Round 1 Day 8 Results
| Bravely Default | Serpent Eating the Ground | 8 | 4 | Bayonetta | Let’s Dance, Boys! |
| Super Mario 3D World | Sunshine Seaside | 7 | 6 | Persona 3 | Battle for Everyone’s Souls |
| Kingdom Hearts II | Passion | 3 | 8 | Cassette Beasts | Shot in the Dark |
| Unicorn Overlord | Farde Mal Diavolo -Destroy Evil, Then Come – | 5 | 7 | Deltarune Chapter 2 | A CYBER’S WORLD? |
| GetsuFumaDen Undying Moon | Nebulous Marionette | 5 | 6 | Megaman X Dive | Jakob Orbital Elevator |
| Final Fantasy VIII | Balamb Garden | 4 | 8 | FX unit Yuki: The Henshin Engine | Primeval BUMP-A-RUMP |
| Transistor | The Spine | 3 | 8 | The Rogue Prince of Persia | Ravine’s Sovereignity |
| Paper Mario: The Origami King | Thrills At Night | 5 | 6 | Katana ZERO | Sneaky Driver |
| Celeste | Resurrections | 4 | 7 | Ys I&II Chronicles | Tension |
| Mega Man 2 | Air Man | 2 | 8 | Journey to Silius | Stage 2 (Underground Concourse) |
| Digital: A Love Story | Paper Dolls | 6 | 3 | Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana | Deadly Temptation |
| Shatter | Argon Refinery | 6 | 3 | Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III | Spiral of Erebos |
| Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest | Bloody Tears | 6 | 4 | Paper Mario: The Origami King | Exploring the Great Sea |
| Donkey Kong Country 2 | Stickerbrush Symphony | 6 | 5 | 30XX | Midnight Sun | Permafrost WG Mix |
| Contra | Jungle Theme | 3 | 6 | Part Time UFO | Treasure Island Ruins |
| Legasista | bgm_12 | 3 | 7 | Plok! | Boss |
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 8 will last until ~9AM Pacific on July 17th.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.