Match #23 Results:
Magus 49.14%
Knuckles the Echidna 50.86%

Knuckles over Magus - the biggest upset in contest history. Today we had zero Knuckles predictions, 98 Magus predictions, and a consensus of 60.77% for Magus. The average score was 21.73. (Surprisingly, better than Ness vs. CJ... but this is a bigger upset because no one had the right winner).

Best Five Picks:
1) OmegaRagnarok - Magus 50.67% (+41.94)
2) Starion - Magus 51.00% (+41.28)
3) xycos - Magus 52.00% (+39.28)
4) radadam - Magus 52.45% (+38.38)
5) CaptainFlufflez - Magus 52.54% (+38.20)

Before today, only one person had ever made the top 5 while predicting the wrong winner - today, all five did. OmegaRagnarok had the best prediction of the day, his second top 5 of the contest. Starion was the only other person to score above 40 points, and is also on his second top 5. Xycos gets his first top 5, radadam gets his second in a row, and CaptainFlufflez gets his third.

Complete match ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k5&type=match&match=23

Current Leaderboard:
1) creativename - 1002.31
2) Heroic Viktor - 993.38
3) Dilated Chemist - 990.27
4) BeTheMan - 987.23
5) TenkoStar17 - 986.18

Creativename is the first to break the 1000 point barrier, and Heroic Viktor is still in second, narrowing the gap a little today. Dilated Chemist climbs two more spots to third. We have a new face on the leaderboard today in fourth as BeTheMan jumps seven spots, and TenkoStar17 climbs back into 5th after spending one day in 6th.

Full standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k5&type=total&match=23
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SpC2K5 First Vote Champion
Current Score: 21/22 | Today: Magus over Knuckles