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Day 35, Match 1 - Solid Snake vs. Zelda
(3) Snake: 49.68% - Zelda: 50.32%

What happened?: Zelda, she come to town. This was a fantastic match, leading to a true Noble Nine break - unlike Pikachu Zelda did not need a registered user boost to win and in fact users slightly favoured Snake. Zelda got off to a firm lead of over 300 votes, which Snake then slowly chipped away at during the night. However, unlike Tifa, he wasn't able to get ahead and build a lead, largely due to an hour where he just stalled and made absolutely no progress. The reason for this is geographic - unlike Tifa, Snake did not win all of Europe easily - Zelda easily won France and Germany which explains that hour. Snake did get ahead but could only get a small lead before North America woke up and Zelda started cutting. The match went back and forth for hours before Zelda finally put it away with a nearly 200 vote lead.

What could this mean?: MGS hasn't looked its best this year, bui I don't think it has stunk either. Though bear in mind I have never believed the Snake hype (#2 my eye). This was all Zelda, she's an utter monster now and it's been apparent from her first two rounds. She should have no issue beating Sonic, and is almost certainly a top 5 character.

Day 35, Match 2 - Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Auron
(6) Sonic: 54.32% - Auron: 45.68%

What happened?: Hidden by the incredible match happening at the same time, is this absolutely terrible performance by Sonic. The match itself was straight forward and didn't change much. Now Sonic didn't underperform his stats too much here, but given that Auron has been underperforming until now it doesn't look good.

What could this mean?: This was a bit of a surprise because Auron has been underperforming fairly consistently, and Sonic characters have looked good as a result of Sonic Mania. I can't help but wonder if maybe Sonic himself isn't benefiting from the same thing as Knuckles and Tails - unlike those characters Sonic has never really fallen out of relevance in terms of exposure, but most of the exposure has been bad.
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