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Semi-Finals Day 39
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 67.76%
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 32.24%

Prediction Percentage 48.81%

This is the sixth out of seven rounds and Breath of the Wild has still managed to double everything in its path so far. Granted, this is a bad case of SFF, but it still just shows how absolutely dominant Breath of the Wild is. Weve seen Ocarina of Time brutally kill other Nintendo games in similar fashion before, so it shouldnt be a huge surprise to anyone, even if we did predict the match a bit lower than this. For our first solo match of the day, its rather anti-climactic and the prediction percentage is sky high for a semi-final.

Breath of the Wild had started being hurt by its own popularity at this point. The power hour was by huge lengths its worst time of the day. I mean, Smash usually has a good time there, but this was rather insane. Ultimate was above 40% the whole time until the freeze happened, then it lost almost 5% the next update. It continued to decline the whole day until Breath of the Wild was well above the doubling. Its incredible to think this was somehow the worst performance for our contest winner so far.

Breath of the Wild has the anti-votes, but it also has the votes from the people who look at the contest title. Ultimate is such a huge game, but when people read Game of the Decade, they think of what games have been inspirational and innovative while simultaneously being top quality. Ultimate is only the latter of those things. Its why its performances havent looked as dominating as you could expect. Im sure it doesnt do as badly as this under normal circumstances ether.

Ultimate absolutely deserves to be here though. It doesnt matter that it didnt win as many awards, its a popularity contest first and foremost and Ultimate is just really good. I dont think were appreciating quite enough what we have right now. The everyone is here deal is huge, we might never see a game be such a huge celebration of gaming again and Im sure its part of the reason Sakurai is doing a second fighters pass, other than simply being forced to do it. Lets get as many things into this game as possible, we might never have them all together again. A game that makes us fight as Mario, Link, Samus, Pikachu, Snake, Cloud, Sonic, Mega Man, Pac-Man, Bayonetta, Joker, Banjo & Kazooie, Simon Belmont, Ryu, Dragon Quest Hero, Terry Bogard and every other Nintendo character you can think of on top of the ones I mentioned sounds like something out of impossible not too long ago. Remember how crazy everyone went when Snake was released. People have run out of real suggestions for Nintendo characters at this point and that company has been with us for the lifetime of the industry. The roster is insane, lets appreciate that.

It wouldnt be good on that alone, of course. The game has basically perfected what it is, and thats a huge part of the reason why its not as innovative as the rest of the games getting far in ther bracket. Melee was still the biggest competitive scene when Smash 4 was the most recent one, thats no longer the case, Ultimate surpassed it. The game sold phenomenally too. Its one of the most perfect games for what its trying to be.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.