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.
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Filtered:
entrant = 1998 · contest = Best Year in Gaming (2017) — 5 of 1,514 matches
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5 matches
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Poll ▲ | Contest | Round | Division |
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6702
writeup (md) |
Best Year |
Round 1 |
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1998 opens like the obvious contest favorite |
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1998 is presented as the overwhelming contest favorite and treated as championship caliber from its first appearance. The writeup deliberately saves most of its 1998 retrospective for the final while giving 1993 credit for several beloved cult games.
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6712
writeup (md) |
Best Year |
Round 2 |
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1998 demolishes 1992 and seizes the championship |
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1998 demolished a year centered on A Link to the Past and produced what the writeup calls the best performance of the round. The result is treated as conclusive evidence that only a major rally could stop 1998 from winning the contest.
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6717
writeup (md) |
Best Year |
Quarterfinal |
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1998 SFFs 2003 into the ground |
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1998 produced another enormous late-round blowout and made 2003 look completely outclassed. The writeup treats the result as the year-contest equivalent of a dominant same-fanbase Zelda matchup.
SFF: The writeup explicitly likens 1998's rout of 2003 to a Zelda SFF beating, with Ocarina of Time effectively suppressing a Wind Waker-centered year.
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6719
writeup (md) |
Best Year |
Semifinal |
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1998 cruises through a predictable semifinal |
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1998 comfortably eliminated 1994 in a semifinal that was notable mainly for how predictable the contest had become. The writeup uses the result to compare late-round blowout records rather than to describe any real competitive drama.
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6720
writeup (md) |
Best Year |
Final |
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1998 closes the contest with a historic championship rout |
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1998 ended the contest with a historically dominant championship performance and completed the run the writeup had expected from the start. The analysis turns into a long celebration of the year's unusually deep lineup and of many beloved games finally being attached to a contest winner.
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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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