2007 Elite Summer Contest

The 2007 Elite Summer Contest was known as New Blood Rising. 2007 differed from the previous four Elite Summer Contests in that:

• Contestants were not ranked by seeds.
• Four Divisions gave the new generation a great opportunity to make the field.
• Randomly-placed matchups disallowed vote rallying.

The Contest kicked off on Friday, June 1st of 2007. To vote, Eliters sent the name of their daily choice to Ngamer over AOL Instant Messenger at ImNgamer, or mailed their choice to ngamer AT gmail DOT com. To be eligible to vote, one of four conditions had to be met:

• Membership in the Goldeneye or Perfect Dark Elites.
• Membership in TimeSplitters 2, Super Smash Bros. Melee, or any other NGC-Elites ranking.
• 100 posts on The Elite message boards.
• 20 hours logged in The Elite Chatroom.

Those not sure of their eligibility contacted Ngamer about their official status.

The Contest & Subcontests

• The Complete Bracket

• Main Bracket Predictions

• Nightly First Vote Competition

• European First Vote

• Vote of the Day

• Complete Match Tallies

• Bracket Predictions

• Spread Betting

Wrapup & Statistics

The 2007 Elite Summer Contest was won by Bryan Bosshardt, who defeated Phil "octo" McCanna 45 votes to 44 in the final match.

Bosshardt became the first Eliter to medal in three straight Elite Summer Contests, having won the Bronze in 2005 and 2006.

• Complete Match Tallies
• Results & Post-Matchup Writeups
• Final X-Stats
• Contest Simulator

The complete listing of Contestant Biographies for 2007 is listed below.