I always felt I was a huge part of relegating yoda that season. Every game, every thought and decision was based around being prepared for when we played against each other so I had the better enthusiasm etc as I knew early on it was either him or me to auto-demote.
It also helped that fishy was a mentoree of mine at that stage and kept telling me how yoda was a great mate and that only made me want to get over him more. I was a worthy 7th over yoda as well as I beat 6th from the other conference and didn't relegate.
So it wasn't all just bryce. Since those days I think me and yoda have had a good respect for each other too.