Now, now, fellers, yer takin' all the fun outta makeBoBhappy funtime. Hurt each others' butts in private, please.
For me, though FFVI is my favoriter game, FF7 winning it all is a testament to the game's broad appeal, which hell, let's be honest, is as good a quantifier as anything else. I can say this, since I'm not a homer, but FFVII probably is the perfect Final Fantasy. If you were to make a checklist of what makes a Final Fantasy a Final Fantasy, VII would likely tally more ticks than any other. Even though FFVI (and a couple others) does a certain few things better (for me) than FFVII, FFVII does so many things right, and things it does wrong aren't so wrong that they're gamebreaking. FFVII might not be everyone's number 1 game, but it's in almost everyone's top 5, and that's exactly how you win one of these tourneys.