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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 love RTK8. It's the 2nd game in their play-as-a-general RPG series, but it improved on RTK7 in every way. It's also not quite as good as RTK10 (in my IMO), but it is different, has a different style/feel from that later game.

Can we take a moment to appreciate that Koei released Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI all on PS2, and unlike EA's annual sporting entries, they're all markedly different games. What a golden age!

I'd agree with your comments on RTK8 (although I much prefer 7's aesthetic). RTK10 is better than either, I think.

Koei's span of RTKs on the PS2 is pretty good, although I think their broader spectrum of SNES/Genesis era simulations is more impressive.