The Romanians cities are in full force for the Elite 8, having knocked off strong competition in the Sweet 16 last week. Now, Buenos Aires and Seville stand in the way of a Romanian Final Four. These 8 cities have all made it this far and each one is only a few steps from becoming The Best City to Visit of 2014; but if there’s one predictable thing about this tournament it’s that it is usually unpredictable.
You have until this Saturday, March 22nd at 12pm US EST to pick your favorite 4 cities. Results will begin posting later in the week. Those of you reading through email and RSS will have to click-through to this page to vote.
Good luck everyone and remember, the Final Four round begins next Tuesday, March 25th!
Hey, is Cluj Napoca competing against Buenos Aires or Paris?
It is Buenos Aires, I made an error on the bracket above but I’ll replace it now. Thanks for pointing it out.
The fact that Romania represents 6 of the “top 8 cities to visit” makes this competition a complete joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IWINtUCshxY
We’ve obviously underestimated Romania. Gotta love that passion and commitment 😉
I’ve only ever been to Sevilla, so I can’t say that the Romanian cities aren’t worthy. I do look forward to reading your posts, Anil, however this turns out. Today’s election day in my Dutch town, so I appreciate that I get to participate as a first-time voter for my city council AND as a returning voter in this travel tournament. May the best ‘candidate’ win!!
I think many people did!
And I appreciate your participating in the contest – I like that the results can go in any direction based on reader votes. Good luck for the cities you chose and in the outcome of the city council results 🙂
Anil, will we be able to see the number of votes before the ending of the voting period for this stage?
They’ll hopefully be up later today or tomorrow in the morning European time.
Thanks! I still have to get accustomed to the US EST time zone. 😀
By the way, if we’ll have all-Romanian semifinals, will you write the voting hours in GMT+2 format? 😛
Unfortunately not, most of my readers are in the US and have the site’s schedule set to reflect it. (Plus helps me keep organized. I try though to find good ending times for both US and Europe.
US Est is GMT-5, so it not that hard to figure it out. 😀