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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!

M&B Warband would probably be my pick for a "desert island game". It crosses so many genres (strategy, action, simulation) and each one has a fair amount of depth but isn't inaccessible. Like Dark Souls, if I got bored I could just swap out weapons (usually I play "boot & blade", because the player having a mount is a huge advantage).

While Warband is mostly an iteration on "vanilla" M&B, it also represents when the game actually got wider notice (I think I started vanilla 0.25 when someone on SOSZ pointed out how awesome it was). The LOTR mod stands out the most, because it is just a perfect match of setting/gameplay (and a lot of love went into it), but I played a dozen or so different mods and they were all great. The in-game options are flexible enough that you can adapt even vanilla to your favorite playstyle (AI, damage mods, battle scales).

Hate competitive multiplayer games, though, so I'm kind of sad that's what drove so much of the game's popularity. I still haven't tried M&B 2, but it's been on my wishlist for years.