(Full, current standings of all completed groups can always be found here)
Group 1 Results
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| 51.85% | Super Monkey Ball 2 | Monkey Shot ~ Expert Stage |
| 51.85% | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | Outset Island |
| 48.15% | Ollie King | Boarder 70 [Somethin’ Jazzy for Your Mind Mix] |
| 44.44% | Trails in the Sky FC | Hollow Light of the Sealed Land |
| 44.44% | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | Rogueport |
| 44.44% | Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour | Lakitu Valley 2 |
| 40.74% | Samurai Warriors | City of Flowers |
| 37.04% | Final Fantasy X | Normal Battle |
| 37.04% | Halo: Combat Evolved | Truth and Reconciliation Suite |
| 37.04% | Final Fantasy X | Final Battle |
| 33.33% | Wild Arms Alter Code: F | Puzzle |
| 33.33% | Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga 1 | Pray |
| 33.33% | Mega Man Battle Network 3 | Wily Research Lab (Castle Wily) |
| 33.33% | Sonic Adventure 2 | Way to the Base…for Sand Ocean |
| 33.33% | WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! | Survival Fever |
| 33.33% | Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords | Into the Past |
| 29.63% | Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne | Title Loop 2 |
| 29.63% | Silent Hill 4 | Cradel of Forest |
| 29.63% | Halo: Combat Evolved | On a Pale Horse |
| 29.63% | Trails in the Sky FC | Royal Capital Grancel |
| 29.63% | Star Ocean: Till the End of Time | The Dawn of Wisdom |
| 29.63% | Viewtiful Joe | Some Like it Red Hot |
| 25.93% | Halo 2 | 4th Movement of the Odyssey |
| 25.93% | Trails in the Sky FC | Studio City Zeiss |
| 22.22% | Mega Man Zero 2 | X, The Legend |
| 22.22% | Silent Hill 3 | Letter – From The Lost Days |
| 18.52% | Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords | The Temple of Freedon Nadd |
| 18.52% | Tales of Rebirth | Desperate Battle |
| 18.52% | Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne | Recovery Spring |
| 11.11% | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Withywindle Path |
| 11.11% | Beyond Good & Evil | Channels |
| 7.41% | Jak 3 | Spargus City |
Don’t really have context for these numbers just yet, but here they are! We had 27 unique voters in round 1, and even our two most popular songs just barely cleared 50%. If that’s going to be normal it’s pretty interesting; even the most popular songs don’t get anywhere close to universal acclaim.
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It’s time for group play! We have 1,086 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 34 groups of 321Okay, the last group’s only 30. For the group stage, vote for as many songs as you like! We’re doing things a little differently this time around. Winning your group no longer means anything; instead, songs will be ranked based on how many upvotes they got compared to how many people voted in that round.2For instance, if a group had 25 unique voters, and a song in that group got 15 upvotes, it would have a ranking of 60% After all groups are done, the top 256 songs from across all groups will advance to the playoffs!
…unless! By popular demand, we’re also implementing a diversity system! If an individual game places more than 10 songs into the top 256, songs 11+ per game will face off against songs 257+3Skipping any songs in this group that would themselves be songs 11+ for any game in a play-in round.
We’ll be “feathering” groups; voting on group 3 will be active until Thursday August 13th at 10:00PM Pacific. Group 3 will start Wednesday and be active until Thursday, and so on. Please listen to every song! Don’t just vote name recognition.
You can listen to all songs in group 3 in this handy YouTube playlist! (Don’t worry, songs will also be linked in the comments, where voting will take place)
You can work ahead if you like:
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Or listen to every nominee here
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Again, voting for group 3 is open until Thursday August 13th at 10:00PM Pacific.