Match #42 Results
Dante 49.45%
Yoshi 50.55%

Another debateable match, another Nintendo win... Ganondorf must be feeling pretty lonely about now. Yoshi manages to pull the upset against Dante, resulting in celebration and mass LUEshis for some, bracket and Oracle devastation for others. 64 Oracles had Dante winning the match, while 50 backed the green dinosaur. The consensus was Dante with 50.90% and the average score was 44.42.

Best Five Picks:
1) basmeyer42 - Yoshi 50.56% (+49.99)
2) and now I dance - Yoshi 50.60% (+49.95)
2) BlAcK TuRtLe - Yoshi 50.50% (+49.95)
2) raytan7585 - Yoshi 50.60% (+49.95)
2) StopPokingMe - Yoshi 50.50% (+49.95)

The mysterious basmeyer42 gets today's best prediction with 49.99 points. Behind him, we have a four way tie for second between and now I dance, Black Turtle, raytan, and StopPokingMe. This is the second top five of the contest for everyone except raytan, who's getting his first. This is also StopPokingMe's 26th lifetime top 5.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=42

Current Leaderboard:
1) cyko - 1909.50
2) Karma Hunter - 1903.02
3) DSRage - 1899.60
4) Kaxon - 1898.61
5) Aprosenf - 1891.49

Cyko's boldness in taking Yoshi pays off, allowing him to reclaim first today by a comfortable 6 point margin. Despite only cyko picking Yoshi, our indestructable top 4 remained intact - cyko, Karma Hunter, DSRage, and Kaxon have been together in the top 5 for the last 21 days, and they've been the top 4 for 16 of those days, making it pretty hard for anyone else to break on to the leaderboard. Aprosenf moves up to fifth today, returning to the leaderboard for the first time since Sonic vs CATS. Outside the top 5, the standings got shaken up quite a bit today, and the race is very close - there's a 7.12 point gap between 4th and 5th, but only 3.09 points separate 5th from 11th.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=42

Top Team Scores:
1) Team Klonoa Alliance - 99.65 (raytan7585: +49.95 / amyvitality66: +49.70)
2) Team mvp's - 99.49 (ps2rulezzz: +49.50 / basmeyer42: +49.99)
3) Team Better Than Last Time - 99.23 (Darkash: +49.51 / Heroic Viktor: +49.72)
4) Team Rocket - 97.89 (Ringworm: +48.45 / BZer0: +49.44)
5) Team The Returners - 94.85 (cyko: +49.85 / steve illumina: +45.00)

Team Klonoa Alliance is looking like one of the hottest teams in the contest right now, with three top 5's in the last week. They're closely followed by Team mvp's in second. This time we have three team scoring over 99 for the day - Team Better Than Last Time (Tnote and Darkash) manages it in third place as well. Team Rocket (Ringworm and BZer0) get fourth, and The Returners place fifth.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=42

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 3787.89
2) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 3786.99
3) Team The Spirit of Truth (Draco1214 / Rodri316) - 3777.93
4) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 3776.01
5) Team Accident (MegatokyoEd / Rufus Shinra 18) - 3767.49

The 20 point gap between third and fourth has finally evaporated, and it only took a day to happen! Team Unfinished FFP hangs on to first place, but is tailed by Team We Used To Be Good? (0.9 points behind). Team The Spirit of Truth drops back almost ten points, hanging on to third, but losing their safety margin as Team mvp's has a great day. Team Accident returns to the leaderboard, continuing the game of musical chairs for the #5 spot.

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=42
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