There are many examples of this contest of voters being smart and taking the words "Game of the Decade" seriously. Other than the voters preventing Brawl from winning, there was no better example of this than Resident Evil 4. It was RE4, not a Final Fantasy or Zelda or Smash title, who had the highest prediction percentage and battle pickers in round 1. Though FFX was the most nominated game, RE4 might have actually been the favorite to win the entire contest. Those numbers aren't available, but RE4 getting more people picking it to win than any other game wouldn't surprise me.