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Majora's Mask rode spillover and presentation advantages to a large early lead, but A Link to the Past slowly erased it and won with the morning vote. The match became a clear demonstration of how quickly rally spillover could fade.

Rally · Pic: The writeup says rally spillover from the previous Undertale-Pokémon match strongly favored Majora's Mask early. It also says Majora had a clear picture advantage over A Link to the Past.

Super Metroid and Majora's Mask traded tiny leads for hours before Majora finally pulled away with the later vote. Both analyses remember it as one of the contest's best pure matches, notably without rally controversy.

Majora's Mask handled Final Fantasy XII easily and became the only Zelda entry the writeup thought looked genuinely strong in Round Two. The result largely validated its prior Game of the Decade strength.

Majora's Mask crushed Valkyria Chronicles in a routine top-seed blowout and largely matched its prior contest reputation. The writeup's main complaint is that the bracket wasted Majora by placing it near another Zelda heavyweight.

Majora's Mask carried its momentum into the final and built enough of an early advantage to survive Brawl's later daytime recovery. The writeup frames the result as both a Good-vs-Evil fanbase victory and a symbolic win for older games over newer ones.

Final Fantasy X controlled much of the first half, Majora's Mask mounted a huge daytime comeback, and FFX nearly answered again late. The writeup calls it the best match of the contest and a throwback to the site's classic close-match era.

Rally: The writeup says Majora's Mask was rallied more heavily and that its fans pushed harder during the decisive stages of the close semifinal.

Majora's Mask overwhelmed Metal Gear Solid 3 and fully emerged as a credible championship threat. The writeup considers MGS3 the one quarterfinalist that looked clearly out of place this deep in the bracket.

Majora's Mask settled a long-running Zelda-series debate by beating Wind Waker decisively. The writeup argues the result did not require any special contest bandwagon because Majora was simply the more beloved title.

Majora's Mask ended the heavily hyped Pokémon GSC run almost immediately and overturned the comparisons many people had drawn from the prior four-way contest. The writeup treats the result as another major rejection of four-way extrapolation.

Majora's Mask crushed Chrono Cross in a routine second-round blowout. The writeup uses the result mainly to establish a benchmark for Pokémon GSC before their anticipated clash.

Majora's Mask opened with a performance the writeup retrospectively identifies as championship caliber. The result is presented as the first real evidence that the supposedly secondary Zelda title could win the entire contest.

Metal Gear Solid won, but Pokémon RBY remained impressive despite sharing the poll with Gold and Silver and Majora's Mask. The result made MGS look vulnerable for the next round while rehabilitating Majora's Mask somewhat.

LFF: The writeup says Pokémon Gold and Silver leeched heavily from Pokémon RBY and cost the older generation first place against Metal Gear Solid.

Pokémon RBY overwhelmed Majora's Mask in a matchup many expected to be close, immediately elevating Pokémon into the contest's top tier. The two other N64 games were largely squeezed out of relevance.

LFF: The writeup attributes Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark's weak showings partly to heavy N64 and Nintendo overlap in a field led by Majora's Mask and Pokémon.