated matchup into an easy win, badly undercutting the statistical case for Vivi. The writeup interprets the result as evidence of both Zelda's growth and the wider Nintendo boost that was becoming a major contest storyline.

Sephiroth beat Vivi comfortably, but Vivi held up better than many expected against a fellow Square entrant. The writeup uses the result to argue that Square fanbases are less easily compressed than Nintendo fanbases.

Vivi turned a supposedly close match into a decisive win over Donkey Kong, immediately establishing himself as a serious newcomer. The writeup sees the result as both evidence of Vivi's appeal and another demonstration that Donkey Kong's icon status does not translate reliably into contest strength.