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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.

Sonic beat Auron without serious danger, but the writeup considers the showing weak for a Noble Nine character. Auron's respectable resistance reinforced doubts about Sonic's 2018 form.

Auron finally ended Geralt's string of close wins and claimed the division, though Geralt remained competitive enough to validate his newcomer run. The writeup treats the result as the natural endpoint once Geralt met a proven upper-midcarder.

Auron beat Sub-Zero in another remarkably similar rematch between two characters who had repeatedly met before. The writeup finds the consistency more interesting than the outcome itself.

Auron comfortably beat Vincent and reinforced the writeup's view that Vincent had fallen sharply from his mid-2000s peak. Board 8 overwhelmingly expected the result despite old faith in Final Fantasy VII's intra-series strength.

Auron comfortably beat Lucina, though Lucina performed well enough to demonstrate the growth of Fire Emblem and Smash-era Nintendo strength. The writeup still regards Auron as the clear favorite to emerge from the division.

Auron controlled stretches of the match, but 4chan's support repeatedly pulled L-Block back and eventually carried the former champion to another upset. The result revived speculation that L-Block could become an anti-Draven rally vehicle.

Rally: The writeup says 4chan rallied L-Block, repeatedly erasing Auron's small leads before eventually pushing the former champion clear.

Auron dominated Roxas and Ocelot, while the infamous Ocelot picture became the main discussion point despite the writeup explicitly rejecting it as enough to explain the result. Auron's strength is treated as the real story.

Squall settled a long-running near-elite debate by beating Auron in a match that finished close but was rarely in serious doubt after the opening exchanges. The writeup treats Squall as clearly the stronger of the two.

Auron won about as comfortably as expected, which the writeup saw as insufficient evidence for an upset of Squall. Zero's respectable showing instead reinforced the idea that his recent weakness had been exaggerated by bad Nintendo-heavy draws.

Auron performed almost exactly where the writeup expected against Aeris, which did little to resolve the larger Auron-versus-Squall debate. The writeup argues that merely meeting expectations was not enough to strengthen Auron's upset case.

Sephiroth and Sonic advanced in a match the writeup considered essentially predetermined once Auron shared the field with Sephiroth. Sonic's solid showing quieted some of the criticism generated by his earlier loss.

SFF: The writeup says Sephiroth SFFed fellow Final Fantasy entrant Auron badly, preventing Auron from reproducing his prior win over Sonic.

Auron decisively beat Sonic in one of the contest's most shocking strength results, even though the format still allowed Sonic to advance. The writeup treats the performance as a genuine breach in the Noble Nine's aura.

Auron and Sub-Zero advanced in the expected order, leaving little suspense at the top. Marcus Fenix's collapse after his prior deep run was the main story and effectively ended his relevance to later contests.

Cloud overwhelmed the field and further fueled speculation that he could challenge Link. Ryu advanced ahead of Auron, with the writeup treating Cloud's effect on Auron as central to the result.

LFF: The writeup says Cloud's shared Final Fantasy support held Auron down, allowing outside entrant Ryu to benefit and claim the other advancing position.

Auron looked excellent, but the lasting story was Ryu beating Bowser again even after the Nintendo overlap from their earlier meeting was gone. The writeup finds the result difficult to explain beyond the volatility of the four-way format.

Auron took an easy first and Shadow an equally safe second, making the main result largely predetermined. The writeup instead focuses on Shadow looking much weaker than expected and Pyramid Head unexpectedly beating Chris Redfield for third.

Crono controlled Auron but again lost ground as the day progressed, making the match feel like another warning rather than a meaningful test. The writeup treats it as the quiet end of the divisional rounds before the contest suddenly became historic.

Auron comfortably ended Sub-Zero's brief upset run in a match the writeup considered predictable. Most of the retrospective discussion uses the result to argue that Sub-Zero had nevertheless proved himself more deserving of contest attention than Scorpion.

Auron beat Alucard comfortably, continuing a long decline from Alucard's early-contest upset reputation. The writeup is left debating whether Alucard had truly weakened or whether earlier statistical distortions had simply hidden his real level.

Ganondorf beat Auron more comfortably than the pre-match debate suggested, turning the first match of the much-hyped Gauntlet into an anticlimax. The writeup still credits Auron with legitimate strength while sending Ganondorf onward to Samus.

Auron cruised past Big Boss in what the writeup treats mostly as a preview of Auron's coming match with Ganondorf. Big Boss's poor picture is singled out as a reason not to read too much into the size of the win.

Pic: The writeup argues that Big Boss's unrecognizable cartoon-style picture hurt him and that a recognizable Naked Snake image would have performed better against Auron.

Sephiroth beat Auron exactly as the bracket seemed designed to produce, leaving little suspense. The writeup's main takeaway is that Sephiroth looked clearly weaker than Cloud against a common opponent.

Auron beat Ness in a result everyone expected, but Ness performed better than the old projections suggested. The writeup treats the outcome as another example of the bracket making individual strength difficult to interpret.

Auron beat Scorpion much more decisively than prior standings suggested and suddenly looked substantially stronger than expected. The writeup interprets the result mainly through possible distortion in Auron's previous Cloud matchup and Scorpion's continuing decline.

Cloud comfortably dismissed Auron in a match some had hoped could produce a same-company upset. Instead, the writeup says conventional SFF took over and strengthened the case that Cloud sat near the top of Square's hierarchy.

SFF: The writeup explicitly describes Cloud's victory over fellow Final Fantasy entrant Auron as an SFF beating that overwhelmed any hoped-for reverse-SFF upset effect.

Auron comfortably beat Tails despite substantial board sentiment that favored the Sonic character. The writeup remembers the match as Auron's strong contest debut and an early indication that Tidus's unpopularity did not extend to him.