Finals
Chrono Trigger – Corridors of Time 10 vs Final Fantasy VI – Terra’s Theme 19
Bronze Medal Match
Silver Surfer (NES) – Level 1 16 vs The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – Dark World 12
Well, that was a really fun tournament! At least for me. It was also 7 weeks long, so I’m ready for a bit of a break. Though, I don’t think it was anywhere near as fatiguing as I feared. There certainly wasn’t a drop-off in votes at the end; the main variance seemed to come from weekends/holidays creating low traffic in general. With that in mind, here are my preliminary plans for the next one.
- Covers 1996-2000
- Starts in mid to late March
- Avoids scheduling rounds on weekends/major US holidays
- Use new rules for group stages (see below)
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Top X songs per group earn berths, same as before. The wild card, however, will not have a fixed size. Rather, the lowest vote total of any song to finish in the top X of its group will set a baseline. Any song that finished outside of the top X but got at least that many votes will move on as wild cards.1 Byes will be distributed as necessary in the first elimination round to get us to a power of 2.
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Let me know what you think in the comments.