(4)The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess vs (13)Shenmue 2010

Ulti's Analysis
Board 8 sure does, so when Zelda went completely berserk in a day match against fodder as it's prone to do now and then, people lost their s*** and started whining about ZeldaFAQs and Zelda Always Wins and etc etc etc. Compound this with Shenmue ans being some of the biggest crybabies on the planet -- You guys seriously expected it to beat Zelda when it only got 25% against Final Fantasy X, really? -- and you had one of the worst matches of the contest. Not because the match was bad per se, but the board was completely intolerable. It was almost as bad as the "WHY ISN'T DEUS EX WINNING BY MORE!?!?@?!?@!?" crowd. Almost.

And this was before -- long before -- Majora's Mask went apes*** all over the bracket. But to be completely fair, this was a godlike performance from Twilight Princess that legitimately did call into question the looming Smash match. Zelda 1 on 1 is no joke, and does anyone really think Twilight Princess wouldn't have beaten Final Fantasy X had they met in the final?