Match #36 Results
Jill Valentine 49.99%
Princess Peach 50.01%

Today we were lucky enough to witness the closest match since 2004 and one of the more exciting matches in quite a while. In the end the favorite, Peach, was able to pull out the win by 27 votes... tough luck for Jill since she already had a record-setting 27 vote loss to Ryu Hayabusa. The consensus was Peach with 54.88 and the average score was 42.55. There were 104 predictions for Peach and 20 for Jill.

Best Five Picks:
1) GrapefruitKing - Princess Peach 50.10% (+49.91)
2) kaonashi1 - Princess Peach 50.40% (+49.61)
3) amyvitality66 - Princess Peach 50.52% (+49.49)
4) The n00b Avenger - Princess Peach 50.69% (+49.32)
5) Heroic Viktor - Princess Peach 50.83% (+49.18)

Surprisingly, we didn't have any 50 or 49.99 point predictions today - the scoring change seems to have successfully reduced the amount of hedging. GrapefruitKing had the best prediction of the day, his second top 5 of the contest. Kaonashi1 had the second best pick, also his second of the contest and 15th overall. Amyvitality continues to gain ground on Ray by getting the third best prediction, her first ever top 5. The n00b Avenger gets fourth (23rd lifetime top 5) and Heroic Viktor gets fifth (his 22nd lifetime top 5).

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=36

Current Leaderboard:
1) Karma Hunter - 1639.55
2) DSRage - 1636.12
3) Kaxon - 1633.82
4) cyko - 1632.84
5) Draco1214 - 1631.30

Karma Hunter manages to hang on to the lead... by 27 votes. If Jill had won we'd have a very different leaderboard, and Draco would have reclaimed the #1 spot. DSRage remains in second. Kaxon finally passes cyko, after trailing him by one position for most of the last two weeks. Cyko drops one spot to fourth, and Draco remains comfortably in fifth despite picking Jill to win the match. In the top 10, Ed Bellis moves up two spots and ps2rulezzz returns to the top 10, displacing Aprosenf.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=36

Top Team Scores:
1) Team Romanian Potato Soup - 99.23 (The n00b Avenger: +49.32 / GrapefruitKing: +49.91)
2) Team Klonoa Alliance - 97.45 (raytan7585: +47.96 / amyvitality66: +49.49)
3) Team mvp's - 92.57 (ps2rulezzz: +47.56 / basmeyer42: +45.01)
4) Team We Have Four Perfect Oracle Predictions Combined - 92.50 (Team Rocket Elite: +47.51 / Xuxon: +44.99)
5) Team Accident - 91.70 (MegatokyoEd: +45.69 / Rufus Shinra 18: +46.01)

Team Romanian Potato Soup gets the best score of the day, their first top five since day 24. Team Klonoa Alliance's sibling rivalry seems to be fuelling good predictions from both of them - they score the second best team score. Team mvp's has the third best prediction, almost 5 points below Team Klonoa Alliance. TRE and Xuxon get the fourth best score, and Team Accident has the fifth best score.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=36

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 3263.48
2) Team The Spirit of Truth (Draco1214 / Rodri316) - 3258.84
3) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 3256.79
4) Team Romanian Potato Soup (The n00b Avenger / GrapefruitKing) - 3235.66
5) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 3234.74

The top three teams remain unchanged today. Team Romanian Potato Soup's great predictions boost them onto the team leaderboard in fourth, but they're still 20 points back of the top three. Team mvp's remains in fifth place with their solid picks today.

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=36
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