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784/784.

...This doesn't quite feel real, but every song has been listened to twice and assigned scores.

What now?

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Okay, image posting from the tablet works. That's one thing I needed to check... okay.

Remaining Checklist

Take a couple days off to rest and process that this is actually happening. (In progress)

Some formatting issues to take care of. Nothing complicated, but it'll take a few days due to the number of songs.

Give final listen to bottom X number of songs and finalize their scores, along with updating their writeups so that I have a decent log of songs to post when the ranking starts. Current plan is to have around 20 songs prepared before posting.

Type up the intro post for the ranking topic; explanation of scoring system and what not.

Estimated Time: Let's say around two weeks.

Notes

1: You might want to lower your expectations a bit. After my wrists started acting up, I kinda kept most writeups to one or two sentences... I do plan on *trying* to type more for each song by the time they're eliminated, but I can't promise anything. Physically, I could probably do one large writeup per day, so I'm going to have to find a balance between 'not really commenting on any songs' and 'only posting one song per day so the ranking takes a few years'.

I don't know what that balance is going to look like, so... don't expect a lot of writing for too many songs.

2: I will post what scores each song got (Initial, Revised, and Final) but only a song's final ranking will be posted. I used to post where each song fell in all three versions of the ranking, but it's not exactly feasible at the moment... I was tracking that data and entering it alongside each song, but some things lead to that data not being accurate and needing to be thrown out.

I can re-enter the correct values, but entering 784 data points that don't actually impact a song's final ranking feels like a lot of work for minimal payoff. At the end of the ranking, a full spreadsheet will be posted where you can see all that data yourself; so... I suppose it's less "I'm not going to post where songs fell after the first listen" as it is "due to some issues that data isn't going to be revealed until the very end". Thank you for understanding.

3: Unlike last year, all 784 songs are part of the same ranking. Last year kinda had things split into three: The R-Number list of songs I was familiar with before the ranking started, the main ranking, and a Bonus Round for every song that I considered having in first place at the main ranking. While there were plans to do something similar this year, we've switched to a more traditional "everything in one large pile" format.

This was a last minute change which is why the earlier placement data I was tracking doesn't exactly work... that's entirely my fault for radically changing the topic format at the literal last possible moment, but it is what it is.

4: No song's placement is considered truly final until the first place is decided and may be revised at any time, for any reason. There are a *lot* of songs with extremely volatile rankings... like "+/- 700 ranking positions" bouncing all over the list rankings. It's... possible I may eliminate a song early and then suddenly decide that I really love it and retroactively revise it a few hundred spaces up a few months later. Or vice-versa. Will it actually happen?

*insert Plankton image here a second time*

This is... kinda going to be rather chaotic and done over the course of several months, where I have very little idea what the final list is going to look like. Expect far more errors and chaos than usual. But there'll be a finalized ranking EVENTUALLY. Probably. Hypothetically.

Aaanywho... yeah, I'm expecting around two weeks to get things set up and then songs start getting posted & we see what winds up happening.