Board 8 > [VGMC] d87: WhoamiBirthwishRdy2shave RedialSoflanThrashard SolsticeMariaDreams

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Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 14, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.

Links:
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VNrPnFRI7nJ4PqFiURBW0NWqxvXiuasoq8Sn_O169ss/edit#gid=320804650
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=473292
Discussion and results thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78714595
Bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1REnVI_W6yELaDP6Zac8b0Wq
ToC playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RE-TQMj19D0k5nm-0zeH12J
VGMC compability sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lpX4faqnn_geI0y4i6MrZ2AXpV6SWXoWrIA6_eyx-yM/edit

Rules:
- Listen to ALL of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided. Even if Song A is your favorite of all-time and Song B is from a series you hate... Listen. To. Both. (If I have suspicions your vote is not based on a fair and impartial preference, it will be disqualified.)
- Obvious contest rules apply (no alts, one vote per person, no rallying, etc.).
- Please make your voting options clear, rather than burying them in text.
- Each set of matches lasts 24 hours, even if the new one isnt up by then. (Matches do not begin until at least 10:00 EDT.)
- Always vote on the versions of the song provided, not versions from different sources.
- If you know ahead of time that you're not going to be around and you want to vote in advance, post your choices in the discussion/bracket topic.
- Please do NOT post tallies/score updates in the middle of the match, as this has a tendency to directly influence matches.
- You don't have to vote in all the matches, but it'd be cool if you did!

Special rules for the wildcard matches:
- Yes, there are 9 songs.
- You may vote 6 times.
- You may vote a maximum of 3 times for the same song
- The intent is that you will select a +3, a +2, and a +1. This is not mandatory
- DO NOT read the other votes before making (or adjusting) your selection.
- I reserve the right to not count vote changes if I deem them suspicious. If you do change your vote, please be 100% clear in your choice.
- Request: vote in the order the songs are listed (not descending order) to make counting easier

THE COMBATANTS:

Alone

+3 Hopes and Dreams
+2 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)
+1 MARIA
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+3 Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods)
+3 Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk - MARIA

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+1 Ready to Shave
+1 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)
+2 Title
+2 MARIA
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+3 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)
+3 Title

Would be decently happy with Redial, Soflan, Hopes&Dreams, or Ready2Shave as well, but considering all factors I feel it makes the most sense to focus all my points on these 2. . ..hrm, when I phrase it like that, now I hope this doesn't wind up turning into some LFF thing like that other recent one may or may not have

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+3 Alone in the Dark - Who Am I?
+3 NieR: Automata - Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods)

ez

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+1 Who Am I?
+1 Ready to Shave
+1 Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!
+3 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)


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+3 Who Am I?
+1 Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!
+2 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)

Weird day.

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+3 Hopes and Dreams
+2 Title
+1 Ready to Shave

A nice easy WC

Ranks:
Hopes and Dreams: 22nd
Title: 54th
Ready to Shave: 69th
Konran shouju Soflan-chan!!: 93rd
Thrashard in the Cave: 94th
Redial: 102nd** (Was 100th before ranking error. Allowing it to not be NR)
Who Am I?: NR
Birth of a Wish: NR
MARIA: NR

I unironically like soflan-chan. There was just a bunch of stuff better than it sadly.

+1 Who Am I?
+2 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)
+2 Title
+1 MARIA

unorthodox voting cause idek what i want to win lmfao (thrashard super grew on me tho)

sorry soflan and redial :(((

+3 Who Am I

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+2 Who Am I?
+2 Ready to Shave
+2 Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!

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+2 Who Am I?
+2 Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods)
+2 Ready to Shave

hope I do not regret this post lol. I'd be fairly happy with any of these advancing except maria- not saying that to be like "anti-maria" (even if it's well known i dislike it here), I just mean like i at least slightly like everything else here, 8/9 of these options being ones i'm at least somewhaat a fan of means i don't feel too strongly and it's prooobaably ok for me to go with only +2ing my 3 favs here; just really hope i don't regret it and wind up with maria beating one of these by 1 or something.
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+3 Who Am I?
+3 MARIA
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+3 Shave
+2 Title
+1 Cave
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+2 Who Am I?
+1 Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!
+3 MARIA

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+2 Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods)
+2 Ready to Shave
+2 Title

Who Am I? (7.5)
Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods) (8.0)
Ready to Shave (7.9)
Redial (6.9)
Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!! (7.2)
Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.) (7.2)
Title (7.8)
MARIA (7.3)
Hopes and Dreams (7.5)

I like absolutely everything today! Even Redial is slightly above average among all wildcard contestants this round....

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+2 Title
+2 MARIA
+2 Hopes and Dreams

Don't really have any strong preferences for this wildcard so I feel comfortable not going 3/3 for once.

+3 Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!
+2 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)
+1 Title

Who Am I? - 1.8
Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods) - 6.5
Ready to Shave - 5.7
Redial - 7.0
Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!! - 9.0
Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.) - 8.6
Title - 8.0
MARIA - 6.4
Hopes and Dreams - 4.4

Man, this is tough. On the one hand, there are two songs that are far above the others, enough that I feel they need to be at least two points ahead of everything else (so +3/+3). But the second tier is far enough ahead of the weaker songs that it feels wrong giving them nothing.

+3 Ready to Shave
+3 Hopes and Dreams

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+3 Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods)
+3 MARIA

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+3 Redial
+2 MARIA

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+3 Redial
+1 MARIA
+2 Hopes and Dreams
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+3 Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!
+3 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)


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+3 Who Am I?
+1 Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods)
+1 Title
+1 Hopes and Dreams
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+3 Title
+3 MARIA

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+3 Ready to Shave
+1 Title

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TsunamiXXVIII posted...

Man, this is tough. On the one hand, there are two songs that are far above the others, enough that I feel they need to be at least two points ahead of everything else (so +3/+3). But the second tier is far enough ahead of the weaker songs that it feels wrong giving them nothing.

@TsunamiXXVIII just like in a regular match, I am asking you not to use the existing votals as a basis for your decision. You can use whatever other grounds you want -- what you want to advance, what you think is most deserving, what seems like it will have the best chance in R3...but please let that decision exist independently of everyone else's decision.

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+3 Ready to Shave
+2 Redial
+1 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)


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In Tsunami's defense, I think he meant "far above" in a personal preference sort of way. Like there are two high tier songs that he wants to give the most points to because they're so much better than the other songs, but there are also some other songs he'd like to give 1 point to because--while not on the level of the two best songs--they're still a lot better than the worst songs and deserve some recognition.
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that's how i intRaetsel_Lapin posted...

In Tsunami's defense, I think he meant "far above" in a personal preference sort of way. Like there are two high tier songs that he wants to give the most points to because they're so much better than the other songs, but there are also some other songs he'd like to give 1 point to because--while not on the level of the two best songs--they're still a lot better than the worst songs and deserve some recognition.

that's how i interpreted tsunami's post as well
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+1 Who Am I?
+3 Birth of a Wish
+2 Redial

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2. Birth of a Wish
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41. Redial
80. Who Am I?
52. MARIA
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88. Thrashard in the Cave
147. Title
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144. Ready to Shave
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178. Hopes and Dreams
116. Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!

edited to make song order reflect tallying order

+2 Alone in the Dark - Who Am I?
+1 NieR: Automata - Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods)
+3 Solstice - Title
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+3 MARIA
+3 Hopes and Dreams

wow I did not like D3

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+3 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)

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+3 Who Am I?
+1 Ready to Shave
+1 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)

+3 Who Am I?
+1 Redial
+2 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)

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+2 Title
+3 MARIA
+1 Hopes and Dreams

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still open
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+2 Who Am I?
+2 Ready to Shave
+1 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)
+1 Title