Match # 43 Results
Dante 43.41%
Amaterasu 20.83%
Ada Wong 19.41%
Balthier Bunansa 16.35%

In one of the biggest surprises of the contest so far, Amaterasu advances to round 3! Dante looked great today while Balthier if anything looked even worse than last round - he underperformed expecations by over 4%. The consensus predictions were Dante - 40.06%; Ada - 22.69%; Balthier - 20.66%; Amaterasu - 16.44%. The average score was 45.81 points.

Best Five Picks:
1) red sox 777 - Ada Wong 19.00% - Amaterasu 20.00% - Balthier 17.00% - Dante 43.00% (+49.42)
2) Gaddswell - Ada Wong 19.26% - Amaterasu 19.87% - Balthier 17.21% - Dante 42.66% (+49.32)
3) charmander6000 - Ada Wong 20.12% - Amaterasu 20.72% - Balthier 14.79% - Dante 44.37% (+49.16)
4) meche313 - Ada Wong 21.00% - Amaterasu 21.00% - Balthier 16.00% - Dante 42.00% (+49.12)
5) somdude04 - Ada Wong 21.00% - Amaterasu 20.00% - Balthier 17.00% - Dante 42.00% (+48.88)

The Red Sox may not have won today, but red sox 777 did! His top prediction gave him top 5 #3 this contest and #28 lifetime. Gaddswell had the second best score, his second top 5 of the contest. Charmander got his first top 5 this year today, even though he's been quite high in the standings for parts of this contest already. Meche had his first top 5 as well, while somdude04 got his fourth, barely beating out oracle host Kaxon for the #5 spot. >_>

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k7&type=match&match=43

Current Leaderboard:
1) The n00b Avenger - 2011.42
2) smitelf - 2005.53
3) DSRage - 2004.66
4) Haste2 - 2004.31
5) Lieutenant Kettch - 2003.80

The n00b Avenger loses a chunk of his lead today, but he still has more than enough to extend his streak to 25 straight days in first place, tying creativename for the second longest first place run ever. He has two more weeks to go if he wants to pass Bananaquest, the all time record holder in that category. Smitelf is still in second with the best prediction among yesterday's leaderboard, and DSRage and Haste2 are still in third and fourth. Lieutenant Kettch returns to the leaderboard today for the first time in three weeks after taking an extended tour of the top 17 - apparently he's decided he likes the leaderboard best. Creativename has been temporarily pushed out of the top 5.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k7&type=total&match=43
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