As, I cant Condem Starlord by his comment, I would like to add this to it:

IF the patch comes out, AND you can no longer Burn Garuda with enough blm damage, to Skip the middle phase, Where she warps around the screen and goes straight into the rotating sand plumes, as you walk clockwise (see BG video), Does that (even though they were playing to best of their ability, and if that meant it surpassed a phase due to lack of restrictions/structure "Completely on the Dev team shoulders") Does this not mean the following will be true:

1: BG as a well formed team, Put out great damage resulting in partial exploint Unaware to them or developers, and thus resulted in a Win early, though most rightly deserved than expected.

2: The resulting patch "may or may not" now restrict it, to where "astral flow" whatever you wish to call it, will now result faster, thus negating the ability to skip any phase. forcing all to experience all three (if you wanna break it down farther fine by me) phases, result in negative feedback toward the dev's about their mistake.

NOW before you flame. I am not saying BG exploited anything, but if the resulting patch negates the ability to skip a phase anything pre-patch, "known or unknown" would be DEV TEAM error, and not those who were succesful, but still none the less, a win by error, not a win per the intended form they hoped to design it to be. BG i am sure was on the top of many minds to be first to take down garuda. And if by their win, and the resulting exploit of thier original win strat, which im more than willing to say was based off of BG's win. (3bmls, skipped a phase, what would 5 do...) has shown the way to "fix dev error's" then BG stands as Original win in my book.

WHO THE HELL CARES WHAT THE ABOVE SAYS, BG won by skill, Their Strat was exploited (3blms skipped a phase, what would 5 double/trip melded + Elixers do....) , and now there will be a patch. If you can no longer skip a phase by a little more DD with three BLMs, GREAT!!! the price of all that tripple melded blm gear and INT materia might come down much less the 60k per elixer... cause now even the guys wearing all AF will eventually get to same place with teamwork!!