Tournament of Champions? I feel like I'm running a marathon and they decided to add another mile...

Match #64 Results:
Link 52.44%
Cloud Strife 47.56%

Link has proven himself to be the champion among champions, three-time winner of the Gamefaqs character battles. While technically there is one more round, we all know that this was the true championship match. Link won by a slightly larger margin than he did last year, and it remains to be seen whether Advent Children had an effect on Cloud's popularity. The predictions were amazingly one-sided considering that Cloud has beaten Link in the past: 54 for Link vs only 3 for Cloud. The consensus was Link with 52.79% and the average score was 47.98.

Best Five Picks:
1) Aprosenf - Link 52.41% (+49.97)
2) meche313 - Link 52.40% (+49.96)
3) Draco1214 - Link 52.54% (+49.90)
4) Paratroopa1 - Link 52.28% (+49.84)
5) CaptainFlufflez - Link 52.73% (+49.71)

The top two predictions were quite close today - Aprosenf beat out meche313 by .01 points to score the top prediction. This is the fifth top 5 for Aprosenf and the fourth for meche. Draco1214 gets third for his fifth top 5, completing the cycle (one each of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th). Paratroopa1 gets fourth for his second top 5, and CaptainFlufflez is fifth for his 8th top 5.

Complete match ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k5&type=match&match=64

Current Leaderboard:
1) Xuxon - 2839.94
2) Master Moltar - 2836.71
3) StopPokingMe - 2830.35
4) Haste2 - 2828.20
5) Heroic Viktor - 2826.16

No change on the leaderboard today, with a fairly predictable match. With only two remaining matches that both look relatively predictable, it's going to be hard for anyone other than Master Moltar to make a bid for the lead. Moltar, however, is still well within striking distance of Xuxon's lead at the moment.

Full standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k5&type=total&match=64

Second Half Leaderboard:
1) kawaiifan - 1474.57
2) Garsha - 1471.33
3) Yesmar - 1467.97
4) StopPokingMe - 1467.69
5) yoblazer33 - 1466.14

Today Yesmar passes StopPokingMe to take third place in the second half leaderboard. Kawaiifan still leads in the second half, at the point where the length of the second half equals the length of the first half. (Due to the TOC, the second "half" has two more matches than the first.)

Full second half standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/divisions.php?round=part2

Final Phase Leaderboard:
1) Dilated Chemist - 752.08
2) Ngamer64 - 747.90
3) yoblazer33 - 747.26
4) Camden - 744.36
5) Duffer11 - 743.64

There are no changes at all on the final phase leaderboard today. Dilated Chemist expands his lead slightly to over four points. It's too bad that he didn't leave a prediction for Squall vs Knuckles, as his average score would place him in the top 20.

Full second half standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/divisions.php?round=part3
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