Day 1 Results
| Mega Man 2 | Dr. Wily Stage 1 | 8 | 4 | Shatter | Argon Refinery |
| Pictionary (NES) | Title Screen Theme | 8 | 3 | Donkey Kong Country 2 | Stickerbrush Symphony |
| Super Smash Bros. Brawl | Mute City | 4 | 7 | Paradise Killer | Paradise Killer (Stay Forever) [Barry “Epoch” Topping, Singer: Fiona Lynch] |
| Adventure Time: Hey Ice King Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?! | Party in the Clouds | 8 | 3 | Streets of Rage 2 | Go Straight |
| Undertale | Megalovania | 10 | 2 | Gitaroo Man | Bee’ Jam Blues |
| Gunpoint | Defenestraight To My Heart [Ryan Ike] | 6 | 6* | Chrono Trigger | Corridors of Time |
| Paper Mario: The Origami King | The Dual Bladed Duelist | 4 | 8 | Donkey Kong Country | Aquatic Ambience |
| VirtuaVerse | DDoS Attack [MASTER BOOT RECORD] | 8 | 3 | Paper Mario: The Origami King | Swan Lake (Punk Remix) |
| Triangle Strategy | Until that Day – Frederica’s Battle | 4 | 8 | Katamari Damacy | Katamari on the Rocks |
| Final Fantasy VII | Main Theme | 9 | 5 | Cassette Beasts | Shot in the Dark |
| Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel | To Grasp Tomorrow | 1 | 9 | Super Smash Bros. Melee | Fountain of Dreams |
| Final Fantasy XIII | Blinded by Light | 5 | 9 | Undertale | Battle Against a True Hero |
| Dicey Dungeons | Fighting Chance | 7 | 8 | Silent Hill 3 | You’re Not Here |
| Celeste | Reach for the Summit | 5 | 6 | Silver Surfer (NES) | Level 1 |
| Dicey Dungeons | Not Today, Satan | 11 | 1 | Mushihimesama HD | The Direction to the Heart of the Forest [Stage 5] [Arr. Yoshimi Kudo] |
| The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom | Colgera Battle | 8 | 3 | A Hat in Time | Your Contract Has Expired |
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 3 Day 2 will last until ~9AM Pacific on July 31st.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.