Day 4 Results
| Final Fantasy X | To Zanarkand | 6 | 8 | Super Mario Galaxy | Gusty Garden Galaxy |
| Silver Surfer (NES) | Level 2 | 3 | 9 | Sonic: After The Sequel | Neon Paradise (ATS Version) – For Parhelion Peak Act 2 |
| FX unit Yuki: The Henshin Engine | Primeval BUMP-A-RUMP | 6 | 5 | Tetris Effect | Connected (Your Forever) [Hydelic, Vocals: Kate Brady] |
| Style Savvy: Styling Star | Ring! Dong! Dang! (JP) [Kazuaki Yamashita; Singers: Nanase Hirokawa, R!N, Yuka Hiiragi] | 5 | 6 | Paradise Killer | Paradise Killer (Stay Forever) [Barry “Epoch” Topping, Singer: Fiona Lynch] |
| Iridion II | Citizen Discharged | 5 | 7 | Super Smash Bros. Melee | Fountain of Dreams |
| Ducktales | Moon Theme | 8 | 4 | 30XX | Existential Shuffle | Identity Crisis EC MIX |
| The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom | Colgera Battle | 7 | 6 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | Dark World |
| The Munchables | Chocolate Dining | 2 | 9 | Final Fantasy VI | Dancing Mad |
| Final Fantasy VII Remake | Airbuster Theme | 5 | 7 | Dicey Dungeons | Not Today, Satan |
| Goddess of Victory: Nikke | RED ASH Theme Song Full Ver. | 5 | 5* | Final Fantasy VIII | Man with the Machine Gun |
| Venba | Kanni Kanini | 6 | 9 | Katamari Damacy | Katamari on the Rocks |
| Paradise Killer | To The Heart | 5 | 6 | Chrono Cross | Dreamwatch of Time |
| Katana ZERO | Sneaky Driver | 6 | 5 | Back To Saturn X | Ether |
| Chrono Cross | Dream of the Shore Bordering Another World | 9 | 3 | Bugsnax | It’s Bugsnax! [Kero Kero Bonito] |
| Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel | To Grasp Tomorrow | 5 | 4 | Guilty Gear XX Korean OST | The Midnight Carnival |
| Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest | Bloody Tears | 6 | 7 | Silver Surfer (NES) | Level 1 |
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 5 will last until ~9AM Pacific on July 24th.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.
