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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2101-zebes-division-round-2-ganondorf-vs-auron

Ganondorf completed the FFX trifecta with this win (unfortunately). People were hoping for a close match, but Ganondorf came out of the gates hot and it was clear right away that he wasn't losing this. Auron got his percentage up to nearly 48% overnight, but the patented Zelda day vote put this out of reach for good.

Ganondorf had over 67% of the brackets here, which is a crazy high percentage to beat someone like Auron. It's hard to quantify how much bracket votes are worth, but it probably helped Ganondorf win by more than he ordinarily would if the numbers were closer to even. Not enough to flip the result, but it's no surprise that this might have been the strongest Ganondorf or Bowser ever looked.

Also, pre-contest, this stretch of matches from here through Bowser/Ryu was called "the Gauntlet," where we got a bunch of consecutive matches between strong characters. We hoped many of them would turn out to be close, too, but that didn't really happen.