The US Open of Bridges

A giant bracket to determine America's best bridge. Insta: @all_the_bridges

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This bracket will determine the best bridge in America!

This thread has the details

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All bridges are significant, Rachel

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If anyone is lamenting the newfound lack of bridges on your socials now that we've crowned #NewRiverGorgeBridge as America's Best, feel free to follow my all-bridges insta (same handle as twitter)

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@kkrukenb Worst interchange?
Best sewer system?
Prettiest courthouse?

The possibilities are endless!

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Congratulations to America's newly crowned Best Bridge - the New River Gorge Bridge of West Virginia!

Truly an awe-inspiring bridge, a glorious arch highlighting the natural beauty of the area. A bridge well deserving of the title of Best Bridge
https://t.co/MPoodpfGJU

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2 and a half hours until we've crowned our champion! Gets those votes in now and convince your friends that your bridge is the best bridge in America!

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FINAL

INDIANA | MICHIGAN | PENNSYLVANIA | WEST VIRGINIA

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For those asking for a full bracket - here you go! I can update this tomorrow with the winning bridge, and if anyone has suggestions for making it more readable/accessible just let me know! (three screenshots of Excel spreadsheet featuring 208 bridges in 4 knockout rounds)

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Nearing 300 votes with an hour until the halfway mark. RT to spread awareness - let's get well over 500 votes for this final! Remember, the more votes an online poll gets, the more legit the winner!

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FINAL

INDIANA | MICHIGAN | PENNSYLVANIA | WEST VIRGINIA

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Some bracket stats for you

1: Tie (WA's Monroe Street and Deception Pass, with DP winning a runoff)
12: Lowest number of winning votes - Arlington Memorial Bridge, D.C., Round 1
88: Percent of votes captured in the most dominant poll (WV R1)
208: Total bridges in the bracket

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Starting to see the pack reel back in the early leader. Gonna need a lot more retweets and passionate pleas/vague threats/bribes to make it competitive, tho

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FINAL

INDIANA | MICHIGAN | PENNSYLVANIA | WEST VIRGINIA

[Catherine @catlikesbridges]

How am I only learning of this at the FINAL ROUND??? 😭😭

[Karl Krukenberg @kkrukenb]

Last chance to vote for bridges!

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Not av room of early action here. Maybe everyone is asleep? But, that means it's really anyone's title to lose still!

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FINAL

INDIANA | MICHIGAN | PENNSYLVANIA | WEST VIRGINIA

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@jzimbabwe No, I have a spread sheet, but it's not very elegant. I can adjust it more so that the awkward functional bits don't detract from the actual matchups.

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Final poll coming out in just a minute! Just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone for humoring me in this utterly pointless, but often quite fun, competition. You all make Twitter less of an endless cesspool, and you should feel.good about that. Much love to you all!

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https://t.co/kTqx0uIIit

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WV chose the New River Gorge Bridge - photographer's dream - for it's 2006 commemorative quarter backing

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FINAL

INDIANA | MICHIGAN | PENNSYLVANIA | WEST VIRGINIA

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https://t.co/LwLbJAZ8cs

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Pittsburgh has an embarrassment of riches (honestly could do a whole bracket on just them) but Fort Pitt's awe-inspiring view of the skyline and a bunch of other bridges) coming out of the tunnel is otherwordly. Shout out to @ ktk7895 on insta for 1 & 2 of these pics (go follow!)