March Madness 2017: Our Most Complicated RMMM Ever!

[stip]

In honor of Pearl Jam's introduction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Mosquito is proud to present its most complicated March Madness ever* - a tournament so INSANE we can't even link a bracket until we are 20 days in!

The qualifying rounds: March 6th to March 26th. 210 songs will compete for 24 spots to join our previous 8 winners in our 32 entry finals tournament. It's madness!

The songs from each of the 10 studio albums will face the other songs on their albums in a series of 10 micro-tournaments to determine which two songs from each album will enter the finals tournament. The 88 non-album tracks will fight for four spots in an 11th not so micro tournament

Most early rounds are DOUBLE ELIMINATION, but not always!

New matches EVERY DAY, except Saturdays and Sundays are one day, until we start going to two days per match

Rounds will generally close out/begin between 8-9 PM depending on when Stip's kids GO TO BED!


COULDN'T BE SIMPLER!


*

Spoiler: show

Will still be easier to follow than the Game of Thrones tournament

[stip]

Who's Still Alive?

Prior Champions
I Got Shit, Corduroy, Immortality, Black, Tremor Christ, Insignificance, Do the Evolution, Hail Hail

Ten
Once
Even Flow
Alive
Why Go
Jeremy
Oceans
Porch
Garden
Deep
Release-winner
Master/Slave


Vs
Go-winner
Animal
Daughter
Glorified G
Dissident
W.M.A.
Blood
Rearview Mirror
Rats
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Leash
Indifference

Vitalogy
Last Exit-winner
Spin the Black Circle
Not For You
Nothingman
Whipping
Pry,To
Bugs
Satan's Bed
Betterman
Aye Davanita
Stupid Mop

No Code
Sometimes
Who You Are
In My Tree-winner
Smile
Off He Goes
Habit
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Present Tense
Mankind
I'm Open
Around the Bend

Yield
Brain of J-winner
Faithfull
No Way
Given to Fly
Wishlist
Pilate
Red Dot
MFC
In Hiding
Low Light
Push Me/Pull Me
All Those Yesterdays
Hummus

Binaural
Breakerfall
Gods' Dice
Evacuation
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Thin Air
Of the Girl
Grievance
Rival
Sleight of Hand-winner
Soon Forget
Parting Ways

Riot Act
Can't Keep
Save You
Love Boat Captain
Cropduster-winner
Ghost
I Am Mine
Thumbing My Way
You Are
Get Right
Green Disease
Help, Help
Bu$hleaguer
1/2 Full
Arc
All or None

S/T
Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker in the Sand
Parachutes-winner
Unemployable
Big Wave
Gone
Wasted Reprise
Army Reserve
Come Back
Inside Job

Backspacer
Gonna See My Friend
Got Some
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known
Supersonic
Speed of Sound
Force of Nature
The End

Lightning Bolt
Getaway
Mind Your Manners
My Father's Son
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Infallible
Pendulum-winner
Swallowed Whole
Let the Records Play
Sleeping By Myself
Yellow Moon
Future Days

All the Rest
Acoustic #1
All Night
Alone
Angel
Anything In Between
Barack Around the Clock
Be Like Wind
Bee Girl
Better Things
Black Red Yellow
Breeze in D
Breath
Brother
Chinese
Cold Confession
Crazy Mary
Cready Stomp
Daddy Could Swear, I Declare
Dead Man
Devil Doll
Dirty Frank
Don’t Believe in Christmas
Don’t Gimmie No Lip
Down
Drifting
Education
Evil Little Goat
Falling Down
Fatal
Foldback
Footsteps
Golden State
Gremmie Out of Control
Happy When I’m Crying
Hard to Imagine
Harmony
Hitchhiker
Hold On
I Just Wanna Have Something to Do
In the Moonlight
It Ain’t Like That
I’ve Got A Feeling
Jingle Bells
Just A Girl
Last Kiss
Last Solider
Leatherman
Leavin Here
Let It Ride
Let Me Sleep
Long Road-winner
Love Reign O’er Me
Lucky 13
Man of the Hour
Of The Earth
Ole
Olympic Platinum
Only Cloud in the Sky
Open Door
Other Side
Out of My Mind
Pendulumorphisis
Puzzles and Games
Rearranged Furniture
Rearranged Priorities
Rock Around Barack
Sad
Santa Cruz
Santa God
Someday At Christmas
Sonic Reducer
State of Love and Trust
Strangest Tribe
Sunburn
Sweet Lew
Thunderclap
Turning Mist
U
Undone
Untitled (I'm Still Here)
Wash
Whale Song
Wishing Well
Yellow Ledbetter
10 Billion Years
2,000 Mile Blues
2x4
4/20/02

[stip]

The Non Album Qualifiers

Round 1 (Eliminate 2)
3/6
1. Just a Girl vs. Undone vs. Someday at Christmas (4-27-13)
2. Rearranged Furniture vs. Footsteps vs. Foldback (2-35-4)
3. Happy When I'm Crying vs. 2x4 vs. I Just Wanna Have Something to Do (28-9-2)
4. Open Door vs. Angel vs. Turning Mist (3-39-2)
5. Hitchhiker vs. Let Me Sleep vs. Breeze in D (15-28-0)
6. Sad vs. In the Moonlight vs. Olympic Platinum (28-22-3)
7. Better Things vs. Hold On vs. Ole (10-25-9)
8. Leavin Here vs. Lucky 13 vs. 4/20/02 (32-1-9)
9. Chinese vs. Drifting vs. Strangest Tribe (2-8-33)
10. Puzzles and Games vs. Of the Earth vs. Pendulumorphisis (12-26-5)

3/7
11. Sonic Reducer vs. I've Got A Feeling vs. It' Ain't Like that (33-5-0)
12. Sweet Lew vs. Evil Little Goat vs. Education (4-2-33)
13. Jingle Bells vs. Brother vs. Crazy Mary (0-6-37)
14. Alone vs. Anything In Between vs. Santa God (35-0-4)
15. Fatal vs. Sunburn vs. Don't Believe in Christmas (36-6-2)
16. Love Reign O'er me vs. 10 Billion Years vs. Other Side (8-13-20)
17. Let It Ride vs. All Night vs. Breath (9-12-21)
18. Acoustic #1 vs. U vs. Rearranged Priorities (9-26-2)
19. Wash vs. Bee Birl Vs. Leatherman (28-2-10)
20. Wishing Well vs. Harmony Vs. Yellow Ledbetter (1-4-33)

3/8
21. Rock Around Barack vs. Untitled (I'm Still Here) vs. Down (1-8-32)
22. Golden State vs. Only Cloud in the Sky vs. State of Love and Trust (2-4-36)
23. Gremmie Out of Control vs. Last Kiss vs. Black Red Yellow (4-11-28)
24. Man of the Hour vs. Dirty Frank vs. Be Like Wind (32-10-0)
25. Whale Song vs. Thunderclap vs. Hard to Imagine (7-3-35)
26. Don't Gimmie No Lip vs. Cready Stomp vs. Dead Man (10-4-28)
27. Out of My Mind vs. Last Soldier vs. 2000 Mile blues (16-20-0)
28. Long Road vs. Daddy Could Swear, I Declare (40-1)
29. Cold Confession vs. Santa Cruz (33-6)
30. Devil Doll vs. Falling Down (5-32)

Round 2 (eliminate 2)
3/9
31. Undone vs. Footsteps vs. Happy When I'm Crying (12-26-14)
32. Angel vs. Let Me Sleep vs. Sad (5-8-38)
33. Hold On vs. Leavin' Here vs. Strangest Tribe (9-8-33)
34. Of the Earth vs. Sonic Reducer vs. Education (11-19-21)
35. Crazy Mary vs. Alone vs. Fatal (13-16-22)

3/10
36. Otherside vs. Breath vs. U (16-27-3)
37. Wash vs. Yellow Ledbetter vs. Down (23-21-8)
38. State of Love and Trust vs. Black Red Yellow vs. Man of the Hour (24-13-9)
39. Hard to Imagine vs. Dead Man vs. Last Soldier (33-12-0)
40. Long Road vs. Cold Confession vs. Falling Down (39-7-3)

Round 3
3/11-3/12
41. Footsteps vs. Sad (d (1--34)
42. Strangest Tribe vs. Education (29-15)
43. Fatal vs. Breath vs. Wash (24-21-6)
44. State of Love and Trust vs. Hard to Imagine vs. Long Road (20-10-22)

Winners Advance

Round 4
3/13
45.Sad vs. Strangest Tribe (29-16)
46. Fatal vs. Long Road (18-32)

Round 5
3/14
47. Long Road vs. Sad (25-22)

[stip]

The Album Qualifiers

Ten
Round 1 3/14
1. Porch vs. Even Flow vs. Master/Slave (eliminate 2) (25-14-4)
2. Why Go vs. Once vs. Alive (eliminate 2) (7-11-31)
3. Garden vs. Deep vs. Jeremy (eliminate 2) (11-5-29)
4. Oceans vs. Release (11-37)

Round 2 3/20
5. Porch vs. Alive (34-17)
6. Jeremy vs. Release (17-35)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Alive vs. Release (21-32)

Vs
Round 1 (eliminate 2) 3/15
1. Daughter vs. Indifference vs. Leash (27-15-4)
2. Blood vs. W.M.A. vs. Animal (6-5-36)
3. Rearviewmirrow vs. Elderly Woman... vs. Dissident (36-6-6)
4. Glorified G vs. Go vs. Rats (7-36-4)

Round 4 3/20
5. Daughter vs. Animal (18-32)
6. Rearviewmirror vs. Go (25-29)

Winners's advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Animal vs. Go (21-34)

Vitalogy
Round 1 3/15 (eliminate 2)
1. Aye Davanita vs. Nothingman vs. Pry, To (7-38-2)
2. Stupid Mop vs. Not For You vs. Satan's Bed (1-32-12)
3. Bugs vs. Last Exit vs. Whipping (1-44-1)
4. Betterman vs. Spin the Black Circle (28-19)

Round 2 3/21
5. Nothingman vs. Not For You (16-33)
6. Last Exit vs. Betterman (42-6)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Not For You vs. Last Exit (20-30)

No Code
Round 1 3/16 (eliminate 2)
1. Smile vs. I'm Open vs. Habit (26-3-21)
2. Sometimes vs. Off He Goes vs. Who You Are (13-21-12)
3. Red Mosquito vs. Lukin vs. Present Tense (30-2-10)
4. Around the Bend vs. In My Tree vs. Mankind(4-39-3)

Round 2 3/21
5. Smile vs. Off He Goes (19-31)
6. Red Mosquito vs. In My Tree (25-31)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. In My Tree vs. Off He Goes (38-21)

Yield
Round 1 3/16 (eliminate 2 but sometimes 3)
1. In Hiding vs. Low Light vs. Pilate (21-22-6)
2. Given to Fly vs. Red Dot vs. No Way (22-0-25)
3. Push Me/Pull Me vs. All Those Yesterdays vs. Brain of J (2-15-26)
4. Hummus vs. Wishlist vs. MFC vs. Faithfull (eliminate 3) (0-3-5-37)

Round 2 3/22
5. Low Light vs. No Way (25-31)
6. Brain of J vs. Faithfull (28-26)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Brain of J vs. No Way (39-18)

Binaural
Round 1 3/17 (eliminate 2)
1. Nothing as it Seems vs. Breakerfall vs. Of the Girl (27-4-19)
2. Paring Ways vs. Sleight of Hand vs. Gods' Dice (19-24-5)
3. Soon Forget vs. Light Years vs. Rival (1-15-32)
4. Thin Air vs. Grievance vs. Evacuation (8-28-8)

Round 2 3/22
5. Nothing as it Seems vs. Sleight of Hand (32-25)
6. Rival vs. Grievance (28-25)

Winners Advance
Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Sleight of Hand vs. Rival (33-25)

Riot Act
Round 1 3/17
1. Green Disease vs. Love Boat Captain vs. Get Right (13-16-21)
2. You are vs. 1/2 Full Vs. Bu$hleaguer (32-14-4)
3. Help Help vs. I Am Mine vs. Arc (32-16-2)
4. Can't Keep vs. Cropduster vs. All or None (13-20-18)
5. Save You vs. Thumbing My Way vs. Ghost (19-8-21)

Round 2 3/23
6. Get Right vs. You Are (23-34)
7. Help Help vs. Cropduster vs. Ghost (eliminate 2)(10-33-10)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
8. You Are vs. Cropduster (26-32)

S/T
Round 1 3/18-3/19 (eliminate 2 but sometimes 3)
1. World Wide Suicide vs. Marker in the Sand vs. Big Wave (19-21-8)
2. Life Wasted vs. Comatose vs. Parachutes (17-9-23)
3. Army Reserve vs. Inside Job vs. Severed Hand (19-5-22)
4. Unemployable vs. Gone vs. Wasted Reprise vs. Come Back (25-7-5-12)

Round 2 3/23
5. Marker in the Sand vs. Parachutes (25-31)
6. Severed Hand vs. Unemployable (28-30)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Parachutes vs. Unemployable (33-21)

Backspacer
Round 1 3/18-3/19 (eliminate 2 but sometimes 1)
1. Amongst the Waves vs. Gonna See My Friend vs. Unthought Known (8-27-10)
2. The End vs. Speed of Sound vs. Force of Nature (8-17-20)
3. Got Some vs. Supersonic vs. Just Breathe (27-7-10)
4. Johnny Guitar vs. The Fixer (29-20)

Round 2 3/24
5. Gonna See My Friend vs. Force of Nature (23-26)
6. Got Some vs. Johnny Guitar (20-29)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Force of Nature vs. Johnny Guitar (16-33)

Lightning Bolt
Round 1 3/18-3/19 (eliminate 2 but sometimes 2)
1. Getaway vs. Mind Your Manners vs. Sirens (19-18-11)
2. Sleeping By Myself vs. Future Days vs. Lighting Bolt (16-3-23)
3. Yellow Moon vs. Swallowed Whole vs. Let the Records Play (17-25-6)
4. Infallible vs. Pendulum vs. My Father's Son (8-24-13)

Round 2 3/24
5. Getaway vs. Lightning Bolt (25-20)
6. Swallowed Whole vs. Pendulum (16-32)

Winners Advance

Round 3 3/25-3/26
7. Getaway vs. Pendulum (21-29)

[tragabigzanda]

Nice work, stip!

[wease]

Aces

[LetMeSleep]

Appreciated.

[Simple Torture]

I'm saving my good materials / arguments for songs until later rounds. Also, there's an "it's" where there should be an "its" in the header post. But I just assume that's all part of the MADNESS.

[Norah]

There should be a fourth mad in the forum description.

[stip]

There should be a fourth mad in the forum description.

take that one up w B

[stip]

I'm saving my good materials / arguments for songs until later rounds. Also, there's an "it's" where there should be an "its" in the header post. But I just assume that's all part of the MADNESS.

fixed. we're not animals.

[Kaius]

I should boycot for that cheap shot, stip.

[Bammer]

There are misguided souls among us who would disagree that stip is the heart and soul of RM

[stip]

I should boycot for that cheap shot, stip.

it was still a fun tournament

[digster]

Thanks for doing this! I've listened to the PJ catalog so much that I drift to it less as time goes on, but these tournaments always inspire me to check out stuff I haven't heard in awhile.

[chewm]

Thank you for doing this, Stip. Great work.

[epilogue]

Yeah, Stip, thanks again. I look forward to this every year. This is so awesome.

[chewm]

Brain of J and Faithfull face eachother in round one. Fuck.

[Norah]

stip is fucking with me

[evenslow]

May Jehovah bless you, Stipelman.