Day 1 Results
| Undertale | Megalovania | 8 | 6 | Bravely Default | Serpent Eating the Ground |
| Digital: A Love Story | Paper Dolls | 7 | 6 | Chrono Trigger | Corridors of Time |
| Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | Let’s Go, Mt. Corel! | 5 | 7 | Mega Man 2 | Dr. Wily Stage 1 |
| Chrono Cross | Scars of Time | 9 | 4 | Crypt of the NecroDancer | Disco Descent |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee | Fountain of Dreams | 6* | 6 | Silent Hill 3 | You’re Not Here |
| Final Fantasy VII | One-Winged Angel | 9 | 5 | Final Fantasy VI | Dancing Mad |
| Donkey Kong Country | Aquatic Ambience | 8* | 8 | Final Fantasy VII | Main Theme |
| Pictionary (NES) | Title Screen Theme | 6 | 8 | Undertale | Hopes and Dreams |
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 5 Day 2 will last until ~9AM Pacific on August 18th.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.