AI Match Summaries

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Filtered: entrant = Mario · round = Division Final   — 6 of 1,514 matches   show all

6 matches

# Poll ▼ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 3844
writeup (md)
CB VIII Division Final Mushroom
Mario 58.4%
Mega Man 41.6%
Mario stops Mega Man's comeback to elite form

Mega Man's excellent run made the divisional final look more interesting than it had pre-contest, but Mario still won as expected. The writeup treats the result as another example of Mario resisting would-be upsets regardless of surrounding form.

2 3293
writeup (md)
CB VII Division Final Division 2
Mario 32.7%
Luigi 15.9%
Mario suppresses Luigi while Mega Man X advances 1

Mario and Mega Man X advanced after an early fight that briefly made another Mario upset look possible. Luigi's collapse under Mario's presence removed the feared family interference and left Liquid out as well.

SFF: The writeup says Mario directly SFFed Luigi, leaving his brother far weaker than his standalone strength and clearing the way for Mega Man X to advance.

3 2913
writeup (md)
CB VI Division Final Division 3
Sephiroth 45.9%
Mario 35.1%
Big Boss 11.0%
Sephiroth handles Mario while Mario crushes Fox's support 1

Sephiroth beat Mario comfortably in a result that had become predictable by match day. The more notable secondary story was Fox collapsing in Mario's presence after looking strong against Nintendo opposition earlier.

SFF: The writeup says Mario heavily suppressed fellow Nintendo entrant Fox, leaving Fox far weaker than his prior-round performance suggested.

4 2114
writeup (md)
SC2K5 Division Final Mushroom
Mario 62.9%
Zero 37.1%
Mario SFFs Zero and strengthens his case as tournament favorite 1

Mario turned a mildly debated division final into an immediate rout of Zero. The writeup treats the result as a major SFF statement and a warning that Mario and Nintendo were much stronger than the old statistics suggested.

SFF: The writeup explicitly calls Mario's win an SFF beatdown and argues that Mario was able to suppress Zero far beyond ordinary expectations.

5 1363
writeup (md)
SC2K3 Division Final South
Sephiroth 61.6%
Mario 38.4%
Sephiroth demolishes Mario and crystallizes the Kingdom Hearts Factor

Sephiroth unexpectedly demolished Mario in what had been expected to resemble the previous year's Mario-Cloud classic. The result became the writeup's clearest evidence yet for a broad Kingdom Hearts-era boost to several Square characters.

6 996
writeup (md)
SC2K2 Division Final North
Mario 50.1%
Mario edges Cloud in a historic and deeply controversial comeback 2

Cloud controlled much of the match before Mario mounted a comeback aided by unusually favorable circumstances and outside attention. The close finish, enormous board reaction, rallying, and unresolved cheating allegations made the match the writeup's choice for the greatest contest match ever.

Rally · Cheat: The writeup credits Mario's comeback partly to a Planet GameCube link and widespread vote solicitation, explicitly treating those efforts as rallying. It also describes alleged proxy voting and supposed vote-stuffing admissions, while emphasizing that the cheating claims were never proven.

What this is

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