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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!

Dynasty Warriors 2 is not just a homer vote from me. A lot of people don't realize that this was actually the first Shin Sangoku Musou game. The earlier Dynasty Warriors was a straight-up 2D one-on-one fighting game. This sequel was the one that started the whole huge-battlefield, one general vs. a million peons battle royale genre that has spawned several sequels, spinoffs (like Dynasty Warriors Tactics) and licensed entries including Fire Emblem, Hyrule, and Dragon Quest.

As derivative as the later games may have become, this first one was hugely influential.