Match #43 Results
Gordon Freeman 36.07%
Sora 63.93%

Sadly, Gordon wasn't able to keep Sora below 60% today, but he did perform pretty respectably in the first second round match of his career. Finally Gordon can hold his head high - he fought hard and maintained his dignity! The consensus was Sora with 65.98% and the average score was 45.61. All 116 people took Sora.

Best Five Picks:
1) ActJef1077 - Sora 63.98% (+49.95)
2) Weird Kirby Dude11 - Sora 64.00% (+49.93)
2) kawaiifan - Sora 64.00% (+49.93)
4) The Real Truth - Sora 64.02% (+49.91)
5) Menji76 - Sora 64.20% (+49.73)

ActJef is today's top predictor - this is his third top prediction of the contest, and 5th top 5. Weird Kirby Dude and kawaiifan, the Oracle Queen, tie for second - this is Wierd Kirby Dude's third top 5 of the contest, and kawaiifan's first. The Real Truth gets fourth, and Menji gets fifth.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=43

Current Leaderboard:
1) cyko - 1952.59
2) DSRage - 1946.86
3) Karma Hunter - 1944.45
4) Kaxon - 1944.04
5) Salient - 1940.02

Cyko hangs on to the lead for the second day in a row - although his Sora prediction was overly aggressive, it was less aggressive than Karma Hunter's, so he stays well ahead in first place. DSRage moves up to second, passing Karma Hunter. Karma Hunter drops to third, narrowly ahead of Kaxon, who stays in fourth. Salient takes fifth from Aprosenf - he's been slowly working his way up all contest, and today it finally pays off.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=43

Top Team Scores:
1) Team SPO*N - 99.88 (Weird Kirby Dude11: +49.93 / ActJef1077: +49.95)
2) Team Coinflip - 98.66 (red sox 777: +48.93 / Menji76: +49.73)
3) Team Predestined Divination - 98.15 (creativename: +48.93 / Ngamer64: +49.22)
4) Team The Spirit of Truth - 98.11 (Draco1214: +48.93 / Rodri316: +49.18)
5) Team Romanian Potato Soup - 97.90 (The n00b Avenger: +49.24 / GrapefruitKing: +48.66)

Team SPO*N (Weird Kirby Dude and ActJef) has a monster day, scoring a combined 99.88 points with the first and second highest individual scores of the day. Team Coinflip gets the second best score of the day. Team Predestined Divination is third, and is closesly followed by Team The Spirit of Truth, who make a recovery from yesterday's bad scores. Team Romanian Potato Soup gets the fifth best score.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=43

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 3879.13
2) Team The Spirit of Truth (Draco1214 / Rodri316) - 3876.04
3) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 3872.28
4) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 3871.90
5) Team Accident (MegatokyoEd / Rufus Shinra 18) - 3861.86

Team We Used To Be Good? retakes the team lead! Although Kaxon's and King Morgoth's predictions weren't the best, they were enough to pass Team Unfinished FFP. Karma Hunter had one Ed Bellis of a prediction, and so did Ed Bellis, causing them to drop down to fourth place. The Spirit of Truth moves up one spot to second and Team mvp's moves up to third, cracking into the once-unbeatable looking top 3. Team Accident remains in fifth place.

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=43
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