(7)Banjo-Kazooie vs (10)Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn 2015

Ulti's Analysis
Before this contest a lot of people were hyping Banjo-Kazooie up for a deep run, and why not? You had Xenoblade, Donkey Kong Country 2, Fire Emblem Awakening, Mario Maker, Banjo-Kazooie and Symphony of the Night all sitting there in one eightpack. any of them had a shot.

Xenoblade and Mario Maker obviously lost in round 1, but Banjo-Kazooie was able to pull off a loss even in winning. Things started great, no doubt, when it had more than 70% of the vote early. That's the type of performance one would expect from a game looking to win three matches in a contest like this. You blow out the garbage early and keep it moving.

But then it decided to go and lose 8% throughout the course of the day, against whatever the hell Baulder's Gate 2 is. These are joke trends, and to do it against a game no one on GameFAQs has heard of or cares about is awful. This thing didn't have a prayer of beating Symphony of the Night, a game with legitimate contest strength that's been doing this for years, after a performance like this. This was a terrible showing, and did not do much to prove that Banjo-Kazooie was actually some hidden powerhouse that was just hidden by SFF for all these years.