Submissions are now
CLOSED!
First of all, I needed a very specific number of songs for this tourney so I could split the songs evenly, so I had to get one last filler song. For this, I asked my friend
dragnalus who's very into music for a submission, and she gave me:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Anyway, now for the good stuff. Since this tourney has a TON of new people...first of all, thank you all for joining, and welcome to the tournament! Second of all, I figured I'd make a post explaining how the tourney works. This post will focus on the Preliminary Round.
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SETS:
Every 48 hours, a set of songs will be posted and you'll have to vote for your two favorite songs from that set. There are
208 songs in total, and they will be divided into
26 sets of 8 songs each. The order of the sets and the songs within them is completely randomized, but songs by the same artist or nominations by the same person will not appear in the same set. The two songs with the most votes will move on to the Bracket Round; unlike the previous tourney, some ties will be allowed to move on since there's a lot of free space in the bracket.
Some things to keep in mind:
- You're allowed to vote for your own submissions.
- You're allowed to vote even if you didn't submit any songs; likewise, you're not required to vote if you did submit songs.
- The way you vote doesn't matter as long as you make it clear which songs you're voting for; some people rank and/or write their thoughts on every song in a set, while others just pick their winners. Again, it doesn't matter as long as you make your winners clear.
- You're allowed to only vote for one song, but you're generally meant to vote for two since two songs will make it through.
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SCORES & SEEDS:
Every song will receive a "score" based on the amount of votes it received divided by the amount of people that voted in that set. For example, if a song gets 18 votes in a set with 30 voters:
18 / 30 = 0.60
These scores will be used to determine the songs' seeds, which will be used to create the pairings in the Bracket Round. If you don't quite get it, those won't come into play for quite a while, so don't worry about them for now.
For those interested, all of the songs, their sets, and their seeds can be found
HERE.
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The first set will be
Set A, and it'll be out
tomorrow, June 27th at 1:30 PM EST. If you're in the Discord server, you can ask for the Tourney Toads role to be pinged whenever new sets go live.
Check out my WIP romhack!