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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: entrant = Cloud Strife · round = Round 2   — 7 of 1,528 matches   show all

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# Poll ▲ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 975
writeup (md)		 SC2K2 Round 2 North
Cloud Strife 79.5%
Pikachu 20.5%
 Cloud crushes Pikachu as early vote tracking takes shape

Cloud overwhelmed Pikachu and looked substantially stronger than Mario had through the same stage of the bracket. The match also became notable for Solarshadow's early vote-tracking work, a precursor to later poll-update culture.
2 1341
writeup (md)		 SC2K3 Round 2 East
Cloud Strife 72.2%
Auron 27.8%
 Cloud dismisses Auron in a straightforward Square SFF beating ✓ 1

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.
3 1758
writeup (md)		 SC2K4 Round 2 Midgar
Cloud Strife 81.4%
Vyse 18.6%
 Cloud beats Vyse but loses ground in the Link comparison

Cloud disposed of Vyse exactly as expected, leaving little to discuss beyond comparisons with Link. The writeup argues that merely meeting expectations was no longer enough because Link had been exceeding his own.
4 2897
writeup (md)		 CB VI Round 2 Division 2
Cloud Strife 56.1%
Kefka 13.2%
 Fenix rides the day vote past Ocelot for second

Cloud dominated as expected, while the real contest was a three-way fight for the other advancing position. Marcus Fenix used his strong daytime trend to erase Ocelot's advantage and complete the comeback.
5 3287
writeup (md)		 CB VII Round 2 Division 6
Cloud Strife 53.5%
Mewtwo 16.9%
Midna 16.2%
Pac-Man 13.4%
 Cloud dominates while Mewtwo quietly survives Midna

Cloud overwhelmed the field, while Mewtwo held off Midna for the other advancing position without the race ever becoming the epic duel its closeness suggested. The writeup sees Cloud's dominance as the larger statement.
6 3814
writeup (md)		 CB VIII Round 2 Midgar
Cloud Strife 72.0%
 Cloud rebounds while Chris collapses under likely SFF ✓ 1

Cloud rebounded from his weak first-round showing and dominated an RE5-boosted Chris far more decisively than expected. The writeup treats fanbase overlap as the most plausible explanation for Chris collapsing so badly.

SFF: The writeup says Final Fantasy VII-over-Resident Evil SFF is the likeliest explanation for Chris Redfield performing worse against Cloud than Ridley had.
7 5237
writeup (md)		 CB IX Round 2 Division 5
Cloud Strife 49.5%
Frog 27.7%
Lugia 22.8%
 Frog beats Lugia despite Cloud vote drain ✓ 1

Cloud won comfortably while Frog overcame an early Lugia lead and took second in the Expert Challenge ordering despite sharing some Square support with Cloud. Lugia's collapse weakened the broader PokéFEAR narrative.

LFF: The writeup says Cloud was stealing support from Frog, making Frog's recovery past Lugia more impressive.

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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