Knuckles is quite an interesting case in these contests. In every single contest, Knuckles has won his first round match before losing to Solid Snake in the second round. There is no way to verify Knuckles' strength, simply because he gets stuck fighting Solid Snake every year. Wherever Snake goes, Knuckles goes with him. The argument could be made that Knuckles has grown slighly weaker with each passing contest, but there is no way to know whether or not this is Knuckles weakening independently of Solid Snake. There is simply no way to verify his strength until he loses to someone else, but thanks to CJayC's cute little ideas, we may very well see Knuckles stuck fighting Snake every single year. An interesting fact about Knuckles: of all the characters who have won a match in all three contests, he is the weakest.

Division 1 Round 1 --- 2nd place, 43939 [27.84%] - Yoshi, 55989 [35.48%] - Rikku, 42830 [27.14%] - Vaan, 15064 [9.54%]
Division 1 Round 2 --- 3rd place, 25442 [20.27%] - Mega Man, 47353 [37.73%] - Yoshi, 35438 [28.24%] - KOS-MOS, 17261 [13.75%]

After getting unfairly shafted last year due to the female bracket, people were anxious to see how Knuckles would follow up his memorable 2005 performance. When the bracket was released, it looked good for him to get past the second round for the first time. Well, Knux was almost involved in an upset, but he would have been on the wrong side of it. When the match began, he found himself trailing...Rikku? Are you kiddin' me? Knuckles did end up taking second place, but only by an unimpressive 1100 votes. Oh yeah, and he finished far behind Yoshi in both matches. Sonic Team bombing would become a recurring theme in the contest.

-Ulti