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Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:52:05 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/11/2013 22:52

MrFrogger wrote:

Don't know how I missed that, thanks Drak

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

MrFrogger — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:47:21 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 06/11/2013 21:47

Don't know how I missed that, thanks Drak

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

drakonium — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:40:55 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 06/11/2013 21:40

Saoirse wrote:

Halfway through the first round

Im just letting everybody know that Im not going to be putting up any new matches for a bit. With my own things to deal with in the real world and not letting three tournaments going on at once drowning each other, it seems the best to take a short hiatus. Ill announce when I resume.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

MrFrogger — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:15:28 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 06/11/2013 21:15

DLGGLD wrote:

People got lives and shit.

Just asking. As yes, people have lives and shit.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

GeevyDallas — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:14:16 GMT

Author: GeevyDallas

Posted: 06/11/2013 21:14

MrFrogger wrote:

Yeah, first round was gonna take another month as it is, and now its postponed or something?

People got lives and shit.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

MrFrogger — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:12:12 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 06/11/2013 21:12

CDQ wrote:

So whatever happened to this?

Yeah, first round was gonna take another month as it is, and now its postponed or something?

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:19:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/11/2013 17:19

So whatever happened to this?

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:50:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/28/2013 19:50

Just an FYI, in order to decide the seeding of each bracket winners, Ive started taking note of the final score of each match, and the seeding will go by total vote+ (not total number of votes). I know since I let the polls go on for slightly longer than the time of the match in case of a tiebreaker situation, there may be some discrepancies over what the final vote actually was, as it will go by what the score was when the match was closed. If you notice any difference, let me know, I went with the best of my knowledge but I am falliable after all, so any help is appreciated.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Wed, 1 May 2013 20:17:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/02/2013 00:17

The Poe wrote:

Awesome. Good job there Saoirse, much appreciated.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Wed, 1 May 2013 20:11:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/02/2013 00:11

Awesome. Good job there Saoirse, much appreciated.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Wed, 1 May 2013 19:35:45 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/01/2013 23:35

Just to clarify, each match will be open five days, with a 12-24 hour period before the polls open so as to give time for people to perhaps catch up on an album they've missed and for captains to promote their nominations.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Robert Anton Wilson — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:50:14 GMT

Author: Robert Anton Wilson

Posted: 04/25/2013 14:50

Oh yeah and,

Thanks for taking this on.

Much appreciated.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Robert Anton Wilson — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:49:28 GMT

Author: Robert Anton Wilson

Posted: 04/25/2013 14:49

Do not forget that since it the same albums competing all the way to the end, it might be a good idea to make the early rounds longer and make the latter rounds faster. The first round is where you the most albums and are more likely to have not heard some, this is where the discoveries occur. In all latter rounds, the number of albums will be cut in two and I expect that an album that has survived rounds is more likely to have been listened to unless people vote with bothering to listen to an album.

It might give the impression this tourney will go on forever at first but basically the first round should be 50% of the duration of the tourney (or maybe even more) since everything can roll much better once a first listen occurred.

On of my album is going against Funeral so I have no hope in hell it will win and that is OK but if this tourney would lead a few people to give this album a try even if they vote overwhelmingly for Funeral that would still be a little win for the album and the listener (I myself will likely even vote Funeral, lol!!!)

So my recommendation is: start at a snail's pace, end like a lion!!!

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:08:39 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/24/2013 23:08

Okay that sounds like the right way to do it. Ill keep an approximately 24 hour period open for each match and then keep the polls open for four days. I do want to get involved with cheerleading my favorites as well so I do want to make the polls timed to make sure there are no accusations of bias in regards to when Im closing down polls, so I will probably make it timed, but am open to any ideas about how to do a tie-breaker.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Madadude — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:07:58 GMT

Author: Madadude

Posted: 04/24/2013 23:07

Sounds great, 4-5 days seems long enough for a specific poll, how many are you going to do at a time? Obviously it isn't one or that would take over a year.

Watch Funeral be against Kid A in the first round.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Patman360 — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:07:15 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/24/2013 23:07

Yeah, I'm all for a digestion period, loading my iPod with the albums I have right now.
Looking forward to it.

Great job organising this Saoirse, and for the solid use of Irish also! 😁

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Mercury — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:04:27 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 04/24/2013 23:04

MrFrogger wrote:

I think a "digestion" period would be good, that way a user who hasn't heard a particular album in a matchup can listen to before they vote, it'll help alleviate the "I don't know that album I'm voting against it" syndrome

Also thanks for organizing this Saoirse!

This.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

HigherThanTheSun — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:00:29 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 04/24/2013 23:00

MrFrogger wrote:

^^^

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:50:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/24/2013 22:50

Sounds fun... been a while since we've had a good tourney.

Re: Rules and Questions- Best New Millenial Album Tournament

MrFrogger — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:28:42 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 04/24/2013 22:28

I think a "digestion" period would be good, that way a user who hasn't heard a particular album in a matchup can listen to before they vote, it'll help alleviate the "I don't know that album I'm voting against it" syndrome

Also thanks for organizing this Saoirse!