Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 7: Group B) [abandoned]

[national acrobat]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

Of course not! We're still working with 18 clusters of 8 songs each. I wasn't kidding when I said this will take a while.

Think of this as the Forum Games version of the "Let's try and get 100,000 replies to this post" thread... just slightly more manageable.

Just let it be a part of your day and don't mind it so much. We'll get to the end eventually

Ah OK! I thought we were knocking songs out, obviously wasn't paying much attention. I've just re-read your opening post and all is now clear. Good effort!

 

[Forostar]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

Easy:

The Evil That Men Do
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Infinite Dreams
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Clansman
Alexander the Great  
by far the best song, but alas, the lyric nerds have ruled again here. *shakes head in disbelief*

 

[Kauha-Apina]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

Children of the Damned
Hallowed
Paschendale
Rime
The Clansman
Alexander the Great

 

[Mega]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

^same, but with TNOTB and SSoaSS.

 

[Prowler_108]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

The Evil that Men Do
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Infinite Dreams
Seventh Son
The Number of the Beast
Alexander the Great

 

[valacirca]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

By default/As much as possible, I wait for approximately 48 hours before tallying the votes, but just to speed things up a bit (and because I noticed that people have been voting fairly quickly on the first day and then very few votes are cast on the second day), please take note of the change in the schedule when votes will be tallied:

Votes will be tallied once:
1) at least 23 votes have been cast; and,
2) at least 24 hours have gone by; and,
3) there are no close battles (pairs that are tied or seperated by one vote); and,
4) I am not busy

* I chose 23 votes as the magic number since that's the # of votes that we've been getting usually. I shall increase the magic number if I notice a trend that more voters are participating.
* I need to include item #4 just for practicality's sake

 

[Forostar]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

Thanks.

 

[Invader]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

Hallowed be thee, Ancient Ace of the Damned Clansmen of Paschendale!

Immense quality in this round, all songs in my top 25 and a whole lot from my top 10 ... don't think I've given a single one of these songs less than 9 in LooseCanon's thread. Still, the only choice I really hesitated about was Aces High vs Alexander the Great. Wonder how many votes Fear of the Dark is going to get in this round ...

Agree with this entire post.

 

[Vortex]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

The Evil
Hallowed
Infinite Dreams
Mariner
Number of the Beast
Aces High

That has been the hardest round so far.

 

[valacirca]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

augh... Infinite Dreams and Paschendale are tied for the meantime. I should really make good on this:

I sense a lot of ties coming in the succeeding rounds... Maybe I should draft a criteria for tie-breaking based on previous voting trends...

 

[Mosh]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

or run the two songs again along with the others.

 

[valacirca]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

or run the two songs again along with the others.

which is what I've previously been doing we'll see

 

[Night Prowler]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

Count only votes from people that written their votes here.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

which is what I've previously been doing we'll see

How to avoid ties: Always close the poll after an odd number of voters 

 

[Mosh]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

which is what I've previously been doing we'll see

oh. I just started doing this recently.

 

[Jupz]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group A)

is there any way to work draws into your system?

 

[valacirca]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group

^ nope.

as I'm typing this, I'm working out a way to evaluate past voting results in such a way that I can use them as a tiebreaker for draws.

How to avoid ties: Always close the poll after an odd number of voters 

LOL yes, I've also realized that this is ideal!

Count only votes from people that written their votes here.

Sorry, but I'm not inclined to this solution... I don't see much relevance in the weight of one's vote and whether or not the person posted it as a reply on the thread.

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Anyway... there's a lot of time (until the end of this round) to sort this out. New group of songs is up! my picks:

Stranger in a Strange Land
When the Wild Wind Blows
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Coming Home
Dream of Mirrors
Moonchild

Almost all required considerable thought...

 

[Vortex]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group

A Starblind stranger caught somewhere where eagles are 1,000 suns brighter than the Moonchild.

 

[The Flash]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group

Stranger in a Strange Land
Starblind
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Caught Somewhere in Time
Where Eagles Dare
Phantom of the Opera

 

[Jupz]

Re: Iron Maiden "Head-to-Head" Song Tournament (Round 6: Group

Stranger in a Strange Land
When the Wild Wind Blows
Blood Brothers
Coming Home
Dream of Mirrors
Moonchild