Best Canadian Artist - Voting & Results - Tournaments

Fergenaprido · 2012-01-24T18:36:21-05:00

Thank you to everyone who submitted nominations! Here is the final ranking of the top artists. The number in parentheses is their current rank on the Top-ranked bands from Canada page. Artists were ranked first by total number of points. In the case of a tie, they were ranked by highest individual rank, and then alphabetically according to their name on BEA. The cutoff was 6 points, so at least the top half of everyone's list made it in. Here is the tournament bracket. You will notice four artists (rank 31-34) listed separately at the bottom. Since these four tied for the final two spots, and I don't want to include people simply based on alphabet, they will compete for the final two spots (#31 & 32 in the bracket). So, I will run these matches first (all four against each other, top two in each list get a vote), and then put the two winners into those two spots in the tourney, in alphabetical order. What you need to do List these 34 artists from your favourite to your least favourite. If there is a tie between two artists, just put "=" before the number/name so that I know. What this means is that if those two artists go against each you, you will abstain from voting in that match. If you really don't like or know an artist, feel free to leave it off the list entirely. Also, your votes don't need to be in the same order as your nominations. Confused? Here's an example. Sample list 1 Arcade Fire 2 Joni Mitchell 3 Sloan 4 Metric 5 Jann Arden 6 Nelly Furtado =7 The Guess Who =7 Destroyer =7 The Unicorns 8 Feist 9 Rush 10 Wolf Parade =11 Stars =11 The New Pornographers 12 Cowboy Junkies 13 Pilate 14 Neil Young and nothing for anyone else. In the pre-tourney, the top two of Jann Arden, Metric, Saga, and Sloan would be Sloan (3) and Metric (4). These two would then be in the main tournament, and would go in spots 31 (Metric) and 32 (Sloan) alphabetically. In the main tourney, match 1 would be Arcade vs. Sloan. Arcade would get the vote, being ranked higher, and advance. match 2 would be Joni vs. ASMZ. Joni would get the vote since ASMZ is not listed. match would be Wolf Parade vs. Big Sugar. WP advances etc., etc. Click here for a visualization of this example. You'll notice that in instances of a tie (or abstention), both artists advance together to the next round, since they are of equal rank. In the match of two ties (Band/Alanis vs. Destroyer/Unicorns), the higher ranked tie advanced. I hope that everything is clear. You will have until midnight Pacific Standard Time January 30th to get in your votes by responding to this thread. I will aim to have the results tabulated and posted on February 1st. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Best Canadian Artist - Voting & Results

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GARY Profile

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(1) Saga
(2) The Guess Who
(3) Rush
(4) Leonard Cohen
(5) Joni Mitchell
(6) Gordon Lightfoot
(7) Cowboy Junkies
(8) Alanis Morissette
(9) Neil Young

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Norman Bates Profile
Paris, France

Here's mine.

1 Neil Young
2 Leonard Cohen
3 Joni Mitchell
4 Arcade Fire
5 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6 The Band
7 Nomeansno
8 A Silver Mt. Zion
9 Cowboy Junkies
10 Feist
33 Metric
34 Alanis Morrissette

junodog4 Future Grumpy Old Man Profile
Calgary

My votes:

1. Neil Young
2. Arcade Fire
3. Sloan
4. Big Sugar
5. Headstones
6. Broken Social Scene
7. New Pornographers
8. Leonard Cohen
9. Gordon Lightfoot
10. The Band
11. Drake
12. Wolf Parade
13. Feist
14. GYBE
15. Guess Who
16. Cowboy Junkies

Everybody else...

Please please please not Jann Arden...

purple

1 Neil Young
=2 Broken Social Scene
=2 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3 A Silver Mt. Zion
4 Leonard Cohen
5 Arcade Fire
6 Destroyer
7 The Band
8 Cowboy Junkies
9 Joni Mitchell

cartoken The Seer Profile
Paris

1. Arcade fire
2. Drake
3. Nomeansno
4. Broken social scene
5. Godspeed you
6. Wolf parade
7. Nelly furtado
8. Destroyer
9. Fucked up

videoheadcleaner formerly Harkan Profile

1. Arcade Fire
2. The Dears
3. City And Colour
4. Azari & III
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6. Joni Mitchell
7. Stars
8. Feist
9. Leonard Cohen
10. Crystal Castles

demetrios Profile
Athens, Greece

Leonard Cohen is on the top, no question for me.

Corey Hart is Canadian too isn't he?
😁

Fergenaprido Profile
GTA

demetrios wrote:

Leonard Cohen is on the top, no question for me.

Is that a vote or just a statement/opinion?

demetrios wrote:

Corey Hart is Canadian too isn't he?
:D

Yes, he is 😄

Fergenaprido Profile
GTA

Thank you everyone who submitted both their nominations and votes. We didn't receive that many, so I'm not sure I'll run this type of tournament again, but here are the results.

There were a number of ties along the way, even from the very beginning. It was (largely) predictable, with the sole exception perhaps of the Cowboy Junkies making it to the Quarterfinals despite being the 22nd seed.

In the final, Neil Young beat out both Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene to take the crown.

If you want more detailed explanations of the results or the voting process, let me know.
I also have the images of the brackets for everyone who voted; if you are interested in viewing yours to see how your list translates into the bracket, let me know.

Thanks again!

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