Board 8 > [VGMC] Video Game Music Contest 13 - Discussion Thread #2

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Janus5k posted...

46 Kenhull Badlands 22.81%

*cry*

Interesting that only one song was below 20% in A, though, considering 9 were in B.
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45 Icarus 23.43%

the real tragedy

also lol TBIYTC
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azuarc posted...

Interesting that only one song was below 20% in A, though, considering 9 were in B.

Revenger barely winning most of its matches means a lot of stuff ended up high. There also just weren't many big blowouts in A, especially after the first two rounds.

SCO and then Crab folding along with Servants killing 3/4 of its division put several things pretty low. Nearly all of the top 10 are from NWO's division (the only exceptions being Servants and Crab).
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Oh, I understand why. I just thought it was interesting.

Thank you for doing the x-stats. I used to have a tab for that in the spreadsheet, but it required a bunch of additional data entry that I simply never bothered with.
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Final Six ranking from best to worst:

Battle!!
Chocolate Missile
Invitation Flower ~ Autumn
Class::EXSPHERE;NOSURGE
Revenger
New World Order

please log my votes according to this order @azuarc
as i'll be out for the remainder of the contest
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It's generally not a good idea to record advance votes for more than a round ahead. Obviously, the rounds are only a couple days each now, though. Can you tell me, definitively, that this is your preference order and that it would not vary upon relistening?
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definitely definitely i relistened to this a bunch making that order
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The biggest issue with VGMC x-stats is extrapolating multiple blowouts in a chain of losses. I think cutting the extrapolated differences in half would make them look better.

For example, if A gets 75% on B, and B gets 75% on C, do we really expect A to get 87.5% on C?
I think we'd agree that C would likely do better than that. Instead, let's take the 12.5% difference between B and C, and cut that in half. A is now expected to get 81.25% on C.

I'd love to see x-stats done that way.
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Day 80 - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77793732

Results, day 79:
Chocolate Missile < Battle!!, 18-23

Your projectiles will now have to be vanilla-flavored.

Yesterday's trivia -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeSUvoY2oUk" data-time="
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sad
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Zigzagoon posted...

sad

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glad
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Zyxyz0 posted...

Zigzagoon posted...

sad

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th3l3fty posted...

glad

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Arti posted...

Zyxyz0 posted...

Zigzagoon posted...

sad

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Bracket C X-stats:

1 Battle!! 50.00%
2 Flash Frost 45.65%
3 Chocolate Missile 43.90%
4 Kill Command 43.67%
5 Studiopolis Zone Act 1 ~Lights, Camera, Action!~ 43.48%
6 Murderswarm 42.97%
7 Knight of a Foreign Country 41.86%
8 Honor Winds 41.68%
9 Pac Twin Attack 41.50%
10 Steel and Snare 39.53%
11 Rhuzerv 39.53%
12 steelchambers2 39.02%
13 Soaring Through the Sad Blue Sky 39.02%
14 With their fingers entwined. 37.25%
15 Under the Moon 37.09%
16 Break the Limit! 36.42%
17 Death to Illusions 36.23%
18 It Has to Be This Way 35.65%
19 Precious Heart (Sakura's Theme) 35.46%
20 Reach For The Moon, Immortal Smoke 34.69%
21 GATE OF STEINER -Main Theme- 34.58%
22 Nanohemu 33.74%
23 Romun Empire 33.67%
24 Re:Vanishment 33.20%
25 An Ill Omen 32.93%
26 Weight of a Doubt 32.21%
27 EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/.~omness chs ciel sos infel 31.55%
28 Mining Melancholy 31.00%
29 Portabellohead 30.40%
30 blackstarlight 29.49%
31 Passion 29.45%
32 Nanmushi's/Nimeoseudok's Theme 28.87%
33 Desire Blue Sky 28.87%
34 Shonen wa Sora wo Tadoru 28.02%
35 linkage-alter 27.45%
36 Blue Skies (Infinity Remix) 26.35%
37 Area 5 (Auf Der Wirren Wetterwarte) 26.09%
38 The Sky Line 25.98%
39 Primrose, the Dancer 24.94%
40 Super Oriental Insomniac 24.54%
41 Divine Beast Vah Ruta (Dungeon) 23.91%
42 Yomitsu Hirasaka Corruption 20.97%
43 Battle! (Ultra Recon Squad) 20.93%
44 Jincuba 19.65%
45 Set Me Free 18.41%
46 icicle 18.21%
47 Calamari Inkantation 15.19%
48 Lifelight (English) 14.74%

Murderswarm mostly vindicated in the end. RIP Lifelight
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bad result ;_;
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Janus5k posted...

6 That Person's Name Is 45.74%
39 Don't speak her name! 20.00%

This would be a hilarious match-up, lol.
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Day 81 - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77796129

Results, day 80:
Invitation Flower ~ Autumn < Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;, 16-28

Gust is dead. Long live Gust. Though, to be honest, Exsphere has blown everything out consistently, to the point that it's got to be kinda scary to be the other semifinalists right now. It's closest match was in round 2 when it beat The Final Song with only 57.5% of the vote, 23-17. Every other opponent hasn't even been able to put up 40% on it.

Yesterday's trivia -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oGdjaLmLqw" data-time="
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azuarc posted...

It's closest match was in round 2 when it beat The Final Song with only 57.5% of the vote, 23-17.

Drakengard 3 OST too powerful
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1 Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; 50.00%
2 The Final Song ~ Black Song, White Scales 42.50%
3 Escaping the Courtyard Garden 38.64%
4 Dead Neon Hell City 37.50%
5 Invitation Flower ~ Autumn 36.36%
6 I'll Face Myself 36.17%
7 Field of Hopes and Dreams 35.00%
8 Marion 34.91%
9 Sky of Twilight 34.88%
10 Don't Turn it Off 34.88%
11 Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients 33.77%
12 Gallant Gunshot 32.32%
13 Uwabami 31.61%
14 Dark Man Stage 30.98%
15 Fairytale Poison and Solitude 30.93%
16 Lost in the Waves 30.71%
17 Dark Labyrinth 30.55%
18 Sim Time 29.55%
19 Out-Of-Place Artifacts 29.30%
20 Final Boss Theme 29.09%
21 Besaid Island 28.82%
22 The Decisive Collision 28.60%
23 Where the Sky Ended 27.15%
24 Downtown 26.75%
25 The palm of a tiny hand 26.58%
26 Ignith of the Final Attack 26.43%
27 The Seal is Broken 25.92%
28 City of Radiant Ruin 25.86%
29 A Toccata Into Blood-Soaked Darkness 25.20%
30 Galaxy of Friendship (Instrumental) 24.46%
31 Ashes to Ashes, to Ashes (to Ashes) 24.13%
32 It's Not Over 1 24.01%
33 Electrical Tunnels 23.59%
34 Daughter of the Dark God 23.37%
35 Warning Call 22.97%
36 Intersection: Me vs. You 22.75%
37 Birth of a Wish III (Become as Gods) 21.98%
38 VISIONNERZ 21.97%
39 Neverending Journey 21.55%
40 The Alchemist's Haven 20.69%
41 Soilscraper 20.55%
42 Blue Radiance 19.68%
43 Distorted Happiness 19.22%
44 Nice Day 18.45%
45 Tristram 18.39%
46 Ryoshima Coast 17.94%
47 Always Been But Never Dreamed 16.62%
48 Golden Ridge (Golden Feather Mix) 14.62%

well then.

edit: got too excited and forgot to change to %
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X-Stats say...

43 Distorted Happiness 0.1921872594

vgmc should be ashamed of itself

even if distorted happiness has the misfortune of being in exsphere's quarter so that's like 35% in any other quarter
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Three of my favorite non-KCF songs in Bracket D in Bottom 5
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You know what'd be funny?
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If we filled this thread up before the semis ended
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Janus5k posted...

8 Marion 34.91%

i'm

banshiryuu posted...

Janus5k posted...

8 Marion 34.91%

i'm

az is banned from vgmc for not voting for both calamity songs in the rounds they lost so probably you or me has to run it next year. we'll not screw it over next time
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Well, since I'm banned, someone else would have to start the new topic if you shitpost to 500.
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I'm actually really surprised Distorted Happiness is that low considering it made it to round 3. Probably just as disappointed as xp1337 is too lol.

46 Ryoshima Coast 17.94%

Wow, if the best Okami song is that low, I can only imagine how boring they'd find the rest of the OST to be.

That's truly saddening...
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Ryoshima Coast is not even close to the best Okami song imo
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There are two Okami songs that have been a contest winner and a runner-up, so at least in terms of VGMC performance, clearly Ryoshima is not. However, I thought it was regarded as one of the top songs from the game.
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Well, all I meant was it wasn't one of my personal favorites. Going by overall popularity I'd guess it's in the top 10 or so?

No idea how that translates to b8 popularity. My gut says Ryoshima Coast would underperform on b8, but on the other hand the only Okami song I've tried to nominate (Yami, which my gut said should have done at least as good) ended up getting no support at all.
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I bet Reset ~ Thank You couldn't win a contest these days. Tastes have shifted.
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Haste_2 posted...

I bet Reset ~ Thank You couldn't win a contest these days. Tastes have shifted.

finally

Haste_2 posted...

I bet Reset ~ Thank You couldn't win a contest these days. Tastes have shifted.

thank god
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Day 83 - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77798668

Results, day 82:
Revenger > New World Order, 24-22

Welp.

Yesterday's trivia -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfE55c_ZjI" data-time="
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good winner confirmed
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th3l3fty posted...

good winner confirmed

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT yes he can
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RIP New World Order. At least it got as far as it did. Revenger was a good opponent too, so that helps a bit.

Go Exsphere for contest winner now!

Well, that's it. The contest lost its chance at redemption with a good winner.

azuarc posted...

There are two Okami songs that have been a contest winner and a runner-up,

Wow, a contest winner?! That's pretty mind-blowing.
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It beat Diving...
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Illuminati
You'll never take control
Your new world order
Will lead to none at all
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FL81 posted...

Illuminati
You'll never take control
Your new world order
Will lead to none at all

OPEN THE EYES
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"Day 84" (not the finals) - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77801315

Results, day 83:
Battle!! < Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;, 20-25

This match was close when I was looking shortly before the end, and then EXSPHERE ripped off the last few votes to make it look not nearly as tight as it was. But our finals are now set between Crystar's Revenger and Ar Nosurge's Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Check out the link above for some bonus matches and a chance to discuss the finals before they happen tomorrow.

Yesterday's trivia -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5CthPJU2N0" data-time="
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