Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 100! THE END!!

(+) Yeah! (+)

Exactly 100 days after the first matches were posted, we now reach the very end of Video Game Music Contest 15. It's been a wild ride for everyone, and yet a large amount of you have been here the entire time!! What with the return of locks in nominations and the expansion back to 256 entrants as well as the introduction of a large number of first-time voters, it's definitely a different contest atmosphere than past years, and there's no better indication of that than our two finalists. Id (Purpose), a song with constant recurring contest appearances that fell short of its ultimate goal numerous times boosted by its popularity with the new voters, and resurrectedreplayer, a song that appeared once long ago and never was given its chance to shine while (most of) the rest of its brethren had their winning runs.

Thus, it is my absolute pleasure to announce the winner of the first DeoTox VGMC, winning with a hair-pulling score of 34 over the competition's 33, is...

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer !!!!!!!

Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=474630
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
Compatibility sheet (courtesy of Haste!!): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iGYWo_ifr_p2uYpD_I6TwBQS2tm7zJtPCxYZfRJcG8I
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Thank you for everyone that participated!! It's been another exciting year and you all have been absolutely superb to me and Toxtricity as first-time hosts. Hopefully we'll see you all in VGMC 16~

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ONE MORE BONUS MATCH 1:

Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour
Composer: Kenichi Tokoi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74TocPKiNCs
Loop Point: 6:57

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Composer: zts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNl4PNFubvQ
Loop Point: 4:21

ONE MORE BONUS MATCH 2:

Raiden V - Unknown Pollution
Composer: Yoshimi Kudo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3vEQ-KQvs
Loop Point: 3:39

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Fogbeasts
Composer: ACE (TOMOri Kudo, CHiCO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIh0BPK_WjE
Loop Point: 3:03

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Easy Vote Form:
Endeavour / resurrectedreplayer
Unknown Pollution / Fogbeasts

thank god
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Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Fogbeasts

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I counted a tie, but I could've miscounted

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End / Unknown

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FBike's vote wasn't counted

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can we have a better year next year please

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what an unfortunate shit last note to what was mostly a great contest. Id will always be the winner in my heart, I guess

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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

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tennisboy213 posted...

FBike's vote wasn't counted

Oh

Okay I guess

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abstain
abstain

pablo you got your wish

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resurrectedreplayer
Unknown Pollution

Endeavour
Unknown Pollution
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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

It's not my favorite zts epic, but it's in the top half and everything else in my top half retired a while ago. Really good song, one of the weaker winners since I started participating but only because so many of them are incredible.

I respect Id (Purpose)'s career and it's certainly been a nice story for this contest - I wish I liked the song more so that I could enjoy that properly.

This contest was... very mixed for me personally. There were some absolutely cataclysmic results, but I got both my first "original" retiree (not counting FCDH in 11 or Hidra in 12 since they'd been in before) and even got a poll in my honor so that's nice and also a little surreal

Thanks for hosting, both of you. Was a good ride.

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resurrectedreplayer
Unknown Pollution
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Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Raiden V - Unknown Pollution

YOU'RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT

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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

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resurrectedreplayer
Unknown Pollution

Damn, my money was on Fire Emblem...

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Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour
Raiden V - Unknown Pollution

This was an awesome contest, very glad to have participated!

Endeavour
Unknown Pollution

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resurrectedreplayer
Fogbeasts

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Endeavour
UP

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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

i did not listen to the music

Oh, yeah, and what a fun contest! It didn't go very well for me, but it seemed like Id ~ Purpose winning it all was fate... but alas. I think it probably was the right decision to require new voters to certify they listened to both tracks, in terms of mitigating possible worse things happening. Good job by the hosts. VGMC made a move in the right direction in a number of ways.

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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

What a crazy year. By the way Haste, are you doing the whole "combine everyone's rankings into one spreadsheet" thing like last year? If so, I can send you my rankings.

Endeavour
Fogbeasts

match 1 pretty close! unsurprisingly, with 13-15's fields and results i've preferred much overall to the many many years prior to them, that is represented in the winners of vgmc13-15

my top 3 winners are probably these past 3 + sphilia. but if it had been id, well, that would've been my favorite winner, i'll take something i like as much as rr happily.

i didn't expect to be this happy about rr as a winner at the start of the contest but it certainly grew on me over the course of the contest. definitely something to benefit from repeated relistens for me and it went far enough that i had to re-listen to it a lot! and i'm glad that i did!
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Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrectedreplayer
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Fogbeasts
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KamikazePotato posted...

Oh

Okay I guess

If it's an issue, I can just vote for RR and settle that.

Endeavour
Unknown Pollution

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resurrectedreplayer
Fogbeasts

The situation with the finals is really unfortunate but I do think it was handled correctly.
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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

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When I said "Good job by the hosts. VGMC made a move in the right direction in a number of ways," I was referring to the contest in general, by the way. (I failed to put that in its own paragraph)

tgs2 posted...

What a crazy year. By the way Haste, are you doing the whole "combine everyone's rankings into one spreadsheet" thing like last year? If so, I can send you my rankings.

It was fun doing it for VGMC 14, but it took a surprising amount of work! I did not do that this year, but thanks anyway. You could always post your complete rankings on the board, 'cause it'd be fun to see it.


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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

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resurrectedreplayer
Fogbeasts

Id (Purpose) is only my second or third favorite song from Awakening, but it's one of the songs that directly responsible for getting me into Hiroki Morishita, who's one of my absolute favorite VGM composers, and I'll always love it for that. And also for ruling. o7

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Endeavour
Unknown Pollution

Hell of a tournament, that 67-vote total is the most in a finals in 10 years, and the fourth-highest of any VGMC! I'm feeling down from the Id (Purpose) loss, but I'd forgotten that both finalists were in my top 5 retirees, and probably in my top quarter of the field as well! I don't know how to compare this year's results to VGMC 13, but I definitely prefer both to 14. resurrectedreplayer definitely deserves its spot in the hall of champions, well done and thanks to Deo and Tox for a successful first year as contest hosts!

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Endeavour
Pogbeasts

Great work running the contest, Mycro and deo. You had lots of ideas and basically all of them were good. Having a way to break double tiebreakers would be nice though.
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Endeavour
UP

Thanks for all the music~
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Endeavour
Fogbeasts

resurrectedreplayer
Fogbeasts

Endeavour
Fogbeasts

I feel a lot surer about match 1 than match 2.

THANK YOU DEOTOX

sergiocornaga posted...

THANK YOU DEOTOX

DEOTOX sounds like some sort of unknown pollution

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I am unhappy about both of these
Fogbeasts upsets me slightly less

expected result (i'm surprised it was this close) but still ugh. congratulations zero, you're no longer the worst VGMC winner ever.

too bad the one song i disliked out of the final 16 had to win the whole thing, because this was by far my favorite VGMC ever otherwise!

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resurrectedreplayer
Unknown Pollution

for comparison:
Exsphere > most other zts songs > resurrectedreplayer > Endeavour > Id (Purpose)

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Endeavour
Fogbeasts
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resurrectedreplayer
Unknown Pollution

resurrectedreplayer
Fogbeasts

this sure was a contest with video game music

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Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour
Raiden V - Unknown Pollution
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resurrectedreplayer
Fogbeasts

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Whoops, forgot to post my bonus votes this morning. This is hotdogturtle, I can verify on Discord if necessary.

resurrectedreplayer
Fogbeasts