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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!

I wish Opoona had been localized better; there are constant mixups of planet vs star, and much of the tone is fairly bland throughout. I'm guessing the original script was more interesting. It's not exactly subtle about something being weird in Landroll (foreshadowing the events of the midgame), but between the in-game art galleries, TV shows and minigames it really would have completed the package and made it more immersive. It felt like Artepiazza was going for an otherworldly planet with some interesting (and some dystopian) ideas about society, but not a lot of that came through.

I will say that the "Your mom and dad are sick, no you can't see them, but you are responsible for their medical debt" gets more chilling each time I play the game. I think it is supposed to be a little playful in how absurd it is, but (like Theme Hospital) it hits a little different for those of us in the US.