Day 1 Results
| Celeste | Farewell | 3 | 8 | Final Fantasy VII | Main Theme |
| The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom | Colgera Battle | 5 | 9 | Chrono Trigger | Corridors of Time |
| Undertale | Battle Against a True Hero | 4 | 8 | Digital: A Love Story | Paper Dolls |
| Undertale | Hopes and Dreams | 8 | 4 | Chrono Cross | Dream of the Shore Bordering Another World |
| VirtuaVerse | DDoS Attack [MASTER BOOT RECORD] | 6 | 6* | Chrono Cross | Scars of Time |
| Silver Surfer (NES) | Level 1 | 6 | 7 | Donkey Kong Country | Aquatic Ambience |
| Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | Let’s Go, Mt. Corel! | 5* | 5 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Big Blue |
| Sonic: After The Sequel | Neon Paradise (ATS Version) – For Parhelion Peak Act 2 | 5 | 5* | Crypt of the NecroDancer | Disco Descent |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee | Fountain of Dreams | 8 | 4 | Bastion | Setting Sail, Coming Home |
| Silent Hill 3 | You’re Not Here | 5* | 5 | The Legend of Zelda | Theme Music |
| The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Hyrule Castle | 4 | 6 | Pictionary (NES) | Title Screen Theme |
| Final Fantasy VI | Dancing Mad | 6 | 5 | Paradise Killer | Paradise Killer (Stay Forever) [Barry “Epoch” Topping, Singer: Fiona Lynch] |
| Bravely Default | Serpent Eating the Ground | 8 | 5 | Dicey Dungeons | Not Today, Satan |
| Mega Man 2 | Dr. Wily Stage 1 | 6 | 5 | Adventure Time: Hey Ice King Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?! | Party in the Clouds |
| Katamari Damacy | Katamari on the Rocks | 6 | 7 | Undertale | Megalovania |
| Chrono Cross | Dreamwatch of Time | 2 | 9 | Final Fantasy VII | One-Winged Angel |
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 4 Day 2 will last until ~9AM Pacific on August 8th.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.