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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts 
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- Posted: 05/28/2020 23:32
- Post subject: BEA 2019 Championship Tournament
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It's tournament time! The rules are the same as last year, with a minor tweak to account for the new rating metrics.
1. Nominations can be any 2019 BEA-qualifying release that consists mostly of music released for the first time that year. I encourage you to nominate your favorite release.
2. Seeding is by BEA rank.
3. The bracket is randomized, except for play-ins, which narrow the tournament to 32 albums if necessary by matching the lowest seeds.
4. 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.
5. Medals are also awarded to the biggest rank gainers, so add discoveries you like to your charts before the tournament is over.
Here is the tournament spreadsheet.
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I will start my recruitment efforts on June 1, but you can start nominating your choices now. I'll go with:
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The Practice Of Love by Jenny Hval
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Join us in the canon game  / Add me on RYM
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
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- Posted: 05/28/2020 23:39
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More Arriving by Sarathy Korwar
Are nominations capped at 1 or do we get a second entry? 
EDIT: Might end up swapping out for Matana Roberts' latest if nobody else picks it.
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Doubles & Conch
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts
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AwaitingAndrew
Gender: Male
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
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- Posted: 05/28/2020 23:44
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2019 was oddly a pretty low output of a year for me. But if I was to choose a personal favorite from that year, I'd choose There Exists an Addiction To Blood by Clipping.
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cestuneblague
Eyebrow of the Hurricane
Location: Chi-Town
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NJ
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: WA
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- Posted: 05/29/2020 03:57
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I know it's our #1 of 2019 so it's lame to nominate it, but it did make me cry and was genuinely my favorite release of 2019, so I'm gonna not feel bad for choosing the popular pick.
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Igor by Tyler, The Creator
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Repo
BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
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- Posted: 05/29/2020 07:13
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s/t by Juneunit
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Skinny
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- Posted: 05/29/2020 14:06
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Quite a few possible options, but gonna go with the mostest pleasantest surprise of last year:
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El Capo by Jim Jones
Stands alongside the great NYC rap albums of the early aughts, and contains some disarmingly great rapping from Jim'n'co.
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2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
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