Round 3 Results!
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| Mario Kart 8 | Animal Crossing (Summer) | 10 | 5 | Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse | Streamworks |
| Persona 5 | Ark | 12 | 4 | Splatoon | Eight-Legged Advance |
| Persona 5 | Tokyo Emergency | 9 | 8 | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | Frantic Fields |
| Persona 5 | Beneath the Mask Rain Instrumental | 5 | 11 | Civilization: Beyond Earth | Our New World |
| Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | Quick Man Stage | 8 | 11 | Monument Valley | Amateur Cartography [Obfusc] |
| Undertale | Amalgam | 4 | 11 | Mega Man Unlimited | Tears of Glue |
| Undertale | Your Best Nightmare | 6 | 11 | DuckTales: Remastered | The Himalayas |
| Shovel Knight | The Bounty Hunter | 3 | 12 | Kirby and the Rainbow Curse | The Adventure Begins (Arranged Version) |
| Shovel Knight | Flowers of Antimony | 7* | 7 | Time and Eternity | Final Boss Theme |
| Undertale | Bring It In, Guys! | 6 | 10 | Guacamelee! | Boss Theme |
| Undertale | Asgore | 6 | 11 | Brigador | It’s Our Rules Now |
| Super Mario 3D World | Piranha Creeper Creek | 5 | 12 | Entwined | Forever Apart |
| Persona 5 | Life Will Change Instrumental Version | 8 | 7 | Life is Strange | Blackwell Academy |
| Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | Spark Man Stage | 7 | 13 | Transistor | In Circles |
| Undertale | CORE | 13 | 3 | Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know! | Monster Floor |
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Round 2 Results!
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| Shovel Knight | A Cool Reception (The Stranded Ship) | 7 | 5 | Severed | Home Revisited (Exploration) |
| Crypt of the NecroDancer | Grave Throbbing (2-2) | 5 | 7 | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II | Reverie Corridor |
| Undertale | Spear of Justice | 8 | 7 | Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn | Wailers and Waterwheels |
| Super Mario 3D World | Snowball Park | 4 | 10 | Resogun | Fabularis |
| Undertale | Dating Start! | 4 | 10 | Short Peace: Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day | Bittonton |
| Undertale | It’s Raining Somewhere Else | 4 | 8 | Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth | Light the Fire Up in the Night (P3) |
| Shovel Knight | La Danse Macabre (Lich Yard) | 6 | 8 | Mirror’s Edge Catalyst | Catalyst |
| Shin Megami Tensei IV | Ueno Underground District | 4 | 8 | Deadbolt | Blood on the Dancefloor |
| Super Mario 3D World | Beep Block Skyway | 7 | 5 | Dropsy | Kierkegaard’s Umbrella |
| Shin Megami Tensei IV | Infernal Tokyo Underground | 8 | 4 | Nintendo Badge Arcade | Title Screen |
| Super Mario 3D World | Champion Road | 4 | 9 | Xenoblade Chronicles X | 亡KEI却KOKU心 (Oblivia Night) |
| Super Mario 3D World | World 6 | 3 | 9 | Owlboy | Strato |
| Shovel Knight | Watch Me Dance! | 5 | 7 | Sonic: After The Sequel | Breakfast Time – For Horizon Heights Boss Act Phase 2 |
| Persona 5 | Beneath the Mask Instrumental Version | 4 | 8 | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | 7:00 PM |
| Undertale | Here We Are | 2 | 10 | VA-11 Hall-A: Prologue | Out of Orbit |
| Shin Megami Tensei IV | Ashura Kai Authorized Shop | 9 | 4 | Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | Walleye Tumble Temple |
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Group play is over, and it’s almost time for the top 512! But before we start that, we have one last thing to take care of. It’s the runoff round!
Y’all fucking loved a few select games in this tournament, so for the first time ever the runoff round is being split into 3 days! And once you see that we had:
24 songs from Undertale
19 songs from Super Mario 3D World
19 songs from Shovel Knight
15 songs from Persona 5
14 songs from Crypt of the NecroDancer
13 songs from Shin Megami Tensei IV
12 songs from Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
11 songs from Mario Kart 8
then I think you’ll understand the situation. That’s 47 songs facing a runoff!
These 47 songs will now face challengers who came just short of making the initial top 512. The winner of each head-to-head matchup makes it to the playoffs, the loser is forgotten to history.
Since this is something of a real phase of the tournament now, we’ve got multiple daily playlists!
Runoff Round 1
Runoff Round 2
Runoff Round 3
And a playlist for all the songs that have sadly bubbled out. These are songs that fell outside the initial top 512, and were either from an overrepresented game (and thus unable to participate as challengers) or else had bad RNG tiebreakers and did not have a spot available for them. You can pay your respects here.
The runoff round is a playoff round! That means groups are now open for 24 hours only[footnote]Weekend hours don’t count[/footnote]. Every group ends at 9am Pacific the very next day, so be sure to vote quick! Due to the nature of the playoffs, I will also be calculating results before posting the next group, so expect group posting time to shift from ~9am to ~9:15am.
And…I think that’s it! Let the voting begin!
Voting will be live until Wednesday, June 1st at 9:00AM Pacific