I'm looking at the bracket right now, and I think they're actually the fourth strongest rivalry in the bracket (Link/Ganondorf, Cloud/Sephiroth, Mario/Bowser). There's five divisions where I would've picked this pairing to win it and go to the elite eight - but the division they're in isn't one of them. Should've been an easy one seed.
4 strong teams in West Division alone (Twin Snake, FF7, Crono/Lavos, Kratos/Zeus) while there isn't any notable strong team in SW division is pretty meh to me.
Twin Snake or Crono/Lavos would easily walk out of that SW division as the winner, hell i would even take Kratos/Zeus to win that division too.
Oh man no, Kratos/Zeus has no shot at any of those other three teams. I don't think Crono/Lavos has a shot at Snake/Snake either, and then I don't think anyone has a shot at Cloud/Seph. Maybe there's an upset brewing in here somewhere but I don't think so and I think it's kind of a waste of some potentially interesting teams.