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Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 1:37 am
by Strat
Strat wrote:Tremor Christ

/thread

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 1:39 am
by 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.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 2:05 am
by chewm
Kaius wrote: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

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 12:18 pm
by 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

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 12:23 pm
by Sgt. Crackpot
What if we only include songs that you think of, that don't contain the letter e? I bet you can't.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 2:24 pm
by 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.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 2:31 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Varis wrote: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.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 2:56 pm
by 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

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 5:55 pm
by Kevin Davis
Varis's idea is nice but lacks the unnecessary complexity of my idea.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 6:21 pm
by Norah
stip wrote: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.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:20 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Kevin Davis wrote:Varis's idea is nice but lacks the unnecessary complexity of my idea.
Hey Varis, KD just called your idea dumb

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:23 pm
by evenslow
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Varis wrote: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

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:53 pm
by stip
cutuphalfdead wrote:
stip wrote: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?

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:59 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
stip wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
stip wrote: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.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 8:09 pm
by Strat
Fuck PJ

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 8:43 pm
by LetMeSleep
This would be much easier to enthused about if they'd released some decent music over the last decade.

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 12:07 am
by CopperTom
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Varis wrote: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?

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 12:52 am
by stip
Who ran that one, GH or me? In either case I don't know

Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:08 pm
by 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



Re: march madness 2016

Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:23 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
LetMeSleep wrote: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.