Forceful_Dragon posted...
I want link in the bracket still. I am inherently opposed to the idea of removing champions to make the bracket more "interesting".
I think it would be pretty UNinteresting to see someone run the table and then have no idea how they stack up to the "real" characters.
We can always take the MPFC approach and do a gauntlet at the end IMO. Link has a much, much, MUCH better record than anybody else by a long shot. I think that making him the bonus match is pretty fair, even if we miss out on some silliness like him vs. Santa or whatever. We've reached the point where Mario, Samus, and Snake ALL have a chance to beat Cloud and take the crown, and the field is more even now than ever before (as the Near Elites have a chance to beat the low noble-niners, Sonic and Mega Man could do something interesting if put up against Sephiroth or Snake, we've yet to see where the Post-ME2 Shepard and Post-BW Pokeymanz will go, etc. etc. etc.). Link is really the only big problem - there's maybe two characters who could put up a respectable showing against him because of SFF, so he really just eats up half the bracket en route to another win. No need to see that again, really.
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