Leveling Down’s 2010 Videogame Tourney Has Officially Started! The rounds will take place over the next couple of weeks, and will be heavily decided by you, our Leveling Down readers.
Voting for Round 1, which consists of all 32 games in the tourney, will close on Wednesday March 24, 2010 at 6PM EST. On Thursday, cmfl3x will announce the 16 games that will move onto Round 2 and we will open Round 2 voting Friday morning and end it Monday at 6PM EST. Hit the jump to read more about our first tourney and to cast your votes!
Thanks to all of you that participated in voting for that 8th seed in each bracket. Unfortunately, 3 of those 4 8 seed votes were all ties: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Assassin’s Creed II for the Hollywood bracket, Resident Evil 4 and Counter-Strike for the M16 bracket, and Rock Band 2 and Shadow of the Colossus for the Hodj Podj bracket.
This weekend, cmfl3x and I discussed what to do with ties (in both the 8th seed voting and in the actual tourney itself). We originally considered allowing both games that tied to move forward into the next round, so instead of two games for that next matchup, it would be three: the winner of one half of that matchup and both games that tied from the other matchup. Ultimately, we decided against it because to see three games in a matchup may skew the voting too much (anyone remember Ross Perot?).
Thus, for ties, cmfl3x and I will use some sort of criteria to decide who moves onto the next round. With this being our first videogame tourney and all, this may not be the best approach, but we’re learning as we go. I’ve decided to use the metacritic game averages to determine which game in a tie move forward. Unfortunately for Assassin’s Creed II and Shadow of the Colossus, their competitors ranked 1 point higher on the average review score. Heartbreaking – just like when I nearly cried as Michigan State sunk that three pointer at the buzzer to send the Maryland Terps home yesterday afternoon but we had to narrow it down to one winner each round.
Having said that, let’s get on to the voting for Round 1:
Hollywood Region - Great Storylines: Round 1
- (1) BioShock (81%)
- (8) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (19%)
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Hollywood Region - Great Storylines: Round 1
- (4) God of War (56%)
- (5) Portal (44%)
Hollywood Region - Great Storylines: Round 1
- (3) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (75%)
- (6) Beyond Good & Evil (25%)
Hollywood Region - Great Storylines: Round 1
- (2) Metal Gear Solid (50%)
- (7) Final Fantasy IV (50%)
M-16 Region - Shooters: Round 1
- (8) Resident Evil 4 (63%)
- (1) Metroid Prime (37%)
M-16 Region - Shooters: Round 1
- (4) Halo 3 (52%)
- (5) Modern Warfare 2 (48%)
M-16 Region - Shooters: Round 1
- (3) Goldeneye (86%)
- (6) Doom 2 (14%)
M-16 Region - Shooters: Round 1
- (2) Uncharted 2 (71%)
- (7) Gears of War 2 (29%)
Sun-Tzu Region - Strategy: Round 1
- (1) Civilization IV (53%)
- (8) Command & Conquer (47%)
Sun-Tzu Region - Strategy: Round 1
- (4) Warcraft III (82%)
- (5) Dune 2 (18%)
Sun-Tzu Region - Strategy: Round 1
- (3) Starcraft (61%)
- (6) Halo Wars (39%)
Sun-Tzu Region - Strategy: Round 1
- (7) Final Fantasy Tactics (72%)
- (2) Advance Wars: Dual Strike (28%)
Hodj Podj Region - Other Games: Round 1
- (8) Rock Band 2 (52%)
- (1) Super Mario 64 (48%)
Hodj Podj Region - Other Games: Round 1
- (5) NHL '94 (68%)
- (4) WarioWare Inc. Mega Microgame$ (32%)
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Starcraft is losing to Halo Wars? Where are the Korean readers to represent?!