Match #50 Results
Tifa Lockhart 66.05%
Princess Peach 33.95%

Tifa wins a relatively uneventful match against Peach - the most exciting thing about this match was probably seeing just how much Peach benefitted from the Nintendo Power Hour, pulling in over 38% at the start of the poll. The consensus was Tifa with 64.06%, and the average score was 46.43. 105 people picked Tifa and one (catldr24) picked Peach.

Best Five Picks:
1) Luster Soldier - Tifa Lockhart 66.05% (+50.00)
2) Team Rocket Elite - Tifa Lockhart 66.00% (+49.95)
2) Big Bob - Tifa Lockhart 66.00% (+49.95)
4) Haste2 - Tifa Lockhart 66.20% (+49.85)
5) zwong1 - Tifa Lockhart 65.89% (+49.84)

Today Luster Soldier made a perfect prediction, the 15th of the contest. This is Luster's 3rd top 5 of the contest, and all of them have been scores of 49.97 or better (two firsts and a fifth). Team Rocket Elite and Big Bob tied for second - this is the 2nd top 5 for both of them this contest. SC2k3 champion Haste 2 gets the fourth best pick, followed by newbie zwong1 with the #5 prediction. This is Haste's 28th lifetime top 5.

Complete Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=match&match=50

Current Leaderboard:
1) cyko - 2285.62
2) Draco1214 - 2277.35
3) PeaceOut64 - 2276.19
4) Aprosenf - 2274.65
5) Salient - 2274.48

Cyko remains in first and maintains his sizeable lead - he's looking great going into the final stage of the contest. Draco remains in second place, and scores exactly the same as PeaceOut64 in third (even though their picks were not the same), maintaining the distance between them. Aprosenf jumps up two spots, knocking ps2rulezzz out of the top 5. Salient hangs on to fifth place again today.

Full Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=total&match=50

Top Team Scores:
1) Team We Have Four Perfect Oracle Predictions Combined - 99.51 (Team Rocket Elite: +49.95 / Xuxon: +49.56)
2) Team Soda Chugging Soldiers - 99.39 (Luster Soldier: +50.00 / Cokes: +49.39)
3) Team th3 Bob - 99.14 (th3l3fty: +49.19 / Big Bob: +49.95)
4) Team AAA - 98.92 (Aprosenf: +49.73 / Ayvuir: +49.19)
5) Team Jigglypuff - 98.34 (Alanna82: +49.39 / kawaiifan: +48.95)

Team We Have Four Perfect Oracle Predictions Combined gets the top score of the day, appearing in the top 5 for the second time in a row. Luster's perfect pick carries Team Soda Chugging Soldiers to the second best score of the day. Team th3 Bob gets third with a combined 99.14 points. Team AAA has the fourth best score, and Team Jigglypuff is fifth.

Complete Team Match Ranking:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teammatch&match=50

Team Leaderboard:
1) Team mvp's (ps2rulezzz / basmeyer42) - 4544.60
2) Team We Used To Be Good? (Kaxon / King Morgoth) - 4539.83
3) Team The Spirit of Truth (Draco1214 / Rodri316) - 4538.91
4) Team Romanian Potato Soup (The n00b Avenger / GrapefruitKing) - 4536.45
5) Team Unfinished FFP (Ed Bellis / Karma Hunter) - 4533.17

Despite ps2rulezzz's slide off the individual leaderboard, Team mvp's holds on to first in the team leaderboard today. Team We Used To Be Good? moves up one spot to second, but they're currently five points back of the leaders. Team The Spirit of Truth drops down another spot today to third. Team Romanian Potato Soup and Team Unfinished FFP remain in fourth and fifth, respectively.

Complete Team Standings:
http://www.oraclechallenge.com/archives.php?contest=SC2k6&type=teamtotal&match=50
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