2019 / Final Round

Our final round has a special stipulation!

To learn more, be sure to read this entire post before voting.

Voting will remain open for exactly 120 hours – that’s five days – beginning when this poll posted today at 5pm EST. Each reader may vote one (1) time per day, for a maximum of five (5) total votes for any venue they choose in this bracket. But here’s where things get interesting…

Every 24 hours, the two venues with the lowest total number of votes will be eliminated!

That’s right – on day one, we will start with the Top Ten Venues as chosen by you, our readers. Day two will see the field drop down to eight. Two more will fall off on day three leaving us with six. On day four, we’ll be left with the final four venues remaining in our Readers Key Tournament. And it’s all building to day five, when the top two venues will have a one on one, head to head showdown where in you, our readers, pick your ultimate favorite venue!

5pm EST will be the daily cut off for each pair of eliminations. All votes are cumulative, meaning that as long as a venue remains in the Finals, their vote count will continue to increase each day. (No vote counts will be reset from here until the end of the Readers Key Tournament.)

Once voting concludes, the venue with the highest votes will receive the 2019 Escape Authority Readers Key – Favorite Venue award. Polls will close at 5pm EST, June 3, 2019.

To learn more about our final ten contestants, take a look at their venue details below – including highlights from our reviews of their top rated games. As has been the case since round one, venues are presented in the original randomized order they started the tournament; you should infer no ranking – either by quality or number of prior votes received – from the order the are presented herein.

Venue Details