Match #3 Results
Pokemon 65.74%
Star Ocean 34.26%

In a match that some considered debatable, Pokemon took a big lead early and cruised to an easy victory. The best that can be said for Star Ocean today was that it managed to avoid being doubled. The Oracle Challenge just keeps growing, and there were 153 Pokemon predictions and 8 Star Ocean predictions for a total of 161, another new record. The consensus prediction was Pokemon with 60.25%.

Best Five Picks:
1) Javman162 - Pokemon 65.56% (+49.82)
2) Dunkeroo23 - Pokemon 66.00% (+49.74)
3) Tsunami70 - Pokemon 65.42% (+49.68)
4) kaonashi1 - Pokemon 66.07% (+49.67)
5) Read_Only_Thx - Pokemon 66.27% (+49.47)

Today's best prediction was made by Javman162, who scored 49.82 points. This is Javman's second #1 prediction in only 23 career matches. However, honorable mention goes to Sir Chris, who would have scored 49.96 if he had posted his change before the deadline. The second best prediction of the day belongs to Oracle newcomer Dunkeroo23. Tsunami, another new Oracle competitor, has the third best pick with 49.68 points. kaonashi1 has the fourth best prediction and Read_Only_Thx has the fifth best prediction.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SpC2k6&type=match&match=3

Current Leaderboard:
1) Tsunami70 - 147.52
2) Lightbearer75 - 146.69
3) fortybelowsummer - 146.45
4) yoshifan823 - 145.59
5) Vlado - 145.46

Tsunami70 climbs 8 spots on the overall leaderboard to take over first place! Former leader The n00b Avenger dropped 54 spots due to a prediction that was 12% too low. Lightbearer75 climbs 10 spots from yesterday to land himself in second place. In third is fortybelowsummer, the sole holdover from yesterday's leaderboard - he moved up one spot from fourth. Yoshifan823 jumps from 18th place to 4th, and Vlado moves up from 6th to 5th, edging his way onto the leaderboard.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SpC2k6&type=total&match=3
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