BEA 2020 Championship Tournament

baystateoftheart · 2021-05-24T17:36:53-04:00

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.

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RockyRaccoon wrote:

Though someone has to nominate Punisher. Maybe that should've been me lol

If no one does, you do have until the deadline to change your pick. That goes for everyone, as long as you make sure to do so as a new post so I see it, and not as an edit.

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More stuff:

- We just filled the bracket, but more nominations continue to be encouraged until the deadline! They will result in a play-in round.
- I'll check all nominees to ensure they meet all criteria ASAP and let you know if there's a problem.
- If you want your nominee to be eligible for a rank gainer medal, it will need to have a BEA rank before the tournament starts. You can do this by placing it where you think it belongs on one of your charts (going by honor system that there will be no manipulation in this regard).
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2020 was a dynamite year for me, but almost entirely on the jazz side. Most of those albums wouldn't have much chance to get traction around here, the exception being Nubya Garcia... but @EyeKanFly already nommed that one, so I'm back to the drawing board.

With that constraint behind, I'll go ahead and nom my personal #1 from the year, Henri Texier - Chance.

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So I had a look through and saw a lot I already love and others I’m sure I will when I check them out but I was surprised no one nominated:

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Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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Yep. This is it, my #1. @ me if you have a problem.
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Edit: kidding of course. Whilst not really my cuppa, it is undoubtedly quite an artistic feat. Will revisit a time or 2 (or 3) for the tourney, and I am actually looking forward to it.
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Mercury wrote:

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Although I dig it.

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at the lasst minute but here's mine, since XCX was already taken

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Antonio-Pedro wrote:

at the lasst minute but here's mine, since XCX was already taken

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Glad to see this nominated, big thumbs up !

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