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Breath of the Wild crushed Majora's Mask in the post-contest bonus between the winners of two Game of the Decade contests. The writeup is split on whether the same-series matchup involved meaningful SFF, so the cause is left unresolved rather than tagged.

Ocarina of Time again beat Final Fantasy VII in their recurring bonus rivalry, and the gap continued moving in Zelda's favor. The writeup treats the result as another painful marker of FFVII's long-term decline.

Pokémon RBY beat Super Mario 64 in a bonus poll pairing two games previously eliminated by Undertale. The result strengthened the writeup's belief that Pokémon had become stronger than any of the major Mario games.

Chrono Trigger comfortably beat Final Fantasy VI in a bonus matchup between fallen top seeds. The writeup specifically notes that the result did not look like the massive SFF beating one might expect from two closely related Square classics.

Melee easily beat Super Mario RPG in the third-place bonus poll, with almost no movement across the day. The writeup treats the result as a useful but low-stakes validation of Melee's strong contest form.

Link beat Snake in the post-contest bonus despite several Snake cuts, giving GameFAQs a more traditional closing matchup after the Draven controversy. The writeup treats Link's win as clear but notes that Snake still looked unusually strong.

Mega Man won the bonus as Mewtwo and Pikachu split Pokémon support. Mewtwo nevertheless beat Pikachu in their internal comparison, adding another wrinkle to the series hierarchy.

SFF: The writeup says the two Pokémon entrants heavily suppressed each other, allowing Mega Man to win the bonus match comfortably.

Mario comfortably settled the old rivalry with Crono in a bonus poll despite the presence of Mega Man X. The writeup treats the result as final confirmation that their classic debate was long over.

LFF: The writeup says Mega Man X stole votes from Mario and also notes some SNES-era overlap around Crono, with Mario believed to be hurt more by the third entrant.

The bonus poll deliberately matched the three weakest Round One entrants, with Chester completing his intended quest to become the contest's ultimate futility benchmark. Caim won the meaningless race at the top.

The non-bracket bonus became the contest's true classic, with the trainers and Cloud/Sephiroth trading leads, stalling for hours, and reaching a tied late update before Pokémon survived by a handful of votes. The writeup ranks it among the best contest matches ever.

Rally: The writeup says rallies occurred during the match and describes Pokémon rallying especially hard in the final hour as the lead repeatedly changed.

Santa Claus performed respectably against Link in the Christmas bonus despite never being treated as a real upset threat. The writeup uses the match to argue for a future contest that allows broader fictional characters.

The 1v1 bonus rematch again belonged to Ocarina of Time, reinforcing the championship result against Final Fantasy VII. The writeup also uses the high-turnout rematch to argue strongly for returning future contests to 1v1 brackets.

The bonus poll was built around the joke of Link facing alternate versions of himself. CD-I Link briefly rode the novelty vote before Classic Link overwhelmed the field, producing a record-setting and deliberately absurd finish.

SFF: The writeup calls this the strongest SFF case imaginable: Classic Link suppressed other versions of the same character, including Young Link, Toon Link and CD-I Link.

The bonus poll gave the contest's joke objects one last showcase, with ? Block mounting a comeback against the newly crowned L-Block. The writeup treats the result as amusing backlash rather than anything that diminished L-Block's championship.