(1)The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim vs (16)Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 2015

Ulti's Analysis
The first few minutes of this match was a perfect storm in Phoenix Wright's favor. It's Board 8's meme game of choice (including being the logo of our wiki!), tumblr likes it, there was Undertale rally spillover, and Western RPGs aren't big on this site. I mean they're relatively big now, but not big enough to prevent all the factors in Phoenix's favor from giving him a lead for a few minutes. This match was actually tied for a little while, though Skyrim was able to recover by the freeze before ultimately exploding in percentage for the doubling.

I'm usually against repeated fodder entrants that waste time like Guybrush Threepwood, but Phoenix Wright at least gets to make Board 8 laugh for a few minutes every year. Plus he was like top 10 in the 2013 character x-stats, so obviously he's just a hidden beast waiting to be unleashed!

As for Skyrim, this was not a good opening showing. Games that are true championship contenders, like FF7, Mario 3, Pokemon, Ocarina and the like, went out and dominated in round 1. Skyrim did not do this. Yes it had never lost a poll to this point and did finish with a doubling, but you really imagine Mario 64 (the biggest obstacle in its way of winning this division) struggling with Phoenix Wright? Skyrim proved from the start that it was kind of screwed, and it was frankly lucky to make it to the Mario 64 match at all.