(8)Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow/Green vs (9)Tetris 2015

Ulti's Analysis
There were very few match pic controversies this contest, but seeing Charizard making out with Blastoise is pretty hilarious.

Regardless, this match was used to make Mario 3/RBY comparisons, and the comparison points everyone jumped to were the 2004 and 2009 game contests. In 2004, Zelda 1 laid down an SFF beating of 75-25 on Tetris before losing to Mario 3. The assumption there was that Mario 3 would have also SFFd Tetris into the ground.

In 2009, Tetris got through two matches in the fourway format before losing. This time around, it got stuck sharing a poll with Mega Man 2, Mario 1, and Zelda 1. It was once again smashed into the ground by SFF.

So when Pokemon RBYG went out there and failed to deliver a similar 75-25 beating to Tetris, people thought this meant bad things for Pokemon in the looming round 2 match. Certainly, Mario 3 would not fail to do such a thing. What people forgot here is that Pokemon exists on a very different plane from normal Nintendo, in that it doesn't really SFF anything, nor does it get SFFd itself. Even against itself, Pokemon polls don't really have SFF in them. We've seen Pokemon RBY and Pokemon GSC in contest polls together, and GSC was basically independent.

The point here is this match was just fine for Pokemon. It was a very normal 68-32 beating that had no SFF in it at all, nothing more and nothing less. And given how well respected Tetris is, putting up 68% on it absent of SFF is no joke. Let's not forget that Tetris won a character contest once! Pokemon RBYG was out for blood this year, and had its fans bothered showing up instead of trying to "beat genwunners", I'm convinced it could have won this contest.