Phew... predictions all entered now. Time taken: 57 minutes. I'd forgotten how long it took to do this by hand. I'll say one thing about doing it that way, though, you really notice who's predicting your contest a lot more when you have to type their names in to a spreadsheet.

Check your predictions on the site, there may be errors.

Final match prediction stats:
Number of predictions: 115
Number of brand new predictors in final match: 6 (last contest: 2)
Number of Final Fantasy predictions: 49
Number of Zelda predicitons: 66

SpC2k6 prediction stats (SC2k5, SpC2k5, SC2k4, SpC2k4, SC2k3):
Total predictions: 4490 (5656, 2082, 4063, 4246, 1499)
Most predictions in a match: 167 (106, 89, 90, 86, 59)
Least predictions in a match: 113 (57, 48, 46, 51, 30)
Number of people who predicted every match: 71 (40, 39, 31, 30, 18)
Average predictions per match: 144.84 (85.70, 67.16, 64.51, 67.40, 48.35)
Unique predictors: 180 (124, 98, 105, 116, 76)

As you can see, this has been our most successful Oracle Challenge by far. Thanks to everyone who helped make it that way! We thought turnout was good in SC2k5, but we were just getting warmed up. The least predicted match in this contest (Mario/FF) got more predictions than the most predicted match in all the rest of Oracle History. This contest had more predictions than two full length contests (SC2k4 and SpC2k4), and more than twice as many as either of the other 31 match contests. This gives us a high bar for next contest, but we'll be back (soon!) so I hope you all are too!

Also, if you have any comments on the way the contest was run or suggestions for next time, now is a good time to make them.
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