Tournament of Maiden Solos: the Top 10 video!

[SinisterMinisterX]

First two. Pilgrim is great but TMWWBK is about twice as long as it needs to be.

 

[Forostar]

126 advances directly to round 2.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

126 advances directly to round 2.

126?!

Remind me, Foro, what one was that?

 

[Srogyy]

WtWWB.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Seriously, I'm losing the will to participate here...

 

[Saapanael]

What'cha gonna do about it?

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Grumble. I'm going to grumble, Saap.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Oh, and also; all things considered, what with there only being three guitarists in the competition, I managed to get some good early odds on an Adrian solo winning this thing...

Put my house on it.

 

[Brigantium]

Adrian's style and sound are very popular, it doesn't surprise me at all. Admittedly, I'd have preferred Thin Line to go through here, but it did get close.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Do you think my house will be safe?

 

[tarikz]

I definitely think Adrian is going to win this...

 

[Forostar]

Go here please:
http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads...vs-121-vs-042-vs-072.34437/page-3#post-559673

 

[Forostar]

Here are the first 32 eliminated solos. Before I started I wanted to work with absolute votes, but later I realised that the participation differed throughout the game. In the beginning I had 60, sometimes 70 or even around 80 votes per group, and later it was around 40 to 50. So I decided to use this method: number of votes for one solo in proportion to the number of total votes for its group. Still, I also counted absolute votes and later I decided to compare both. In the outcome I saw that 5 solos were in or outside elimination range depending on the method, so I decided to do a tiebreak, to be sure which are the most popular.

rank number / solo number / solo info / solo votes in proportion to group votes / votes in group / votes in tiebreak*

097 / 072 / 2 A.M. Janick Gers 3:25 - 3:49 / 0.14545454545 / 8 / 8*
098 / 121 / Starblind Adrian Smith 2:34 - 2:53 0.1 / 8 / 4*
099 / 056 / Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter Janick Gers 2:19 - 3:00 / 0.17073170731 / 7 / 3*
100 / 055 / The Assassin Janick Gers 2:24 - 3:04 / 0.14634146341 / 6
101 / 002 / Phantom of the Opera Dave Murray 5:10 - 5:30 / 0.14583333333 / 7
102 / 105 / Brighter Than a Thousand Suns Janick Gers 5:25 - 5:53 / 0.13953488372 / 6
103 / 125 / The Man Who Would Be King Dave Murray 4:01 - 4:55 / 0.13725490196 / 7
104 / 071 / Blood on the World's Hands Janick Gers 3:32 - 3:48 / 0.125 / 5
105 / 057 / From Here to Eternity Janick Gers 2:28 - 2:41 / 0.12244897959 / 6
106 / 070 / Fortunes of War Janick Gers 5:02 - 5:27 / 0.11764705882 / 6
107 / 024 / Still Life Dave Murray 3:45 - 4:11 / 0.11111111111 / 6
108 / 051 / Still Life (LIVE: Maiden England) Dave Murray 3:26 - 3:49 / 0.10869565217 / 5
109 / 069 / Lord of the Flies Janick Gers 3:19 - 3:42 / 0.09803921568 / 5
110 / 052 / Holy Smoke Janick Gers 2:08 - 2:31 / 0.09615384615 / 5
111 / 092 / Hallowed Be Thy Name (LIVE: Rock in Rio) Janick Gers / 4:50 - 5:11 0.09433962264 / 5
112 / 003 / Transylvania Dennis Stratton 1:54 - 2:22 / 0.0862068965517241 / 5
113 / 026 / Quest for Fire Dave Murray 2:39 - 2:54 / 0.08163265306 / 4
114 / 019 / Die With Your Boots On Dave Murray 3:00 - 3:23 / 0.07692307692 / 4
115 / 068 / Sign of the Cross Janick Gers 8:35 - 8:54 / 0.07142857142 / 4
116 / 067 / Prowler (LIVE: A Real Dead One '93) Dave Murray 2:10 - 2:33 / 0.06818181818 / 3
117 / 122 / Starblind Adrian Smith 4:15 - 4:44 / 0.0625 / 3
118 / 098 / Gates of Tomorrow Janick Gers 3:14 - 3:35 / 0.06 / 3
118 / 109 / For the Greater Good of God Janick Gers 5:49 - 6:03 / 0.06 / 3
120 / 102 / Where Eagles Dare (LIVE: Ullevi) Dave Murray 2:15 - 2:39 / 0.05555555555 / 3
121 / 008 / Drifter Adrian Smith 3:04 - 3:42 / 0.05263157894 / 4
122 / 091 / Hallowed Be Thy Name (LIVE: Rock in Rio) Dave Murray / 4:31 - 4:51 0.0487804878 / 2
123/ 014 / The Number of the Beast Adrian Smith 3:14 - 3:34 / 0.04081632653 / 2
124 / 115 / Heaven Can Wait (LIVE: Flight 666) Janick Gers 4:30 - 5:07 / 0.03846153846 / 2
125 / 123 / Starblind Dave Murray 4:43 - 4:53 / 0.025 / 1
126/ 077 / Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger Janick Gers 5:56 - 6:10 / 0,000000000000 / 0
126 / 009 / Invaders Adrian Smith 2:09 - 2:28 / 0,000000000000 / 0
126 / 053 / No Prayer for the Dying Dave Murray 3:10 - 3:29 / 0,000000000000 / 0

 

[Brigantium]

Wow, that must have been a lot of work.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Here are the first 32 eliminated solos. Before I started I wanted to work with absolute votes, but later I realised that the participation differed throughout the game. In the beginning I had 60, sometimes 70 or even around 80 votes per group, and later it was around 40 to 50. So I decided to use this method: number of votes for one solo in proportion to the number of total votes for its group. Still, I also counted absolute votes and later I decided to compare both. In the outcome I saw that 5 solos were in or outside elimination range depending on the method, so I decided to do a tiebreak, to be sure which are the most popular.

Good stuff!

100 / 055 / The Assassin Janick Gers 2:24 - 3:04 / 0.14634146341 / 6

118 / 098 / Gates of Tomorrow Janick Gers 3:14 - 3:35 / 0.06 / 3

111 / 092 / Hallowed Be Thy Name (LIVE: Rock in Rio) Janick Gers / 4:50 - 5:11 0.09433962264 / 5

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Yep. There's simply too much Gers. I might have contributed to that, since I was trying to be as unbiased as possible and when there was Gers' weaker solo against a particular strong one by H, I might have voted for H then.

 

[Maturin]

106 / 070 / Fortunes of War Janick Gers 5:02 - 5:27 / 0.11764705882 / 6

109 / 069 / Lord of the Flies Janick Gers 3:19 - 3:42 / 0.09803921568 / 5

118 / 098 / Gates of Tomorrow Janick Gers 3:14 - 3:35 / 0.06 / 3

I'm done with this game.

 

[Srogyy]

098 / 121 / Starblind Adrian Smith 2:34 - 2:53 0.1 / 8 / 4*

109 / 069 / Lord of the Flies Janick Gers 3:19 - 3:42 / 0.09803921568 / 5

116 / 087 / Out of the Silent Planet Janick Gers 3:51 - 4:20 / 0.06818181818 / 3

117 / 122 / Starblind Adrian Smith 4:15 - 4:44 / 0.0625 / 3

111 / 092 / Hallowed Be Thy Name (LIVE: Rock in Rio) Janick Gers / 4:50 - 5:11 0.09433962264 / 5

RIP

 

[Forostar]

Check how close these two are:

107 / 024 / Still Life Dave Murray 3:45 - 4:11 / 0.11111111111 / 6
108 / 051 / Still Life (LIVE: Maiden England) Dave Murray 3:26 - 3:49 / 0.10869565217 / 5

Every guitarist of our three amigos has a "least popular solo":
126/ 077 / Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger Janick Gers 5:56 - 6:10 / 0,000000000000 / 0
126 / 009 / Invaders Adrian Smith 2:09 - 2:28 / 0,000000000000 / 0
126 / 053 / No Prayer for the Dying Dave Murray 3:10 - 3:29 / 0,000000000000 / 0

 

[Forostar]

I made a mistake. Annoying typo was the cause! Not 087 but 067 is eliminated. This means Out of the Silent Planet is still in the game and Prowler (Live) isn't. @Srogyy