Method to the Madness

It's become clear we're going to have about three dozen joints to check out so we'll need some method to this madness. You can't remember if this week's place beat a joint from three month's ago so here's what we're going to do:

• Restaurants will be judged against the surrounding week's entries only.
• If a joint beats the places on both weeks surrounding it, it advances to the next round
• If a joint only beats one place, it goes into the loser's bracket and one place from the loser's bracket can advance to the next round