Two weeks ago today, @FWBluesFan and I launched the Weird Cardinals Twitter Bracket, a more (metaphorically) regionalized version of the Cardinals Twitter Bracket from @RooCourtSTL which had swept St. Louis baseball fans by storm. And today, going into tonight, we are proud to conduct the championship round of our bracket between 3-seed @lil_scooter93 and 8-seed @VanHicklestein.
As has been tradition, I will make no formal endorsements on the matter and instead focus on proctoring the vote in as fair of a manner as I possibly can. I would, however, like to congratulate both Twitter accounts on their resounding success to this point.
@VanHicklestein has traversed a difficult road to the final, defeating the nearly four times as followed @HighSock_Sunday in round one, Weird Cardinals Twitter insider favorite @crying_birds in the Elite Eight, and another more followed account in @turpin4prez in the Final Four.
@lil_scooter93 defeated each of the founders of this event, people with an inherent and systemic advantage in this competition, in the first two rounds, and then bested worthy up-and-comer @2xBirds to make the championship round.
Each of these accounts is worthy of its spot in this competition. If, by chance, you do not follow one or both of them, you should rectify that situation immediately. Voting runs until 10 p.m. In the event of each side receiving 50% of the votes, a 69 minute run-off will be conducted Sunday afternoon at an exact time yet to be determined.
We appreciate your support on this stupid idea we had and I believe I speak for the Fort Worth Blues Man when I say that we are overwhelmed and giddy to have seen so many people be so entertained by this little experiment.
