March Madness 2022 - Release Wins!

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Round is closed

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1. In My Tree over Sunburn over Bugs 37-9-3
2. Undone over You over My Father's Son 29-16-5
3. Jeremy over Dissident over Supersonic 29-14-2
4. Breakerfall over Around the Bend over Again Today 27-15-1
6. State of Love and Trust over Hitchhker over Dirty Frank 33-7-4
7. Even Flow over Superblood Wolfmoon over 4/20/02 26-19-0
8. Rival over Glorified G over Wasted Reprise 37-10-1

5. Rearviewmirror vs. Alone vs. Cropduster open for one round.

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Round 1B open until 8pm 8:00 EST 2/17/22

9. Strangest Tribe vs. World Wide Suicide vs. Release
10. Leatherman vs. Just Breath vs. Hard to Imagine
11. Oceans vs. Buckle Up vs Unemployable
12. Man of the Hour vs. Fatal vs Mind Your Manners
13. In Hiding vs. Leash vs. Hitchhiker
14. Love Reign O’er Me vs. Can’t Keep vs. Light Years
15. Alive vs. Once vs. Why Go
16. 10 Billion Years vs. Life Wasted vs. Sleeping By Myself

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Round 1B

9. Release over Strangest Tribe over World Wide Suicide (22-17-2)
10. Hard to Imagine over Leatherman over Just Breathe (31-8-3)
11. Oceans over Buckle Up over Unemployable (19-12-10)
12. Fatal over Man of the Hour over Mind Your Manners (24-14-4)
13. Black over Leash over In Hiding (21-14-5)
15. Alive over Why Go over Once (28-7-4)
16. Life Wasted over 10 Billion Years over Sleeping By Myself (31-9-1)

Plus
5. Cropduster over Rearviewmirror over Alone (24-22-5)


14. Can't Keep vs. Light Years vs. Love Reign O'er Me move into next round (18-18-6)

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Round 1C

17. Breath vs. Down vs. I Am Mine
18. Let the Records Play vs. God’s Dice vs. River Cross
19. Brother vs. Johnny Guitar vs. Betterman
20. No Way vs Come Back vs. Red Mosquito
21. Whipping vs. Of the Girl vs. Daughter
22. Whale Song vs. Bu$hleaguer vs. Comes Than Goes
23. Santa Cruz vs. Army Reserve vs. Last Solider
24. 24. Smile vs. Nothingman Vs. Leaving Here

[Kevin Davis]

I don't usually even pay attention to the outcomes of these - I just look forward to reading what people have to say about the songs. But "Cropduster" beating "RVM" is fun.

[coptheriotact]

I was too slow to vote for cropduster. Good work everyone!

[stip]

Thanks Abnorman for all your statistics. I love that stuff.

[LetMeSleep]

Are we getting more matches this weekend or on Monday, stip?

[liebzz]

Thanks Abnorman for all your statistics. I love that stuff.

Given Abnorman’s new role as official historian, I say in 2023 we use this knowledge and actually set full proper seeding.

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One round a day. Going up shortly

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Round 1C is closed


14. Light Years over Can't Keep over Love Reign O'er Me (23-21-7)
17. Breath over I am Mine over Down (24-5-12)
18. God's' Dice over River Cross over Let the Records Play (22-15-4)
19. Betterman vs. Johnny Guitar vs. Brother (25-9-3)
20. Red Mosquito over No Way over Come Back (22-17-2)
21. Of the Girl over Daughter over Whipping (19-17-5)
22. Comes Than Goes over Bu$hleaguer over Whale Song (21-11-6)
23. Army Reserve over Last Solider over Santa Cruz (26-8-3)
24. Nothingman over Smile over Leaving Here (28-11-1_

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Round 1C is open

25. Sad vs. Olympic Platinum vs. Footsteps
26. The End vs. Rats vs. Santa God
27. Gremmie Out of Control vs. Acoustic #1 vs. Indifference
28. The Fixer vs. Help Help vs. Education
29. Big Wave vs. Let Me Sleep vs. Evacuation
30. Swallowed Whole vs Yellow Ledbetter vs. All or None
31. Grievance vs Satan’s Bed vs. Who You Are
32. I Got Id vs. Angel vs. Pilate

[LetMeSleep]

One round a day. Going up shortly

Woohoo. My boredom can briefly be alleviated

[epilogue]

Poor No Way.

[Anders]

Smile got done dirty.

[stip]

Someone remind me of this in a year, but I want to keep the three song first round format next year, and maybe use ranked choice voting - if a song doesn't win an absolute majority (50%+1 of the votes) the match stays open and the poll resets by the lowest scoring song is no longer a voting option (What

[stip]

Someone remind me of this in a year, but I want to keep the three song first round format next year, and maybe use ranked choice voting - if a song doesn't win an absolute majority (50%+1 of the votes) the match stays open and the poll resets by the lowest scoring song is no longer a voting option

[wease]

Someone remind me of this in a year, but I want to keep the three song first round format next year, and maybe use ranked choice voting - if a song doesn't win an absolute majority (50%+1 of the votes) the match stays open and the poll resets by the lowest scoring song is no longer a voting option

Wow. You’re REALLY chafed Cropduster won, huh?

[stip]

Oh I'll be stewing about this for a year!

In all seriousness someone suggested we use that model, and we've already had a few matches where it might have altered the outcome so it would be interesting to see how that might impact things. Plus i like to find a new gimmick each year