Marcus vs Kefka vs Tom Nook vs Zelos 2007
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| Division | 2 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 5 |
| Match Date | Friday, September 7th, 2007 |
| Oracle Expectations | Kefka - 34.86% Marcus Fenix - 27.95% Zelos Wilder - 22.24% Tom Nook - 14.72% |
| GameFAQs Expectations | Marcus first place (2pts) - 28.55% Marcus second place (1pt) - 27.59% Kefka second place (2pts) - 14.27% Kefka first place (1pt) - 57.62% |
| Advancing Prediction | Marcus - 56.14% (20,617) Kefka - 71.89% (26,401) |
- Marcus Fenix overperformed by +8.84%, the #7 most impressive performance of 2007
- Zelos underperformed by -9.71%, the #3 most disappointing performance of 2007
nobody really knew what to think of Marcus Fenix. on the one hand, he was the star of the most popular 360 game to date, Gears of War. on the other hand, he was a generic looking, generic sounding character who most people knew as "the Gears of War Guy" than anything else - it was questionable as to if people would even recognize him. it came down to what kind of picture the guy got, or so we thought.
looks up to match pic
oh, he got it all right. and not only that, we got Lettuce Kefka. what happens when Lettuce Kefka -- the worst thing we've ever seen during the daytime -- goes up against Master Chief-lite?
this happens. Kefka did well at the start, building up an 850 vote lead through the poll's first six hours. the morning vote, surprisingly, didn't hurt him at all. all Kefka had to do was hold on during the afterschool vote and he had this match. unlikely, but possible. the during-school vote brought him down into the 600s, but he had stabilized. no one was going anywhere.
the afterschool vote thought differently. in one update, he lost 50 votes. he stabilized a little, then lost 50 more. then he lost 80. then 100. within 70 minutes, he went from being ahead 10 votes to being down 1050. within one hour, we went from a match we were all watching intently to a match everyone was laughing at. some of us looked back a couple hours later and saw Kefka was down 4000 votes. hilarious. Lettuce Kefka strikes again, and Kefka finds a way to outdo his previous disappointments with a collapse for the ages. only the Master Hand/Kuja debacle could match this one.
one last note about this match -- man, Zelos bombed, and bombed hard. some people were talking him up as a second place finisher to Kefka -- the beating was so bad that a couple of delusional folks called SFF with Kefka, despite the fact that Mithos did better against Kefka one-on-one that he did. pretty funny match all around.
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