AI Match Summaries

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Filtered: entrant = Link · round = Round 2   — 7 of 1,514 matches   show all

7 matches

# Poll ▼ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 5225
writeup (md)
CB IX Round 2 Division 1
Link 60.0%
Raiden 22.1%
Yoshi 17.9%
Link SFFs Yoshi as Raiden takes second 1

Link won comfortably while Raiden secured second after Yoshi faded under heavy Nintendo overlap. The writeup also treats Link's low turnout as another sign that voters were tiring of his dominance.

SFF: The writeup says Yoshi tried to resist Link's SFF but could not stay competitive, allowing Raiden to take second in the Expert Challenge ordering.

2 3794
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Hyrule
Link 71.8%
Alucard 28.2%
Link wins while anti-Link voting becomes noticeable

Link beat Alucard comfortably but looked weaker than the writeup expected for a second straight match. The commentary identifies growing anti-Link voting as a new factor even though it was not yet threatening his championship path.

3 3276
writeup (md)
CB VII Round 2 Division 1
Link 53.3%
Zack Fair 23.9%
Wario 10.6%
ZackFAQs takes off behind another dominant Link win 1

Link dominated, but the match is remembered as the real beginning of ZackFAQs. Zack's convincing advancement transformed him from a promising newcomer into one of the contest's central bandwagon stories.

SFF: The writeup says Link SFFed Wario into irrelevance, leaving the meaningful race to Zack and Zidane.

4 2901
writeup (md)
CB VI Round 2 Division 4
Link 51.2%
Bidoof 13.3%
Zelda 7.8%
Bidoof's suspected offsite push briefly terrifies Vincent 2

Link and Vincent ultimately advanced comfortably, but Bidoof briefly turned the match into chaos by challenging Vincent early and even beating Link in the opening vote. The writeup remembers the surge as one of the contest's most surreal joke-character moments.

Rally · Cheat: The writeup attributes Bidoof's extraordinary early surge to suspected offsite rallying, especially from 4chan, and also records suspicions of vote stuffing.

5 1750
writeup (md)
SC2K4 Round 2 Hyrule
Link 87.9%
Ganondorf 12.1%
Link obliterates Ganondorf in a historic SFF mismatch 1

Link annihilated Ganondorf so thoroughly that the writeup treats the result as both a historic SFF extreme and a championship statement. Ganondorf's standalone strength effectively vanished against the flagship character of his own series.

SFF: The writeup calls Link's destruction of fellow Zelda character Ganondorf the largest SFF beating yet seen, arguing that Ganondorf's normal strength was almost completely suppressed by Link.

6 1337
writeup (md)
SC2K3 Round 2 North
Link 82.5%
Link overwhelms Fox despite another heavy Nintendo SFF matchup 1

Link opened the second round by overwhelming Fox and reinforcing his status as the contest favorite. The writeup acknowledges heavy Nintendo SFF but says the performance still looked dominant enough to keep repeat-title expectations intact.

SFF: The writeup explicitly treats Link's rout of fellow Nintendo entrant Fox as an SFF result, while arguing that the size of the win remained impressive despite the overlap.

7 983
writeup (md)
SC2K2 Round 2 South
Link 75.8%
Link cruises through another overmatched South Division opponent

Link crushed Strider in a match the writeup considered completely predetermined. The main takeaway was that Link looked like one of the strongest title favorites while facing little meaningful resistance in his division.

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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