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entrant = Cloud Strife · contest = Summer 2003 Character Contest — 6 of 1,514 matches
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6 matches
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Poll ▲ | Contest | Round | Division |
Result |
Headline |
SFF |
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Rally |
Cheat |
Pic |
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| 1 |
1313
writeup (md) |
SC2K3 |
Round 1 |
East |
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CATS briefly leads Cloud and creates the CATS Army legend |
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CATS briefly led Cloud at the opening, creating a memorable Board 8 spectacle before Cloud predictably destroyed him. The writeup treats the moment as the birth of the CATS Army and an early milestone in Cloud's long-running difficulty with the board vote.
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| 2 |
1341
writeup (md) |
SC2K3 |
Round 2 |
East |
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Cloud dismisses Auron in a straightforward Square SFF beating |
✓ |
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1 |
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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.
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| 3 |
1355
writeup (md) |
SC2K3 |
Round 3 |
East |
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Cloud crushes Bowser and sharply raises his title stock |
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Cloud destroyed a Bowser whom much of the board had strongly supported, making the scale of the win especially striking. The writeup discusses a severe picture mismatch but stops short of attributing the result primarily to it.
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| 4 |
1362
writeup (md) |
SC2K3 |
Division Final |
East |
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Cloud destroys Sonic and ignites serious Cloud-over-Link talk |
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Cloud turned a briefly hopeful Sonic challenge into a devastating rout, confirming Sonic's decline and dramatically raising expectations for Cloud against Link. The writeup treats this as the point where Cloud's 2003 strength became impossible to dismiss.
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| 5 |
1365
writeup (md) |
SC2K3 |
Semifinal |
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Cloud topples Link in the contest's defining upset |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
3 |
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Cloud shocked the contest by beating the seemingly invincible Link after taking control almost immediately and resisting the expected Zelda day-vote comeback. Heavy rallying, cheating allegations, and a disputed picture imbalance became part of the explanation for one of the contest's defining upsets.
Rally · Cheat · Pic: The writeup says both sides engaged in heavy rallying and records widespread cheating accusations, while treating those accusations as roughly symmetric blame rather than proven fraud. It also says Link's Wind Waker image versus Cloud's Kingdom Hearts image may have cost Link a small but meaningful amount of support.
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| 6 |
1367
writeup (md) |
SC2K3 |
Final |
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Cloud beats Sephiroth to complete his championship run |
✓ |
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Cloud recovered from Sephiroth's early lead and won a final that the writeup says was less competitive than the ending suggested. It frames the result as the culmination of Cloud's strengthened post-Kingdom Hearts standing and likely same-fanbase suppression of Sephiroth.
SFF: The writeup says SFF likely had the most to do with Cloud beating fellow Final Fantasy VII character Sephiroth, and treats their later rematch as confirmation that Sephiroth was suppressed here.
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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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