AI Match Summaries

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Filtered: contest = Character Battle VIII (2010) · round = Round 2   — 32 of 1,514 matches   show all

32 matches

# Poll ▲ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 3794
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Hyrule
Link 71.8%
Alucard 28.2%
Link wins while anti-Link voting becomes noticeable
2 3795
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CB VIII Round 2 Hyrule Red loses respectably and strengthens Pokémon's rise
3 3796
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CB VIII Round 2 Hyrule
Luigi 59.6%
Amaterasu 40.4%
Amaterasu impresses again despite losing to Luigi
4 3797
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CB VIII Round 2 Hyrule
The Boss 46.2%
The Cube advances but its old bandwagon is gone
5 3798
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Chaos Sonic SFFs Knuckles despite old fan-poll results 1
6 3799
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CB VIII Round 2 Chaos
Ganondorf 63.8%
Ken 36.2%
The writeup mostly becomes a Street Fighter IV rant †OT
7 3800
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CB VIII Round 2 Chaos
Kirby 68.4%
GlaDOS 31.6%
Kirby wins but his Sonic upset case collapses
8 3801
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Chaos
Vivi 55.8%
Altair 44.2%
Vivi punctures Altair's breakout hype
9 3802
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Mushroom
Mario 63.2%
Big Boss 36.8%
Another Mario-Big Boss rematch exposes four-way volatility
10 3803
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Mushroom
Ike 51.5%
Daytime format swings a close match toward Ike
11 3804
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Mushroom
Mega Man 61.7%
Zack Fair 38.3%
Mega Man crushes Zack and strengthens his rebound
12 3805
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CB VIII Round 2 Mushroom Ryu Hayabusa creates the Master Flop upset
13 3806
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Heart
Sora 67.8%
Laharl 32.2%
Sora advances but makes Bowser look inevitable
14 3807
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Heart
Bowser 61.7%
Kefka 38.3%
Kefka finally looks respectable against Bowser
15 3808
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CB VIII Round 2 Heart
L-Block 60.5%
Isaac 39.5%
L-Block advances on bracket luck rather than old strength
16 3809
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CB VIII Round 2 Heart
Charizard 54.5%
Kratos 45.5%
Charizard rallies past Kratos and becomes a real threat 1
17 3810
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Varia Samus crushes Jill and raises Cloud upset talk
18 3811
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CB VIII Round 2 Varia
Sub-Zero 59.1%
Roxas 40.9%
Sub-Zero completes another underdog route to Round Three
19 3812
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CB VIII Round 2 Varia
Jecht 56.2%
Ratchet 43.8%
Ratchet surprises despite another Jecht win
20 3813
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CB VIII Round 2 Varia
Zelda 62.1%
Zelda kills the Ezio upset hype immediately
21 3814
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Midgar Cloud rebounds while Chris collapses under likely SFF 1
22 3815
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Midgar
Riku 47.5%
Captain Falcon validates himself as Kingdom Hearts slips
23 3816
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Midgar
Sackboy 35.2%
Leon advances but loses his upset hype
24 3817
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CB VIII Round 2 Midgar
Ryu 50.4%
Dante 49.6%
Olympic hockey creates the memorable Hockey Factor †OT
25 3818
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CB VIII Round 2 Gear Snake shrugs off another weak board vote
26 3819
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Gear
Pikachu 61.0%
Shepard's Mass Effect 2 boost survives a Pikachu test
27 3820
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Gear
Auron 56.7%
Zero 43.3%
Auron meets expectations while Zero restores some credibility
28 3821
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Gear Terra makes Squall look unexpectedly vulnerable
29 3822
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CB VIII Round 2 Jenova
Sephiroth 62.7%
Vincent exposes Sephiroth's growing anti-vote problem
30 3823
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CB VIII Round 2 Jenova
Missingno 51.5%
Yoshi 48.5%
Missingno rallies past Yoshi but wins on real strength 1
31 3824
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CB VIII Round 2 Jenova
Big Daddy 54.4%
Ness 45.6%
Big Daddy overcomes Ness after a close opening
32 3825
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Jenova Tifa ends Gordon Freeman's revived hype

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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