(8)CATS vs (11)Ness vs (20)Locke Cole 2013

Ulti's Analysis
This was one of those matches that seemed difficult on paper pre-contest, with loads of people not knowing what was up, to becoming a fairly easy match to predict once people actually bothered looking at it. For one, CATS is fodder garbage and always will be. He'd probably even lose a match intentionally set up for him to win--

http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/(4)Ansem_vs_(5)CATS_2005

Oh.

The other debate was Locke vs Ness, because Old Square has boosted like anything since Dissidia happened and people thought Locke could pull off the upset. But there were two issues with that. One, Locke was not in either Dissidia. And two, I'm not sure Locke wins this even if he was in Dissidia.

We only have what we have, however, so you get Ness against no-Dissidia Locke, which I would equate to Celes. 2010 Ness vs 2006 Celes gets us with 70%.

I know cross-referring old stats is unreliable, but Ness would ultimately end up scoring 60% on Celes in this poll and we're only concerned about who wins. This match was done within 5 minutes of it beginning for a reason: without Dissidia, Old Square still sucks in contests.