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Filtered: entrant = The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt   — 9 of 1,514 matches   show all

9 matches

# Poll ▼ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 8041
writeup (md)		 GOTD 2 Final —
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 55.9%
 Breath of the Wild wins despite a heavy Witcher rally ✓ 1

Breath of the Wild completed its dominant championship run, but Witcher 3's rally made the final substantially more respectable than the opening suggested. The writeup treats Witcher as the contest's breakout star even in defeat.

Rally: The writeup says Witcher 3 fans rallied heavily throughout the final and materially cut Breath of the Wild's natural margin, even though the rally never put the winner in danger.
2 8040
writeup (md)		 GOTD 2 Semifinal —
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 55.2%
 Witcher 3 beats Skyrim and completes its pre-final rise

The Witcher 3 beat Skyrim comfortably in the semifinal after spending the entire contest steadily overturning pre-contest expectations. The writeup attributes Witcher's rise to several reinforcing factors, including Netflix exposure, broader respect, Switch availability and Bethesda fatigue, while treating possible SFF as only speculative.
3 8037
writeup (md)		 GOTD 2 Quarterfinal —
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 56.5%
Persona 5 43.5%
 Witcher 3 absorbs Persona 5's rally and wins ✓ 1

The Witcher 3 beat Persona 5 after an entertaining opening and confirmed that even a major Persona push was not enough to threaten it. The result sent Witcher into the semifinal looking almost untouchable.

Rally: The writeup says Persona 5 rallied heavily from the opening and received roughly hundreds of outside votes, though The Witcher 3 repeatedly absorbed the pushes and pulled away.
4 8031
writeup (md)		 GOTD 2 Division Final Division 5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 64.5%
 Witcher 3 SFFs God of War and looks unstoppable ✓ 1

The Witcher 3 crushed God of War far more severely than expected and looked completely secure on its path to the final. The writeup attributes part of the rout to overlapping Western audiences while still crediting Witcher's genuine strength.

SFF: The writeup explicitly says some form of SFF occurred between The Witcher 3 and God of War because of their overlapping Western open-world audience, while warning that the effect was probably overestimated.
5 8019
writeup (md)		 GOTD 2 Round 3 Division 5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 60.6%
 Witcher 3 beats Galaxy 2 and keeps rolling

The Witcher 3 beat Super Mario Galaxy 2 after a briefly entertaining opening and again looked stronger than expected. Galaxy 2 still performed well enough to confirm that its earlier blowouts were not purely weak-opponent artifacts.
6 7995
writeup (md)		 GOTD 2 Round 2 Division 5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 78.4%
 Witcher 3 SFFs Mass Effect 3 into oblivion ✓ 1

The Witcher 3 obliterated Mass Effect 3 and looked increasingly untouchable in the lower half of the bracket. The writeup treats the scale of the rout as partly fanbase suppression and partly genuine elite strength.

SFF: The writeup says The Witcher 3 suppressed Mass Effect 3 through what became known as Western SFF, with their overlapping Western RPG audience making the blowout even larger.
7 7947
writeup (md)		 GOTD 2 Round 1 Division 5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 84.1%
 The Witcher 3 SFFs Odyssey and looks elite ✓ 1

The Witcher 3 obliterated Assassin's Creed Odyssey and immediately looked transformed from its 2015 form. The writeup treats the result as a championship-level statement even if some of the margin came from overlap.

SFF: Ctes explicitly says The Witcher 3 held the SFF hammer over Assassin's Creed Odyssey because of their overlapping open-world appeal and that the effect hit hard.
8 6141
writeup (md)		 BGE 2K15 Round 2 Division VII
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 54.2%
 MGS2 survives the Witcher rally that never happened

Metal Gear Solid 2 narrowly beat The Witcher 3 despite widespread attempts by Witcher fans to attract outside support. The writeup stresses that the hoped-for developer rally never materialized, making the result a case study in how difficult successful rallying can be.
9 6103
writeup (md)		 BGE 2K15 Round 1 Division VII
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 74.2%
 The Witcher 3 opens with rare modern-game strength

The Witcher 3 crushed The Binding of Isaac and looked unusually strong for a current-year release. The writeup also flags the game's known rally potential as a future threat, but no rally was needed in this match.

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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