And then there were two.
We have reached the championship of the 2020 Ultimate Podcast Bracket, our very serious, not at all made-up-on-the-fly bracket thing we put together.
The final two competitors are both 3-seeds: Defending champions Binge Mode and upstarts The Pat McAfee Show.
Binge Mode entered the tournament with a huge chip on its shoulder after being given a 3-seed despite coming off a title last year. When the committee explained that they got a 3-seed because the committee forgot about them for a second, and then was too lazy to go back and change the 1- and 2-seeds, it only grew their frustration. They’ve rode that energy to another title game.
The Pat McAfee Show may have had a slightly easier road to the final in terms of seeds faced, but they needed a herculean effort to take down 8-seed Shutdown Fullcast. The total amount of votes in that one contest surpassed the votes cast in entire regions for other rounds.
So here we are: The final. VOTE NOW. Polls will close at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.
