Submissions Thread

So I think that all three of Urbosa, Mipha, and Revali showed their passion and desire in advocating for themselves in FTC, and everyone should be proud of what they've accomplished here, I think you all argued your hearts out.

That said, I definitely think some of those arguments were more valid than others. I'll be honest, Revali to me far and away had the best jury performance from my perspective. I think he had really thoughtful and well reasoned points to make that were articulated extremely well and there are few things I would change about it.

Mipha brought up some valid points, and I admired her standing up to Sidon, whose behavior in FTC seemed really rude and unnecessary even if I can understand the source of his anger. I have a hard time casting my vote for Mipha though, because I don't think she played better than Revali or Urbosa, even taking redemption out of the equation. The argument of whether Mipha played better seems to hinge on whether people were willing to vote for her, which ends up being really circular and is sort of like a jury argument Rorschach test. It seems to be persuasive to some people who went to the jury predisposed to vote for Mipha, but sadly it's not really persuasive to me (sorry, because I do like you a lot but that doesn't affect my vote here much).

Which brings me to Urbosa. Urbosa was immune from 8, and specifically both Mipha and Revali did not want to sit next to her at the end. Mipha and Revali both brought up some very good points about flaws or missed opportunities in Urbosa's game, but I think Urbosa was able to point out other examples of events that spoke to her skills in social and strategic areas of the game.

If Urbosa were just some challenge robot (a Terminator as Oven put it), I might not be impressed, but I think she's a good and well-rounded player (if flawed in ways, as we all are) who just happened to also be a dominant challenge beast. If I were to vote for Revali (and believe me, I would actually love to, I think he did a fantastic job in FTC), I would have to answer the question "What more would Urbosa have had to do to get my vote?" and I honestly couldn't find a reasonable answer to that.

I cast my vote for Urbosa. Great job, you did very well and if you win it's well-deserved.

I cast my secondary vote for Revali. I have a bad feeling other people don't respect your game as much as I do but I think really think you did a terrific job in FTC and should be really proud.