GameSpy Title Fight 2004

Title Fight was a video game popularity Contest hosted by the website GameSpy in early 2004. The daily polls received quite a bit of attention on Board 8 as a result of this tournament taking place only a month before the GameFAQs version of the same thing, aka the Best. Game. Ever. Contest of Spring '04.

Results and Interesting Matches

 * Super Mario Bros. 3 was the surprise of the bracket, making it all the way to the Final despite GameSpy being heavily biased towards PC shooters. The biggest highlight was Mario's 2 vote victory against overall #1 seeded Doom in a tournament semi-final match that drew over 17,000 voters.  Half-Life then knocked Mario 3 out with 58% of the vote to win the '04 title.
 * Diablo II was the most controversial game of the tourney; it scored a Round Three victory over StarCraft in an incredibly high-scoring match. Afterwards GameSpy discovered that both games had been cheating to inflate their totals and that the DII cheaters had just been a bit more persistent than those for SC.  After new security was put in place to make cheating more difficult, DII was soundly thumped out of the tourney by Half-Life to the tune of 61%.
 * Mario Kart 64 was the Cinderella of Title Fight, reaching the Elite Eight despite having only earned a 5 seed in its division (to be fair though it had a very easy road... the only decent games it had to knock off were Soul Calibur II and Metal Gear Solid).
 * The highlight of R1 was an RPG duel between Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger where CT used a Frog-like "clutch" last hour to pull out a victory of less than 100 votes.
 * The worst blowout of the tournament was suffered by Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow which drew the worst possible opponent in Ocarina of Time and took an 88% SFF beating as a result.

Final Title Fight 2004 X-Stats

 * 1) Half-Life 50.00%
 * 2) Unreal Tournament 47.69%
 * 3) Battlefield 1942 46.22%
 * 4) Counter-Strike 43.20%
 * 5) Mario 3 41.86%
 * 6) Doom 41.85%
 * 7) Diablo 2 39.41%
 * 8) StarCraft 38.77%
 * 9) Halo 38.05%
 * 10) Quake 38.00%
 * 11) Ocarina 36.74%
 * 12) Civ 3 35.24%
 * 13) Deus Ex 34.07%
 * 14) Chrono Trigger 33.52%
 * 15) GTA:VC 33.40%
 * 16) FF7 33.23%
 * 17) MK64 32.91%
 * 18) MGS 31.15%
 * 19) Grim Fandango 29.76%
 * 20) GE 29.75%
 * 21) Sim City 29.08%
 * 22) KotoR 28.93%
 * 23) Fallout 2 28.60%
 * 24) FFT 28.55%
 * 25) Baldur's Gate 2 28.46%
 * 26) Duke 3D 28.40%
 * 27) The Sims 27.23%
 * 28) Tetris 26.75%
 * 29) Street Fighter 2 26.01%
 * 30) Splinter Cell 25.93%
 * 31) Everquest 25.73%
 * 32) TIE Fighter 24.74%
 * 33) Raven Shield 24.19%
 * 34) Super Metroid 24.12%
 * 35) Ultima Online 23.83%
 * 36) WarCraft 3 23.65%
 * 37) Soul Calibur 2 22.78%
 * 38) Quake 2 21.85%
 * 39) Punch Out 21.82%
 * 40) GT3 21.36%
 * 41) Metroid Prime 21.35%
 * 42) System Shock 2 21.14%
 * 43) Sonic 1 20.52%
 * 44) MMX 20.39%
 * CC: Red Alert 20.22%
 * 1) Contra 18.68%
 * 2) MechWarrior 2 18.63%
 * 3) Myst 18.55%
 * 4) Pac-Man 18.14%
 * 5) Jedi Knight 2 18.00%
 * 6) Age of Empires 2 16.51%
 * 7) RE2 15.18%
 * 8) SotN 14.71%
 * 9) Tony Hawk 2 14.36%
 * 10) Donkey Kong 14.24%
 * 11) Madden NFL 13.81%
 * 12) Marathon 12.13%
 * 13) Pong 11.30%
 * 14) SSX 3 9.87 %
 * 15) Pokemon R/B/Y 8.68 %
 * 16) Tomb Raider 8.55 %
 * 17) Virtua Fighter 4 7.82 %
 * 18) Gabriel Knight 2 7.61 %
 * 19) Zork 0.41 %