Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2001-2004: Group 21

(Full, current standings of all completed groups can always be found here)

Group 19 and 20 Results

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Group 19:

68.18%	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door	Petal Meadows
63.64%	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	Title
59.09%	Katamari Damacy	Katamaritaino (Roll Me In)
50.00%	Kingdom Hearts	March Caprice
50.00%	Sonic Heroes	Mystic Mansion
45.45%	Silent Hill 3	You’re Not Here
45.45%	Katamari Damacy	Angle Flavor’s Present
40.91%	.hack//	Aura’s Theme
40.91%	Trails in the Sky FC	Wandering in the Darkness
40.91%	Mega Man Battle Network	Electrical Crisis (ElecMan’s Stage)
40.91%	Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne	Warp Field
40.91%	Guilty Gear XX	The Midnight Carnival
40.91%	Cave Story	Moonsong
36.36%	Remember 11: The Age of Infinity	Anima
36.36%	Panzer Dragoon Orta	Anu Orta Veniya
36.36%	Super Smash Bros. Melee	Flat Zone
36.36%	EVE Online	Below the Asteroids
31.82%	Ever 17: The Out of Infinity	Aqua Stripe
31.82%	Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim	Armored Bane
31.82%	Guilty Gear XX	Momentary Life
27.27%	Final Fantasy X-2	1000 Words
27.27%	Sonic Adventure 2	Vengeance is Mine…for Radical Highway
27.27%	Bionicle: Mata Nui Online Game	Vakama’s Talk [Ending]
27.27%	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	Surpassing the Wall
27.27%	Sonic Adventure 2	This Way Out…for Prison Lane
22.73%	Ace Combat 5	Scinfaxi
22.73%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	The Sith Lords
22.73%	Technictix	Clip Click
18.18%	Spider-Man 2	Karacho
18.18%	The Urbz: Sims in the City	Shiko
13.64%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	Valley of the Dark Lords
9.09%	Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising	Blue Moon Theme

Lots of songs above 40% here, including a strong showing from Guilty Gear XX. Our community can be fickle when it comes to rock, but I’m glad at least something from this OST is (probably) gonna advance.

Group 20:

53.85%	Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga	Come On Again! (Boss theme)
46.15%	Guilty Gear XX	Noontide
38.46%	Super Smash Bros. Melee	Brinstar
38.46%	Halo 2	Reclaimer
34.62%	Final Fantasy X-2	Farplane Abyss
34.62%	Final Fantasy X	Thunder Plains
30.77%	Mega Man Zero 3	Volcano (Aegis Volcano Base – Blazin’ Flizard’s Stage)
30.77%	Sonic Adventure 2	Dive Into the Mellow…for Aquatic Mine
30.77%	Pikmin	Forest of Hope
30.77%	Halo 2	2nd Movement of the Odyssey
26.92%	World of Warcraft	Undercity
26.92%	Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour	Ring Attack
26.92%	Silent Hill 3	I Want Love
26.92%	Trails in the Sky FC	Challenger Invited
26.92%	Final Fantasy X	Seymour’s Theme
26.92%	Jet Set Radio Future	The Scrappy
26.92%	Asphalt: Urban GT	Tribal Trash
23.08%	Gitaroo Man	Boogie for an Afternoon
23.08%	Mega Man Battle Network 4	Under Justice
23.08%	Metroid Zero Mission	Title Theme
23.08%	Beyond Good & Evil	Home Sweet Home
19.23%	Suikoden III	Searching for a Hero
19.23%	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time	Reflected Moon
15.38%	Halo: Combat Evolved	Devils…Monsters…
15.38%	Runescape	Harmony
15.38%	Kingdom Hearts	End of the World
11.54%	Fire Emblem	A Knight’s Oath
11.54%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	Ebon Hawk Adrift
11.54%	Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance	The Elfsong Tavern
11.54%	Knights of the Old Republic	The Leviathan
11.54%	Final Fantasy XI	Hume Female
11.54%	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind	The Road Most Travelled

We had 26 unique voters this round, the most we’ve had since Group 2! Unfortunately for this group, we were pretty diffuse in what we liked; only 2 songs cleared 40%, with 10-vote songs not even making it. Guess they have to hope our newfound popularity has some staying power, eh?

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Newly Eliminated 1

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34.62%	Final Fantasy X-2	Besaid
34.62%	Final Fantasy X-2	Farplane Abyss
34.62%	Final Fantasy X	Thunder Plains
33.33%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	Into the Past
33.33%	Mega Man Battle Network 3	Wily Research Lab (Castle Wily)
33.33%	Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga 1	Pray
33.33%	Sonic Adventure 2	Way to the Base…for Sand Ocean
33.33%	WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!	Survival Fever
33.33%	Wild Arms Alter Code: F	Puzzle
33.33%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	Mandalorian Honor
33.33%	Shenmue II	Joy’s Theme
33.33%	Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits	Natural Selection
33.33%	The Urbz: Sims in the City	Complexity
33.33%	Super Smash Bros. Melee	All-Star Rest Area
33.33%	Sonic Adventure 2	Kick the Rock!…for Wild Canyon
33.33%	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater	On The Ground ~ Battle in the Jungle
33.33%	Xenosaga Episode I	Battle’s End
33.33%	Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny	Russian Roulette
33.33%	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles	Departure
33.33%	Technictix	Visited Alone
33.33%	Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean	Limpidly Flow
33.33%	Quantum Redshift	Mount Grauen 2
33.33%	The Urbz: Sims in the City	Shabbaduwa
31.82%	Ever 17: The Out of Infinity	Aqua Stripe
31.82%	Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim	Armored Bane
31.82%	Guilty Gear XX	Momentary Life
30.77%	Mega Man Zero 3	Volcano (Aegis Volcano Base – Blazin’ Flizard’s Stage)
30.77%	Sonic Adventure 2	Dive Into the Mellow…for Aquatic Mine
30.77%	Pikmin	Forest of Hope
30.77%	Halo 2	2nd Movement of the Odyssey
27.27%	Final Fantasy X-2	1000 Words
27.27%	Sonic Adventure 2	Vengeance is Mine…for Radical Highway
27.27%	Bionicle: Mata Nui Online Game	Vakama’s Talk [Ending]
27.27%	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	Surpassing the Wall
27.27%	Sonic Adventure 2	This Way Out…for Prison Lane
26.92%	World of Warcraft	Undercity
26.92%	Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour	Ring Attack
26.92%	Silent Hill 3	I Want Love
26.92%	Trails in the Sky FC	Challenger Invited
26.92%	Final Fantasy X	Seymour’s Theme
26.92%	Jet Set Radio Future	The Scrappy
26.92%	Asphalt: Urban GT	Tribal Trash
23.08%	Gitaroo Man	Boogie for an Afternoon
23.08%	Mega Man Battle Network 4	Under Justice
23.08%	Metroid Zero Mission	Title Theme
23.08%	Beyond Good & Evil	Home Sweet Home
22.73%	Ace Combat 5	Scinfaxi
22.73%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	The Sith Lords
22.73%	Technictix	Clip Click
19.23%	Suikoden III	Searching for a Hero
19.23%	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time	Reflected Moon
18.18%	Spider-Man 2	Karacho
18.18%	The Urbz: Sims in the City	Shiko
15.38%	Halo: Combat Evolved	Devils…Monsters…
15.38%	Runescape	Harmony
15.38%	Kingdom Hearts	End of the World
13.64%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	Valley of the Dark Lords
11.54%	Fire Emblem	A Knight’s Oath
11.54%	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	Ebon Hawk Adrift
11.54%	Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance	The Elfsong Tavern
11.54%	Knights of the Old Republic	The Leviathan
11.54%	Final Fantasy XI	Hume Female
11.54%	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind	The Road Most Travelled
9.09%	Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising	Blue Moon Theme

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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 322Okay, 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.3 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+4 in a play-in round.

We’ll be “feathering” groups; voting on group 21 will be active until Tuesday September 8th at 10:00PM Pacific. Group 22 will start Tuesday and be active until Wednesday, and so on. Please listen to every song! Don’t just vote name recognition.

You can listen to all songs in group 21 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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