Match #23 Results
Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.11%
Kratos (God of War) 42.89%

Yesterday's match was a battle between an old time arcade star and a new PS2 character. Ryu managed to win comfortably, but Kratos made it respectable with one of the biggest day votes we've seen in a while. The consensus was Ryu with 61.12% and the average score was 44.83. There were 132 picks for Ryu and 3 for Kratos. Surprisingly, no one picked Strider Hiryu, the actual winner of the match who was later disqualified by the judges.

Best Five Picks:
1) PortugalTheMann - Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.15% (+49.96)
2) yoblazer33 - Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.00% (+49.89)
3) Dekar TKB - Ryu (Street Fighter) 57.82% (+49.29)
4) catldr24 - Ryu (Street Fighter) 56.38% (+49.27)
5) the icon ownz all - Ryu (Street Fighter) 56.31% (+49.20)

Today's top prediction goes to (ahem) PortugalTheMann! I'm not sure where this guy came from, but he seems to already know something about GameFAQs contests. Legendary Arial fan yoblazer gets second, for his first top 5 of the contest. Dekar TKB places third with a much lower 49.29 points, followed by catldr24 and the icon.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=23

Current Leaderboard:
1) DSRage - 1063.82
2) cyko - 1062.85
3) Kaxon - 1057.08
4) Karma Hunter - 1056.47
5) Luster Soldier - 1053.61

The top three spots stay the same today, and DSRage ties the tenth longest consecutive first place streak (7 days). Karma Hunter moves up one spot from fifth to fourth, and Luster Soldier returns to the leaderboard, bumping Aprosenf down to sixth.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=23

Top Team Scores:
1) Team Indie Cred - 98.32 (the icon ownz all: +49.20 / transience: +49.12)
2) Team Drunkadelict Armadillos - 96.65 (Haste2: +47.36 / Dekar TKB: +49.29)
3) Team Coincidence - 95.81 (PeaceOut64: +46.71 / marioinblack: +49.10)
4) Team Jonflufflez - 95.74 (CaptainFlufflez: +48.37 / jonthomson: +47.37)
5) Team Dieroll - 95.62 (StopPokingMe: +48.53 / Jecht: +47.09)

Team Indie Cred (icon and transience) loses even more of their indie cred by placing on top of today's team scores! Team Drunkadelict Armadillos is second, followed by three random teams: Team Coincidence (PeaceOut/marioinblack), Team Jonflufflez (jonthomson/CaptainFlufflez) and Team Dieroll (StopPokingMe/Jecht).

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=23

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 2108.67
2) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 2095.31
3) Team Rage of Warcraft (War13104 / DSRage) - 2094.00
4) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 2093.02
5) Team Happy Happyists (Camden / meche313) - 2091.87

Uneventful day on the team leaderboard today, as Team Unfinished FFP remains in first, and no one in the top 7 changes places. You have to go down to 8th place to find anything interesting happening, where Team We Have Four Perfect Oracle Predictions Combined (TRE and Xuxon) moved up one spot passing Team Romanian Potato soup. Hopefully tomorrow will be more exciting!

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=23
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