Board 8 > [VGMC] d61: Head Back to Town vs Reach for the Moon, Confronting Myself vs Zadok

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azuarc
05/29/20 9:16:13 PM
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Best four (or more) word title in bracket B










Note that this topic is up 45 minutes early. Day 60 is (briefly) still open.

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 both of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided for both songs. 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!

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Match 1

Mr. Driller: Drill Land - Heading Back to Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2FGNMULSY4

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTk83qis0w

Match 2

Celeste - Confronting Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_oEDGONSc4

Drift Stage - Zadok
Hello again.
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Haste_2
05/29/20 10:01:47 PM
#3:


Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself

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Raetsel_Lapin
05/29/20 10:02:13 PM
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Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself
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PICARD IS SAD BECAUSE HE LOST. HE'S REAL SAD. HE'S EVEN MORE SAD THAN THAT.
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Arti
05/29/20 10:04:15 PM
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Mr. Driller: Drill Land - Heading Back to Town
Celeste - Confronting Myself

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http://backloggery.com/articuno2001/sig.gif
azuarc may not know the strength of songs in VGMC, but he conquered the guru in Game of the Decade 2! Congrats!
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Hbthebattle
05/29/20 10:10:03 PM
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Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself
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Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD Guru!
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DoctorJimmy133
05/29/20 10:16:30 PM
#7:


Heading Back to Town
Zadok

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Team Rocket Elite
05/29/20 10:16:53 PM
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Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Celeste - Confronting Myself
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My bracket looked like random picks compared to his.
Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD 2020 Guru Contest!
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TheArkOfTurus
05/29/20 10:19:36 PM
#9:


Heading Back to Town
Zadok

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Our eyes were removed
Because azuarc won the Guru.
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tgs2
05/29/20 10:20:50 PM
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Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok

Zadok >>> Heading Back to Town = Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke > Confronting Myself.

Zadok makes HBtT sound much worse on repeated loops when moving between the two matches. It's ruining my fair judgment of the first match quite a bit lol.
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Toxtricity
05/29/20 10:28:10 PM
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Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself

I enjoy both Go Shiina and ZUN having so much fun being their unmistakably "them" selves, no one else would write either of these pieces of music but them. neither are really a favorite example from either but Heading Back to town does a bit more of what I like about Go Shiina than rftm does for what i like about ZUN

it's a shame i'm not a bigger fan of zadok, i've been in a really "80s mood" the past few days, but i just hate that one compositionally too much no matter how much i like individual bits ("cool chords" sometimes, fun chord stabs and solos, etc) and no matter how much i like the timbral aesthetic it exudes. Confronting Myself has never stopped being something I love, 9/16 polymeter and chanting and fun glitchiness that never gets old to me. It's actually maybe the opposite of zadok to me, I'd normally find something with these particular synth sounds hard to get into these days, but I like so many things about this compositionally (and things like the chanting/glitchiness) that It's an all around wonderful package to me just as much as it was the first time I heard it.
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Mac Arrowny
05/29/20 10:31:52 PM
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Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Confronting Myself
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All the stars in the sky are waiting for you.
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GameBopAdv
05/29/20 10:37:14 PM
#13:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok

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luigi says: "and"
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KCF0107
05/29/20 10:49:11 PM
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Back
Confronting
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu
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HBJDubs
05/29/20 11:04:53 PM
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Heading Back to Town
Zadok

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Save in the name of true love
~Project 1000~
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NFUN
05/29/20 11:27:40 PM
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Heading Back to Town
Zadok

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You shine, and make others shine just by being near them.
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banshiryuu
05/29/20 11:30:36 PM
#17:


Heading Back to Town (71st//121st) vs Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke (51st//72nd)
Confronting Myself (7th//8th) vs Zadok (67th//106th)
(96th//192nd)

very good day!! feel bad for voting against heading back and zadok cause they're both INCREDIBLY cool, but reach for the moon is still a classic and confronting myself is.... well, an absolute masterpiece so yeah. one match i'm fine with a loss and one i'm very much not even though i love the opponent lol
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Haste_2
05/29/20 11:37:23 PM
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Oh noes, you revised Zadok down to last place now!!!

(Just kidding.... kekeke!)

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PIayer_0
05/29/20 11:42:31 PM
#19:


Did Haste finally figure out how to read deo's weird ranking format?

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-Abraham Lincoln
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Prody Parrot
05/29/20 11:54:38 PM
#20:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Confronting Myself
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Janus5k
05/29/20 11:57:33 PM
#21:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok

Very good day.

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Haste_2
05/30/20 12:02:40 AM
#22:


PIayer_0 posted...
Did Haste finally figure out how to read deo's weird ranking format?

Yesterday's post was a joke, too, though I didn't make it clear. But I've always understood the format, at least I think so. I believe the first number is the R2 ranking while the second number is the original R1 ranking. I'm not sure why (96th/192nd) gets tagged at the end each time, though.

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azuarc
05/30/20 12:02:46 AM
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Every year, I secretly hope RFTM will do well. It was a legend before I arrived, the original Id Purpose and the banner-carrier for Touhou, and it's sad to see it get in each year and ultimately get drowned by the competition. However, Heading Back to Town was my pet pick this year, the only one of my original nominations from (effective) post #1 in the nom thread, and I thought it would be really well received by the current VGMC zeitgeist. RFTM has a very non-zero chance of winning the wild card still.

Second match is also really good. Zadok got mired in the endless tiebreaker last round with To the Distant Sky, but unless people decide that it shouldn't be eligible and anti-vote it, I expect it to put up a pretty good fight against Confronting Myself...which was one of the strongest songs from last year to not retire, and my favorite of the tracks I had heard from Celeste until Magic Mirror Mix came along.

Heading Back to Town
Zadok

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Congratulations to all the gurus, past and present, participating in the contest.
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PabloSmith
05/30/20 12:25:23 AM
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Heading Back to Town
Zadok


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We schlitty
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FL81
05/30/20 1:30:39 AM
#25:


Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Drift Stage - Zadok

RftM > Zadok > Heading Back to Town > Confronting Myself

Keeping in mind that I gave Confronting Myself a 9.2/10 in RtVGM, just goes to show how strong today's songs are

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loweffortmemes
05/30/20 2:03:23 AM
#26:


Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Drift Stage - Zadok

Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke = Zadok > Heading Back to Town > Confronting Myself
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banshiryuu
05/30/20 4:22:57 AM
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PIayer_0 posted...
Did Haste finally figure out how to read deo's weird ranking format?

it's not weird its just two different rankings!! technically more like 1.5 i guess but still lolol

Haste_2 posted...


Yesterday's post was a joke, too, though I didn't make it clear. But I've always understood the format, at least I think so. I believe the first number is the R2 ranking while the second number is the original R1 ranking. I'm not sure why (96th/192nd) gets tagged at the end each time, though.

idk i just keep it there cause its easier to remember its out of how many songs for each but i can remove it if its annoying
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xp1337
05/30/20 4:46:10 AM
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Mr. Driller: Drill Land - Heading Back to Town
Drift Stage - Zadok

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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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UF8
05/30/20 6:40:21 AM
#29:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok
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Collen
05/30/20 7:06:28 AM
#30:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok

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Oh yeah I used to know Quentin, he's a real... he's a real jerky.
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Flamander
05/30/20 7:22:15 AM
#31:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Confronting Myself

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cathode on discord
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xx521xx
05/30/20 7:25:14 AM
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Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok
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Optimism is the first step to disappointment.
xx521xx
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dowolf
05/30/20 8:23:46 AM
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Reach for the Moon, Immortal Snek
Confronting Me, Myself, and I
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius
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-hotdogturtle--
05/30/20 8:47:21 AM
#34:


Heading Back to Town
Zadok

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Hey man, LlamaGuy did encrypt the passwords.
With what? ROT-13? -CJayC
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rwlh
05/30/20 11:10:00 AM
#35:


Heading Back to Town
Zadok
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PIayer_0
05/30/20 11:28:57 AM
#36:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Confronting Myself

Reach for the Summit, Confront Mokou, Become Immortal

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-Abraham Lincoln
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tennisboy213
05/30/20 12:40:31 PM
#37:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok

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Congratulations to Game of the Decade 2 Guru winner, AND sitewide contest winner, azuarc!
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th3l3fty
05/30/20 12:51:05 PM
#38:


Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Celeste - Confronting Myself
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thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -transience
I have a third degree burn in flame-o-nomics -Sir Chris
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kaonashi1
05/30/20 6:55:14 PM
#39:


Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself
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JONALEON1
05/30/20 6:57:30 PM
#40:


Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself

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Congrats to azuarc who beat me by 1 point!
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Snowva
05/30/20 7:13:34 PM
#41:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Confronting Myself
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Hbthebattle
05/30/20 7:22:14 PM
#42:


Fuck it
I'm switching my vote to Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
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Mr Lasastryke
05/30/20 8:18:06 PM
#43:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok

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Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta
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quantumB
05/30/20 8:24:08 PM
#44:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Confronting Myself
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sergiocornaga
05/30/20 8:26:48 PM
#45:


Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself
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ZelRaat
05/30/20 8:38:22 PM
#46:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Zadok
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cakophon
05/30/20 9:08:46 PM
#47:


Heading Back to Town [9.2] > Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke. [6.7]
Confronting Myself [9.8] > Zadok [6.8]

easy day
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Place
05/30/20 9:24:27 PM
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Mr. Driller: Drill Land - Heading Back to Town
Celeste - Confronting Myself

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Hi. I wanna play you something.
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WavedFan
05/30/20 9:47:19 PM
#49:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Confronting Myself
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Plasman
05/30/20 9:48:27 PM
#50:


Heading Back to Town
Confronting Myself

I legit thought the mr driller song was gonna be bad - and tbf the very brief vocals are kinda annoying. But it impressed me! I like Touhou music a lot. But Reach for the Moon is a B-tier Touhou song and is only in because of whatever meme I haven't been here for. Whatever

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