AI Match Summaries

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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# Poll ▲ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
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BGE 2K9 Round 1 2007-2009 Call of Duty 4 exposes a badly underperforming Galaxy 1

Call of Duty 4 decisively beat Super Mario Galaxy in a result that immediately damaged Galaxy's pre-contest reputation. Even allowing for Pokémon overlap, the writeup sees Galaxy's performance as a major warning before facing Brawl.

LFF: The writeup treats Pokémon Diamond and Pearl's overlapping Nintendo support as a major factor in Super Mario Galaxy's unexpectedly weak performance.

2 3492
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BGE 2K9 Round 2 2007-2009 Brawl destroys Galaxy in a historic SFF beating 1

Brawl annihilated Galaxy and sent Call of Duty 4 through in second, turning Galaxy's disappointing first round into a full collapse. The writeup elevates Brawl into serious finals contention after the result.

SFF: The writeup calls Brawl's suppression of Super Mario Galaxy one of the most meaningful SFF beatings in contest history.

3 4093
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GOTD Round 1 Southeast Galaxy's supposedly weak opener ages very differently

Super Mario Galaxy's opening performance was widely read as disappointing at the time because the opposition was assumed to be very weak. The writeup emphasizes how misleading that interpretation looked once Galaxy's later strength became clear.

4 4145
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GOTD Round 2 Southeast Galaxy wins an oddly weak match against Pokémon RSE

Super Mario Galaxy beat Pokémon RSE but looked much weaker than expected while doing so. The writeup retrospectively treats the result as a strange outlier in an otherwise strong Galaxy contest.

5 4171
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GOTD Division Semifinal Southeast Galaxy loses to Zelda but earns new respect

Twilight Princess eliminated Super Mario Galaxy, but Galaxy performed far better than the old Mario-versus-Zelda history suggested it might. The writeup treats the loss as a moral victory that helped rehabilitate Galaxy's contest reputation.

6 6096
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BGE 2K15 Round 1 Division VI Galaxy wins while Super Metroid steals the spotlight

Super Mario Galaxy handled Dragon Age about as expected, but Super Metroid's simultaneous blowout made the win look ordinary by comparison. The writeup immediately shifted the next-round favorite toward Super Metroid.

7 6137
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BGE 2K15 Round 2 Division VI Super Metroid breaks the Mario hierarchy

Super Metroid crushed Super Mario Galaxy and finally broke the long-standing expectation that Metroid would collapse against Mario. The writeup treats this as a landmark result that ended much of the site's belief in automatic Mario dominance.

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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