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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!

Even though I'm not as big a fan of RTK VII as the other modern entries in the series, I do have to give it props for one major gameplay innovation: instead of playing as a top-down godlike entity controlling all aspects of kingdom life (like a classic 4X strategy game), you're put in control of one specific general, and you give and receive orders, carry out your duties, participate in war, etc. The higher your rank, the more responsibility and control you have, so you can play it like a traditional RTK if you're the rule and have to micromanage everything, or you can deliberately stay as a low-rank guy and just focus on your small slice of the game.

This is done to better effect in the follow-ups RTK VIII and RTK X IMO, but it's still worth recognizing here.