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We made it! 64 articles are now down to 32 as we continue our best article bracket. It’s now time to move on to the second round, based on your voting.
We’ll return to the Tom Carroll Memorial Regional.
Tom Carroll Memorial Regional
SECOND ROUND
#1 — Sex, Drugs & Through Balls: Life on the Road with Tom Carroll (Skipjack)
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#8 — Tactical Analysis: The Transcendent Vision of Meszut Ozil (Michael Caley)
What a second round match-up! One of the most iconic articles in Carty Free history vs. one of the best tactical parodies we’ve seen, even if it isn’t technically hosted on our site. Both articles breezed through their first round match-ups. Vote wisely.
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74%
#1 — Sex, Drugs & Through Balls: Life on the Road with Tom Carroll
(83 votes) -
25%
#8 — Tactical Analysis: The Transcendent Vision of Meszut Ozil
(28 votes)
#4 — Introducing the Recurrently Generated Football League (Dustin)
vs.
#12 — Tottenham confirms transfer of Georges-Kevin Nkoudou from Marseille (Sean)
Our first upset of the tournament, as Sean’s 12-seed Nkoudou article takes out Beethoven to advance to face the juggernaut that is the RGFL.
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76%
#4 — Introducing the Recurrently Generated Football League
(83 votes) -
23%
#12 — Tottenham confirms transfer of Georges-Kevin Nkoudou from Marseille
(26 votes)
#11 — Tactics Tuesday: Anatomy of a Goal and a Season (brett rainbow)
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#3 — Andros Townsend to Newcastle for £15m Purple Monkey Dishwasher (Michael Caley)
While the opening matchups at the top of the bracket breezed through, these two articles advanced via squeakers — just four votes separated them from their first round opponents, or about 4% of the total cast. And if you think an 11 seed can’t make the Sweet Sixteen then buddy you haven’t been watching the NCAA tournament recently.
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59%
#11 — Tactics Tuesday: Anatomy of a Goal and a Season
(58 votes) -
40%
#3 — Andros Townsend to Newcastle for £15m Purple Monkey Dishwasher
(39 votes)
#10 — The Evolution of Mauricio Pochettino (Jake Meador)
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#2 — Recapping Tottenham Hotspur’s transfer window (Ben Daniels)
Okay, here’s where it gets interesting. Two very different articles: a long and well-written analysis of Mauricio Pochettino’s tactical evolution, versus... well, I don’t know how you’d classify Ben’s article other than “glorious.” Could be a nail-biter, folks!
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33%
#10 — The Evolution of Mauricio Pochettino
(34 votes) -
66%
#2 — Recapping Tottenham Hotspur’s transfer window
(68 votes)