With the round of 16 finally coming to an end last Friday, specifically timed to coincide with the start of the World Cup (not really), we can now finally move onto the Quarter Finals. You know, for the tournament you actually care about (just kidding, I’m a huge World Cup fan).

Anyway, let’s review the results from last week:

As expected, thanks to the boost by the community, Shattered Horizon broke through the round of 16, ensuring Knytt would not go any further in this tournament. On the other side, however, Love the indie MMO, just barely eeked out a victory against Ben There, Dan That the hilarious adventure freeware title. Now, Love and Shattered Horizon will be duking it out over the next week.

Moving on, N soundly defeated it’s opponent in Braid. A surprising victory considering how loved Braid was upon release, but definitely a testament to N’s ability to keeping an active community. Likewise, indie action RPG Torchlight soundly defeated World of Goo, which is surprising because for a while World of Goo and Torchlight were neck in neck, until the Torchlight community rallied around their game and sent it above and beyond. This now means that N and Torchlight will be facing off against each other in the quarter finals. This is a huge match up.

Up next, Spelunky shot down the last flash game in our tournament: The Majesty of Colors. Not that it was a huge surprise as the Spelunky community is pretty serious about their game. Additionally, Galcon Fusion has defeated Beat Hazard to move on to the quarter finals. Now Spelunky and Galcon Fusion will be facing off against each other. Should make up for an interesting match up.

Finally, it appears that Noitu Love 2 rallied to defeat our indie game of the year for 2009, Machinarium which is definitely not an easy opponent. Additionally, long time indie fan favorite, Dwarf Fortress, will be continuing on to the quarter finals as it defeated Defense Grid in the round of 16. Noitu Love 2 and Dwarf Fortress will be facing off in the quarter finals.

So that’s the wrap up for the round of 16. Great efforts by all the games involved. Starting tomorrow we’ll launch our first quarter finals match up, and round out the week with one for each day.

So, any match ups in particular that you’re looking forward to?