Day 2 Results
| Ms. Pac-Man | Intermission Music | 4 | 15 | Beyond the Long Night | Main Theme |
| Mushihimesama HD | The Direction to the Heart of the Forest [Stage 5] [Arr. Yoshimi Kudo] | 8 | 6 | Blue Reflection | Sayonara -Ame no Minaka Nushi- |
| Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion | A Fertile Wood at Heart | 5 | 9 | Lila’s Sky Ark | The Quartett |
| Wii Sports | Title Screen | 6 | 11 | Gunpoint | Defenestraight To My Heart [Ryan Ike] |
| Silver Surfer (NES) | Level 1 | 10 | 6 | Arknights | Sheepnado Decimates Nomadic City |
| Final Fantasy VII | One-Winged Angel | 11 | 5 | Solstice | Title Screen Theme |
| Super Locomotive | Rydeen | 10 | 7 | Wheels of Aurelia | Wheels of Aurelia |
| Professor Layton and the Curious Village | Layton’s Theme (Live Version) | 7 | 9 | Final Fantasy VII Remake | Airbuster Theme |
| Venba | Kanni Kanini | 8* | 8 | Airborne Kingdom | The Wind’s Bazaar |
| Civilization IV | Baba Yetu | 10 | 6 | Chrono Trigger | Memories of Green |
| Chrono Trigger | Chrono Trigger | 7 | 8 | Gitaroo Man | Bee’ Jam Blues |
| PaRappa the Rapper | Chop Chop Master Onion | 7 | 9 | Back To Saturn X | Ether |
| Super Mario Bros | Overworld | 10 | 6 | NieR:Automata | Birth of a Wish (Become A God) |
| The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel | Belief | 3 | 13 | Pictionary (NES) | Title Screen Theme |
| The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | Dark World | 8* | 8 | Penny’s Big Breakaway | Palace Sneaktime Swing (Pengo Mix) |
| Gitaroo Man | The Legendary Theme | 6 | 9 | Undertale | Battle Against a True Hero |
Ties broken via RNG
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 3 will last until ~9AM Pacific on July 10th.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.