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The final match of the Online Shooter Showdown.

The Match-Up:

Alliance of Valiant Arms versus Bad Company 2 marks the end of the Shooter Showdown 2010. Although there were a few mismatches this year, the final was anything but a mismatch. Both Alliance of Valiant Arms and Bad Company 2 are fairly new shooters and neither was heavily favored going into this year's tourney. In fact, Bad Company 2 was a late replacement for Huxley. Last year's winner Cross Fire was the intended...

Second match of the Semi-finals in the Online Shooter Showdown.

The Match-Up:

The match to determine who would face Alliance of Valiant Arms was a hard fought battle. Like the previous semi-final match, review and forum voting were close through out the week. In fact, review voting ended up being tied with a score of 8.43 each. that said, forum voting was the decided factor this week as Bad Company 2 came away with the victory. The victory for Bad Company 2 likely came...

First match of the Semi-finals in the Online Shooter Showdown.

The Match-Up

In a match that could have easily been the finals of the tournament, Alliance of Valiant Arms and Cross Fire battled each other all week in a very close contest. Cross Fire won last year's Online Shooter Showdown so it was favored to win. However, Alliance of Valiant Arms showed the type of brashness that Cross Fire showed a year earlier when it won and would not be discouraged by a more established...

Fourth match of the Second Round in the Online Shooter Showdown.

The Match-Up

Like last week, review scores were fairly close while forum voting was anything but. Bad Company 2 took the lead in forum voting and never trailed the entire week. Global Agenda fared far better will reviewers as they generally expressed respect for the game. The wide margin in forum voting is likely due to Bad Company 2 being a more popular game on a few game systems. Bad Company 2 now moves...

Third match of the Second Round in the Online Shooter Showdown.

The Match-Up

Team Fortress 2 against Borderlands showed one of the widest gaps between review and forum voting of any Showdown match yet. While review voting was very close all week long, forum voting never was. In fact, Team Fortress 2 did not receive a single forum vote until the match was nearly over. This was somewhat shocking when considering how much Team Fortress has helped the entire Online Shooter...