It's a 3rd place match. Won't count in the battle or brackets but it's about as official as it gets outside of that, the winner is literally in 3rd place. This is not some Twilight Zone bonus Link-Santa match that is external to the contest.
And the more matches, the better anyway. More fun to predict more matches than less. Seems entirely silly to have a match actually taking place and known beforehand and yet we don't officially predict it. Sounds like a bad philosophy.
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