It’s round 6 of the playoffs! Just 32 songs left; each round is now just one day.

Since it’s the playoffs, groups will be active until 9:00 am Pacific the day after they post, or for roughly 24 hours. You can listen to a playlist of today’s songs (in matchup order) here.

PLEASE LISTEN TO BOTH SONGS IN A MATCH BEFORE VOTING

Voting will be live until Thursday, June 18th at 9:00am Pacific

Previous Round’s Results:

Something Really BAD lost? Are you fucking crazy?!

Fun Stats About The Top 32

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Top 32 by group:

I’ve decided listing this out by raw number isn’t interesting; for me at least, the point of tracking groups is to see if “reputation” holds out, ie do the groups that started with the biggest shares stay that way, or do the “weak” groups hold their own? So I’m tracking this in Sheets here. I’m listing group representation as a percentage; for each round, every group “should” have ~4.55%. Groups above that number are overperforming (highlighted green), groups below are under (red). I’m also using lighter shades for groups that fell but are still above 4.55%, and groups that rose but are still below.

Numbers continue to get wonky. 3 more groups are eliminated, while groups 9 and 16 continue to consolidate power.

Top 32 by game:

(Songs in bold lost at least half their nominees this round (min 3). Songs in bolded italics lost at least two thirds (min 4))

• 6 songs:
  • Final Fantasy VIII 
• 5 songs:
  • Final Fantasy VII [-3]
• 4 songs:
  • Final Fantasy IX [-3]
• 3 songs:
  • Chrono Cross [-5]
• 2 songs:
  • Moon: Remix RPG Adventure [-1]
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time [-1] 
• 1 song:
  • Buck Bumble
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 
  • Grandia [-1]
  • Jet Grind Radio  
  • Kirby Super Star [-1]
  • PaRappa the Rapper [-1] 
  • Space Channel 5 [-1]
  • Wild Arms 
  • Wild Arms 2  
  • Xenogears  
• Remember The Fallen
  • Bushido Blade
  • Final Fantasy Tactics [-2] 
  • NiGHTS Into Dreams 
  • Parasite Eve 
  • Pokemon Red/Blue [-2] 
  • Rockman & Forte  
  • Seaman
  • Silent Hill
  • Suikoden II 
  • Super Mario RPG [-3]
  • Vagrant Story 

We’ve got a big shakeup among our top 4. Final Fantasy VIII takes 1st for the first time after going perfect last round. Meanwhile, Chrono Cross has a rough round, falling all the way to 4th. Combined, our top 4 make up more than half the remaining nominees; is there any hope remaining for the underdogs?

There certainly isn’t for Super Mario RPG. The tough times keep coming for this former juggernaut, as it falls all the way out of contention. This also means that Ocarina of Time’s Gerudo Valley, at #4, is the highest seeded song remaining. Will it succeed where #1, 2, and 3 all failed?

Songs by console:

Playstation: 11 games, 26 songs
Nintendo 64: 2 games, 3 songs
Dreamcast: 2 games, 2 songs
Super Nintendo/Super Famicom: 1 game, 1 song

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