Board 8 > [VGMC] Video Game Music Contest 17 - Bracket Discussion and Results Thread!!

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Awful.

Day 60 Results!

Rampage 29 v 27 Temporal Tower
Close in the Distance 20 v 35 K'Sante, the Pride of Nazumah
Labyrinth IV - Echoing Library 27 v 30 nATALIE

Day 61: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80506086

wait natalie caught up in the end huh

neat

Did not expect to go 3/3 and honestly thought 0/3 was more likely but I guess I'll take it.

rampage vs ksante is a wild match

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/6/3/AAOHCGAAEpq_.jpg

(excuse the poor quality)

Temporal Tower has now collapsed, and the world is forever enveloped in darkness...

temporal tower

more like

temporary tower

1/3 but the 1 is the one I was most passionate about, let the Rampage continue!

andylt posted...

1/3 but the 1 is the one I was most passionate about, let the Rampage continue!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/4/AAUC3iAAEps4.jpg

Day 61 Results!

Panic In The Sky! 21 v 38 Staff Roll
Memories in the Mist 24 v 34 Unused Song 2
Un Deux Trois 27 v 27 God Shattering Star (Rain)

Day 62: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80507072

s****ering

Which has the greater power of poo, s****ering or a song that mentioned number one, number two, and number three?

Oh wow... I have not thought about that game Rampage in years. Good times.

Bleh, I should've just abstained on the 3rd match...

Day 62 Results!

Song of Mourning: The Eternal Wind 32 v 25 Jintinda Lab
Another World 22 v 34 Sight of Silence
An Empty Tome 36 v 22 X-Naut Fortress

Day 63: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80508055

Wait, a song that I wanted to win actually came back from behind? Impossachievable!

Well that's a lame set of results

Day 63 Results!

Millennium Spark (Firestorm BT MIX) 32 v 30 Town, Flow of Time, People
City Centre (Construction Site) 30 v 32 Dancing Mad
Un Deux Trois 32 v 24 God Shattering Star (Rain)

Day 64: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80508961

these tiebreakers for real

> I switch my vote from Un Deux Trois to God Shattering Star
> Un Deux Trois wins by 8 votes

Figures.

Didn't you know your vote counts as -4?

I considered changing my vote from 123 to GSS

to think I could have made it nearly a doubling

Day 64 Results!

PEARLS 21 v 35 Calling
Old L.A. 2040 35 v 21 Rock Club
Chain of Pain 29 v 26 Turning Point

Day 65: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80509833

Day 65 Results!

They Who Govern Reason 27 v 27 Banbard (Piano Version)
Fly In The Freedom Theme of ROUGE 25 v 29 -{EDGE OF THE FUTURE}
POP TEAM BATTLE 25 v 26 GOLDEN RULE (Long Version)

Day 66: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80510736

2-0 and a tie ok that went a lot better than I was expecting even if match 1 is the match I cared about the most.

Shame I never got to vote for POP TEAM BATTLE though; very cool song.

Boo, second time a tie has thwarted our nicely-aligned final bracket day!

banshiryuu posted...

Fly In The Freedom Theme of ROUGE 25 v 29 -{EDGE OF THE FUTURE}

better than I expected tbh. Still, RIP to the last of my noms. At least SA2 got its long overdue win this year!

Day 66 Results!

Got more raves? -Full Ver.- 21 v 33 Desert-Duo
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke 20 v 33 Dialga's Fight to the Finish!
The Grand Finale 19 v 36 To Far Away Times

Day 67: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80511704

See you next year RFTM.

Complete list of rankings!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UZzZU_RtYD8MhmFG7vqkrP56qdPgYFSNDsBHpMnDjHU/edit?usp=sharing

Let's check out some stats regarding the field this year! There were 48 that got a score of 9.0 or higher, about the same as last year; however, there were only 14 that got a 9.5 or higher, compared to 25 last year. The distribution of scores in the top 100 are otherwise pretty similar to VGMC16, though. Still, my #100 vgm is ranked about a 9.5, so yeah, those fourteen have a shot at my top 100 when I revise the list! Horita and TunnelScene pretty much killed it in the rankings, like usual. Max Galactica doesn't agree with me on much when it comes to voting in these contests, but his noms were solid this year again. Place's nominations did a heckuva lot better in my rankings this year than last year.

Some contestants would score much differently if I rated them again... trending down are Mt. Pyre Exterior, Dancing Mad, and POP TEAM BATTLE. Act 1: The Void of Space is trending up, for sure.

Day 67 Results!

Northeast Frost Street 33 v 27 MNN+@0(Day)
Samsara 29 v 30 Purple Town
They Who Govern Reason 24 v 32 Banbard (Piano Version)

Day 68: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80512641

tiebreakers continuing to be bizarre results

banshiryuu posted...

tiebreakers continuing to be bizarre results

So we have abandoned reason, then.

Almost didn't vote today but getting Purple Town through is nice even if it's on the same day as the worst result in the contest.

Man, why does the music that I love that have great R1 or R2 performances always underperform the next round? Purple Town looked so much stronger than Samsara the first two rounds, but in advance I figured Purple Town would find a way to lose, and I was almost correct. (my first count had Samsara winning by one vote; thank goodness that was wrong) Similar situation with Temporal Tower, as well as Tree of Life ~ Roots and Geometric Dance last year (and all of these lost sooner than expected).

But really, though, I'm ecstatic about A1 because I can rest easy no matter what! I gave them both a 9.0+ rating, which will likely be the only quarter-bracket final where both songs got a rating that high. I like NFS slightly more, but I would rather see Purple Town retire, because, you know, this would be the first Yack retiree! (I'm expecting the Kirby track to win, though...)

Haste_2 posted...

Man, why does the music that I love that have great R1 or R2 performances always underperform the next round? Purple Town looked so much stronger than Samsara the first two rounds, but in advance I figured Purple Town would find a way to lose, and I was almost correct. (my first count had Samsara winning by one vote; thank goodness that was wrong) Similar situation with Temporal Tower, as well as Tree of Life ~ Roots and Geometric Dance last year (and all of these lost sooner than expected).

That just means their competition in early rounds was quite weak

MacArrowny posted...

That just means their competition in early rounds was quite weak

Yes, I know. I realize I made it sound like I was saying songs are strong one round and then they suddenly weakened. I didn't mean it that way... I meant that it "looks" like songs are really strong in R1 or R2 only to look weaker (get exposed) in the next match.

idk what to really say because techno syndrome blatantly had a lot of hype behind it and honestly i would've said it was the favourite to win that match had it made r3 lol

i would also say if anything i'm actually surprised that frost street beat manon based on their prior rounds but then again kobito beating notam immediately gives credibility to kobito actually being stronger than drifting sands (and it is entirely impossible to gauge anything based on the gullveig result lol) so it also just tracks tbh

Dang, rough results for A1 personally, RIP Samsara and MNN. Though I flipped in the TB and my choice won, so it's nice to know my vote counts for +4.

Day 68 Results!

Moonlight Concert 30 v 24 Wind Scene
Azure Archipelago 27 v 26 We Are Burning Rangers (English Version)
KANNANSHINKU 21 v 33 Lost Forest

Day 69 (nice): https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80513589

so what you're telling me is that Origin was robbed

that was the loudest scream ive given in a while lfg !! one more

Damn. Poor Wind Scene.
Hopefully Azure can pull it off at least (probably won't though)

Yeah, Origin got robbed.

banshiryuu posted...

Azure Archipelago 27 v 26 We Are Burning Rangers (English Version)

W....whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/3/AAOHCGAAErEr.jpg

I can rest easy for the entire left half of bracket A now.... It's amazing that all five winners so far this round scored a 9.0+ in my book... of course, this trend is about to end, because the next day's matches have absolutely nothing rated a 9.0... in fact, I don't think any of those would even score an 8.0.... (oh, wait, Crystal Caves qualifies)

Janus5k posted...

so what you're telling me is that Origin was robbed

finally everybody is realising the truth
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/0/4/AARWb-AAErGQ.png

also lol i last checked the burning rangers match when it was getting blown out the most, actually surprised it nearly came back from that

Day 69 Results!

Ragna Breakers 26 v 26 Crystal Caves
Beat the Diamonds 21 v 32 SHININ' QUEEN
Subterranean Sunrise 26 v 25 for you

Day 70: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80514562

Oh yeah before I forget! Now that Round 2 is over the main bracket in BracketMaker is filled in and ready for second-chance predictions!! I'll probably close them at the end of Round 3, so there's still quite a bit of time. Just click on "Championship Bracket" on the main list linked in each OP!

My last original nomination lost to something good at least

Wow, those are some surprising results. I really thought for you had it in the bag. And it was by one vote! So many one vote losses! Brutal.

Looking on the bright side, it seems like Ragna Breakers is legit. I was expecting it to roll over and die to Crystal Caves so getting the tie is an achievement in itself. And these tiebreakers have been weird so maybe it can even pull out the win.

Day 70 Results!

The Apex of the World (Rain) 28 v 29 Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
The Sunleth Waterscape 38 v 18 Tokyo
Banbard (Chroma Remix) 27 v 31 Epicentre

Day 71: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80515565

Fucking hell, if I had remembered to submit my vote

See you next year Apex.

Apex is the new Id ~ Purpose, isn't it...? Also, wow @ Sunleth's victory! It's looks strong enough to retire. It would be the first fully Hamauzu retiree, I believe. (Someday the Dream Will End was arranged by Hamauzu, but it borrows Uematsu material)

unfortunate day