Iron Maiden Head to Head XIV

[mckindog]

Recapping the last round: Back In The Village continues its rise from the bottom tier, but just barely — one of four songs to advance here by a single vote.
The Unbeliever also continues climbing from the bottom tier, but this time Fallen Angel did not follow them.
It will join New Frontier, The Mercenary, Bring Your Daughter, The Pilgrim, 2 a.m., Como Estais Amigos and Judgement of Heaven in the 120-112 range.
The latter two are a couple of underrrated Blaze songs I would have liked to see advance.

This round features eight new songs that all made my personal top 100. They'll have to win here to make the forum's.
Rules here:
http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/maiden-head-to-head-x.23082/

 

[Forostar]

Just my 2 cents, but I think this is the end of The Unbeliever. I find it a bit unfortunate that it had to meet one of the if not the most popular song of this round, already. Might have been nice to see how far it could come, but this is already it, mostprobably.

No offense, naturally! I guess the pairing is probably the most difficult thing to do. And I really enjoy participating in this, mckindog. I am glad you're willing to take the time and sort all this out!

 

[mckindog]

FYI, the match-ups at this point are basically determined by the number of votes the songs got in their previous round. It's not perfect, but it was the fairest way I could think of.
I'm also kind of looking at this game as a way to set a baseline ranking for the band's catalogue that we can use for other games in the future — sort of like how I used Survivor as the building block for Head to Head.

 

[Crimson Idol]

2nd pairing was a pain, it's an easy as hell choice but I'd take BITV over more than half the other songs here

 

[Unknown One]

Those first 2 pairings were a huge pain.

Prophecy (out of the 2 best songs here), Village, When Two Worlds Collide, Unbeliever, Journeyman, Alchemist, Fates Warning, Different World

 

[national acrobat]

The Prophecy
The Man Who Would be King
When Two Worlds Collide
The Unbeliever
Fortunes of War
Heaven Can Wait
The Educated Fool
Different World

 

[The Flash]

Prophecy
TMWWBK (hard as hell)
Worlds Collide
Unbeliever
Fortunes
Heaven
Fates
Different

 

[Jeffmetal]

The Prophecy
Back In The Village
When Two Worlds Collide
Out Of The Shadows
Fortunes Of War
Heaven Can Wait
The Educated Fool
Can I Play With Madness?

 

[Sebas-hero1995]

The Prophecy of a Man That Would be King of The Final Frontier and his unbelieving friend that was victim of the Fortunes of War, while Heaven Can Wait for Fates Warning about Playing with Madness

 

[Mosh]

Lightning
Man
Worlds
Shadows
Journeyman
Alchemist
Fate's
Different

 

[Kill Devil Hill]

The Prophecy
The Man Who Would Be King
The Final Frontier
Out of the Shadows
Journeyman
The Alchemist
Fate's Warning
Different World

 

[mckindog]

Hmm... These things are usually decided on the first day, but it looks like there are a number of races still up for grabs.

 

[mckindog]

And the winners are:
Journeyman, The Final Frontier, Fate's Warning, The Alchemist, Out of the Shadows, Different World, The Man Who Would Be King, The Prophecy

 

[Forostar]

If I remember well, The Alchemist never did well in the survivors. I realize that Heaven Can Wait is one of the lesser SIT songs but it was beaten quite easily. Surprising.

 

[mckindog]

None of the songs at this stage did well in Survivor. Two rounds at the most.
But I was a little surprised at that one too.