Day 1 Results
| Ico | Castle in the Mist | 11 | 3 | Later Alligator | Alligator Blues |
| Bugsnax | It’s Bugsnax! [Kero Kero Bonito] | 9 | 5 | Iridion II | See The Sun Burn |
| VVVVVV | Pressure Cooker | 7 | 8 | Final Fantasy VII | Main Theme |
| Cuphead | Floral Fury | 4 | 11 | Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana | Sunshine Coastline |
| Super Mario Galaxy | Gusty Garden Galaxy | 12 | 2 | Kirby and the Forgotten Land | Roar of Dedede |
| Buck Bumble | Title Screen | 7 | 8 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | Dragon Roost Island |
| Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed | New Battle!!! | 6 | 9 | Kirby Super Star | Meta Knight’s Revenge |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee | Jungle Japes | 5 | 8 | Kingdom Hearts 3D | L’Impeto Oscuro |
| Chrono Trigger | Corridors of Time | 9 | 6 | NieR:Automata | Weight of the World (Japanese Version) [Keiichi Okabe, Vocals: Marina Kawano] |
| Final Fantasy VI | Dancing Mad | 9 | 7 | Cave Story | Last Battle |
| Wild Arms | Into the Wilderness | 6 | 8 | Guilty Gear XX Korean OST | The Midnight Carnival |
| Guilty Gear XX | Holy Orders (Be Just or Be Dead) | 6 | 8 | Donkey Kong Country | Aquatic Ambience |
| Persona 4 | Heartbeat, Heartbreak | 5 | 8 | Plok! | Beach |
| DoDonPachi Resurrection | Vertigo [Stage 5] [Manabu Namiki] | 4 | 8 | The Munchables | Chocolate Dining |
| The World Ends With You | Calling | 7 | 8 | Chicory: A Colorful Tale | Do the Impossible |
| Drakengard 3 | The Last Song | 7 | 9 | Super Mario Bros. 2/Doki Doki Panic | Overworld Theme |
The final tournament is here! The Tournament of Champions! Which song will reign supreme as the ultimate video game song?
This tournament has a unique format. It will be a hybrid of Swiss and double elimination. Songs will be paired in head-to-head matchups, but don’t immediately get eliminated when they lose. Instead, losing songs will be paired with other losing songs in the next round, and songs that lose there are eliminated. Then in the next round the surviving one-loss songs will be joined by fresh losers from the zero-loss bracket, and the process will continue. After 7 rounds of this, we will have 16 remaining songs (2 undefeated, 14 one-loss) and will then transition to a straightforward single-elimination.
These rounds will follow knockout round rules; they will last for just 24 hours, and they will feature 32 songs in 16 head-to-head matchups. Round 1 Day 2 will last until ~9AM Pacific on July 9th.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.