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Umineko no Naku Koro ni - worldenddominator
Umineko no Naku Koro ni - goldenslaughterer
Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Hope

MATCH 1

It's a match like this that makes me really happy that grand finals rolled odds instead of evens. This kind of match is basically top-tier zts vs. top-tier All Phase Mix and it's much easier to decide here compared to if the #2 songs faced off. If it was evens, then this first match would be top-tier zts vs. favorite Blue Reflection song, which would really suck having to vote against one. Granted it does here too, but I don't feel like I need to beat my head against the table in order to decide, unlike a dreamenddischarger vs. Overdose match.

MATCH 2

Another fortunate match here, since as I said the last time it was up, goldenslaughterer's a bit on the weaker side of Umineko zts music for me, but so is DNF for Blue Reflection music. Once again, I fortunately feel that this is a relatively easy match for me to decide, but it easily could've been different if the order was chosen differently.

MATCH 3

Unfortunately, though, I don't go 3 for 3 on easy-to-decide matches. This one is really tough to decide, actually. These two songs feel pretty close to dead even for me, but I think I can actually make a decision here, as much as I had to think about it, so no abstention here. Hope is definitely a top-tier dai composition for me. I think I said this the previous time Hope showed up, but it doesn't suffer from feeling a bit boring to me like some other dai songs (Higanbana's music, I feel, is very guilty of this). I definitely enjoy soft, emotional piano compositions like this and Hope does a very good job at being that type of song, even if it isn't the best of what Umineko has to offer (I also enjoy Thanks for Being Born a lot, just to name a similar song from the game).

Albireo Lake is also really good, but I feel like I may be losing a lot of my initial interest in this song from when I first heard it. Not to say that I don't like it anymore, I very much do, but I guess it's something that wore off after enough repeated listens. I honestly could've voted for this on another day and I was expecting to today, but I feel just a little bit more into Hope today.

worldenddominator > goldenslaughterer = Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX) > Hope > Albireo Lake > DNF FW15C (ALL PHASE MIX)

This is definitely a very "me" grand finals, so I'm very pleased to see it turn out this way! Super strong matches and songs all around with my lowest-rated song of the day, DNF, being probably an 8/10 for me. Couldn't ask for much more from a grand finale, honestly.