It's time for Maidenfans March Madness, which I hope will become a yearly thing.
For those of you who don't follow NCAA basketball (including me), March Madness is the yearly college basketball single-elimination tournament. 64 teams go in and only 1 comes out. Lose a game, you're out. This will be the same sort of thing. There's 64 songs nominated, based on the last rankings (2008), so no Final Frontier songs. Will make next year more interesting!
Each song has been assigned a seed and a division. There's four divisions (The Bruce Dickinson Scream Division, 'Arry Harris Gallop Division, Dave Murray Ever-Present-Smile Division, and the Nicko McBrain Madhouse Division). The winner of each division will win their division's trophy, and get a chance to compete in the Final (Frontier) Four for the Adrian Smith Trophy of Divinity and Excellence. The song that proceeds furthest from its seed will receive the Janick Gers Spinorama Underdog Award. The high-seeded song that flops earliest will get the Paul Di'Anno Couldn't Make It The Whole Stretch Award, and the song with the most vocal support will get the Roderick Bloody Smallwood Number Plate Award.
If you feel particularly ambitious, post your brackets here once I get all the polls up.
New Rule: Ties in the opening round will be determined by coinflip, wherein heads favours the higher-seeded teams. In later rounds, the team with the highest vote differential will be awarded the tie breaker. No shootouts in Maidenfans March Madness.
For those of you who don't follow NCAA basketball (including me), March Madness is the yearly college basketball single-elimination tournament. 64 teams go in and only 1 comes out. Lose a game, you're out. This will be the same sort of thing. There's 64 songs nominated, based on the last rankings (2008), so no Final Frontier songs. Will make next year more interesting!
Each song has been assigned a seed and a division. There's four divisions (The Bruce Dickinson Scream Division, 'Arry Harris Gallop Division, Dave Murray Ever-Present-Smile Division, and the Nicko McBrain Madhouse Division). The winner of each division will win their division's trophy, and get a chance to compete in the Final (Frontier) Four for the Adrian Smith Trophy of Divinity and Excellence. The song that proceeds furthest from its seed will receive the Janick Gers Spinorama Underdog Award. The high-seeded song that flops earliest will get the Paul Di'Anno Couldn't Make It The Whole Stretch Award, and the song with the most vocal support will get the Roderick Bloody Smallwood Number Plate Award.
If you feel particularly ambitious, post your brackets here once I get all the polls up.
New Rule: Ties in the opening round will be determined by coinflip, wherein heads favours the higher-seeded teams. In later rounds, the team with the highest vote differential will be awarded the tie breaker. No shootouts in Maidenfans March Madness.
