AI Match Summaries

One-line AI headline and voting-anomaly flags for every contest match, from a ChatGPT pass over the Board 8 wiki writeups (CC BY-SA 3.0). Machine-generated — may contain mistakes. The full narrative shows under each row (hide narratives).

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Filtered: entrant = Mario · round = Round 2   — 8 of 1,514 matches   show all

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# Poll ▲ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 972
writeup (md)
SC2K2 Round 2 North
Mario 66.8%
Mario wins again but leaves doubts before Cloud

Mario defeated Morrigan without serious trouble, yet the writeup viewed it as a second straight underwhelming performance compared with the contest's other elite characters. Cloud's next result therefore took on added importance for their expected meeting.

2 1345
writeup (md)
SC2K3 Round 2 South
Mario 55.1%
Mario beats Shadow but suddenly looks vulnerable to Crono

Mario beat Shadow but performed so poorly that the result immediately fueled Crono upset talk. The writeup speculates that a reverse-SFF effect may explain Shadow's unusually strong showing, but treats the mechanism as uncertain.

3 1753
writeup (md)
SC2K4 Round 2 Hyrule
Mario 70.7%
Bowser 29.3%
Mario routs Bowser in another bracket-driven SFF mismatch 1

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.

4 2098
writeup (md)
SC2K5 Round 2 Mushroom
Mario 82.8%
Ness 17.2%
Mario obliterates Ness with exceptionally strong SFF 1

Mario annihilated Ness in a result the writeup treats as an extreme SFF beating. The performance strengthened Mario's championship case while making Ness's earlier upset over CJ look even stranger statistically.

SFF: The writeup explicitly says Mario SFFed Ness and argues that the suppression was even stronger than prior same-fanbase results involving Ness.

5 2900
writeup (md)
CB VI Round 2 Division 3
Mario 46.6%
Big Boss 24.9%
Magus 17.8%
Naked Snake picture sends Big Boss past Magus 1

Mario cruised while Big Boss demolished Magus for the other advancing spot. The writeup treats the newly revealed Naked Snake picture as the defining factor that transformed expectations before the poll even began.

Pic: The writeup calls Big Boss's Naked Snake image one of the clearest picture-factor examples, saying the strong recognizable picture helped turn the matchup against Magus decisively in Big Boss's favor.

6 3279
writeup (md)
CB VII Round 2 Division 2
Mario 31.0%
Zelda 20.1%
Mudkip 18.9%
Mario survives Mega Man X as Mudkip's joke run fades 1

Mega Man X seriously challenged Mario for first before Mario's morning surge reversed the race. Zelda narrowly escaped last place but was eliminated, while Mudkip's inability to reproduce a joke run made the match a turning point for bandwagon expectations.

SFF: The writeup characterizes the all-Nintendo field as a heavily leeched matchup and describes Zelda's elimination as another result shaped by overlapping support.

7 3802
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Mushroom
Mario 63.2%
Big Boss 36.8%
Another Mario-Big Boss rematch exposes four-way volatility

Mario and Big Boss produced yet another rematch, and the writeup uses their history mainly to illustrate how unstable four-way extrapolations can be. The match itself adds little new beyond that comparison.

8 5246
writeup (md)
CB IX Round 2 Division 8
Vivi 41.3%
Mario 41.1%
Ganondorf 17.6%
Vivi shocks Mario in a contest-defining upset 2

Vivi produced one of the contest's defining upsets by holding off repeated Mario comeback attempts and finally eliminating him. Nintendo vote splitting and a modest outside push helped create the opening, but the writeup still celebrates Vivi's composure against Mario's legendary clutch.

LFF · Rally: The writeup says Ganondorf leeched Nintendo support from Mario and that 4chan also rallied Vivi during the close fight.

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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