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#HLSRecap Madness: Elite Eight

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Our little tournament is definitely heating up. The amount of votes have been increasing every round and the campaigning has reached a fever pitch.

Now we’ve arrived to the regional finals, aka the Elite Eight. The best of the best can be found below and I expect all these races to be tight. The voting is open from now until Sunday, March 31 5:00pm EDT.

#NDFBIsDeterminedToKillMe Region

#4

I gotta admit, I can’t believe this took out Bobby’s tweet. I have apparently underestimated group panic. But will it be enough to stop the Florida Gulf Coast tweet of this tournament?

#15

And here’s the underdog darling of the tournament — aka, horribly undervalued by me. My fault for not seeing the genius of this tweet in the wee hours of the morning when I seeded this initially, but now I’m pulling for our version of #DunkCity.

[poll id=”87″]

Celebration Region

#2

Post-Southern Cal was easily the high point of the 2012 season, so it’s no surprise this tweet has been barreling through the competition. Ironically, the tweet that gets through the celebration of the ND defense is centered around Miami.

/cue sad trombone

#12

I still have no idea what is going on here, but all I know is that cwilk has been campaigning his ass off and he took out what I thought would be a near-impossible #1 seed to dethrone. The lesson here folks is to ABC: Always Be Campaigning.

[poll id=”88″]

LULZ Region

#4

This tweet actually caused some serious debate in my mentions. Should this tweet be quality because she found a funny sign, or is a top tweet in the careful crafting of sub-140 character wit? You get to decide because…

#10

https://twitter.com/A5thDown/status/249676527787208704

Here comes a contest against said wit, not only that, but MQ was one of the folks raising said complaint. I think it’s a very valid point, but again, you get to decide. Will a call to the Oprah meme be enough to dethrone a College GameDay sign?

[poll id=”89″]

OMG Region

#1

There’s only one #1 seed left in this tournament and it’s a strong one. Plus it invokes Louis Nix III as does it’s opponent making the the OMG Region the Irish Chocolate Region.

#3

https://twitter.com/oaknd1/status/272564147621855232

One one side, you have a “now I will run through a wall” scenario. On this side, you have the “holy crap, Louis Nix is a soul-stealing badass”. Both are equally awesome and I expect this matchup to be awesome.

[poll id=”90″]

Previous Results

Sweet Sixteen

Results

Second Round

#NDFBIsDeterminedToKillMe Region

Celebration Region

LULZ Region

OMG Region

First Round

#NDFBIsDeterminedToKillMe Region

Celebration Region

LULZ Region

OMG Region

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