Monday, November 22, 2010

Elimination Monday

Its official, Big Blue is #1! Well, in the regular season of the Capital One Mascot of the Year Challenge anyway. Big Blue received the number one seed for the playoffs in the contest with over ONE MILLION votes during the 12 weeks of the regular season! (that is an average of over 80,000 vote per week) Go MONARCHS!

Eight mascots were officially eliminated from the contest today as well. The Capital One Bowl website refers to these mascots as benched. The following mascots were “benched” and are no longer in the running to be the Mascot of the Year, Goldy of Minnesota (5-7), The Bird of USAFA (5-7), Smokey of Tennessee (4-8), Mike of LSU (4-8), Mr. C of Vanderbilt (4-8), Testudo of Maryland (2-10), Joe Bruin of UCLA (2-10), and Sebastian of Miami (1-11).




There are still eight mascots left in the running to be the Mascot of the Year. The quarterfinal matchups are as follows:
#1 Big Blue (12-0) vs. #8 Big Red (6-6)
#2 Paydirt Pete (12-0) vs. #7 Joe Vandal (6-6)
#3 Monte (9-3) vs. #6 Bearcat (7-5)
#4 Brutus (9-3) vs. #5 The Duck (8-4)

The playoffs for the Capital One Mascot of the Year only last three weeks and are single elimination, so anything can happen. There will be NO MORE TEXT VOTES during this time, so the only way to show your support for Big Blue is to VOTE early and VOTE often at capitalonebowl.com!

Week 12:
In the last week of regular season voting Big Blue was the Matchup of the Week against Mr. C of Vanderbilt.  Big Blue was able to sweep by Mr. C by over 45,000 votes. The 56,807 votes took Big Blue’s vote total OVER MILLION! Way to go Monarch fans, this is just what Big Blue needed to boost him into the finals.

QuarterFINALS:
Big Blue ALSO does pushups...
...like another mascot we all know.
Big Blue is up against Big Red of Western Kentucky once again. This past foe posed little threat to Big Blue in week 11 only putting up 21,000 votes to Big Blue’s 59,000. Without text voting in the finals, Big Red could give Big Blue his first loss of the competition and a crush his dreams of being the Mascot of the Year. As a Monarch, I WILL NOT let that happen, and NIETHER SHOULD YOU!

When voting online this week you should take into consideration which mascot Big Blue could be up against in the semifinals if he wins this week. There are several POWERHOUSE mascots still in the running to be Mascot of the Year. When you vote this week, you should also vote for Joe Vandal of Idaho and Bearcat of Cincinnati. This could make an easier trip to the Capital One Bowl for Big Blue if Paydirt Pete (the only other undefeated mascot) and Monte (the second place vote total mascot) are no longer in the running…just a thought.

And as always vote for Big Blue at capitalonebowl.com

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