(5)KOS-MOS vs (14)Dunban vs (23)Vincent Valentine 2013

In retrospect, the writing was on the wall for Mewtwo > Vincent during this match. But we had no way of knowing that at the time, so this performance was chalked up to all three characters being JRPG types.

Be that as it may, and even with this match destined to be predictable, this was a very bad match for Vincent. Like Barret earlier in round 1, Vincent failed the eye test despite breaking 50% in the poll. Like Barret, Vincent was doing very badly early but rode the FF7 day vote to a percentage recovery later. Like Barret, excuses were made for Vincent.

And like Barret, there was some serious FF7 decline going on here. I know stats for fourways are for entertainment only, but KOS-MOS's last contest was 2008. In 2008, Vincent was projected to score 71% on KOS-MOS.

In 2013, five years later, he gets 60%. There is no amount of hindsight wizardry that can possibly defend that. When I originally made my Sonic > Vincent > Bowser, my logic was FF7 decline. Why people thought Vincent would be immune is something I'll never understand. I just didn't realize it would decline this much. FF7 across the board completely flopped this contest.

Oh and as a complete aside, Adventure in 2004 was our total votes futility record for years. Seeing Dunban only score 3233 and still break 10% was kind of funny.