Match # 50 Results
Cloud Strife 49.59%
Ryu (Street Fighter) 20.25%
Auron 18.16%
Marcus Fenix 12.00%

The FF VII hero looked outstanding today, very nearly breaking 50% against his three opponents. Unfortunately for Auron, Cloud hogged the Final Fantasy fanbase enough to allow Ryu past to round 4, in what's probably one of the more surprising runs of the contest. The consensus predictions were Cloud - 43.68%; Ryu - 21.75%; Auron - 21.00%; Fenix - 13.66%. The average score was 46.43 points.

Best Five Picks:
1) Who Cares? - Auron 18.96% - Cloud 50.01% - Fenix 12.02% - Ryu 19.01% (+49.38)
2) kaonashi1 - Auron 20.11% - Cloud 48.68% - Fenix 11.82% - Ryu 19.39% (+49.02)
3) Leebo86 - Auron 18.97% - Cloud 48.71% - Fenix 10.51% - Ryu 21.81% (+48.81)
4) KingBartz - Auron 18.00% - Cloud 49.00% - Fenix 10.00% - Ryu 23.00% (+48.62)
5) red sox 777 - Auron 21.00% - Cloud 48.00% - Fenix 12.00% - Ryu 19.00% (+48.58)

Who cares who had today's best pick-- oops, wait, I meant Who Cares? had today's best pick. This is his 4th top 5 of the contest! kaonashi1 took second while Leebo got third, each placing in the top 5 for the second time this contest. KingBartz got his 5th top 5, while red sox 777 got his own 4th of the contest and 29th lifetime. Defending champion cyko narrowly missed out on making the top 5 today, landing in 6th.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k7&type=match&match=50

Current Leaderboard:
1) The n00b Avenger - 2341.01
2) Haste2 - 2335.84
3) DSRage - 2335.29
4) creativename - 2334.70
5) smitelf - 2334.55

N00b Avenger had the weakest prediction among the leaders today, which allowed the others to gain some ground on him... Haste2 is a little over 5 points behind now. DSRage and smitelf both had exactly the same score (47.70), but creativename managed to sneak in between them and move up to fourth place, pushing smitelf down to 5th. Places 2-5 are currently separated by 1.29 points.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k7&type=total&match=50

Top Team Scores:
1) Better Bettors - 96.18 (FastFalcon05: +47.16 / kaonashi1: +49.02)
2) T-REX - 96.04 (Team Rocket Elite: +47.62 / Xcarvengerx: +48.42)
3) Predestined Divination - 95.35 (creativename: +47.95 / Ngamer64: +47.40)
4) magical innuendo pirates with guitars - 95.23 (Menji76: +47.78 / Seginustemple: +47.45)
5) SPO*N - 94.90 (Weird Kirby Dude11: +47.20 / ActJef1077: +47.70)

Another day, same teams at the top (or so it seems). Team Better Bettors (FastFalcon and kaonashi) was first today, for top 5 #8. Team T-REX is really on a roll - they're second today, and this is the 3rd time they've been in the top 2 this week. Team Predestined Divination continues to widen their lead with the #3 score today (t5 #12 this contest). Magical innuendo pirates with guitars show up in the top 5 for the first time in a whopping 4 days, while Team SPO*N also returns to the top 5 for the 6th time this year.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k7&type=teammatch&match=50

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team Predestined Divination (creativename / Ngamer64) - 4665.99
2) Team Happy Happyists (Camden / meche313) - 4653.27
3) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 4649.73
4) Team Rage of Warcraft (War13104 / DSRage) - 4648.13
5) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 4646.78

No movement on the leaderboard today. However, Team T-REX's surge is paying off, and today they climb three spots in the standings to seventh place. For every winner there has to be a loser, and Team OH IT'S NESS dropped three spots to tenth.

Complete Team Standing:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k7&type=teamtotal&match=50