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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'll admit GTA San Andreas is much more influential and well-known, Suikoden V proved that even with the absence of virtually any of the staff from previous numbered games, the feel of the series can be replicated.

It's not perfect, but it's a pretty darn good game. The 6-hour-ish introductory section gets a little long in the tooth (at least the Belcoot/Marina stuff could be trimmed a bit) but the gradual raveling and subsequent (piecemeal) un-raveling of the plot is fantastic. It doesn't have the brisk pacing of the first two, and it's a little derivative in places (dragon knights again?), but it's probably just a little behind 3 in my view. And the Godwin/Barrows rivalry still feels relevant to modern politics.

Here's hoping Eiyuden Chronicles is at least as good.