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Mars
Move Me
Ethnic Cave & Flame

okay so my ranks might be CANCELLED for the meantime lol, i dont think i reliably place them in a nice place now that theres so many with the small amount of time i have in the day oops. i should be able to complete it still at the end of R1 cause I really really wanna see how much certain songs grow or wear off on me in R2 lol

Day 24 Results!

Silent Desert 29 v 38 The Spirit of the Mountain
Panditah of the 7th Mountain 16 v 51 Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell 28 v 39 MAD LAST WORLD

Day 25: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80067490

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

Sengoku Rance - Mars
Composer: Shade
Loop Point: 2:23
Genre: DANGEROUS ATTRACTION
https://youtu.be/VkObgp5Hz_A

Deemo - FEHLT (DEEMO edition)
Composer: Yuni Minami (Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra)
Loop Point: 2:55
Genre: REVERIE BR

From Toxtricity:

Spirit of the Mountain (Alto's Adventure)
Panditah of the 7th Mountain (Jewels of Oracle)
MAD LAST WORLD (Mad Rat Dead)

Its so funny that it is called silent desert when it is so loud

I think that steve reich being named steve, is so important. There is some proof in there in how(for example) steven universe and surasshu both start with the name steve too

I think that genuinely the most important type of vgm to me is compressed to ~11025hz quality wav/aif files in mac/pc games from the 90s; part of this is the realization that wel.l..i used to say that yeah myst clone is my favorite genre of game by far(you know this if youve known me for more than 2 weeks) but I would ALSO say: but the music from myst-clones isnt at all what i listen to when i listen to vgm- - - but that is NOT true!! Like it...is? In the sense that im constantly looking for NEW vgm id never heard before, so i avoid the genre i know best (myst-like games is the genre of game i know best). And instead tend to lean toward genres i dont play as much like shmup osts and stuff (especially shmups because they have the music i like most often), and since im looking for unfamiliar stuf- - of course i neglect the genre of game im easily most familiar with!...BUT. I like these games for a reason, the abstract concept of feel and atmosphere is one of the absolutely most important things to me when playing a game, and i think maybe even more than any actual gameplay element. And 50% of what defines the way a game feels to me is the music. A huge part of what i seek in that department is very much my impossibly deep obsession with the limitations of FMV/pre-rendered/etc games from the 90s. The way quicktime animations have different visual compression methods than the surrounding stills, dithering or other color palette limit artifacts, choppy loop points, and even just the quirks of the various engines these games tend to be made with that i have near memorized now (recognizing default cursors, transitions, etc). Some people are like this with nes game nostalgia, or ps1 game nostalgia, or whatever. But im like this with macromedia director first-person prerendered pc game from 1995 genre. Sometimes nostalgia is derided as a shallow reason for enjoyment, and maybe it can be. For me tho, a lot of it is simply that i got into this type of game BECAUSe it felt a certain way...when it comes to newer myst-likes, while i do like them (obduction [2016] is like a top 5 game for me), i..definitely lost my passion for a lot of newer games in /any/ genre if it feels too new, and i couldnt quite understand why. Until i realized. My brain just latched on to basically every unclean limitation and imperfection of the 90s. This is why Myst 1 (win3.1) is so much better to me than any of its remakes; or why i got disappointed whenever mystlike game series stopped being pre-rendered..and just in general preferred stuff made closer to the year 1993. Its because all these imperfections and limitations were being smoothed over (and as i talked about not too long ago with some people here; sometimes the nature of compression and prerendered stuff actually makes something feel MORE immersive, as every pixel is curated for you, and the amount of detail is maximized for the 640x480 resolution in a way you just cant get with newer realistic games with bigger unlimited resolution and movement where theres more room for you to be taken out of it with less curated stills since its no longer prerendered or small res). In that sense, its more than just nostalgia too, this type of game is just deeply immersive to me in a way nothing modern can be, and the style of music associated--definitely helps take me to these places. But also just..Im the sort of person who is deeply attracted to the seams of things. I have a big collection of plushies and i love looking at how theyre made, seeing these seams. In artwork id get attached to being able to observe concrete brush strokes, or..aliased pixel edges! Like when it comes to /anything/ i want the artifacts of how something was made to be visible to me. But the #1 way that feels best to me..is, ambient music on 90s synths except crunched to really low quality where you can hear the crackly bubbly noise at the lower volume parts. I grew up with New Age music so that helps with THIS style especially, but also well,,,this song ties into stuff i said earlier, how player0 had pointed out that the summary of my music taste might best be described as ancient technology. Before i reminded kopaz of the HYPNOTIC WORLD-BEAT advertisement on the box art for this game, they originally wanted the genre of this to be ANCIENT FUTURE, and you know..i think that feeling is why i love this track so much (on top of everything else). Organic flutes, synth pads that indicate a mystical nature of unexplained ancient ruins...pads that in themself morph between timbres that suggest these alternating technology levels between super ancient and super advanced. The only problem i have with this song is that it is in too high quality and it is too loud for the compression artifacts to be obvious, it should have taken lessons from putt-putt travels through time and been half the volume and crunched down to 6000hz so that it sounds more grainy.. .

The CRAZY atelier song

Can you believe that nobunagas ambition is the same series as pokemon conquest

For a while MAD LAST WORLD was the ONLY song on my planned supports list. I didnt wind up being an influence in pushing it in in the end, but im certainly glad that its in! Definitely one of my favorite tracks from this soundtrack that has so many cool songs inside of it.

Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

ranks later, blue whitecaps vgmc17 pls???

Rocket

Daredevil

Day 23 Results!

Illusionary Blue Flowers 41 v 32 The Best Is Yet To Come
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL) 30 v 42 Home Sweet Home
City of Tears 37 v 36 stg_travel_2_3

Day 24: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80066314

the tears continue for one more round!!

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

Ys Origin - Silent Desert
Composer: Takahiro Unisuga
Loop Point: 2:03
Genre: STRIDENT SANDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j06QakJVbMw

Alto's Adventure: The Spirit of the Mountain - The Spirit of the Mountain
Composer: Todd Baker
Loop Point: 5:04
Genre: ASCENDANCE
https://youtu.be/rW_0Niws2p0

Match 2

Jewels of the Oracle - Panditah of the 7th Mountain
Composer: Steven Sauv
Loop Point: 1:33
Genre: HYPNOTIC WORLD-BEAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfpb6jQuPSI

Atelier Escha &

From Toxtricity:

Illusionary Blue Flowers (TiTS the 3rd)
Home Sweet Home (Beyond Good and Evil)
stg_travel_2_3 (A.N.N.E.)

This is the most 90s sounding falcom song possibly; even moreso than anything by yonemitsu maybe somehow lmao. But thats extremely a plus for me

Itd be interesting to trace my opinions on songs thatve been in regularly in vgmc over the years. This has gone from regularly last place or near-last-place ranked in earlier vgmcs, to...one of the tracks i look most forward to listening to! My taste has definitely changed substantially during all these years on here, but my reaction to this track is one of the biggest examples i can point to of that shift. (im still not voting for it tho because illusionary blue flowers is way too fucking good)

The drastic song!

Home sweet home is so pretty..! I never listened to this ost in full but i like every song i have heard so much

This track is also very pretty! It fits very well after home sweet home in the playlist to the point i almost didnt notice it was a new track

stg_travel_2_3 has some of the coolest most unusual chord changes ive ever heard in any song, and thats one of the most important elements of a composition to me so this (admittedly hyperbole) is saying something. Its astounding to me that i can feel that way about it while it still managed to be like melody_line-focused [normal battle] theme genre, which is a very popular vgm category that i have a very hard time getting into..but that is usually simply because the compositional traits happen to match up with what i seek less often in that category than in other categories. Here they 1000% do. i can always count on mitsuhiro kaneda to experience cool uncertainty(assuming this is him...even more than before im basically confident its his composition)

Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

i love you ryo takeshita :) and somehow i don't not like tbiytc as much as previous years, i just need to pretend it starts at 1:42. also glad to finally have the correct burning rangers in. at 0:50 in stg_travel_2_3 i hear your -(LYSINE)- synths kaneda you can't hide from me!!!

(out of 132)
(3rd) Lord of Vermilion Arena - SaGa Frontier 2 Medley A -LoV Edit-
(11th) A.N.N.E - stg_travel_2_3
(15th) Mad Rat Dead - Breath of Forest
(27th) Burning Rangers - Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
(29th) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Illusionary Blue Flowers
(35th) Heartland - Para Bellum
(59th) Beyond Good and Evil - Home Sweet Home
(90th) The Devil Game - CHAMPION RITUAL
(92nd) Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - You Will Recall Our Names
(108th) Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come
(122nd) Hollow Knight - City of Tears
(123rd) Planet DOB - how do you think?

jesus the past two days have had some super big hitters, i didn't get to talk about saga 2 medley but i get to in round 2 so yay!!

please just dont fuck launch base 2 up please just dont fuck launch base 2 up please just dont fuck launch base 2 up

oh thank god its like basically the same as the prototype it seems, the others are literally worse than the prototypes but all the others are whatever so i don't really care lol

Day 22 Results!

Breath of Forest 54 v 13 CHAMPION RITUAL
You Will Recall Our Names 33 v 39 SaGa Frontier 2 Medley A -LoV Edit-
Para Bellum 49 v 22 how do you think?

Day 23: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80065089

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Illusionary Blue Flowers
Composer: Ryo Takeshita
Loop Point: 1:58
Genre: MAGMATIC DISCO
https://youtu.be/LeCq5dLItXQ

Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come
Composer: Rika Muranaka
Loop Point: 5:42
Genre: ANNUAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1bzqjoZyeQ38

Match 2

Burning Rangers - Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
Composer: Naofumi Hataya
Loop Point: 3:56
Genre: TOKU SPIRIT
https://youtu.be/qrYuhfeXpS8

Beyond Good and Evil - Home Sweet Ho

From Toxtricity:

Breath of Forest (Mad Rat Dead)
SaGa Frontier 2 Medley A -LoV Edit- (LoV Arena)
Para Bellum (Heartland)

This rat is so angry. Its weird how much of my taste lately centers around how well is it a balanced halfway point between electronic and natural, but thats just how it seems to be for me these days!

I dont think id ever guess that champion ritual sounds like it does by the end from the way it starts.

I LOVE how the transposy supersaw elements in the beginning sound like pso2 horita type stuff

Pretty close match here

Ive always liked stewboys composition style. I mostly know him from battleofthebits entries. this isnt really that similar to what i think of him as but its still pretty neat, lots of cool surprising developments throughout. Im glad im not the only one nominating doom wad music (tho in my case it was mostly the product of being seriously obsessed with zzzv as an artist specifically, and their only vgm being doom wad music at the time..which coincidentally worked out and wound up being my favorite stuff of theirs anyway)

Dnb is pretty cool; very close match.

Breath of Forest
SaGa Frontier 2 Medley A -LoV Edit-
Para Bellum

will do ranking tomorrow im feeling a bit whoOA tonight but these are all easy matches lol

Loki

Rocket

Daredevil

Day 21 Results!

Bunwaii Desert 41 v 25 Accelerate ~ Night City (My Alien Girlfriend)
Colony Collapse Disorder 29 v 36 Highland Fields: Grass Ruins
DESIRE 33 v 32 The Wretched Automatons

Day 22: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80063951

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

Mad Rat Dead - Breath of Forest
Composer: Kazuya Takasu
Loop Point: 2:31
Genre: WOODED FANTASY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twEzOm2iJQo

The Devil Game - CHAMPION RITUAL
Composer: Enzo Dalmaschio (brutalmoon)
Loop Point: 4:02
Genre: BRUTAL PERCUSSION

From Toxtricity:

Bunwaii Desert (Caravan Stories)
Highland Fields: Grass Ruins (Ketzal's Corridors)
The Wretched Automatons (NieR)

Yeah i love pokemon mystery dungeon gates to infinity ost too

I love when songs feel like every single instrument has some inescapable electronic effect twisting the sound into a new sound

11

11 vs. 11!! I can hear myself singing coco-coco-coco-co along to these similar 11 rhythms in highland fields grass ruins. Thank you for your efforts chz (i still need to listen to the whole thing as of writing these advance vote posts)

Cleopatra fortune is such a cool game, got into it way more than almost any arcade action puzzle (tetris-genre)-like thing i ever opened. its a game i actually originally played solely because i liked the music (which i discovered because of yacks cover of one of the songs that he put into puchi carat)---i think i had essentially just wanted to record the songs from in-game that i couldnt find a way to listen to anywhere else at that time, and be done with the game after that. but i was surprised how fond of the game itself i became on its own!

This match is so stupidly close

Bunwaii Desert
Colony Collapse Disorder
The Wretched Automatons

I'M SORRY DESIRE ;___; WOW match 2 is GOOD...... actually today in general is just really fucking good, probably the most overall high quality day of the contest so far

(out of 120)
(15th) NieR - The Wretched Automatons
(19th) Caravan Stories - Bunwaii Desert
(24th) Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - Colony Collapse Disorder
(30th) Ketzal's Corridors - Highland Fields: Grass Ruins
(32nd) Cleopatra's Fortune - DESIRE
(54th) Tower Unite - Accelerate ~ Night City (My Alien Girlfriend)

Day 20 Results!

Coalescence 41 v 31 Routing
Bamboo Boogaloo (Past) 20 v 52 The Rain Formerly Known as Purple
Route 113 27 v 44 Radical Dreamers

the skies stay risky

:B:ay 21: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80062863

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

Caravan Stories - Bunwaii Desert
Composer: Yoshimi Kudo
Loop Point: 1:31
Genre: DJINN MARCH
https://youtu.be/2P56Qd8ZyS8

Tower Unite - Accelerate ~ Night City (My Alien Girlfriend)
Composer: William Reid
Loop Point: 4:42
Genre: PLANET PANIC
https://www.you

From Toxtricity:

Routing (IIDX 23 copula)
Rain Formerly Known as Purple (Risk of Rain 2)
Route 113 (Pokemon RSE)

This song is so sad

This song sounds like rhythm game music from toby foxs friend

This song sounds like it would be played on banjos

This song is called purple but it is using basically every color except for purple for me wtf

This song sounds like chrono cross! I like that soundtrack!

rse is by far my favorite pokemon GAME as an actual video game, which creates some level of bias toward the infamous way that it sounds (tho it is far from my favorite pokemon game in terms of music), but i do still think i genuinely crave its bizarre grainy crunchy instrumentation somehow too (i like the instrumentation to the point its probably my fav pokemon game in terms of sound, and even tho i like most other gens compositionally more..i wish i could hear rse versions of them). Route 113 was one of my favorites to the point that i believe i was the initial nominator of it when it got into vgmc3! My taste is significantly different now and this would not be my first pick from the game anymore, but i still hold fondness for it no question. Very cool memorable ichinose chord-melody interaction style that is just so comfortable feeling

Routing
Bamboo Boogaloo (Past)
Radical Dreamers

fuck you match 3 i'm legit MAD i cannot vote for route 113, radical dreamers is just too good and too important to me i cannot convince myself to vote 113 lol i hate this world. definitely secretly hope 113 wins......,,, anyway today is really good and then there's risk of rain

(out of 114)
(5th) Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers
(18th) Pokmon Ruby/Sapphire - Route 113
(22nd) beatmania IIDX 23 copula - Routing
(51st) The Messenger - Bamboo Boogaloo (Past)
(93rd) Risk of Rain 2 - The Rain Formerly Known as Purple
(106th) Risk of Rain - Coalescence

barrel advance votes:

Coalescence (Risk of Rain)
Bamboo Boogaloo (Past)

Day 19 Results!

Thran Asteroid Qwark's Hideout 30 v 41 To a New Journey
Sky Tower 47 v 22 xxxx/xx/xx (Remix)
Proof of the existence 30 v 39 ICO -You were there-

Day 20: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80061817

there was also a write-in for pixelisak who is still waiting on being able to post, but I did not see it in time before today ended to post it prior to ending. but i'm still counting it

Thran Asteroid Qwark's Hideout

Sky Tower I really wanna have a talk with whoever decided to put THE REMIX of xxxx/xx/xx. I loooooove the og track and this remix just makes it worse in every way. caligula songs are p much always best in their og form

ICO -You were there- it absolutely sucks to have to vote against proof of the existence cuz it's amazing but like... you just cant compete man

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

.

Match 1

Risk of Rain - Coalescence
Composer: Chris Christodoulou
Loop Point: 5:37
Genre: SLOW RAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPtBjY8o_A

beatmania

From Toxtricity:

Thran Asteroid - Qwark's Hideout (R&C: UpUrArse)
Sky Tower (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX)
ICO -You were there- (ICO)

Thran asteroid ~ quarks hideout is like...the exact description of my current music taste inclinations right now. Weird dark chord changes, very sound-design-focused atmospheric electronic, it is a lot like mood of Superior Probe ~ Underworks (Scenery) from pso2 which is my 4th favorite video game song in the world

Those arms are so wild.

If i was a pokemon, i would be a sneasel!

The loud girls

It sounds just like elebits!

You were there sounds like it should be in chrono cross

Thran Asteroid Qwark's Hideout
Sky Tower
Proof of the existence

hi proof my favorite song in the contest and my 4th favorite song of all time :) i think i've nominated it every single year i've been here (so since vgmc12) and i'm so glad it finally at least makes an appearance even if it dies!!! idk why you were there keeps going up against my few 10/10s cause it went up against octopunch r2 last year lolol

today is very good wow

(out of 108)
(1st!!!) beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro - Proof of the existence
(23rd) ICO - ICO -You were there-
(26th) Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Sky Tower
(31st) Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - Thran Asteroid Qwark's Hideout
(46th) The Caligula Effect 2 - xxxx/xx/xx (Remix)
(73rd) Wild Arms - To a New Journey

Day 18 Results!

Hollows (Echocave) 47 v 20 LAST CALL
Sleeping in the Cold Below 21 v 48 Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Under Pressure 25 v 44 GATE OF STEINER

Day 19: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80060475

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

.

Match 1

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - Thran Asteroid Qwark's Hideout
Composer: David Bergeaud, Niels Bye Nielsen
Loop Point: 1:54
Genre: COLD SHELTER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0XxqOxcTBg

From Toxtricity:

Hollows (Echocave) (30XX)
Sleeping in the Cold Below (Warframe)
Gate Of Steiner (Vocal Ver.) (Steins;Gate 0)

Bep

Calling for businessmen

The kind of free meter but still simple folk music i think is so cold

Close match! I love how distinctly yoshimi kudo that yoshimi kudo is, dream theater fan making epic prog metal and all those things

Angry 90s edm; i like that category

Its very hard for me to know whether or not id like this song this much if i didnt also know about other versions of the song. But i like it, and those other versions

Hollows (Echocave)
Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Under Pressure

yesterday we had heretic frypan at the top of my fav discoveries in contest and now today we have TWO MORE in echocave and under pressure!!! wow!!! last call is also rly good tho i wish it were against not echocave lol (also normal gate of steiner is way way better sorry)

(out of 102)
(13th) Hunter Hunted - Under Pressure
(19th) GITADORA OverDrive - Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
(26th) 30XX - Hollows (Echocave)
(43rd) NEO: The World Ends with You - LAST CALL
(54th) Steins;Gate 0 - GATE OF STEINER
(93rd) Warframe - Sleeping in the Cold Below

Day 17 Results!

Angela 32 v 34 Heretic Frypan
THE CHASE ~Chase~ (Special Edition) 41 v 25 Desierto Caliente
Argon Refinery 38 v 29 Shudder

Day 18: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80059197

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

.

Match 1

30XX - Hollows (Echocave)
Composer: Cityfires
Loop Point: 2:52
Genre: ABYSSAL DEPTHS
https://youtu.be/qeMmUwZmzwQ

NEO: The World Ends with You - LAST CALL
Composer: Takeharu Ishimoto
Loop Point: 4:56
Genre: FRANTIC METRO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBVRLgdYHjE

Match 2

Warframe - Sleeping in the Cold Below
Composer: Keith Power ft. Vala Glarios
Loop Point: 3:53
Genre: SPACE SHANTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EtOAaK19bAg

From Toxtricity:

Heretic Frypan (Eastward)
THE CHASE (Special Edition) (Uncharted Waters)
Shudder (Einhnder)

Library ruins

Epic fake chiptune

Pat metheny (the MOST pat metheny group vgm song ever; even more convincingly pmg than actual real pat metheny group music imo). Very much a good thing to me because i like those musicians, i am glad that yoko kanno does too. Always impressed by her ability to imitate so precisely

This entire game seems like it exists because someone came up with the idea of the pun and wanted to make it the name of a real game called that

Just realized how fucked up the elements being numbered is for me because it messes with my synesthesia. 18 is supposed to be GREEN you fuck, not purple! At least the song is actually kinda argon coloured for me; synth toms and guitar harmonics and acoustic bass have a tendency to sometimes be purple if manifested right (tho theyre more likely to be brown or like colorful but desaturated oil), but in a gaseous way which..i mean thats argon for you! But in this song, they are manifested as oily purple and that feels about right

Slow edm vs FAST edm. I love 90s synths... i am glad that i like rap these days so that that part can be a plus instead of a minus for me in 2022

Heretic Frypan
THE CHASE ~Chase~ (Special Edition)
Shudder

making me vote for only one of match 1 is stupid it pains me so much that heretic frypan is easily one of my favorite discoveries of the contest and there's no way i'm voting angela against it :( go shudder wooo!!! i almost wish we would've used the game version which has an instrumental second loop as well lol but the rap is my favorite part SORRY HASTE EEP

(out of 96) - including yesterdays now lmfao
(3rd) Einhnder - Shudder
(15th) Eastward - Heretic Frypan
(18th) Raiden V - Unknown Pollution
(25th) Fire Emblem: Three Houses - The Apex of the World (Rain)
(32nd) Library of Ruina - Angela
(36th) Uncharted Waters: New Horizons - THE CHASE ~Chase~ (Special Edition)
(39th) Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler
(49th) Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion - #4 dunno
(50th) Shatter - Argon Refinery
(51st) NEO: The World Ends With You - Hustle and Bustle
(63rd) Guacamelee! - Desierto Caliente
(65th) Subarashiki Hibi - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

if his name is module why doesnt it sound like tracker music.. .... . ..

Day 16 Results!

Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler 40 v 25 Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
The Apex of the World (Rain) 43 v 23 Hustle and Bustle
Unknown Pollution 48 v 19 #4 dunno

Day 17: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80058056

huge thanks to hb for posting the topic while i was in transit yesterday!!!

From Toxtricity:

Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (Subarashiki Hibi)
Apex of the World (Rain) (Fire Emblem: 3 Houses)
#4 dunno (Splatoon 2: Octo)

Feel so bad im never voting for the new kirby ost this contest because i like everything i have heard. Well maybe i will in some r2 if these songs get there.

Tractatus logico-philosophicus would probably be th e thing that kao nommed that i would have supported if i wound up supporting a kao nom this year(i think this was the first year in like 7 years that i didnt do that somehow)

File emblems

Vocoder is a cool sound i have always liked even at the times that i didnt like vocals in my life. Close match

Im voting for id~purpose!

dunno was instantly one of my fav splatoon 2 songs when i first heard it. Might even be my overall #1 at this point from the series? I like mathematical minimalism and electronic stuff, what can i say, it reminds me of metroid and i like metroid. Octo expansion single player campaign is particularly on my to play list because the game seems like something i would like, and feeling that the music is cool only helps my incentive, but my backlog is too big so i may never play itwho knows (i have not played splatoon for even 1 second, but i think the game looks pretty cool, and sounds even cooler!)

Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler
The Apex of the World (Rain)
Unknown Pollution

will post ranks with tomorrows songs cause im at da air port (girl ar tonelico)

Day 15 Results!

Storm of Fine Weather 29 v 39 Seashore War
Nocturne 36 v 34 Sogno di Volare
Into the Woods! 42 v 28 LIN NE KRO NE

Day 16: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80056745

Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

.

Match 1

Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler
Composer: Hirokazu Ando
Loop Point: 2:27
Genre: MINOR KEY TRIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMqN_WyiBc

Subarashiki Hibi - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
Composer: Fuminori Matsumoto (szak)
Loop Point: 2:57
Genre: - .... .. -. -.- .. -. --.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PW5ZrZ3JCw

Match 2

Fire Emblem: Three Houses - The Apex of the World (Rain)
Composer: Takeru Kanazaki
Loop Point: 4:28
Genre: GRANDIOSE FINALE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0KjljX4Lqg

NEO: The World Ends With You - Hustle and Bustle
Composer: Takeharu Ishimoto
Loop Point: 2:28
Genre: AERIAL CROSSWALK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SyWfpz1Fc

Match 3

Raiden V - Unknown Pollution
Composer: Yoshimi Kudo
Loop Point: 3:39
Genre: ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT
https://www.youtube.

From Toxtricity:

Storm of Fine Weather (Under Defeat)
Sogno di Volare (Civilization VI)
Into the Woods! (Far Fetched)

This sounds like mega man network transmission ost or street fighter ex3, i wonder why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donkey

Chill chords and that stuff are cool(hcill)

I love how much the phrasing patterns make me think of those enya songs, might beat baba yetu for me

This song is the good type of 6/8 song thats just like yggdrasil or minuano

Susnsghnsg.uk is so good at turning jazz into the computer world. Also this uses a loop i know from tetris worlds i think? 2003nostalgia ost. Maybe from yack too

Storm of Fine Weather
Nocturne
Into the Woods!

sorry hosoe i love oboes and atelier flute more than you but its okay i can still vote for both of you :)

(out of 84)
(17th) Far Fetched - Into the Woods!
(21st) Under Defeat - Storm of Fine Weather
(46th) WACCA Lily R - LIN NE KRO NE
(49th) GiFTPiA - Nocturne
(54th) Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Seashore War
(82nd) Sid Meier's Civilization VI - Sogno di Volare

Rocket

Day 14 Results!

Calling 44 v 23 Practice Makes Perfect
Interwoven Stories 31 v 38 Umineko no Naku Koro ni
SaKuRa 38 v 30 Revenge

Day 15: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80055408