{"id":100571,"date":"2016-03-25T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=100571"},"modified":"2016-03-25T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:08:03","slug":"middle-earth-madness-round-2-closes-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/03\/25\/100571-middle-earth-madness-round-2-closes-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth Madness &#8211; Round 2 closes soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd2.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100553 alignright no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd2-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have some incredibly close contests as we choose our Middle-earth Sweet Sixteen. In the Brains bracket, can (5)Treebeard overcome (4)Luthien, or does (7)Aragorn have a strategy to come from behind and win over (2)Gandalf? (10)Gimli and (2)Eowyn are locked in a tight battle &#8211; who will prevail in the Brawn bracket? What about the Beauties (10)Legolas and (2)Arwen?\u00a0 Can anyone defeat (1)Morgoth in Baddies?<\/p>\n<p>Voting ends <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">March 26 at 10 PM ET<\/span><\/strong>, so pick your winners now! Here&#8217;s a link to the poll: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/03\/22\/100552-middle-earth-march-madness-round-2-bracket-vote-vote-vote\/\">Round 2 voting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>A note on how the bracket combatants were determined. TheOneRing.net created a document containing all combatants, sub divided into divisions. We asked staff to cast sixteen votes per division, with the votes having a weight of 1-4. Each staffer cast four 4 votes, four 3 votes, four 2 votes and four 1 votes in each division. We then totaled all the votes from each division to determine their rank, and ultimately placed those into our bracket for seeding.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some incredibly close contests as we choose our Middle-earth Sweet Sixteen. 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