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JJ2 location bracket, round 2 - July 29th 2024

Source: Polltab

We’re one week into the Jazz 2 Locations bracket! These 8 locations have been eliminated from the standings: they are not the best.

• Castle
• Jungle
• Tubelectric
• Easter
• Holiday Hare 98
• Medivo
• Haunted House
• Beach

These 8 locations remain:

• Labrat
• Damn
• Townhouse
• Psych
• Diamondus
• Colon
• Carrotus
• Hell/Inferno

The surviving 8 locations have been sorted into 4 new matchups that you can vote on right now, or any time in the next week!

JJ1 Planet Bracket WINNER - July 21st 2024

Source: Polltab

It’s been five weeks and the results are in! Let’s take a quick look at the final planets, starting with their descriptions from Jazz Jackrabbit 1’s manual:

MEDIVO — The atmosphere of this ghostly planet is incredibly thick; so thick that it is constantly raining on the surface. The planet is covered with enormous marble ruins which hold many secrets. Watch out for spikes and ghost swords.

It seemed inevitable that at least one of the Turtle Terror planets would make it into the finals. Players who only know JJ1 from its shareware demo, and/or JJ2’s Flashback episode, will obviously gravitate to them, and indeed Diamondus lost to Medivo itself, and Tubelectric lost to Crysilis only by the flip of a coin. But Medivo also has a killer soundtrack, impressive palette tricks (rain splashing onto bricks, lightning illuminating a turtle silhouette), swinging platforms, JJ1’s first airboard sequence, and a guardian battle with two distinct stages.

CRYSILIS — Once a barren wasteland, now a shimmering gem in the night sky. Crysilis is Devan’s depository for all of his (stolen) treasures… Time to raid it!

The most successful non-Turtle-Terror planet! While Medivo is ultimately just a castle, Crysilis is a truly unique setting filled with coins, jewels, and sparkling colors. With vast bridges overhanging bouncing orbs, an amusing enemy with a unique attack pattern, and a hauntingly attractive background, this planet is what you get the turtle who has everything. And who can forget getting suckered by a golden bounce spike hiding in front of a waterfall of molten gold?

On their way to the finals, Medivo triumphed over the rat planet, Letni, Scraparap, and Diamondus. Crysilis vanquished Orbitus, Tubelectric, Deserto, and Technoir.

And the best planet, by 13 votes to 11, is…

Crysilis!

But while we’re in the mood for brackets, let’s pick the best locale from Jazz Jackrabbit 2! You can pick your preferred locations using any criteria you like… art quality, enemy design, level design, soundtrack, tileset ease of use, whatever. Once again, we’ll run each bracket round for a week at a time, giving everyone plenty of time to think.

JJ1 Planet Bracket FINALS - July 14th 2024

Source: Polltab

It’s the final matchup of the Jazz 1 Planets bracket! Diamondus and Technoir have both been defeated by significant margins: our final matchup asks whether the best of the Jazz 1 planets is Medivo or Crysilis!

JJ1 Planet Bracket SEMIFINALS - July 7th 2024

Source: Polltab

We’re three weeks into the Jazz 1 Planets bracket! These 4 planets have been eliminated from the standings: they are not the best planet.

• Deserto
• Bloxonius
• Marbelara
• Scraparap

These 4 planets remain:

• Crysilis
• Technoir
• Diamondus
• Medivo

The surviving 4 planets have been sorted into 2 new matchups that you can vote on right now, or any time in the next week!