(10)Halo: Combat Evolved vs (2)Final Fantasy VII 2015

Ulti's Analysis
It's a shame Minecraft didn't manage to upset Halo in round 1, because Minecraft in this spot could have been hilarious. Not that the match wasn't hilarious with Halo here, but it was for the opposite reason. Here we had a match between two games that are historically anti-voted to hell, and it led to one of the funniest blowouts ever.

As fate would have it, there are actually games out there that FF7 can avoid anti-votes against. Halo 1 is clearly one of those games, and this match was such a merciless beating that it tricked us all into thinking FF7 was fine this contest. Don't forget that before this contest happened, a ton of people picked FF7 to lose early -- and by "lose early", I mean not make the final. The guru picks tell the story better than I ever could: http://thengamer.com/guru/stats.php?match=125

When FF7 went out there and beat Halo so badly that it overshot most Oracle predictions, people noticed. This was the FF7 of old that took no prisoners and absolutely annihilated the 2004 contest. I know Halo anti-votes were a huge part of that, but this was probably FF7's best match of the entire contest. This match happened before things like rallies and "sharing the front page with Undertale", and was probably FF7's maximum natural strength on full display. We'll get into the sheer madness of Melee/FF7/Undertale/Mario 64 in due time, but for now this was just a massive celebration for us FF7 fans. We had to watch one upset after another, and seeing it just beat the shit out of Halo was awesome. Don't forget that a lot of us were worried about the game losing to freaking Minecraft.

When you really look at it, this was probably the maximum spot for FF7 hype in this contest. Full remake hype was in full swing, the Cloud announcement for Smash 4 had people going nuts, and this was before "episodic content" ruined everyone's buzz. Worth noting here is for as much as Halo sucks, this was the worst blowout it had ever suffered in a contest.

It's true. Here are all four of Halo's losses:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/1625-division-128-round-1-halo-combat-evolved-vs-starcraft http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3489-division-6-round-2-diablo-iilod-halo-ssbm-zelda-ww http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/4181-north-division-final-fallout-3-vs-halo-combat-evolved http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6122-best-game-ever-day-18-round-2-halo-combat-evolved-vs-final

Thank you based FF7.