(3)Super Smash Bros. Melee vs (9)Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars 2015

Ulti's Analysis
Allen was nice enough to give us 4 simultaneous bonus polls after this contest, and while none of the matches were particularly good, bonus polls is always better than no bonus polls.

The first bonus poll was a third place battle between Melee and Super Mario RPG, which was over in about 10 seconds and stayed at 63-37 for the entire 24 hour time period. The fun there is that there wasn't a massive percentage bleed overnight by SMRPG, which suggests that these games have identical trends.

This match meant little outside of a posthumous third place title, though it was nice to see Melee beasting one final time this contest. It also made for some very fun comparisons. In 2004, Chrono Trigger scored 67.06% on Super Mario RPG. In this contest, Ocarina scored 67.38%. Those results were both rally-free, and were very close to what Melee got here in the bonus poll. I know bonus polls are often wonky, but this was close enough to what CT and Ocarina got to legitimize Melee in my view. The Chrono Trigger win wasn't some fluke, and a hyper-rallied Melee clearly would have annihilated Ocarina in the final had it gotten past Undertale. For me, who lists Melee as the second-best game ever made behind Final Fantasy Tactics, it was an awesome consolation prize.