Lurker > Haste_2

Well, yeah, I already said you were the initial nominator! Er, at least that's what I meant to say. A'ight, looks like an affirmative on my nominating Over-Nove, then. Don't feel like you have to support it, though... (I don't like placing those kinds on demands on people)

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Time's running short!

I'm strongly considering nominating that Trianthology track you nominated last year! It's called, um, yeah...Nova something or other? Oh, yeah, Over-Nove. (curse the video for its non-translated title) But yeah, it was one nomination short last time, so there may yet be hope for it. Would you be willing to support it again?

...unless you're planning on doing that again this year, in which case I will defer that task to you and I will definitely support it (again).

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I'm still alive~!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Fun song.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Place posted...

Heavy Metal (1981)
https://youtu.be/stzE87JbOao

Late, but didn't listen to this one until yesterday. This is a keeper!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

There are none that I'm aware of until Little Mermaid in 1989.

Outside of Disney, oh, yeah, there's Peanuts! Very high tier music there.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

FL81 posted...

There's something really pretty about late 20th century animated film soundtracks that I feel has gotten lost with the newer films (it's more "pop" sounding).

That film was probably the first USA cartoon in existence to have a good soundtrack (1986)... the time window for good music for such movies was short.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I swear I'm going to get involved and do a lot of catch up here [sometime], so keep this going!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

cakophon posted...

I CANNOT BELIEVE I DID NOT REALIZE THIS. PIAYER ZERO IS DEAD!

Fixed.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

That version of Metallic Madness is good stuff!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Why is panflute in Zelda always so great? Also, yay for KPLECRAFT....cool stuff.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

If it wasn't obvious enough already, go ahead and combine each of the Scene Shifts results into one. The correct name is Scene Shifts There.

Is there a date set for nominations yet?

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Looking at the VGMC total stats list, results of past contests...

Rewrite - Scene Shifts Here
Rewrite - Scene Shifts There

Lol....


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

cakophon posted...

ubiquity of dokuro prevails

Ha, and even Team Haste2 had those two! Kinda weird (and disappointing) that no team had Confronting Myself in Crabulon's place.... (previously quoted NFUN by accident.)

PIayer_0 posted...

That is a very diverse team, there would probably be a lot of fighting on the way to deciding these match results lol (but yes Sakura is a great retiree)

No kidding it's diverse. For example, Zigzagoon and Mycro have like 33% compatibility IIRC!

loweffortmemes posted...

Wow, Sakura no Uta retiring in this list and I'm not even a part of the team? Well, that's certainly an amazing outcome! Plenty of other great songs throughout this list too. I think this is now my favorite list of the three?? Certainly a strong contender.

That's one more reason I wonder why our compatibility was only 54.8% last contest! Maybe we'll be closer this time around.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Arti posted...

wow, we should really redo vgmc 13 with just team azuarc

Please no. If the entire contest went based on team azuarc, my overall VGMC win % would drop all the way down to 47%! >_<

Haste_2 posted...
I only have this data for three users: azuarc and MycroProcessor...

Haha, notice I said "three" users. I failed to mention that I also made VGMC XIII results using voters that are most compatible with me! I was way too curious! By the way, all this analysis I've posted was done like 8 months ago... I just needed to wait until VGMC season.

Users involved in these results: Prody Parrot, Hbthebattle, kaonashi1, Akkrillic, MycroProcessor, PIayer_0, banshiryuu, Bluenugget64, Zigzagoon, th3l3fty, SuperNiceDog, Team Rocket Elite, Mac Arrowny, cakophon, DragonImps

Team Haste2 Results:
TIGAR (All Phase Mix)
Sakura no Uta
Chloe (Overall 2nd place)
DNF FW15C (APM)
1NF3S+@+!0N (Theme of Crabulon)
Melody of Aqua
Laurara's Dance (Bracket B Winner)
Servants of the Scourge
Break the Limit
Chocolate Missile
Battle!! (Bracket C Winner)
Flash Frost
Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients
Lost in the Waves
Field of Hopes and Dreams
Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; (Overall Champion)

Complete results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R6uH-heAvPceYChzvOsZZ8UrV7waZVYHFd3X_JGCJD4/edit?usp=sharing

Sakura no Uta is definitely the odd one, but everything else looks pretty good to me! This IS my favorite list of the three (Team Mycro's list is not far behind)... I particularly like the unique appearances of Lost in the Waves, Field of Hopes and Dreams, Break the Limit, and Laurara's Dance! Oh, and I'd like to add that, even though Lost in the Waves beat Autumn early on, Autumn did better against LotW than YOATI did! Thus, Autumn > YOATI with my group! That's a sign of good taste, fellow teammates!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Yeah, it IS funny how both teams prefer YOATI. I think Autumn ended up winning because of a few irregular voters showing up that day. I prefer Mycro's list of retirees in general, but I do prefer azuarc's in the case of I&E, Gallant Gunshot, and Sky of Twilight. Also, The Final Song vs. EXSPHERE is an extremely close match for me...

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

It sounds just like an island to me! (with a dark touch added to it)

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Team Mycro has the following users (in order of compatibility):
mycro
kao
jona
cako
place
uf8
gamebop
moon
haste
flamander
bans
kcf
dowolf
collen
xp
raetsel
rwlh
imps
sceptile
prody
lem
malyg
janus
lefty
blue
psi

Team Mycro Results:
TIGAR (All Phase Mix)
Douwa Kairou
Raging Spirits
DNF FW15C (ALL PHASE MIX) - Overall 2nd Place
1NF3S+@+!0N (Theme of Crabulon)
Passing Through the Forest
Full Base (Bracket B winner)
Servants of the Scourge
Romun Empire
Chocolate Missile
Battle!! (Bracket C winner)
Kill Command
Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients
Battle of Marion
Dead Neon Hell City
Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; (Overall champion)

Detailed results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CYdyuS9LGVDyvsrYIlIeWjhHq4Lp_iunq4gHrrI7sN0/edit?usp=sharing

Surprisingly little has changed in the bottom half, huh? Eight of the actual retirees remain intact with these particular results, compared to just five with Team azuarc's results.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Aw, yeah, Chrome Gadget is where it's at! The good chords never stop!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I'm liking Scenario A1! Chloe, I&E, and DNF along with EXSPHERE makes a great final four. Great elite eight too with contestants like Laurara's Dance!

I would be interested in seeing you revise the stats accounting for the fact that Revenger likely got stronger as the contest progressed. I don't think ENDYMION is among the elites, for example. New World Order may have strengthened, too.

Now for some of my own stats! Have you ever wondered what the results would be like if only the voters most like you voted in these contests? Check out these results! (thanks to azuarc for the voting data) I only have this data for three users: azuarc and MycroProcessor... I chose these two not only because of their heavy involvement in the contests, but because they're about as polar-opposite in music tastes as two users can possibly be.

Let's start with Team azuarc. Qualifying for this team required you to be more compatible with azuarc than with Mycro. The members include (ordered from least compatible to most compatible)

akk
xuxon
p0
tsunami
nfun
slykirby
mcxd
handsome
ark
tre
fl81
dubs
pyre
mac
advo
arti
tennis
521
baconus
az

Team azuarc's expected VGMC XIII retirees:
Innocence and Emptiness
Denshou no Shi - Verum (champion)
Life Will Change
That Person's Name Is
The Final Fight
Skyclad Observer
New World Order (bracket B winner)
Servants of the Scourge
It Has to Be This Way (finalist)
An Ill Omen
Death to Illusions
Under the Moon
Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients
Gallant Gunshot
Sky of Twilight
The Final Song ~ Black Song, White Scales (bracket D winner)

These estimates are all calculated via vote differentials rather than x-stats. Five of the sixteen actual retirees still managed to retire!

For a complete bracket of Team azuarc results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-ZtyPTqkvh-vOImTVvDyj9z41dx7NKfPj8qeYAeLZRU/edit?usp=sharing


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I agree it sounds just like Steve Reich and John Adams. This is quite possibly my favorite new find so far in this rankings topic...

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I LOVE most arrangements of Wind Scene. They tend to sound so much better than the original music in CT.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

My noms are not on your spreadsheet. Did you DQ me because of all the trouble I cause?! =p

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Hey, I finally see one of my tracks appear on one of the many rankings topics for the first time in ages! I love ALL the harmonies in that one, but I do agree that the "heroic" melody is a bit awkward. Overall still my second favorite on Bravely's OST.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Happy January 22nd! What holiday is today, you ask? The annual Miscommunication Day!

I should have left off the "I don't get it" part... my message makes more sense that way. >_> Thanks for the chart, but I already created one myself.

azuarc posted...

Haste_2 posted...
You really think nobody would listen to it?

Well, you didn't. I have no idea about anyone else, but nobody indicated they were using it.

Whoops. I thought you were saying nobody would listen to my weekly playlist that I proposed (a playlist that gets updated weekly to reflect approaching matches). But you were saying that (you thought) nobody listened to the entire-bracket playlist YOU provided, right?

Last VGMC I used that playlist a ton! I couldn't have been the only one that used it. I would be happy to be in charge of creating and maintaining it this year, if you'd like.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

azuarc posted...

Sigh. You know you're working too hard for the contest when you maintain a playlist nobody uses since they just listen to their own anyway. Maybe I should delegate that to you then.

You really think nobody would listen to it? It's true that you could just listen to a playlist of the entire bracket, if it's all put in order. That's how it was done last contest, right? If that's done again, maybe there's no need. Regardless, if I do it, I was already planning on being the one to do it! But man, I wish I did this for BOST... that's the contest that really could have used the weekly playlist.

azuarc posted...

Guarantee inclusions for songs making 5 votes before a certain point in the nomination period. Anyone who supported the track would have their votes locked, but it would not have to survive the rising waters of the Great Consolidation. I would still leave at least 3 days for the endgame to just be open season like usual. (I've discussed this one already.)

I see no downside here. Sounds good to me! Keep in mind that the number of nominators may be higher this time around as it's contest season...

Bracket alteration -- still 192 songs, in 16 divisions of 12, but no byes. Instead, one of the four-packs is left completely empty and at the end of round 2, from the 9 songs that lost, we would vote one song back into the bracket. (They'd be placed in the neighboring division.) This would prevent songs from being a victim of placement or having a tough draw or whatever.

I don't get it, so I'd better see what it looks like. Oh, hey... that's a pretty cool idea! It's a way to give a track screwed over by bracket placement a second chance! So a free-for-all is likely the one it would be done, huh? If I had a say in this, I would prefer to exclude songs that lost R1 to a song that lost in R2. (for example, if MGS2 Theme lost to Scars of Time which lost to Baba Yetu in R2, MGS2 Theme should be excluded from the poll, as MGS2 Theme CLEARLY doesn't belong as the "second chance" player... Scars of Time clearly deserves that second chance over the MGS2 Theme) This would drop the number of participants in the poll down to six.

I'm considering letting the retirees back in for one year. I mean, yeah, there's a chance we might see an inevitable Scars of Time victory, but the board has changed a lot in 13 years and Scars did lose in BOST4 to Wind of You. Some of us have been around for a decade on this board and have never gotten the chance to see some of these classics compete except maybe in a tournament of champions side bracket. I am definitely not in favor of eliminating the retired list, but leaving it to the side one year might be fun.

When I first saw this idea, I was thinking, "Just wonderful... some good music is gonna get screwed over by having to go against e.g. MGS2 Theme in the second round." But if we use the bracket idea in your second point, the idea of this kind of bracket seems a little better! The "second chance" idea would be really beneficial in an "anything goes" bracket. In other words, your second and third suggestions work really well together!

Doing a bracket based on point #3 should be just a one-time thing... I would prefer we go back to the traditional bracket next year, with retirees excluded like normal.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Doing write-ups forces you to think, that's for sure!

Speaking of my own rankings project, I only have 29 left to go! The music is getting really, really good at this point!

DragonImps posted...

I usually listen intently, without doing anything else, but I still find it difficult to retain the music or think of things to say about it most of the time.

Yes, that's how it is for me, and I think for most of us. This is part of the reason I plan on creating a weekly listening VGMC playlist prior to the matches.... even if nobody else uses it, I certainly will!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Oh, I didn't know that. Guess I'd better not slow down my rankings project then.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

VGMC is going to be delayed until GotD2 is over, right?

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Ummmm...I played very few games this past decade....

10) Mario Kart 8
9) VVVVVV
8) Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
7) Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
6) Doki Doki Literature Club
5) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice
4) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
3) Pokemon Black/White
2) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
1) Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Path

Something like that. >_>

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Being able to apply the five extra supports ("doubles") however you want might be something I'd like to see, but it's not a big deal to me either way.

So we got about 60 days until the contest... and I've got 59 write-ups to do for my retiree rankings project. My goal is to get two write-ups a day from here on out, so I can start rolling out the rankings before VGMC nominatinos start.

Edit: I'm not Latino. I'm Nominatino!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

This hasn't died already, has it?

Oh, wait. It's New Year's.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Looks like Proud Dust, Beyond the Darkness, and End of the Raging Waves will be among my nomination priorities, yay.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

If it's to save progress, yes. If it's to avoid certain tedious things you know you can handle, yes. Otherwise, no.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

RIP Theme of Love and Aeriths. I don't get how such a mediocre boss theme won.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."