(12)Mega Man X vs (4)Final Fantasy X 2015

Ulti's Analysis
While Chrono Trigger was busy scoring round 2's biggest blowout, Final Fantasy X was out there doing... whatever in the world this was. Based on 2009 stats, Final Fantasy X was projected to get 68% on Mega Man X. I know "lol 4-ways" and such, and that round loss in 2009 was probably a little weird, but it does not explain being projected to get 68% and then going out there and just completely shitting the bed. MMX potentially being hidden behind some weird SNES SFF from Final Fantasy 6 in 2009 can only explain so much.

The true tragedy here was Mega Man 2 not getting into the bracket. You cannot have a contest called "Best Game Ever", with 128 games in the bracket, without having Mega Man 2 in there somewhere. You just can't. Mega Man X being a hidden beast proves this.

Things were bad right from the start for FFX, when it was only at 57% at the freeze. MMX then proceed to thoroughly embarrass FFX for the first couple hours of the poll, including even getting a couple of cuts, before FFX recovered during the dead zone (Square's best time) to get things back to 57%. Then the morning vote hit and MMX started going up again, including getting even more cuts throughout the match. MMX was never a threat to win, but any hopes FFX had of beating Chrono Trigger just completely died after this match. This was a horrible win for Final Fantasy X, one of the worst wins of the entire contest, and even then it still didn't prepare people for just how badly FFX was fucked in round 3.

We all knew it would lose at this point. The extent of just bad the blowout would be was really something else.