(2)The Last of Us vs (15)Halo 3 2015

Ulti's Analysis
There isn't a whole lot to say about this match outside of LOL SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/4075-north-division-round-1-halo-3-vs-super-mario-sunshine

Gauging brand new games or contest entrants is hard to do, though we all knew this match wouldn't be much. This match was a blowout to start, and a doubling to finish. Easy peasy. I can't comment on Last of Us, outside of KP telling me I'd love it and that I need to get around to playing it one of these days. Given my massive backlog, that might even happen one of these years!

What I will do instead is wax poetic about Halo being garbage on this site, and I enjoy that casual stuff isn't popular here. If we're being honest with each other, none of us hardcore gamers really feel like casual gamers are "real gamers" for whatever reason. At a deep level, I'm positive a lot of gamers have been bullied and casual stuff like Halo and Grand Theft Auto are reminders of those people. It's a deep conversation to have, but it's probably very close to the truth of why casual stuff is not popular on this site and gets anti-voted to death. GameFAQs is basically a 90s fan site. Gaming was not exactly a socially acceptable hobby in the 90s. I'm sure other reasons exist for why casual stuff doesn't do well here, but "gamers like to anti-vote anything frat boys like" is as good a reason as I can think of. I'm all ears though if anyone can think of anything better (outside most casual games being absolute garbage, which is just a given at this point).

Anyway, outside of one Master Chief run that happened on the back of the fourway format and Halo 3 hype, the self destruction of Halo has been long, topped only by the GTA series, hilarious to watch, and it all began when something named Felix got 47% on Master Chief in 2003.

Since then, we've seen some absolute gems from the Halo series:

-Halo's legendary 1 seed choke job against Starcraft -Chief's legendary choke job against Frog -Halo 3 getting last place in round 2 in 2009, in a match that was pretty winnable for it -Chief's choke job against Sub-Zero one year after the Donkey Kong comeback -Chief losing to Yuna in 2013 after beating the pants off of her in 2007

And, of course, the most hilarious Master Chief match we'll ever get: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3805-mushroom-division-round-2-ryu-hayabusa-vs-master-chief

There have been bright spots here and there, don't get me wrong, but the fact that people entertained Minecraft beating Halo this year really says a lot. Halo is dead on this site, outside of the original having marginal respect. Halo 3, like we saw in this match, is just a bottom-feeder.