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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
- #1
- Posted: 05/24/2021 21:36
- Post subject: BEA 2020 Championship Tournament
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It's tournament time again! The rules are mostly the same as last year, with a tweak to keep the listening manageable and prevent me from nominating my 3+ hour AOTY.
1. A nomination can be any 2020 BEA-qualifying release that consists mostly of music released for the first time in 2020, is widely legally available for free online, and is no longer than the maximum length of a single-disc album (80 minutes or less). I strongly encourage you to nominate your favorite release that meets these criteria.
2. Seeding is by BEA rank. The bracket is randomized, except for play-ins, which narrow the tournament to 32 albums if necessary by matching the lowest seeds.
3. Closing times for each round are announced in advance. In the event of ties, the tiebreaker is rating, then trimmed mean, then mean. The final round and third place match use 24-hour extensions instead of a tiebreaker.
4. Medals are awarded to the top three finishers, but also to the biggest rank gainers, so add discoveries you like to your charts before the tournament is over.
Here is the tournament spreadsheet.
I will start my recruitment efforts on June 1, but you can start nominating your choices now. _________________ Add me on RYM
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 29
- #2
- Posted: 05/24/2021 21:50
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Charmed is a banger of an album. Though this would be a challenge of what to pick since 2020 for all of us allowed us to listen to more albums, got several albums that I could throw for the tournament.
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- #3
- Posted: 05/24/2021 21:53
- Post subject: Re: BEA 2020 Championship Tournament
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baystateoftheart wrote: | It's tournament time again! The rules are mostly the same as last year, with a tweak to keep the listening manageable and prevent me from nominating my 3+ hour AOTY.
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I really wish that album was just like... the 6 or 7 best cuts. Gave it a listen once, dug the gist, but I only go back to my 2-3 favs off of it. There's a diminishing value of return as it spins on, even as soon as the hour mark. Still, well worth a listen in small doses.
Anyway, swooping in with a big one. As fun as it would be to toss an obscure whoknowswhat into the mix, I'm going with—
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What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware _________________ Submit Your List for BEA's 2023 Film Poll!
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- #4
- Posted: 05/24/2021 23:12
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Had an all nighter at friend's place some months ago and we managed to listen to 8 hours of DJ Sabrina on autoplay, starting with Charmed. Fun times.
Aaaanyway there's a dozen of great picks from the top of my chart, but I'll just go with my favourite Croatian album of the last year (probably, Nemanja's Cosmic Disco was excellent as well). Been listening to this one a lot lately, so it's an obvious pick. Dialect from island Brač is barely understandable to me and I've enjoyed the album a lot despite that, hopefully others will too. Not too long either, a perfect 39 minute length. Probably won't get past the first round but who cares.
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Velika Praska by Valentino Bošković _________________ Finally updated the overall chart
2020s
90s
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 29
- #5
- Posted: 05/24/2021 23:31
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This will be my pick.
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Wow, finally worked. Got the pick large.
Now, while this isn't my absolute favorite album of 2020, hello Sawayama, this is one of those albums that I just want more people to listen to. As well as being one of those albums that you wouldn't expect where it goes from beginning to end.
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travelful
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: Knoxville, TN
- #6
- Posted: 05/25/2021 00:03
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I'll participate... I'll have to decide what I want to play though. Depending on the day you ask me there's like four different albums that would be my AOTY of 2020 lol. An amazing year for music. _________________ Griselda, by Fashion Rebels
2020's Hip-Hop
2020's Country
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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call
Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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Repo
BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.
Location: Kansas
- #10
- Posted: 05/25/2021 11:52
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So far there's no rawk music, so let's have some rawk music.
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Rattle by Wailin Storms
edit: I really wanted to nominate this though. Came out at the end of last year. I think a lot of y'all would probably dig it.
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Tellusboutyourself by Yerin Baek
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