AI Match Summaries

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Filtered: contest = Character Battle VIII (2010) · round = Round 1   — 64 of 1,514 matches   show all

64 matches

# Poll ▲ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 3730
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule
Link 79.8%
Thrall 20.2%
Link wins easily as 1v1 contests return
2 3731
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule
Alucard 58.5%
Magus 41.5%
Alucard crushes Magus in a supposedly even matchup
3 3732
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule Red comes back late to edge Revolver Ocelot
4 3733
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule Mega Man X exposes a badly misseeded opener
5 3734
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule
Luigi 65.7%
Luigi advances as Meta Knight draws another Nintendo trap 1
6 3735
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule
Amaterasu 52.6%
Amaterasu beats Shadow and deepens Sonic Team doubts
7 3736
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule
Sandal 21.9%
The Cube demolishes an overmatched Sandal
8 3737
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CB VIII Round 1 Hyrule
The Boss 52.4%
The Boss quietly upsets Nathan Drake
9 3738
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos
Lightning 36.1%
Sonic wins but sparks serious upset speculation
10 3739
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos Knuckles beats Cecil but looks alarmingly weak
11 3740
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos
Ganondorf 58.6%
Mewtwo 41.4%
Ganondorf wins routinely but fails to build Sonic hype
12 3741
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos
Ken 50.3%
Ken comes back on Wesker in a rare fun thriller
13 3742
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos
Kirby 57.5%
Rikku 42.5%
Kirby wins routinely but weakens his upset case
14 3743
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos
GlaDOS 66.8%
Fawful 33.2%
GLaDOS cruises past Fawful in a quiet match
15 3744
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos
Vivi 56.3%
Vivi repeats his old Donkey Kong win almost exactly
16 3745
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CB VIII Round 1 Chaos
Altair 59.1%
Altair crushes Liquid with a major picture advantage 1
17 3746
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom
Mario 81.0%
Mario buries Falco with overwhelming Nintendo SFF 1
18 3747
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom
Big Boss 76.2%
Big Boss becomes Metal Gear's first-round bright spot
19 3748
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom
Claptrap 35.6%
Zidane wins but damages his upset hopes
20 3749
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom
Ike 62.5%
Prinny 37.5%
Ike outdoes Zidane with an even worse underperformance
21 3750
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom
Mega Man 63.0%
Mega Man continues a strong series-wide rebound
22 3751
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom
Zack Fair 58.6%
Yuna 41.4%
Zack destroys Yuna and validates ZackFAQs again
23 3752
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom Ryu Hayabusa wins but badly disappoints against Crash
24 3753
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CB VIII Round 1 Mushroom
Spy 39.8%
A 4chan Spy rally exposes another Master Chief flop 1
25 3754
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
Sora 63.6%
Midna 36.4%
Sora advances without ever looking dominant
26 3755
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
Laharl 56.3%
Laharl finally earns his first contest win
27 3756
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
Kefka 60.6%
Kefka destroys guru favorite Arthas
28 3757
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
Bowser 63.2%
Frog 36.8%
Bowser handles Frog in an expected result
29 3758
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
L-Block 63.9%
HK-47 36.1%
L-Block wins but looks fully mortal
30 3759
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
Isaac 68.8%
Isaac finally gets his long-awaited first win
31 3760
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
Charizard 64.3%
Charizard crushes Duke and ends the debate quickly
32 3761
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CB VIII Round 1 Heart
Kratos 61.0%
Kratos beats Tails but loses his favorite status
33 3762
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia Samus opens her run with a dominant rout
34 3763
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia Jill crushes Niko as Resident Evil strength rises
35 3764
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia
Roxas 57.0%
Heavy 43.0%
Heavy's 4chan rally dents Roxas without threatening him 1
36 3765
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia
Sub-Zero 53.9%
Tidus 46.1%
Tidus adds another loss to his long pattern
37 3766
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia
Jecht 52.7%
Jecht validates himself as Phoenix disappoints
38 3767
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia
Ratchet 68.4%
Ratchet finally wins against extreme fodder
39 3768
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia
Zelda 70.7%
Zelda advances despite a mild underperformance
40 3769
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CB VIII Round 1 Varia Ezio advances but loses his upset hype
41 3770
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar
Ridley 28.3%
Cloud looks weak while Ridley exceeds expectations 1
42 3771
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar Chris wins as Call of Duty struggles again 1
43 3772
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar
Riku 62.3%
Riku advances cleanly with no warning signs
44 3773
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar
Wander 28.9%
The writeup mostly rants about Wander †OT
45 3774
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar
Vault Boy 39.2%
Vault Boy impresses against an uneven Leon
46 3775
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar
Sackboy 54.6%
Sackboy embarrasses the guru consensus
47 3776
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar
Ryu 69.0%
The writeup mostly attacks Final Fantasy XII †OT
48 3777
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CB VIII Round 1 Midgar
Dante 69.4%
Axel 30.6%
Dante strengthens his case while Kingdom Hearts slips
49 3778
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear
Proto Man 27.6%
Snake wins but again looks strange against Nintendo
50 3779
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear Fox ends his drought against weak Tales opposition
51 3780
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear
Pikachu 75.1%
Banjo 24.9%
Pikachu SFFs Banjo and confirms Pokémon's rise 1
52 3781
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear
Ellis 24.2%
Shepard looks newly legitimate against weak opposition
53 3782
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear
Auron 57.6%
Auron meets expectations without strengthening his Squall case
54 3783
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear
Zero 67.2%
Zero reinforces the Mega Man rebound
55 3784
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear Dissidia-boosted Terra overturns the Revan consensus
56 3785
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CB VIII Round 1 Gear
Akuma 32.0%
Squall offers little evidence before the Auron test
57 3786
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova
Sephiroth 71.8%
Marth 28.2%
Sephiroth opens with an immediate warning sign
58 3787
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova Vincent exposes Guybrush as contest fodder again
59 3788
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova
Yoshi 76.6%
Jak 23.4%
Yoshi cruises through an uneventful matchup
60 3789
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova
Missingno 50.3%
Crono 49.7%
Missingno rallies past Crono in the contest's defining upset 2
61 3790
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova
Big Daddy 61.7%
Big Daddy exposes Soap and Call of Duty hype
62 3791
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova
Ness 64.8%
Geno 35.2%
Ness SFFs Geno and restores his standing 1
63 3792
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova Tifa SFFs another weak Tales entrant 1
64 3793
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CB VIII Round 1 Jenova Gordon survives a glitch but loses his Tifa hype

What this is

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