Remember those old ladder-style combat games you and your friends spent countless hours playing as a child? For me, that game was Killer Instinct, and on sleepovers friends and I would always take turns playing fights as we worked our way to the game’s boss, Eyedol. Eyedol was a three-headed centaur/demon creature, and for the purpose of this exercise, represents a potential date with Clemson in the ACC Championship.
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Most of the early opponents in the ladder were fairly replacement-level, as an early fight with Jago or Orchid meant, depending on the guidelines drawn out with your friends, that you got to play until you lost— and you were good to go for three or four rounds.