Welcome back to our Best Year in Gaming March Madness bracket competition! Yesterday we finished off the Northwest Conference, and today we’re moving on to Round 2 in the Southwest Conference. It was an interesting round with a pair of upsets – 2011 absolutely trounced 1988, partly because a bunch of our Patrons are philistines who don’t appreciate the greatness of Super Mario Bros. 3, and 2015 fell to 1989 in a much narrower vote.
Results: 2011 and 1989 win
As we finish off the Southwest Conference for round 2, we’re looking at two new entrants in our pair of matchups, and with those we’ve finally published every single article for the series – you can now read the whole thing start to finish, if you feel like it – click this link.
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2016 beat 2014 to get here, and that was a tough one. As far as years in our competition go, having Overwatch, Titanfall 2, and Stardew Valley helps quite a bit, and Kingdomino and Sharp Practice are good tabletop games to have. I was worried when we started this that 2023 might not hold up to past years when we really started looking at it but man I was happy to be wrong – 2023 was truly an insanely good year for games, with 10th edition Warhammer 40k, Sea of Stars, Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo 4, Hi-Fi Rush, Spider-Man 2, and stellar remakes of System Shock and Resident Evil 4 on its list.
