EA Sports has announced the final sixteen players that have advanced to the next round of voting for NHL 14‘s cover. Each of the remaining players are lumped into a bracket format, competing head-to-head until the final match-up is decided and revealed during the 2013 Stanley Cup Final.
According to EA, more than 12 million votes have been cast in the competition’s first two rounds, “with daily vote totals up nearly 70% over the NHL 13 Cover Vote Campaign.”
Fans signed into their EA account can vote an unlimited number of times during this round until May 12 at 11:59pm ET. Votes can be doubled on Thursdays on Twitter and Instagram by using specific hashtags for each of the remaining players.
NHL 14 launches in North America on September 10, 2013, and worldwide on September 13.