LogFAQs > #939808897

The soundtrack was released today, and of course the songs have been circulating online for some time before now. I've never really ran anything here, and was thinking of re-running a "Best FFVII Song" contest a while back to see what changed, if anything, from the original ran in 2012 by GrapefruitKing (RIP). But then life gets in the way and I never follow through on anything, but maybe posting this gets me one step closer to following through.

Final Fantasy VII Remake's main soundtrack consists of 156 songs (wouldn't include the "Disc 8" jukebox ones) so it is pretty beefy, but of ridiculously great quality. Too much to be done through polls, it'd have to be post-to-vote. Which begs a few questions, like:

(1) Do it bracket-style, or through some other method eg throwing 3 or 4 songs into a group where only top 1 or 2 advance? Or throwing down x songs per round and having posters rank them 1 through x?

(1a) If bracket-style, could double elimination even work or with so many songs, stick with a single elimination bracket? I was always thinking of doing it double-elim style, especially since I'm not even sure how we could go about seeding them, but there really are so many....

(2) Seriously, how would the seeding even happen? Would I do it based on personal preference? Maybe I solicit people to give me their "top x" lists and create seeding based on board consensus? Have one area of the bracket based on brand-new songs and the other based on those modeled off of ones from the original FF7?

(3) How to handle similar songs? For example, we've got a few boss fights which are variations of "Those Who Fight Further". Keep them separated or try to match them up earlier on so there's fewer songs with a similar motif?

I'd lean on people who've been active longer than I have and who's been running these kinds of contests for years... any advice would be appreciated in addition to your poll response, thanks.