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Best Song of 2005: Finalists

Mar 23, 2010 17:32

Nordic chums Robyn and Royksopp led a very close final heat of 2005 - they're joined in the next round by the Narcade Fire, Girls Aloud and Mariah. So our top 40 of the year looks a little bit like this:

( Top 40 of 2005 )

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After all the heats are done... meserach March 23 2010, 18:13:57 UTC

This may also be an opportune moment to do some thinking about what we'll actually do once we have our Top 40 from each year (or top 400 of the decade, if you prefer ( ... )

Re: After all the heats are done... katstevens March 23 2010, 19:47:12 UTC

The only solid ideas I had for the next round were as follows:

- mixing up years (seeding is a good idea I think)
- format: previously we have done a knockout tournament for the Now polls winners' 64 (gosh that seems like a long time ago) and groups-of-4 for the Pazz&Jop polls, the latter of which I think is probably a better way of cutting down to a small group quickly (and will make for more agonising choices).

Re: After all the heats are done... meserach March 23 2010, 21:51:36 UTC

Groups-of-four as in, stick all 400 tracks into 100 groups of four, and then in each group it is "tick one, most votes wins"?

OUCH. That's.... terrifying.

It will achieve a 75% reduction in numbers in a brutal brutal fashion, but it'll require a lot of careful attention to seeding - that's a format in which the draw matters a great deal.

Hmmm.

Re: After all the heats are done... katstevens March 25 2010, 10:57:37 UTC

The only problem with seeding is that you get the same old songs winning every time (and people get sick of ticking them). Looking through the (seeded) Jop polls there were very few upsets compared to the Now polls.

Re: After all the heats are done... koganbot March 25 2010, 19:02:53 UTC

I do remember that "Billie Jean" made the finals from a surprisingly low spot (was only a fifteenth seed).

For me the whole thing will be a surprise no matter what, since I knew so few of the tracks to begin with.

A problem may be to get people to listen to the tracks they haven't heard. You could simply say, "BEFORE TICKING, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO LISTEN TO ANY TRACK IN THIS MATCH THAT YOU HAVEN'T PREVIOUSLY HEARD. THANKS."

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