March Madness 2026 - Animal wins!

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Round is closed

7. Life Wasted over Force of Nature 26-4
8. Can't Keep over Undone 21-8
9. Pendulum over Come Back 17-11
10. Fatal over Army Reserve 22-8

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Pleasantly surprised that Pendulum advanced

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Round is closed

11. Can't Keep over Life wasted 18-12
12. Fatal over Pendulum 20-9

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13. Can't Keep vs. Fatal is up

Both songs advance to the finals of the Matt Cameron bracket, to eventually determine which two matt era songs make it to the quarter finals

[Buby]

For brackets structured around drummer eras, we're somehow managing to eliminate the more drummer-centric tracks.

[liebzz]

13. Can't Keep vs. Fatal is up

Both songs advance to the finals of the Matt Cameron bracket, to eventually determine which two matt era songs make it to the quarter finals

The most complicated March madness bracket ever, with it own uber-Cameron bracket of the winners of the other Cameron brackets. I love it!

[Leatherhead]

Matt Cameron is definitely winning this MM.

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you know I thought we were moving through this bracket too quickly. We still have half of bracket 1 to go...

so fatal is out of the tournament, and Can't Keep will go on to the bracket finals to determine who has the better seeding in the Matt Cameron brackets quarterfinals to determine the top two songs to advance to the full tournament quarterfinals, as well as which of those top two songs has the better seeding...

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I am so bad at this, I started the second half of the MC bracket 2 rather than the second half of MC bracket 1.

We'll just keep doing matt cameron matches of some form or another and eventually finish

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Round is closed. Which round, who can say?

14. Running over My Father’s Son 16-7
15. Help Help over Setting Sun 14-12
16. Dance of the Clairvoyants over Man of the Hour 14-10
17. Of the Girl over Ole 25-1
18. Speed of Sound over Arc 17-7
19. Nothing as it Seems over Gone 20-5


Next round is up, with the randomized bye tracks entering

[Buby]

Is “Ole” the most brutal blowout ever?

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Is “Ole” the most brutal blowout ever?

We've had a few over the years that have only gotten 1 vote. But it's definitely up there. Especially since I don't think it would have gotten that one vote if I hadn't decided to make sure it wasn't the first ever shut out.

Spoiler: show

I also do really love Ole. Like a lot

[Buby]

Is “Ole” the most brutal blowout ever?

We've had a few over the years that have only gotten 1 vote. But it's definitely up there. Especially since I don't think it would have gotten that one vote if I hadn't decided to make sure it wasn't the first ever shut out.

Spoiler: show

I also do really love Ole. Like a lot

For me, there’s not a single PJ song I dislike, Olé included.
Part of my fascination with PJ, is the amount of songs (some we have already, some we shouldn’t have) that did not find their way into a proper studio album.

[epilogue]

Is “Ole” the most brutal blowout ever?

We've had a few over the years that have only gotten 1 vote. But it's definitely up there. Especially since I don't think it would have gotten that one vote if I hadn't decided to make sure it wasn't the first ever shut out.

Spoiler: show

I also do really love Ole. Like a lot

For me, there’s not a single PJ song I dislike, Olé included.
Part of my fascination with PJ, is the amount of songs (some we have already, some we shouldn’t have) that did not find their way into a proper studio album.

Today agree.

It's become a running joke/meme here on RM that I hate Habit and I do lean into that whenever possible, especially in the March Madness tournaments. But honestly I don't hate any PJ songs. The band is a unicorn.

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there are some pearl jam songs I don't like. I don't know if there are any I actually hate. I talk about pearl jam on a scale where the basement is already several floors up

Also round is closed.

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Actually we have a tie so round is still open

20. World Wide Suicide over Running 23-4
21. Dance of the Clairvoyants over Help Help 17-14
22. Of the Girl over Speed of Sound 22-6
23. Nothing As it Seems over Just Breathe 26-4

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Round is closed

23. Dance of the Clairvoyants over World Wide Suicide 25-6
24. Nothing As It Seems over Of the Girl 16-14

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Half Bracket is closed. Nothing as it seems wins 16-15


Next half bracket is up. This was all randomized, and as much as I love the Matt C era, this particular block of songs is maybe not the strongest...

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MC3-1: Inside Job over Last Kiss -22-8
MC3-2: Breakerfall over Something Special 26-4
MC3: Gods' Dive over Someday at X-mas 27-3
MC4: Last Soldier over Future Days 18-9
MC5: Big Wave over Santa God 25-4

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Round is closed

6. Upper Hand over Inside Job 19-10
7. Breakerfall over Gods' Dice 19-13
8. Evacuation over Last Soldier 21-11
9. Down over Big Wave 18-12



Looks like 21 people forgot what either Last Soldier or Evacuation sounds like