| Topic List | Page List: 1 |
|---|---|
| Topic | ~*Ultimaterializer's Post-Contest Retro Summer 2008 Analysis!*~ |
| PostContestUlti 12/08/20 12:05:54 PM #103: | Division 4 Round 2: Crono, Amaterasu, L-Block, and Ryu Crono - 45757 [32.09%] Amaterasu - 23270 [16.32%] L-Block - 39556 [27.74%] Ryu - 34004 [23.85%] Total Votes - 142587 As crazy as the round 1 match was featuring L-Block, this match.... wasn't. If you check out the trend graph, this match was basically set in stone 10 minutes in. People were worried L-Block would start going nuts again, but it just... didn't happen. This was perhaps the most boring match a hyped bandwagon joke character has ever been in. L-Block had already beaten Ryu in round 1, so him beating Ryu again was no surprise. By the way, Ryu has the distinction of losing to both L-Block <i>and</i> Draven. Poor guy. He was never in contention here, but that wasn't much of a surprise. What was a surprise though was L-Block coming out in this match and looking positively normal. He was only in this match for about 5 minutes before falling off, and that was it. Crono got an easy first. L-Block got an easy second. Ryu and Amaterasu, better luck next time. The normalcy here surprised a lot of people in and of itself, because as you can see by the Oracle picks, many people expected L-Block to get a bandwagon going and challenge for first. When he failed to do that, alarm bells went off. Was L-Block falling off? Was he losing the joke appeal? Did he merely run up against a beast in Crono and this match was a speed bump? A lot of people felt it was the latter, and the Save_Us.RAT movement was born. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
| Topic List | Page List: 1 |