Round 6 Day 1
| Digital: A Love Story | Paper Dolls | 5 | 8 | Chrono Cross | Scars of Time |
| Undertale | Hopes and Dreams | 5 | 9 | Mega Man 2 | Dr. Wily Stage 1 |
| Donkey Kong Country | Aquatic Ambience | 3 | 9 | Final Fantasy VII | One-Winged Angel |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee | Fountain of Dreams | 0 | 13 | Undertale | Megalovania |
| Bravely Default | Serpent Eating the Ground | 8 | 4 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Big Blue |
| Final Fantasy VI | Terra’s Theme | 8 | 6 | Onlycans | Vending Machine of Love |
| Katamari Damacy | Katamari on the Rocks | 11 | 4 | NieR:Automata | Birth of a Wish (Become A God) |
| Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | Let’s Go, Mt. Corel! | 9 | 4 | Plok! | Beach |
| Tetris Effect | Connected (Your Forever) [Hydelic, Vocals: Kate Brady] | 7 | 6 | VVVVVV | Pressure Cooker |
| Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest | Bloody Tears | 8 | 5 | Portal | Still Alive |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge | We ain’t came to lose | 7 | 5 | Shovel Knight | An Underlying Problem (The Lost City) |
| Adventure Time: Hey Ice King Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?! | Party in the Clouds | 8 | 4 | Pictionary (NES) | Title Screen Theme |
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 6 Day 1 will last until ~9AM Pacific on August 20th.
I won’t be providing playlists for each round, but you can listen to a playlist of all 256 songs in our tournament here.