Board 8 > [VGMC] d88: Final wild card, and end of round 2!

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Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 14, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.

Links:
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VNrPnFRI7nJ4PqFiURBW0NWqxvXiuasoq8Sn_O169ss/edit#gid=320804650
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=473292
Discussion and results thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78714595
Bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1REnVI_W6yELaDP6Zac8b0Wq
ToC playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RE-TQMj19D0k5nm-0zeH12J
VGMC compability sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lpX4faqnn_geI0y4i6MrZ2AXpV6SWXoWrIA6_eyx-yM/edit

Rules:
- Listen to ALL of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided. Even if Song A is your favorite of all-time and Song B is from a series you hate... Listen. To. Both. (If I have suspicions your vote is not based on a fair and impartial preference, it will be disqualified.)
- Obvious contest rules apply (no alts, one vote per person, no rallying, etc.).
- Please make your voting options clear, rather than burying them in text.
- Each set of matches lasts 24 hours, even if the new one isnt up by then. (Matches do not begin until at least 10:00 EDT.)
- Always vote on the versions of the song provided, not versions from different sources.
- If you know ahead of time that you're not going to be around and you want to vote in advance, post your choices in the discussion/bracket topic.
- Please do NOT post tallies/score updates in the middle of the match, as this has a tendency to directly influence matches.
- You don't have to vote in all the matches, but it'd be cool if you did!

Special rules for the wildcard matches:
- Yes, there are 9 songs.
- You may vote 6 times.
- You may vote a maximum of 3 times for the same song
- The intent is that you will select a +3, a +2, and a +1. This is not mandatory
- DO NOT read the other votes before making (or adjusting) your selection.
- I reserve the right to not count vote changes if I deem them suspicious. If you do change your vote, please be 100% clear in your choice.
- Request: vote in the order the songs are listed (not descending order) to make counting easier

THE COMBATANTS:

Duelin' Firemen! - Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G1vkyKtkRc

Ace Combat Infinity - Blue Skie

whoops, I didn't mean to hit post yet. Oh well. Yesterday's thread is still open for 35 minutes.

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evil poll

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+3 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through the Trees
+2 Adventurous Inventors
+1 HYMN
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+3 AI: The Somnium Files - Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll]
+3 Aliens Go Home Run! - Final Boss Theme

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+3 Neotokyo - Scrap I/O
+3 Ao no Kiseki Evolution - Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees

I thought about just giving Scrap I/O points and calling it a day but what the heck.

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+3 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+3 Scrap I/O
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+3 Ace Combat Infinity - Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+3 AI: The Somnium Files - Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll]
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+1 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+1 Scrap I/O
+1 Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll]
+3 Final Boss Theme

Hm, going into this somehow I only recalled AGHR as being the only song I really wanted to advance here, possibly because I feel so strongly about it. But giving these a re-listen I'm remembering that there are other decent choices too. Still pretty strongly want it to be AGHR Final Boss though. Maybe it would make more sense for me to give a point to Discovery instead of EEA but Oh Well, maybe I shouldn't be giving any of these extra points at all....

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+3 HYMN
+3 Memories Rushing By
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+1 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+1 Scrap I/O
+1 Adventurous Inventors
+1 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
+2 HYMN

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78. HYMN
37. Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
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103. Scrap I/O
75. Adventurous Inventors
184. Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees (like i said in the match topic, this song went up considerably)
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128. Final Boss Theme
72. Discovery
95. Memories Rushing By
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176. Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)

D4 is the only division in the contest without a song I'd rate 9/10 or higher.

+2 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+1 Final Boss Theme
+3 Discovery

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+2 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+2 Discovery
+2 Memories Rushing By

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+3 HYMN

lots of really good songs but hymn is next level

+3 Scrap I/O
+1 Memories Rushing By
+1 Silence in the Sunlight
+1 Final Boss Theme

I like all but one song in this poll! One of these songs however is light years ahead, and its name is Scrap I/O. Might as well throw out pity +1s to the rest as I don't like leaving points on the table.

Ranks:

Scrap I/O- 3rd
Memories Rushing By: 23rd
Silence in the Sunlight- 60th
Final Boss Theme- 78th
Discovery- 91st
Adventurous Inventors- 98th
Blue Skies- 99th
Hymn- 101st(99th before correcting ranking error)
Epic Epileptic Apocalypse- NR

+1 Discovery
+1 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
+2 HYMN
+2 Memories Rushing By

Lots of potential point allocations, and thus I have to re-rate everything again! The entrants here are REALLY good, probably the best of all the wildcard sets. It just occurred to be that Neotokyo had really unlucky draws this contest. Both entrants, with decent strength in and of themselves, drew very strong opponents in R1.

+2 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+2 Scrap I/O
+2 Memories Rushing By

Sorry Aliens Go Homerun and Pop 'n Music, but +2 feels so much more impactful than +1.

Epic Epileptic Apocalypse (7.2)
Blue Skies (Infinity Remix) (8.3)
Scrap I/O (8.5)
Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll] (7.0)
Final Boss Theme (7.9)
Discovery (7.4)
Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees (6.7)
HYMN (7.8)
Memories Rushing By (8.1)

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+2 Scrap I/O
+1 Discovery
+2 HYMN
+1 Memories Rushing By

with apologies to other songs, this is a very consistent set

Epic Epileptic Apocalypse - 2.9
Blue Skies (Infinity Remix) - 7.8
Scrap I/O - 8.8
Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll] - 8.2
Final Boss Theme - 7.5
Discovery - 8.6
Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees - 6.6
HYMN - 8.9
Memories Rushing By - 8.7

+3 Memories Rushing By
+2 Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll]
+1 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees

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+3 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+3 HYMN

+3 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)

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+3 Scrap I/O
+1 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
+2 HYMN

Way too many good songs here that I want to give points to. I'd be willing to give points to everything but Epic Epileptic Apocalypse and Discovery. I think part of what makes the point distribution here difficult is that a lot of the D4 songs are pretty close in terms of how much I like them. Even if this part of the bracket went exactly as I wanted it to, I think I'd still have a tough time with point spreads.

+3 Scrap I/O
+1 Adventurous Inventors
+1 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
+1 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse

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+1 Final Boss Theme
+2 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
+3 HYMN

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+3 Final Boss Theme
+3 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees

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+1 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+3 Final Boss Theme
+2 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees

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+2 Discovery
+2 HYMN
+2 Memories Rushing By

I like a bunch of stuff here, don't really dislike anything here, and i think i ranked some stuff higher than these 3, but these are for sure what I'm most interested in seeing come back to the bracket anyways. HYMN is /extremely/ what i'm in the mood for at this specific time, but not sure i feel right doing a 3/2/1 distribution or anything similar with the way i feel about equal excitement about these 3 being what i want to see return, and still liking most of the stuff i'm not giving a point to today
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+3 Final Boss Theme
+3 Discovery

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+1 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+2 Final Boss Theme
+3 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
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+1 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+1 Scrap I/O
+1 Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
+3 Memories Rushing By

dunno why memories rushing by has resonated so much these last couple days, but.
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+1 Scrapio
+3
+2 Memories Rushing By

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+1 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+2 HYMN
+3 Memories Rushing By

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+1 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+1 Scrap I/O
+2 Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll]
+2 Final Boss Theme

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+1 Final Boss Theme
+2 Discovery
+1 HYMN
+2 Memories Rushing By

+3 Scrap I/O
+3 Final Boss Theme

Should really be doing Blue Skies and AI but don't expect them to do too well here...

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+3 Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll]
+2 HYMN
+1 Memories Rushing By

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+3 hymn

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+3 Final Boss

I might use more points later
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+1 Adventurous Inventors [Staff Roll]
+3 Memories Rushing By

+3 Staff Roll
+3 Silence

Sorry to the perfectly decent songs that I'm omitting.

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Scrap I/O

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+3 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)
+2 Scrap I/O
+1 Final Boss Theme

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barreldragon88 posted...

Scrap I/O

@barreldragon88 what about it?

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Oh no...uhhhhhh.... @barreldragon88 You forgot to apply points to your vote. Okay, azuarc beat me to it.

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I keep feeling like I should reflect more of the songs I like in this match. Going to make a minor shift, and doing it now while there's over an hour left before someone says I'm rigging the vote.

+1 Scrap I/O
+1 Staff Roll
+1 Final Boss
+3 Silence in the Sunlight

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azuarc posted...

I'm rigging the vote.

I knew it

i'd complain about the formatting of that vote change but it's the last wildcard so there's no point >_>

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+2 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+1 Discovery
+1 Final Boss Theme
+1 Scrap I/O
+1 HYMN

+1 Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
+1 Scrap I/O
+2 HYMN
+2 Memories Rushing By
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+1 Neotokyo - Scrap I/O
+3 Aliens Go Home Run! - Final Boss Theme
+2 Ao no Kiseki Evolution - Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees
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