LogFAQs > #948358444

Wasn't it you that argued to me that SS would be guaranteed in a 128 field before the contest? I might be wrong.

Anyway, there's just no way entries weren't purposely made diverse. SS is already a fine example, none of the Mario Makers or 3DLand/World making it in? The Pokemon fanbase magically agreeing to all collectively nominate a remake (in some parts of the world not even from the 10s) to a #3 seed with nothing else even making it in? Nick somehow failing to get Captain Toad into this field when board 8 usually dominates nominations? Look at some of the low seeds, Allen definitely made some decisions about representation there.

Whether or not they would be worthwhile is a different conversation and a lot of it might have sucked, but how good Mario Kart 8 ended up looking shows that we might very well have had some more exciting matches this way, which the cookie cutter bracket and round 1 in particular really needed. As annoying as it would've been for lesser Nintendo games to potentially upset better games, from a contest perspective, it would've been more fun even if they sucked as it would've been more matches debatable.

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