(Voting for this round has ended. Vote for your favorite best-dressed guys in our live heats here.)

The race to determine which man out-dressed the rest in 2017 starts right now. The title of GQ's Most Stylish Man of 2017 is up for grabs and one of these 16 stylish gents from the Suited Man conference might just take it. These are the guys who know their way around roped shoulders and cuffed trousers, weightless Italian construction and sleeve-to-cuff ratios. They've proven their sartorial might on red carpets, court side, and an official state function or two and now's the time to see which ones do it best. Vote below in these first eight match-ups and be sure to weigh in on this year's savants of streetwear, ultimate swerve-rs, and masters of modern menswear before voting wraps up at Noon EST on Thursday, December 14th.

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Roger Federer vs. Edgar Ramirez

Alexander Koerner

Our first head-to-head heat pits your Most Stylish Man of 2016 against your almost Most Stylish Man of 2016. Both Federer and Ramirez tick all the boxes on the "How to Wear the Hell Out of a Suit" checklist, from proper fit to taking a chance every now and then (Federer's Gucci king cobra tux at the Met Gala, Ramirez's powder blue number with sneakers at a Netflix even in Mexico City). Both are experts in the field of the sartorial arts, so your decision boils down to this: which man represents style in 2017? The elegant tennis ace or the impeccably tailored leading man?

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Barack Obama vs. Justin Trudeau

James Devaney

Justin Trudeau is the real-life Disney prince-turned-Canadian Prime Minister. This year, Barack Obama became the former President of the United States. Both men are about as beloved as politicians can get but, for the purposes of this bracket, also happen to be the best-dressed if we're grading on a government employee scale (and we are). Both men swear by their standard-issue dark suits (sometimes navy, sometimes black, never patterned), with Trudeau favoring tonal shirt-and-tie combos and Obama switching over to an out-of-office open collar this year. Vote for your favorite world leader now.

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Hasan Minhaj vs. Chris Pine

Craig Barritt KEVY, JWNY

Hasan Minhaj likes clothes, Chris Pine wears them damn well, and both men swear by a properly tailored suit for their public appearances. Minaj is the John Elliott-loving comedian who takes his tailoring from office-appropriate for his Daily Show gig to effortless on the red carpet. Pine, on the other hand, never met a classically tailored rig he couldn't pull off, be it a natty pinstripe three-piece suit or a double-breasted linen number (often by Ralph Lauren). Either stylish guy could take this round easily, but only one can advance.

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Lester Holt vs. Jeff Bridges

Steve Granitz

Jeff Bridges might be most known on screen for his role as the chunky cardigan-loving character The Dude but in real life and on the red carpet, the guy dresses like an A-list actor in precisely tailored three-piece suits (even anchored by a swervy patterned shirt every now and then). In his role as anchor of the NBC Nightly News, Holt is never less than impressively dressed behind the desk, favoring subtle shirt-and-tie combos anchored by some of the most elegant suits on the small screen. Both guys have mastered getting dressed, but which one mastered them better in 2017?

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LeBron James vs. Chris Paul

Gary Gershoff Michael Tullberg

LeBron James made noise off the court this year with a new pair of signature kicks and continuing to be the greatest living athlete who dresses like it while Chris Paul made style waves for what he wore courtside this season. Both men know how to ace a suit (which can sometimes be a rarity among athletes) so this heat is really a toss up that comes down to which guy wears tailoring right for right now: the G.O.A.T. who favors streamlined tailoring or the injured Rockets star who zigs and zags all over the suiting spectrum.

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Alex Rodriguez vs. Idris Elba

James Devaney

A-Rod dressed better than ever all throughout 2017 and it was all Jennifer Lopez's fault. He conquered the tricky chunky turtleneck like a champ. He humble bragged about his $15K Tom Ford Chelsea boots. But mostly he just wore power suit after power suit the way you expect a handsome wildly rich guy to: really, really well. Which is not to say Idris Elba was any slouch in the tailoring department either this year. The actor continued to be one of the most put together guys on planet Earth and taught us all a lesson in making the polo shirt red carpet-ready this year (pro tip: put it under a suit).

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Harry Styles vs. Sterling K. Brown

Neil Mockford Matt Winkelmeyer

In this corner you have the wavy Brit rocker who somehow never ran out of wild suits to wear this year and managed to pull each off convincingly well (which isn't easy when you're talking about tailoring that looks like your grandmother's tablecloth—in a good way). And in the other corner, you have the beloved This Is Us actor who, when not making Americans weep at complex familial woes, turns up to every event he's invited to looking like the picture of put togetherness (even in the pages of GQ).

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Rami Malek vs. Michael Fassbender

Rami Malek takes risks with his suits the way other guys might try on a baggier pair of pants for a change. And the Mr. Robot actor has proven time and again that if can swerve all over the suited man map—be it a fire engine red suit or one in pistachio velvet—so long as you get the fit right. Fassbender is the rare famous guy who looks good in any suit he's wearing at any given moment. Whether it's a baby blue notch lapel number with an undone aloha-style shirt underneath or a peak lapel pinstripe three-piece, the guy just wears tailoring the way most guys wear a T-shirt and jeans. The question you have to ask yourself though is which guy got it right more in 2017?