Day 1 Results
| Tetris | Tetris Theme | 10 | 7 | Final Fantasy IX | You’re Not Alone |
| Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy | Balmy Summer Breeze | 5 | 8 | Dicey Dungeons | Fighting Chance |
| Undertale | Hopes and Dreams | 9 | 4 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | Dragon Roost Island |
| Pictionary (NES) | Title Screen Theme | 9 | 5 | Goodbye Volcano High | Pretty Heroes |
| Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess | Battle – Yatsukahagi | 4 | 9 | VirtuaVerse | DDoS Attack [MASTER BOOT RECORD] |
| Wild Arms 2 | Main Title (Instrumental) | 6 | 9 | Final Fantasy XIII | Blinded by Light |
| A Hat in Time | Your Contract Has Expired | 7 | 6 | Shovel Knight | An Underlying Problem (The Lost City) |
| Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | Let’s Go, Mt. Corel! | 9 | 4 | Super Locomotive | Rydeen |
| Final Fantasy VIII | Liberi Fatali | 5 | 8 | Streets of Rage 2 | Go Straight |
| Celeste | Reach for the Summit | 9 | 4 | Final Fantasy VII | JENOVA |
| Super Mario Bros. 2/Doki Doki Panic | Overworld Theme | 6 | 7 | Crypt of the NecroDancer | Disco Descent |
| Deltarune Chapter 2 | A CYBER’S WORLD? | 5 | 7 | Shovel Knight | In the Halls of the Usurper |
| Ys I&II Chronicles | Tension | 5 | 8 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | The Great Sea |
| The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Gerudo Valley | 6 | 10 | Final Fantasy VII | Main Theme |
| Celeste | Farewell | 7 | 6 | The Rogue Prince of Persia | Ravine’s Sovereignity |
| Onlycans | Vending Machine of Love | 10 | 5 | Super Mario Bros | Overworld |
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 2 Day 2 will last until ~9AM Pacific on July 21st.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.