Wario's Contest History

Who is Wario?
Wario is one of the many rivals that Mario has ever had in his life. Wario started off as the main villain and final boss in the Game Boy game, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. In this game, Wario takes over Mario’s castle while he’s rescuing Princess Peach, and steals the 6 Golden Coins Mario needs to get back into his castle.

He then got his own handheld platformer series, which called the “Wario Land” series. In this series, Wario was usually looking for treasure and had to use some weird abilities (such as lighting himself on fire), to get past certain areas. What was unique Wario Land 2 and 3, was that Wario was IMMORTAL. That’s right, he could never die… however, when he did get hurt, he loses a bunch of his coins, but that wasn’t that big of a deal.

Wario soon became playable in the Mario Kart series, starting in Mario Kart 64. He also playable in every Mario Party game and ever Mario sports game. Starting from Mario Tennis, Wario gets a brother Waluigi, to counter Mario’s brother Luigi.

Wario got a 3D platformer game called Wario World. It was basically a beat-em-up game where Wario had to kill a bunch of enemies and find treasure. However, this game got many negative reviews, mostly for the game being too short and too easy.

Wario then gets his own new handheld series, the WarioWare series. This series hosts a number of short, yet addictive puzzle games that you needed to solve in a certain number of time, to get to the next game. This series soon became popular with GBA and DS players.

Wario even became playable in the remake of one of the most popular games ever, Super Mario 64 DS. In the game, Wario was slower than the other characters, but was more powerful than all of them, was the only character who could break brick blocks, and the only character who could use the Metal Cap in the Game.

Sadly, Wario didn't appear in either Super Smash Bros. OR Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Wario, overall, isn’t as popular or important as other Mario characters such as Luigi, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Bowser, and Peach. However, he countered this by getting a few popular game series on his own. If Wario could get into the next Super Smash Bros. game, his popularity could be high enough to get back into a contest, and possibly be around Luigi/Yoshi/DK’s level.

"I lost... TO A BUNCH OF LOSERS!!" - Wario (Writeup courtesy of ssknuxmagician)

Wario's Contest History
Win-Loss Record: 1-2

Summer 2003 Contest - South Division - 8 Seed
 * South Round 1 --- Lost to (9) Shadow the Hedgehog, 36721 [35.10%] - 67886 [64.90%]
 * Extrapolated Strength --- 33rd Place [24.07%]

Wario's lone contest appearance came in Summer 2003, where he was put in an 8-9 match in which was the overwhelming favorite. Wario World, a GCN title came out literally a month before this contest began, and most people assumed that this would propel Wario to an easy win and a so-called interesting match against Mario.

The picture was released well ahead of time, and people gave up on Wario the second they saw his ugly cartoon mug against a badassed black Sonic lookalike. Though given how Wario would eventually get his ass kicked, it can easily be argued that a good picture wouldn't have made much of a difference. It's also a safe bet to say that this match proves how low Wario is on the Nintendo pecking order, as he hasn't come close to making a bracket since.

Summer 2007 Contest - Division 3 - Second Group
 * Division 3 Round 1 --- 2nd place, 26937 [22.51%] - Fox McCloud, 54609 [45.63%] - Captain Falcon, 22482 [18.79%] - Banjo, 15638 [13.07%]
 * Division 3 Round 2 --- 4th place, 12877 [9.97%] - Sephiroth, 73746 [57.11%] - Fox McCloud, 25486 [19.74%] - Meta Knight, 17028 [13.19%]

Man, Wario's just pathetic, and this is coming from someone who actually likes the guy a little. He got doubled by Fox, who's never been anything more than a low midcarder, and he struggled with Captain Falcon, who is fodder line at best. Then he couldn't even get 10% in the second round. Here's hoping Brawl makes him a decent character worth having in these contests.