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The second round of the WikiCup has all wrapped up, and round three has now started; 34 competitors remain. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus. There was a number of high importance articles improved during the second round including the work by Coemgenus (submissions) on the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. His work there is a prime example of how collaborative working can be included in the WikiCup - he wasn't the only person working on the article but individually it was considered to be significant enough for him to earn the points. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), WikiCup champion in 2013 and 2014 maxxed out the bonus points by taking Dragonfly to Good Article. Another significant GA which was promoted during round two was Alexander Hamilton by LeftAire (submissions); Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which was high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and so all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. On June 28, the top two in each group will progress automatically to the fourth round while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards.

Gallery of content created for the WikiCup this round

Of course this is not a complete list of content produced by any one contestant; consider this a sample of their overall work.

Top ten

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  Telopea oreades, a large shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae and one of two FAs promoted by Cas Liber - the first placed competitor in this round.
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  Second-place Coemgenus not only worked up Ulysses S. Grant in the second round, but he's already submitted another President, James A. Garfield, as a FA for the third!
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  The Yarn Market, Dunster was one of third-place Rodw's 10 GAs.
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  Fourth-place Harrias worked up two cricket related FLs during the second round; List of tied Twenty20 Internationals and List of women's international cricket hat-tricks.
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  As well as taking Dragonfly to GA, fifth-place Cwmhiraeth took Damselfly fly there as well for a 2x bonus.
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  Former judge J Milburn in sixth-place took an episode of Inside No. 9, "Sardines" starring Reece Shearsmith, to FA.
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  Freikorp came in seventh position, based on points earned from a number of pop-culture related articles including the film Tank Girl starring Lori Petty.
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  Messier 81, one of four FPs promoted at the hands of eighth-placed The Herald.
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  Last year's champion, Godot13 worked on eight FPs during round 2, including this image of the 1804 dollar.
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  The article on the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final between the Philadelphia Union and the Seattle Sounders FC was improved to FA by tenth-place Cptnono.