Results[]
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Division 3 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 76 |
| Match Date | Tuesday, April 14, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
Super Mario Odyssey - 73.00% 53 for - 0 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
Super Mario Odyssey - 76.50% |
| User Votes |
Devil May Cry 5 - 2735 Super Mario Odyssey - 6652 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Devil May Cry 5 - 2472 Super Mario Odyssey - 6408 |
After that crazy match between Octopath Traveler and Shovel Knight, I need a dud writeup to cool off! I would say "dud match", but this one happened at exactly the same time so it wouldn't be accurate. Either way, we've thankfully got a dud match to cool off with.
Devil May Cry 5 pulled off a very cute one point upset over Tropical Freeze in round one. We call these matches "one point upsets" because everyone knows the winner has no chance in the next round when the time comes to pay the piper. Not only did DMC5 get utterly destroyed, but this was the second round in a row where Super Mario Odyssey looked better than Smash Ultimate. There was a whoooooole lot of "wish I could change my bracket" sentiment going around, from myself included, because that match looked like a done deal in Mario's favor after two rounds were in the books. I maintain there is no planet where Tekken 7 beats Mortal Kombat 11 in a contest poll on here, and 71% on Devil May Cry 5 is just more impressive than 64% on Link Between Worlds -- the irony of which is no Zelda game had ever lost that badly one on one before.
There was also this poll that Team Rocket Elite was kind enough to dig up for us: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2451-mushroom-division-final-super-mario-bros-vs-super-smash-bros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Uw97lOOlk
In retrospect, we really should have taken holding Link Between Worlds to 36% more seriously, but at the time there was a whole lot of freaking out about Smash Ultimate's chances to beat Odyssey, when the latter was clearly an uncaged beast in this contest.
Ctes's Analysis[]
Super Mario Odyssey had yet another round of looking really dominant. It seemed to finish a little bit higher as a result of the rallying in Octopath Traveler vs. Shovel Knight, but it’s a bit hard to tell. It would probably still finish above 70% and that’s a really good showing. The goal for Super Mario Odyssey was to do the impossible for a post 64 Mario game; beat the Smash Bros game of the same platform. This round definitely taught us the least of the three rounds leading up to the clash because Ultimate was against a Zelda game, but Odyssey still did what it needed to do and look impressive enough to make us doubt the hierarchy.
The board actually went even higher on Super Mario Odyssey on average, probably because it went so high on a game with a name everyone knows last round. I suppose we just have to acknowledge Devil May Cry had a release worth something again for the first time in quite a while. It’s not fantastic, but Devil May Cry 5 looks to have more strength in it than most of us thought and it explains why it took so easily care of Tropical Freeze when we all expected the Donkey Kong game to be alright with its Switch release.
We didn’t have that great a read on the Devil May Cry series before this contest actually. The only time they’ve appeared in a contest in the past was in the previous Game of the Decade where the first and third one made it in. Neither looked particularly good, but they ended up being alright in the stats, not as much as one might have thought. Perhaps they would’ve looked better earlier in the decade, that’s when Dante looked best in the character battles. At this point the fourth game had come out and wasn’t as big as the third and DmC: Devil May Cry had just been revealed, so I think we had seen Donte already, which might have caused some backlash if we did. This contest, we fifth one just came out and it was well liked again. It has a big enough name that I could see it having good footing on franchise name alone and with the most well-liked Devil May Cry since the third, finishing where it did isn’t so bad. Of course, it’s buried behind some layers of SFF, so its exact placement is hard to tell.
Safer777's Analysis[]
Well after the previous super exciting match we had a simple match. People were expecting SMO to score around 70 and it did just that. DMC was lucky that it faced a damn weak Nintendo game(how many times you hear that on this site?)and well it got owned. And it makes sense. Sure Dante is a midcarder here but his games are always doing bad. Hell pretty sure Dante has become weak now.
So for the match. Well SMO won easily as expected. But to tell the trutn I did expected to score under 70 here. Sure the best Mario game in some time but DMC 5 is the best DMC game ever too. Then again it is freaking Mario. So the question is that what place does SMO holds in this contest? Top 5 for sure. Guess at the end of the contest X-Stats will say us. Hey they still work right?
Tsunami's Analysis[]
I may have spoken too soon. Holy hell, DK, what's wrong with you?! This is an ass-whooping entirely commensurate with what you'd expect a Mario game to be doing to a Devil May Cry game. For comparison's sake, the weaker of the two DMC games in the last GotD would be projected to break 41% on Galaxy, the strongest Mario game in that bracket. Super Mario Odyssey was definitely for real, but still, how weak must Tropical Freeze be to get nowhere near beating something this weak? Odyssey suddenly looked like it would stand a chance against Ultimate, even though we all know it won't. That's the power of Link for you! Ultimate clearly got rSFFed...right?
Edit: Tsunami has since played Super Mario Odyssey. This is entirely deserved. Odyssey is the best 3D Mario game and SM64 is probably the only other one that's even close.