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Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round Lower Bracket!

Each game in the lower bracket is still seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools! Every game in the lower bracket has already been defeated by another game in a 1-on-1 poll to get to this point. This is their chance to claw their way back into the main event... but the stakes are high. The games that lose in these polls are out of the tournament for good! The games that survive will face the next crop of upper bracket losers in the next round.

Polls are updated weekly, typically on Saturday... or Sunday or Monday. Check back throughout the week to make sure you don't miss a vote!

HOW TO VOTE

This is easy. You only get one vote per poll. The game with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, the higher seed advances, so don't get complacent!

The first X game is somewhat tedious, buggy and the controls aren't always the best. Yet, it manages to capture something interesting with its blend of space commerce, galaxy traversal, exploration and combat/pirate evasion. It's a flawed game but I'll take it over Blades of Steel.

Blades of Steel has the honour of being the best hockey game before EA started serializing them (it was better than the official Nintendo Ice Hockey game). And it also featured a prominent hockey mechanic: fighting! Actually a pretty good game.

And it's got a rad Konami soundtrack: