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Chattanooga advances to quarterfinals in Outside magazine’s Best Town Ever contest

Above It All - Bradley Weber of Chattanooga makes the final clip before the anchors on the route Heresey (5.11c), at Lilly Bluff at the Obed. Photographer: Matt Fields-Johnson. Location: North of Wartburg, TN.
Above It All - Bradley Weber of Chattanooga makes the final clip before the anchors on the route Heresey (5.11c), at Lilly Bluff at the Obed. Photographer: Matt Fields-Johnson. Location: North of Wartburg, TN. Above It All - Bradley Weber of Chattanooga makes the final clip before the anchors on the route Heresey (5.11c), at Lilly Bluff at the Obed. Photographer: Matt Fields-Johnson. Location: North of Wartburg, TN.

By Staff Report 2 min read

Chattanooga easily brushed past Releigh-Durham to enter the quarterfinals of Outside magazine’s Best Town Ever contest.

Outside’s new format, which is structured like the March Madness basketball tournament, forces fans to vote once per round to maintain their city’s momentum down the final stretch.

Chattanooga is now pitted against Beaufort, South Carolina, after knocking off both Roanoke, Virginia and Releigh-Durham, North Carolina.

Chattanooga handily outperformed opponents in early contests, and in by the afternoon of May 14 led with 64 percent of the vote against “Beauford,” a misspelling of Beaufort, S.C.

Voting in the quarterfinals will end on May 18 at 11:59 p.m.