70. Unmatched 2025 Tournament (Part 2)

2026-02-02

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In this episode, we complete our quest to find out which fictional character is the ultimate fighter in our 2025 Unmatched tournament! To run the tournament, I identified our 16 most-played Unmatched heroes, then set up some brackets to pit them against each other. A few episodes ago, I reported on the first half of the tournament: the first-round games that whittled our list of heroes to the Elite 8. Today, I’m excited to share the second half of the tournament!As a reminder, the hero who wins each battle isn’t necessarily the ...

In this episode, we complete our quest to find out which fictional character is the ultimate fighter in our 2025 Unmatched tournament!

To run the tournament, I identified our 16 most-played Unmatched heroes, then set up some brackets to pit them against each other. A few episodes ago, I reported on the first half of the tournament: the first-round games that whittled our list of heroes to the Elite 8. Today, I’m excited to share the second half of the tournament!

As a reminder, the hero who wins each battle isn’t necessarily the hero who moves on in the tournament. The teenager and I play a game with each pair of heroes, then discuss the game and the heroes and decide which of the two heroes we like playing the most. That’s the hero that moves on to the next round.

Achilles, Little Red, Houdini, Invisible Man, Beowulf, Jekyll & Hyde, Shakespeare, and T-Rex! Who will be the champion?

Episode Resources:

Buy Unmatched sets on Amazon.

Listen to our 2023 review of Unmatched.

Listen to Part 1 of our 2025 Unmatched tournament.

Music:

"Open Road," Purple Planet Music

"Field of Heroes," Tabletop Audio

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