Results[]
Monday, May 11, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Contest Semifinal |
|---|---|
| Match # | 125 |
| Match Date | Monday, May 11, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 64.13% 46 for - 1 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 48.81% |
| User Votes |
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 6316 Smash Bros. Ultimate - 3133 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 5571 Smash Bros. Ultimate - 2395 |
"That was the update of the contest." -Yoblazer33
I don't think I've ever based an entire writeup around one update, but it's kind of justified here.
All of us knew Zelda would flatten Smash Bros in this match, and though it sucked to see these two locked in for a semifinal path when the bracket came out, seeing this match happen live made the placement make sense. This thing as a final would have blew.
Believe it or not, this match was under a 60-40 at the freeze! Smash was getting some love, maybe Zelda was getting anti-voted for being the obvious winner, who really knows. It was a 98 vote lead for Zelda at the freeze, and maybe, just maybe, this would be a reasonable semifinal.
And then Zelda goes "okay that's cute, thanks for playing buddy", increases from 98 to 255, and that was that. See you next time, Smash. You had a great run, but Zelda is a whole different animal. It was also nice seeing the Smash fans get what they deserve, I'm not gonna lie.
It isn't often that semifinals have blowouts like this. Originally I was going to bring up the list of every semifinal match 60-40 and above, but I think pulling up the ones to finish 65-35 or over paints a much better picture of how hard it is to do what Zelda did here.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1778-tournament-semifinal-link-vs-mega-man
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2018-tournament-semifinal-diablo-vs-ganondorf
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2453-tournament-semifinal-the-legend-of-zelda-vs-metal-gear
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6176-best-game-ever-day-40-semifinal-zelda-ocarina-of-time-vs
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6719-best-year-in-gaming-semifinal-1994-vs-1998
A similar pattern emerges. Respect The LAW.
Ctes's Analysis[]
This is the sixth out of seven rounds and Breath of the Wild has still managed to double everything in its path so far. Granted, this is a bad case of SFF, but it still just shows how absolutely dominant Breath of the Wild is. We’ve seen Ocarina of Time brutally kill other Nintendo games in similar fashion before, so it shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anyone, even if we did predict the match a bit lower than this. For our first solo match of the day, it’s rather anti-climactic and the prediction percentage is sky high for a semi-final.
Breath of the Wild had started being hurt by its own popularity at this point. The power hour was by huge lengths its worst time of the day. I mean, Smash usually has a good time there, but this was rather insane. Ultimate was above 40% the whole time until the freeze happened, then it lost almost 5% the next update. It continued to decline the whole day until Breath of the Wild was well above the doubling. It’s incredible to think this was somehow the “worst” performance for our contest winner so far.
Breath of the Wild has the anti-votes, but it also has the votes from the people who look at the contest title. Ultimate is such a huge game, but when people read “Game of the Decade”, they think of what games have been inspirational and innovative while simultaneously being top quality. Ultimate is only the latter of those things. It’s why it’s performances haven’t looked as dominating as you could expect. I’m sure it doesn’t do as badly as this under normal circumstances ether.
Ultimate absolutely deserves to be here though. It doesn’t matter that it didn’t win as many awards, it’s a popularity contest first and foremost and Ultimate is just really good. I don’t think we’re appreciating quite enough what we have right now. The everyone is here deal is huge, we might never see a game be such a huge celebration of gaming again and I’m sure it’s part of the reason Sakurai is doing a second fighters pass, other than simply being forced to do it. Let’s get as many things into this game as possible, we might never have them all together again. A game that makes us fight as Mario, Link, Samus, Pikachu, Snake, Cloud, Sonic, Mega Man, Pac-Man, Bayonetta, Joker, Banjo & Kazooie, Simon Belmont, Ryu, Dragon Quest Hero, Terry Bogard and every other Nintendo character you can think of on top of the ones I mentioned sounds like something out of impossible not too long ago. Remember how crazy everyone went when Snake was released. People have run out of real suggestions for Nintendo characters at this point and that company has been with us for the lifetime of the industry. The roster is insane, let’s appreciate that.
It wouldn’t be good on that alone, of course. The game has basically perfected what it is, and that’s a huge part of the reason why it’s not as innovative as the rest of the games getting far in ther bracket. Melee was still the biggest competitive scene when Smash 4 was the most recent one, that’s no longer the case, Ultimate surpassed it. The game sold phenomenally too. It’s one of the most perfect games for what it’s trying to be.
Safer777's Analysis[]
Do I need to say anything here? BOTW against a Nintendo non Zelda game. Hierarchy to the maximum here. BOTW would win with at least a doubling everyone predicted and yeah it makes sense. I mean what else could happen here? Even though Ultimate is the 2nd strongest Smash game(at least I think so)it stood no chance here. I mean it couldn't even avoid a doubling here. Damn it man. I know BOTW is really good but seriously we are talking about Ultimate the best selling fighthing game of all time plus everyone likes it. But well Hierarchy once again.
So for the match. Well BOTW won with above a doubling. In a semifinal match. At least Smash barely did better than ME 2 against BOTW so that is something I guess. So yeah. What else to say? I guess only really weak Zelda games don't stand to hierarchy but then again I guess this is the same with all series. They all have weak games once in a while. The only good thing I can say is that BOTW will not be the most dominant winner ever since in Years contest 1998 won the final match with the doubling but that can't be done here. So there you go. Oh and if you don't know what Hierarchy is, here it goes:Zelda>Smash>Mario>Xenoblade>Fire Emblem. So that is.
But once again when we see a Semifinal match where the winner scores above a doubling...It has happened a few times before and ALWAYS it has something to do with a Zelda game/character. Too strong!