Best show tournament?

[Hatfield]

What if we had a tournament for the best Pearl Jam show? Have we already done that and I missed it?

[E.H. Ruddock]

MISSOULA 2018

/tournament

[mikejasond]

Benaroya Hall 2003 is the best END OF TOURNAMENT

[Leatherhead]

Benaroya Hall 2003 is the best END OF TOURNAMENT

No fuckin' way. While I do really like Benaroya Hall, acoustic Pearl Jam is definitely not the best Pearl Jam.

[Birds in Hell]

This would probably be a mammoth undertaking but it would make sense to have a tournament to create a shortlist of the favoured shows of each tour first, before trying to determine an overall “best show”.

[CopperTom]

This would probably be a mammoth undertaking but it would make sense to have a tournament to create a shortlist of the favoured shows of each tour first, before trying to determine an overall “best show”.

Yup we did it at least once before. Participants nominated shows. The obvious choices were included plus nominees from participants. Atlanta 94 won.

[CopperTom]

Also, it's not a mammoth undertaking since you can have a clean 32 or 64 team tourney. I'd run this one if you want.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Benaroya Hall 2003 is the best END OF TOURNAMENT

No fuckin' way. While I do really like Benaroya Hall, acoustic Pearl Jam is definitely not the best Pearl Jam.

Yeah that's not even close to their best show

[96583UP]

just crown some early-mid 1994 Dave A show now and save everyone the trouble

[Norah]

Everyone knows the best show is 3/5/98

[liebzz]

5/21/10.

[Hatfield]

Also, it's not a mammoth undertaking since you can have a clean 32 or 64 team tourney. I'd run this one if you want.

Thank you CopperTom! Let's run this thing.

[vedder316]

Everyone knows the best show is 3/5/98

This is correct. close it up

[Hatfield]

just crown some early-mid 1994 Dave A show now and save everyone the trouble

I wondered if it should be a 1995-2018 tournament for that very reason.

[liebzz]

just crown some early-mid 1994 Dave A show now and save everyone the trouble

I wondered if it should be a 1995-2018 tournament for that very reason.

Not necessarily- for all the great Dave A. moments, dude played way too many cymbals.

[CopperTom]

Here's my idea - 32 of "classic" or great shows and 32 user nominated shows (since the list of "classics" will not completely satisfy anyone). Each user can nominate 1 or 2 shows. Round 1 will feature a classic vs a user-nominee. Standard tournament style.

It shall be called the Sponsored By No One Tournament.

[CopperTom]

Help me out folks. I'm sure I'm missing some great ones. Maybe I included something not great enough. I'd like each year represented, if possible.

The Classics:
Zurich 92
Pinkpop 92
Las Vegas 93
Indio 93
Atlanta 94
St. Petersburg 94
Boston 94
Melbourne 2 95
Chicago 95
Red Rocks 2 95
Randalls Island 2 96
Berlin 96
Melbourne 3 98
Seattle 2 98
New York 2 98
Katowice 2 00
Pittsburgh 00
Seattle 2 00
State College 03
New York 1 03
Philadelphia 05
San Francisco 3 06
Zagreb 06
George 1 06
Hartford 08
New York 2 10
Toronto 1 11
Amsterdam 1 12
Charlottesville 13
Leeds 14
Boston 2 16
Krakow 18

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Den Haag 92
Salt Lake City 2 95
Ottawa 05
Philadelphia 3 09
Hartford 13
Oklahoma City 13
Oslo 14
Moline 14

[E.H. Ruddock]

Vegas 93

[E.H. Ruddock]

Dude there are way better 09 shows than any Philly show

[CopperTom]

Dude there are way better 09 shows than any Philly show

There really isn't, but I don't want to have this argument again. Which one?