Match #8 Results
Princess Peach 83.10%
Princess Daisy 16.90%

Peach easily handled Daisy in the biggest blowout of the contest so far - we'll probably never know how much was SFF and how weak Daisy really is. The consensus was an impressive Peach with 83.96% and the average score was 45.41. All 153 predictions were for Peach.

Best Five Picks:
1) Aprosenf - Princess Peach 83.06% (+49.96)
2) Blade X - Princess Peach 83.02% (+49.92)
3) Dilated Chemist - Princess Peach 83.00% (+49.90)
4) kaonashi1 - Princess Peach 82.93% (+49.83)
5) Yesmar - Princess Peach 82.92% (+49.82)

Today's top 5 contains a bunch of veterans. Aprosenf gets the top pick, for his 11th time in the top 5. Blade X in second is the only one with less than ten top fives to his name - this is his first. Dilated Chemist ranks third for his 26th all time top 5, which ties him for fourth on the records page with Haste2 and King Morgoth (all three of them are former Oracle champions). Kaonashi1 gets fourth for his 14th lifetime top 5, followed by Yesmar, who gets his 18th.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=8

Current Leaderboard:
1) pikaness - 371.17
2) Rodri316 - 371.00
3) DSRage - 369.33
4) ad00 - 367.42
5) Ed Bellis - 365.62

No change at all in today's leaderboard, but the standings just got a whole lot closer. Pikaness is still in first, but now leads by only 0.17 points over Rodri. DSRage is 0.67 behind Rodri, giving us three competitors within a point of the lead. Ad00 remains in fourth and Ed Bellis holds on to fifth for the second day in a row.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=8

Top Team Scores:
1) Team Happy Happyists - 98.30 (Camden: +48.80 / meche313: +49.50)
2) Team Bartar - 98.00 (Master Moltar: +49.34 / KingBartz: +48.66)
3) Team Coincidence - 97.95 (PeaceOut64: +49.20 / marioinblack: +48.75)
4) Team Dieroll - 96.95 (StopPokingMe: +47.25 / Jecht: +49.70)
5) Team I'm Out Of Ideas - 96.52 (Paratroopa1: +47.84 / GameBopAdv: +48.68)

Team Happy Happyists is the high scoring team of the day - they're a familiar sight in the top 5 after last contest. Team Bartar ranks second with exactly 98 points. Third and fourth are a pair of randomly assigned teams, Team Coincidence (PeaceOut64 and marioinblack) and Team Dieroll (StopPokingMe and Jecht). Fifth place is Team I'm Out Of Ideas with Paratroopa1 and GameBopAdv.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=8

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team The Spirit of Truth (Draco1214 / Rodri316) - 734.85
2) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 719.75
3) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 716.90
4) Team Happy Happyists (Camden / meche313) - 714.68
5) Team Accident (MegatokyoEd / Rufus Shinra 18) - 714.65

Rodri and Draco's The Spirit of Truth holds on to the top spot on the leaderboard, and now has a comfortable 15 point lead. The second place team for the second day in a row is Ed Bellis and Karma Hunter's team, Team Unfinished FFP. Team We Used To Be Good? somehow moves back up two spots into third place. Team Happy Happyists returns to the leaderboard in fourth with their high scoring day, while Team Accident drops down one spot from fourth to fifth.

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=8
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