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entrant = Bowser · round = Round 2 — 10 of 1,514 matches
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10 matches
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Poll ▼ | Contest | Round | Division |
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SFF |
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Rally |
Cheat |
Pic |
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| 1 |
7315
writeup (md) |
CB X |
Round 2 |
Division 4 |
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Bowser avenges Charizard and restores the hierarchy |
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Bowser decisively avenged his old loss to Charizard and ended hopes of another deep Pokémon run from the dragon. The writeup treats Bowser as fully legitimate and Charizard's earlier peak as heavily timing-dependent.
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| 2 |
5230
writeup (md) |
CB IX |
Round 2 |
Division 2 |
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Sub-Zero outlasts The Boss in a strange trend battle |
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Bowser won as expected, but The Boss and Sub-Zero spent most of the match almost perfectly tied for second in the Expert Challenge ordering. Sub-Zero unexpectedly won the evening trend and finally pulled away.
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| 3 |
3807
writeup (md) |
CB VIII |
Round 2 |
Heart |
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Kefka finally looks respectable against Bowser |
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Bowser eventually handled Kefka, but the writeup focuses on how well Kefka held up early after years of weak or badly presented performances. It treats Kefka's broader contest run as a notable revival.
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| 4 |
3278
writeup (md) |
CB VII |
Round 2 |
Division 2 |
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Nintendo vote splitting sends Liquid to first |
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✓ |
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1 |
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Liquid took advantage of a badly divided field to win, while Luigi survived for the other advancing spot and Bowser fell out. The writeup uses the result as another example of four-way fanbase splitting producing strange outcomes.
LFF: The writeup says the Nintendo-oriented support was split among Luigi, Bowser and Phoenix, allowing Liquid Snake to benefit as the outside option.
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| 5 |
2898
writeup (md) |
CB VI |
Round 2 |
Division 2 |
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Ryu beats Bowser again in another four-way mystery |
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Auron looked excellent, but the lasting story was Ryu beating Bowser again even after the Nintendo overlap from their earlier meeting was gone. The writeup finds the result difficult to explain beyond the volatility of the four-way format.
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| 6 |
2545
writeup (md) |
CB2K6 |
Round 2 |
Time |
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Crono handles Bowser but his day vote raises alarms |
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Crono handled Bowser without serious trouble, but his steady daytime decline stood out more than the result itself. The writeup treats the match as another warning that Crono's weak day vote would eventually cost him against stronger opposition.
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| 7 |
2105
writeup (md) |
SC2K5 |
Round 2 |
Dream |
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Bowser handles Ryu as the Gauntlet ends anticlimactically |
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Bowser beat Ryu without the close fight that had once made the matchup a major bracket debate. The writeup treats the anticlimax as one more piece of evidence for a site-wide Nintendo boost and another failure of the Gauntlet hype.
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| 8 |
2005
writeup (md) |
Spring 2K5 |
Round 2 |
Mushroom |
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Bowser destroys Sigma and strengthens the new-voting-trend debate |
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Bowser crushed Sigma and deepened the sense that the villains contest was producing strength patterns unlike prior character contests. The writeup treats Sigma as one of the event's biggest disappointments and Bowser as increasingly formidable.
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| 9 |
1753
writeup (md) |
SC2K4 |
Round 2 |
Hyrule |
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Mario routs Bowser in another bracket-driven SFF mismatch |
✓ |
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Mario routed Bowser in another predetermined Hyrule Division matchup, with the writeup again criticizing the bracket for sacrificing strong villains to company-based pairings. The result's main use was as an imperfect SFF comparison before Mario met Crono.
SFF: The writeup says Bowser was SFF'd heavily by Mario in their same-franchise matchup, and treats the result mainly as a distorted comparison point for the upcoming Mario-Crono rematch.
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| 10 |
1342
writeup (md) |
SC2K3 |
Round 2 |
East |
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Bowser overturns Yoshi expectations with an SFF victory |
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Bowser quickly erased Yoshi's brief opening lead and won a matchup most of the board had expected Yoshi to take. The writeup treats the result as both an upset of prevailing assumptions and a clear SFF performance.
SFF: The writeup says Bowser caught Yoshi and then laid an SFF beatdown on him, overturning expectations built from an earlier favorite-Mario-character poll.
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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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