Ulti's Analysis[]
We all know Link would eventually win this contest with ease, but this was a very bad start for the dude. I know calling an 80-20 blowout bad seems weird, but we have a precedent here.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1750-hyrule-division-round-2-link-vs-ganondorf
Given that match and all the crazy boosts Link has gotten over the years, I honestly feel like he should have broken 90% in this match. What Zelda fan would ever vote for Ganon over him? I know a lot of people were planning on anti-voting Link in this contest, but dropping 8% in this match when we saw other random rematches from that era barely move in percentage feels weird.
Not that it really mattered at the end of the day, because without a crazy rally no one was coming close to beating Link this year. I don't have a great explanation for why Ganon got 20% instead of 12%, but at that point you're asking me to explain a 42-10 or 43-8 Super Bowl loss for the Broncos compared to 55-10. Who even cares?
Safer777's Analysis[]
Finally the(former)champ is here! Of course he would win. And this match has happened before. So the question was with how much he would win though. In the previous match Link had beaten Ganondorf with around 88%! Now he won with less than 80%. So why? I believe Link has dropped a bit. Yeah it happens to everyone. Probablye at least? Also anti-votes too probably. So there you go. Funny when someone wins with around 80% and it is not considered good! Of course Link will win the whole thing anyways so there you go. Also I hope the stats guys adjust the X-Stats because with this result Vivi scores like 18% on Link which is a lie, since he breaks 30% for sure. Nothing more to add. It is a Link match. He wins.
Tsunami's Analysis[]
Normally I hate adjusted X-Stats, because there's no scientific way to determine the adjustments and then you end up with the "sharps" being unanimously wrong about Magus-Knuckles 2005 because Magus was just arbitrarily assigned his 2003 value (which was earned directly against a Link far weaker than 2004's) to account for the SFF Bracket of 2004. But then you get a near-quadrupling in Round 5 and it becomes impossible to defend the sanctity of raw X-Stats. Clearly Ganondorf's stronger than his raw numbers will suggest. But how much stronger? Who knows. About the only clear takeaway from this is that Zelda was able to withstand SFF from Link far better than Ganondorf did. Before this contest, it wasn't necessarily clear which one was stronger, though it seemed more likely even then to be Zelda. Now there's no doubt; Zelda came out looking like the new #3 character on the site.