Attn DcT: March Madness has begun in the MM sub forum

[Strat]

Tremor Christ

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[Kevin Davis]

The Pearl Jam March Madness tournament exists solely for the in-the-moment amusement of its voters. I am comfortable with the idea of living in a world where the winner of the 2016 Pearl Jam March Madness tournament was only able to ascend to its throne by way of extenuating circumstances.

[chewm]

Nobody wants to spend 2 months voting for an inevitable final of Insignifance, Tremor Christ, Corduroy, and In My Tree. Just pick the winner now if that's the case.

I kinda do

[stip]

A toilet bowl format is a neat idea but given the size of the tournament we would be here until August.

I'm leaning towards taking out the top 15 teams from last time, running the tournament, and then putting that winner into a final 16. We have a new winner every year so I'd like to see whose turn it is

[Sgt. Crackpot]

What if we only include songs that you think of, that don't contain the letter e? I bet you can't.

[William Bloke]

Perhaps you don't need to even remove 15 songs, just remove any past winners. Put them in the "March Madness Pantheon" and see who gets to join them there this year.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Perhaps you don't need to even remove 15 songs, just remove any past winners. Put them in the "March Madness Pantheon" and see who gets to join them there this year.

This is a great idea.

[stip]

I like it, but I think it makes sense to them have a winners tournament to decide which song is the ultimate winner for the year

[Kevin Davis]

Varis's idea is nice but lacks the unnecessary complexity of my idea.

[Norah]

A toilet bowl format is a neat idea but given the size of the tournament we would be here until August.

I'm leaning towards taking out the top 15 teams from last time, running the tournament, and then putting that winner into a final 16. We have a new winner every year so I'd like to see whose turn it is

That's not a bad idea.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Varis's idea is nice but lacks the unnecessary complexity of my idea.

Hey Varis, KD just called your idea dumb

[evenslow]

Perhaps you don't need to even remove 15 songs, just remove any past winners. Put them in the "March Madness Pantheon" and see who gets to join them there this year.

This is a great idea.

Varis for President

[stip]

A toilet bowl format is a neat idea but given the size of the tournament we would be here until August.

I'm leaning towards taking out the top 15 teams from last time, running the tournament, and then putting that winner into a final 16. We have a new winner every year so I'd like to see whose turn it is

That's not a bad idea.

Do you like it more or less than Varis' idea?

[E.H. Ruddock]

A toilet bowl format is a neat idea but given the size of the tournament we would be here until August.

I'm leaning towards taking out the top 15 teams from last time, running the tournament, and then putting that winner into a final 16. We have a new winner every year so I'd like to see whose turn it is

That's not a bad idea.

Do you like it more or less than Varis' idea?

This could turn into a Smaug v. Vader situation.

[Strat]

Fuck PJ

[LetMeSleep]

This would be much easier to enthused about if they'd released some decent music over the last decade.

[CopperTom]

Perhaps you don't need to even remove 15 songs, just remove any past winners. Put them in the "March Madness Pantheon" and see who gets to join them there this year.

This is a great idea.

This was how the 4th annual tourney was run, no?

[stip]

Who ran that one, GH or me? In either case I don't know

[hlniv]

My suggestion from last year....

http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... ss#p507399

NCAA Basketball-
32 conference champions (31 of which are determined by end of season conference tournament)
36 at-large selections by committee

Four play-in games
Single elimination 64 team tournament.

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Suggestion for next year's PJ March Madness-

Set up 15-20 "conferences" based on albums, b-sides, collections, etc...
Have "conference tournaments" to start narrowing field to 64
"Conference" winners (or maybe top 2) automatically get into field of 64 and seeded on the top lines
Have all remaining songs be put into a large pool and have everyone vote for their top 10-15 from the pool.
Top remaining vote getters fill out the rest of the seeds
Single elimination 64 song tournament

With this, we get individual album winners, plus a vote driven field of the 64 best tunes.

Spoiler: hide
"Conferences"
1. Ten
2. Vs
3. Vitalogy
4. No Code
5. Yield
6. Binaural
7. Riot Act
8. Lost Dogs 1
9. Lost Dogs 2
10. S/T
11. Backspacer
12. Lightning Bolt
13. Stray Cats (non Lost Dogs B-sides)
14. Misc Covers
15. Misc Demos/Rarities 1
16. Misc Demos/Rarities 2

Top 2 from each gets automatically in as a 1, 2, 3, or 4 seed

[E.H. Ruddock]

This would be much easier to enthused about if they'd released some decent music over the last decade.

Dear Pearl Jam,

Please release good music so those of us on an unauthorized, secondary message board loosely dedicated to your band may hold a tournament where the new music will inevitably not beat one of 4 of your "classics".

Thanks,

E.H. Ruddock.