Sorry for the late update, I had to finish filling out my ballot for tomorrow. Voting for city council is hard!

Match # 47 Results
Auron 34.64%
Sonic the Hedgehog 29.69%
Sub-Zero 20.52%
Sandbag 15.15%

lawl joke characters. Sandbag gets beaten like a... sandbag... today and finishes well behind Sub-Zero. Meanwhile Auron manhandled Sonic, beating him by just under a 5% margin. Auron was actually slightly favored by the people toward the top of the standings (not overall), but the match between them was expected to be close. Why are Sonic characters so weak in this format?

Consensus:
Auron - 29.59%
Sandbag - 21.43%
Sonic the Hedgehog - 30.53%
Sub-Zero - 18.51%

Best Five Picks:
1) Gaddswell - Auron 33.14% - Sandbag 17.74% - Sonic 29.79% - Sub-Zero 19.33% (+48.65)
2) Claude00 - Auron 33.20% - Sandbag 14.92% - Sonic 28.38% - Sub-Zero 23.50% (+48.50)
3) Team Rocket Elite - Auron 32.00% - Sandbag 19.00% - Sonic 28.50% - Sub-Zero 20.50% (+48.07)
4) _Harmonica_ - Auron 32.00% - Sandbag 18.00% - Sonic 31.00% - Sub-Zero 19.00% (+47.92)
5) KleenexTissue50 - Auron 30.33% - Sandbag 18.35% - Sonic 29.58% - Sub-Zero 21.74% (+47.79)

Gaddswell has the top pick today - this is his fourth top 5, and he only needs a second place now to have one of each. Claude00 gets second for his first ever Oracle top 5. TRE is third, followed by Harmonica and Kleenex.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k8&type=match&match=47

Current Leaderboard:
1) kawaiifan - 2217.72
2) creativename - 2217.45
3) PeaceOut64 - 2215.54
4) Camden - 2214.55
5) The n00b Avenger - 2214.29

Kawaii takes the lead! Showing once again why she's the Oracle Queen, the most consistent Oracle competitor of all is finally able to overtake creativename. Now if only we could get her to post her own predictions ;).

Creativename is down to second now, while no one else in the top 13 budged, as if the kawaii/creative duel was enough excitement for one day.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k8&type=total&match=47

Top Team Scores:
1) Battle with Gilgamesh = JENOVA - 95.21 (Janus5000: +47.42 / KleenexTissue50: +47.79)
2) Carvey Elite imho - 94.89 (Team Rocket Elite: +48.07 / Xcarvengerx: +46.82)
3) Prescrire - 94.66 (Radix: +47.50 / WalrusJump: +47.16)
4) Forclusion - 94.10 (Z1mZum: +47.42 / MartinFF7: +46.68)
5) We Used To Be Good? - 93.99 (Kaxon: +46.67 / King Morgoth: +47.32)

Team Battle with Gilgamesh = J-E-N-O-V-A keep chugging along, racking up their 5th top 5 today thanks to Kleenex's 5th place pick and Janus's tie for 8th. Team Carvey Elite imho gets second for their 7th top 5 of the contest. Team Prescrire (Radix and WalrusJump) is third, followed by Team Forclusion (they've been showing up this year, what with the current economic climate... and I can't resist making a lame joke every time they do!), and somehow Team We Used To Be Good? snatches fifth.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k8&type=teammatch&match=47

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team 31 (PeaceOut64 / The n00b Avenger) - 4429.83
2) Team Kirby (kawaiifan / Luster Soldier) - 4425.74
3) Team Happy Happyists (Camden / meche313) - 4425.09
4) Team Predestined Divination (creativename / Ngamer64) - 4418.83
5) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 4415.34

Team Mother Cat's triumph was short lived, as Team Used To has retaken fifth place today. The battle for fifth looks to be one of the more interesting races in the team standings right now (along with the battle for second) with Team 31 looking pretty unstoppable at the moment.

Complete Team Standing:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k8&type=teamtotal&match=47