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After two days of frenzied voting, the shape of the Ultimate Texas Brand Bracket is becoming clear. Some obvious favorites are coasting to victory—three of our four top seeds have shrugged off challengers—while a handful of low seeds have proved surprisingly potent. Before we break down the results, let’s take a moment to remember the brands that ran into stiff competition in the early rounds. The biggest upset was, perhaps, the second-round elimination of Chip and Joanna Gaines’s top-seeded Magnolia empire. The Fixer Upper couple is among the most iconic faces of twenty-first-century Texas: recognized around the world, owners of their own cable network, influential in home design trends all across the nation, creators of product lines that get their own sections in Target stores, capable…

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