Match #44 Results:
Knuckles the Echidna 46.2%
Squall Leonhart 53.8%

Squall beats Knuckles comfortably, but by less than he beat Kirby last year. Is Knuckes stronger than Kirby? There were 61 picks for Squall and 17 picks for Knuckles. The consensus was Squall with 52.38% and the average was 45.02 points. As of today we're 2/3 of the way through the contest.

Best Five Picks:
1) octoinky - Squall Leonhart 53.92% (+49.88)
2) transience - Squall Leonhart 54.00% (+49.80)
2) PeaceOut64 - Squall Leonhart 53.60% (+49.80)
4) creativename - Squall Leonhart 53.50% (+49.70)
5) Duffer11 - Squall Leonhart 53.45% (+49.65)
5) bigkevinm84 - Squall Leonhart 53.45% (+49.65)

There were two different ties in the top 5 today. Octoinky took first all by himself, and he's followed by transience and PeaceOut64, who tied for second place with two different predictions. The current leader, creativename, took fourth, and Duffer11 and bigkevinm84 tied for fifth.

Complete match ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k5&type=match&match=44

Current Leaderboard:
1) creativename - 1930.39
2) Heroic Viktor - 1929.19
3) Xuxon - 1925.63
4) Haste2 - 1917.17
5) StopPokingMe - 1915.68

There were no changes on the leaderboard today. Creativename has started to rebuild his lead with a top 5 prediction today, but couldn't gain very much because the rest of the top 5 scored well today too.

Full standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k5&type=total&match=44

Devil Division Leaderboard:
1) Rodri316 - 266.17
2) StopPokingMe - 260.59
3) Xuxon - 254.61
4) Rufus Shinra 18 - 253.74
5) Aprosenf - 251.13

The Devil division leaderboard is exactly the same as yesterday, except that Xuxon has passed Rufus Shinra 18. Rodri still has a good sized lead of almost 6 points, and has an excellent chance of winning the division with one match left to go.

Complete division standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/divisions.php?division=31

Round 2 Leaderboard:
1) kawaiifan - 561.74
2) Alanna82 - 559.72
3) cyko - 556.27
4) StopPokingMe - 553.02
5) Yesmar - 552.77

StopPokingMe swaps places with Yesmar, and otherwise the Round 2 leaderboard remains the same. This is a pretty close race with four matches left to go, so everyone on the leaderboard has a shot at taking the round 2 crown.

Complete Round 2 standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/divisions.php?division=round2
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