BYT2 - Best Year Tournament 2.0 - Tournaments

Defago · 2015-01-15T18:32:29-05:00

BRACKETS Hey! Resurrecting the great BYT run by Jhereko a couple of years ago. Rules are essentially the same, but have a few changes. Each member chooses one year, and therefore gains all the releases released in that year. Every round, years will randomly face each other. Each year makes a small team out of their pool of releases, and the team with the most votes wins and goes on to the next round. You cannot repeat albums on different rounds, except on the semi final and the final. Each team will consist of a number of releases: The first few rounds will have teams of up to 4 LPs or EPs and 4 singles; the semi-final will have teams of up to 8 LPs and 4 singles with only 2 of these LPs needing to be "new"; while the final will have teams of 10 LPs or EPs and 5 singles of any albums in that year. Each player will PM me their teams for the next round before the day the round takes place. Don't message me the list of albums in your team, but message me a full post - formatted as you want it. I'll copy paste exactly what you send me, so make sure you include videos/images/text along with the PM, just like you want your entry to look. There will be elimination, one on one matches every round. You CANNOT re-use the same albums in different rounds. If you already used X in a first round match, it can't be on any teams until the final, when this is reset. No re-releases, no compilations, EPs and singles count each as a release too. Voters on each round must consider the team posted exclusively - regardless of how good or bad the year itself was. Can't think of anything else. Post your nominations. You got until the 21st. Will cut the nominations as soon as we hit an adequate multiple of two (16, 32 or 64, depending on the enthusiasm - most probably 32.) I'm taking 2006 for myself. Also first place gets 50 defago points, second place gets 25. Oooook. Here it goes. We're going to be doing a group stage before the knockoffs, 7 groups with 5 users each and 1 group with 4 users. Two users from each group will survive and pass to the second part of the tournament, onward from where we'll do a simple elimination bracket with 16 users. The group round will feature teams of 5 albums and 5 singles. "Albums" can be either a full LP or full EP. "Singles" can be either a single or an EP's lead track. No album may be re-used in the group rounds. The 2 users with the most wins after playing against all other users in their group once proceed to the next stage, the rest are eliminated. The elimination bracket consists of 4 rounds. The first one will feature teams of size 4 with all of their albums being reusable, the second round will be for teams of size 6 out of which 2 items per category have to be absolutely new and the remaining 4 need to be new to the elimination bracket (but can have been used in the group stages). Third round is teams of size 8 with 2 new items; finals is teams of size 10 with any and all albums being eligible, regardless of having been used previously. This accounts for a minimum amount of unique albums of 24, and a maximum of 48. I believe this gives a wide range for users to decide how much variety they want (and can) use on their drafting. All items released in a certain year are nominable. I will, however, reject some on the basis that it doesn't represent the year. A live album or even a compilation might represent a year adequately, in which case it will be allowed to play, but the rules regarding this aren't black or white - it depends a lot on public opinion and my personal opinion on a case-by-case basis. This tournament will feature a huge amount of matches - a minimum of four matches per player and a maximum of eight matches for the winner. This means a total of 76 group stage rounds/threads and 31 elimination rounds/threads - that's 107 threads total. If we do 4 threads a week, that's about half a year for this to finish, so brace yourselves for the long haul. I fully expect to be able to post the threads every week, but in case I don't I'll need someone to be my second in command in case I'm busy or something a certain week, as well to help with decision-making if I'm not available at the time. Like I mentioned before, we're doing 4 threads a week. That means around 32 albums per week - you guys have probably already listened to most of them, but still there will be a few you haven't. I'll post the threads every Sunday sometime through the day and close the votecount on the following Sunday's noon. I'll need people to send me their respective teams before midnight on the Saturday before they're scheduled to play. You can send it in anytime through the week, though, so send them in on Monday and forget about it if you want to. Remember I'm not doing ANY editing, so send me exactly what you want to see me post on your stead. If you send me just a list of your team, that's what's going on the post. If you want to write a ten thousand word accompaniment with pretty, pretty HTML tags, then by all means do. You're all invited to be as creative as possible with this, since it's going to be your team's "face", so to speak. Anyone else is allowed to comment on each round's years (on the respective threads) both positively and negatively. So go ahead and talk smack about your opponents or rise up your friends' years. Everything goes (as long as it's in the site rules). Also due to the scope of the tournament, I'm going to allow voluntary co-captaining. Send me a PM with who you'd like to be your co-captain and that user will be able to submit teams in the captain's stead. Also let me know how you wish to split your prize defago points with your co captain in case you win. I think that's all of it. Let me know if I haven't answered something, or if you'd be interested in helping me out! I'll post the group stages brackets and dates in a few. 1958 - Precedent 1965 - alelsupreme 1967 - NickVolos 1968 - sp4cetiger 1969 - Goodsir 1970 - RockyRaccoon 1971 - Applerill 1972 - nachosbob 1974 - Listmeister 1977 - Mercury 1978 - Meccalecca 1979 - benpaco 1980 - Norman Bates 1981 - CellarDoor 1983 - Infinity183 1984 - RepoMan 1985 - Borejko 1989 - suedeswede 1991 - NoWaxJim 1992 - Junodog 1993 - Silver 1994 - JoD 1995 - MrFrogger 1996 - koolkeithsweat 1997 - Happymeal 1998 - WindowAbove 1999 - Gowienczyk 2000 - Skinny 2002 - CubaZed 2004 - Shanespear 2003 - Saoirse 2006 - Defago 2007 - Hayden 2008 - Jhereko 2009 - Necharsian 2010 - SquishyPuffDave 2011 - Precedent 2012 - Revolver 2013 - 19loveless91 2014 - dbz

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RepoMan

Mercury wrote:

Also, Repo, I'll show you mine if you show me yours. Let's PM and share notes and be, like , brothers. If you haven't done 84 yet or started working on it, then fine.

Mercury, Here's something that I've found in my 1984 dig that I can't quite use that I think you'd love...

The Partisans - I Never Needed You
Punk Ain't Dead

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I think Pa and Patman would also totally dig this. Clash-inspired punk at its finest.

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Detroit

RepoMan wrote:

Reminds me of early Replacements more than The Clash oddly enough.

RepoMan

Gowi wrote:

Reminds me of early Replacements more than The Clash oddly enough.

Yeah, it has a pretty muscular & full bass sound that makes it feel a bit more American, but I'm pretty sure these guys had never heard The Replacements. They were total Clash junkies which is more obvious on their other tracks from from the first side of this ...

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The Time Was Right by The Partisans

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mickilennial The Most Trusted Name in News Profile
Detroit

Meanwhile these guys were focusing on The Clash's folk influences:

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Mercury wrote:

3. Disrelated: I just sent in my first '77 team.

#bracket7hype
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Saoirse

Just a heads up for the upcoming captains, I would reccomend copying the post/team you have for your first match and also send it in to Space Tiger, since judging by Defago's pm he might still be pre-occupied when the first matches are due to start this sunday for groups 4 and 5. Just so we can keep this thing moving. If it's allright with that powers above Ill send a pm to all the upcoming captains just making sure they're ready to go and to get their team in ASAP so we don't have any delays. And to all the new captains, Good luck dahlings!

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Hayden wrote:

#bracket7hype

Oh, if only 66 had stayed around.

Got my team in, y'all best prepare yourself for the posters I've made #2hoursinMSPaint.
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We're all fucked, lads.

Saoirse

Hey dahlings so it looks like we are near the end of the second batch of group matches, and I gotta say things ran beautifully this time, no forfeits/automated teams and only a few single/album eligibility mistakes, so that def worked out well. And we had our first group stage sweep, so all bragging rights go to 1972 wonderful job done by Nachosbob, and also to Silver and 1993 for advancing in group 3.

Anyways I did perhaps jump the gun a bit (:mrgreen: sorry Defago) and sent out pms to the new captains but just a general reminder to send in a copy of your teams to both Defago and Sp4cetiger (I don't know if Defago will still be busy this week, so it's good to get 'em to both so there won't be any delays) and make sure to clear up any questions about rules, album/single eligibility etc before the next group matches start. And even if Defago is still MIA I hope to get a hold of him cause it's looking to be a near certainty that there will be a tie for second-place in group 2 and possibly group 3, so hopefully he'll divulge that secret for breaking ties 😄 .

Anyways have fun as always, and I guess with Alel and others joining the fold this time the matches we'll only get more and more over-the-top, mercurial and entertaining.

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Lima

Thanks, Saoirse! I'm really sorry about my participation on both the tournament and the site these past few weeks. On retrospective I filled my plate too much for this semester, so some weeks are alright while others (like the past two - auditors at work, exams converging into one single day, social work, book club, thesis presentation, 3hrs+ of commute) mean I get no free time at all. This Sunday I should be kind of free, and the following week too, so I'll try to be extra active to compensate.

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