Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 100!! THE END!!

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Somehow once again this year we're ending the contest on a perfect 100 days!! Wooo!!! 100 days of hype, heartbreak, and a whole lot of surprises. We had a lot of people join us for pretty much the whole dang contest, which I cannot stress enough how thankful I am for each and every one of you! Anyone that voted and participated and made this contest into the success I feel like it has turned out to be, you're the real rockstars of the contest. Oh, duh, and my wonderful co-host Toxtricity!! Watching the magic happen of the bracket coming together is a true delight that I wish you all could see~

Passing through the Forest and Aquatic Ambiance both were highly vetted entrants coming into the competition. Passing made a run to Round 4 just three years ago in VGMC13, having taken down PMD2 Dialga before a rather close loss to retiree Skyclad Observer. Meanwhile, Aquatic Ambiance has been missing from contests since VGMC6, having won at least a match in every contest except its absence in VGMC2. It gave tough battles to the likes of Fighting of the Spirit, Godsibb, and Gerudo Valley, and had an unfortunate run-in with VGMC4's champion Hope. But here we are now, in VGMC16. Who will prevail? The land or the sea? The new discovery or the old classic? The man or the monkey??!?

The answer is... your VGMC16 champion with a nailbiting score of 34 over the opponent's 33 is....

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Threads of Fate - Passing through the Forest !!!

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ONE MORE BONUS MATCH 1

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Composer: zts
Loop Point: 4:21
GENRE: DARK TRANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNl4PNFubvQ

Threads of Fate - Passing through the Forest
Composer: Junya Nakano
Loop Point: 1:46
Genre: DEWPRISM
https://youtu.be/xX4WQouaL7k

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ONE MORE BONUS MATCH 2

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team - Sky Tower
Composer: Arata Iiyoshi, Atsuhiro Ishizuna
Loop Point: 3:42
Genre: GREATER HEIGHTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PqlOkxcI-8

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team - Sky Tower
Composer: Arata Iiyoshi, Atsuhiro Ishizuna
Loop Point: 3:42
Genre: GREATER HEIGHTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIxrPUnjsU

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Sky Tower
Composer: Arata Iiyoshi, Atsuhiro Ishizuna arr. Keisuke Ito
Loop Point: 3:42
Genre: GREATER HEIGHTS
https://youtu.be/ODQ767-hixA

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ONE MORE BONUS MATCH 3

echochrome ii - prime #4507
Composer: Hideki Sakamoto
Loop Point: 75:04
Genre: LIFE SYMPHONY 43151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKgzC69eVrU

Dariusburst Another Chronicle - Suite Photoconductivity
Composer: Shohei Tsuchiya
Loop Point: 26:13
Genre: LIGHT SYMPHONY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtD7qy37XdY

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Easy vote form:
resurrectedreplayer / Passing through the Forest
Red / Blue / DX
prime #4507 / Suite Photoconductivity

Forest
Blue

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
don't care
don't care

Good winner!

Awful :)
Anyways, easiest votes of my life

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team - Sky Tower

sadness

Resurrectedreplayer
GBA Sky Tower (Red)
Suite Photoconductivity

I have have the exact same weird nitpicky "issues" with DX Sky Tower as Dark Dawn Saturos and ORAS Deoxys when comparing them all to their much better originals. It's the inappropriate use of bells. Dark Dawn Saturos is the absolute fuckung worst of the three about it.

oops added a match 3 i forgot i was gonna do

suite

Passing through the Forest
+1 Red / +1 Blue (is this how we do it? if not then all on red)
prime #4507

ceda was robbed

Threads of Fate - Passing Through the Forest
Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team - Sky Tower
Dariusburst Another Chronicle - Suite Photoconductivity

[Yes] Passing Through the Forest
[Yes] Suite Photoconductivity
[Yes] prime #4507
[Yes] Sky Tower (RRT)
[Yes] Sky Tower (BRT)
[No] Sky Tower (RTDX)
[No] resurrectedreplayer

Thank you deo and toxtricity for another year of cool music :)

I was very disappointed by the retirement round, hence my decision to stop voting partway through it, but at least the winner is a reasonable choice. I hope the next contest is somewhat less disastrous though.

rr
DX
SP

Passing through the Forest
Red
prime #4507

resurrectedreplayer
Jupiter Guns Novel
prime #4507

Good winner! Contest was very hit-or-miss and I hope this level of "fast bad" isn't a sign for future ones but with how well I've done in the past I probably shouldn't complain too much at least. Still some pretty neat discoveries this year!

Anyway for people who like it when numbers do funny things here are the full X-stats of the contest:

https://pastebin.com/84tqc68L

Poor bracket B.

Passing Through the Forest
+2 DX
abstain

hey i finally won a final match

resurrectedreplayer
Red
Suite Photoconductivity

I will post my thoughts on the overall contest later. Are we doing that here or in the other results topic? I'll wait to see what other people do.

resurrectedreplayer

Pretty ok winner all things considered. Probably in the bottom half of winners but I do think it's a pretty good song. And given the set of songs that retired which I wasn't big on, it definitely could have been worse.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team - Sky Tower

Janus5k posted...

256 Shadoubt Shaps 13.61%

I understand why this happened (it's basically a perfect intersection of traits that didn't do well this contest on top of the fact that it would have been weak anyway) but dang, it deserved better.

Forest
Red
Photo

Passing through the Forest
Blue
prime #4507

Passing
Blue
prime #4507

Thanks for the contest! Forget my PM... I already put in the votes manually on that day. >_>

forest

resurrectedreplayer
DX
prime #4507

RR
blue+2
SP

156 Deus Hex Machina 28.10%
159 Combat Beneath the Waves 27.94%
186 Desierto Caliente 25.83%
191 Sealed Vessel 25.51%
199 Unwavering Belief 24.62%

welp. Everything in the fourth quintile.

Passing through the Forest
+2 DX
prime #4507

thx 4 contest :-)

resurrectedreplayer

Passing through the Forest
+1 Blue
+1 DX
Suite Photoconductivity

Passing through the Forest
+2 Red Rescue Team
prime #4507

A well-deserved winner, of a song I've been playing over and over. Very glad to have formed part of this first VGMC start-to-end for me, was a good mix of great results, terrible flops and amazing discoveries. Excited what the future has for this considering the new people that has joined! Thanks Deo and Tox!

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer

+2 DX, that is (how are we doing this?)

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team - Sky Tower
Dariusburst Another Chronicle - Suite Photoconductivity

FL81 posted...

+2 DX, that is (how are we doing this?)

You're close

It's stylized as "+IIDX"

Poor Shadoubt Shaps is both the wooden spoon holder and last in the x-stats

Passing through the Forest
DX (+2 if we're doing it that way)
Suite Photoconductivity

Passing through the Forest
Blue
Suite Photoconductivity

Passing through the Forest
abstain
prime #4507

This is my first time hearing resurrected. I do not care for it.

Passing through the Forest
DX
prime #4507

DX > Blue > Red

resurrectedreplayer
+2 DX
Suite Photoconductivity

Adding vote for Suite Photoconductivity, it isn't close

resurrectedreplayer (9.2) / Passing through the Forest (9.05) (great technical underdog winners damn no complaints here)
+1 Red / +1 Blue / DX (no numerical comparisons here because it's more a matter of which is the most suitable version here. comparing them fairly for what is really the first time now, dx is a really good arrangement with valid strengths while trying to preserve as much of the original(s) as it can, it's just unfortunately not a song that net gains from them. blue keeps my focus on the l/r beeps a lot more which are more fun than the (unusually midi sample-esque) percussion of dx (ftr i like that about dx tho). the beeps don't seem to be as blatantly stereo in the red version maybe thanks to the chunkier d&b though i appreciated that they alternate the beats at the start in that one along with the... whatever the things are in the flute section (hopefully not an emulation error), and it just has that added cool factor of being obviously a bit more technically ambitious for the system)
prime #4507 (9.35) / Suite Photoconductivity (9.65) (okay so i guess now's a time to actually be a bit critical about this to justify this. suite is both more and less than the sum of its parts, as despite its quality, it feels both like a concert and an album. it's a bit juxtaposed, you know, and half of me wants to evaluate it higher for its diversity when the other half is stumbling through it while trying to decide "do i like what this song (singular) does". prime is goes round and round in similar themes throughout and therefore has stronger flow despite ironically being remarkably more emblematic of those things in very literal senses. both have messages to portray, yes photoconductivity is more impactful in that regard but I don't think that lightens the intent of 4507 at all. oh yeah, and i wish the shorter tunes were more fleshed out in suite, i know it's deliberate for numerous reasons but following the like 8 minute epics that precede them it can sometimes feel like a waste. still, just to be clear, it still took what i consider a hell of a song to overturn my photoconductivity vote here)

btw also, I shared suite with a friend just a few days ago and they gifted me a copy of g-darius hd out of the blue in response. unfortunately my laptop apparently runs it shockingly poorly, but i was glad how moved they were by it that they felt the need to do that

There's a bonus match we still have to see: the champion (Passing through the Forest) vs. this legendary song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjAxsWgEexI

Passing through the Forest
+1 Blue Rescue Team, +1 Rescue Team DX --- OR ---- Blue Rescue Team
I have a defence tomorrow and do not have time for match 3 lol

passing
DX (+2?)
prime

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
+2 Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team - Sky Tower
echochrome ii - prime #4507

Passing through the Forest
Blue
prime #4507

Passing through the Forest
+2 Blue
Suite Photoconductivity