Best Song Survivor: 1980s Semifinal Round Seven

[Rhiannon64]

Voting for New Year's Day to save A Sort Of Homecoming.

 

[cobl04]

Agreed, I wish I could vote for it! The wrong songs are getting sacrificed here.

It's not getting any votes. I think people are missing seeing it!

 

[the tourist]

Well it looks like Bad is safer now. I'm still shocked at so many votes for New Year's Day, though.

 

[BlueSilkenSky]

A Sort of Homecoming.

New Year's Day

 

[digitize]

I don't want ASOH to die

 

[the tourist]

Should've chosen something other than New Year's Day to vote for then!

 

[No spoken words]

I don't usually participate in these threads but my favorite song of all time must not die (though it would love again. Tonight.) So despite the pain this causes, NYD gets my vote.

 

[trojanchick99]

I love you New Year's Day, but not enough to not try to save A Sort of Homecoming.

 

[Axver]

What the blithering fuck, New Year's Day or ASOH will get the chop? They're the two best songs here.

I'm not voting for one to protect the other. ASOH is my #1 U2 song, studio-wise, and NYD is #4.

Streets it is then.

 

[the tourist]

This is probably the most stressful round in this entire game so far.

 

[digitize]

If it's a tie, I'm not sure what I do. I really don't want to do a runoff. I may change my vote to Streets at the last second before the poll closes if it looks like it will be a tie. Much as I don't want to see ASOH die, I want to avoid a runoff more.

 

[Axver]

If it's a tie, I'd actually send both through. There are free slots in the final poll so it doesn't hurt. When there were more qualifiers than strictly intended in past tournaments that I ran, I avoided doing run-offs. The only time I ever did that was when we had a tie for the final place in a poll where there were already 29 songs (and Interference only supports 30 options per poll, so I couldn't do a 31 option poll).

The ludicrous part of that was that was the run-off ended in a tie too! I exercised a tie-breaker vote to resolve the problem. It wasn't ideal at all, but I didn't want to keep dragging things out and I'd warned everyone I'd do it in advance ... looking back on it I wish I'd thought of a better way out, but it's only an Internet poll for fun.

 

[digitize]

If it's a tie, I'd actually send both through. There are free slots in the final poll so it doesn't hurt. When there were more qualifiers than strictly intended in past tournaments that I ran, I avoided doing run-offs. The only time I ever did that was when we had a tie for the final place in a poll where there were already 29 songs (and Interference only supports 30 options per poll, so I couldn't do a 31 option poll).

The ludicrous part of that was that was the run-off ended in a tie too! I exercised a tie-breaker vote to resolve the problem. It wasn't ideal at all, but I didn't want to keep dragging things out and I'd warned everyone I'd do it in advance ... looking back on it I wish I'd thought of a better way out, but it's only an Internet poll for fun.

If I do that, then I'll give the 90s and 2000s another spot and make it a twelve song final round. I actually rather like the sound of that.

 

[popacrobat]

all knotted up now

 

[corianderstem]

I haven't voted.

I accept bribes.

 

[digitize]

I haven't voted.

I accept bribes.

Expect a blank check on an Alaska Airlines flight to SeaTac tomorrow.

 

[corianderstem]

Will the song for which I should vote be indicated on the "note" line?

 

[digitize]

Will the song for which I should vote be indicated on the "note" line?

Yes, in Navajo.

 

[corianderstem]

I will send it off to our company's translation service company, but as the Navajo may not bow to our concept of "deadlines," it might take a while.

So you might want to leave the poll open for another few weeks.

 

[digitize]

I will send it off to our company's translation service company, but as the Navajo may not bow to our concept of "deadlines," it might take a while.

So you might want to leave the poll open for another few weeks.

I'll keep a filibuster going in the meantime.

 

[Axver]

I can't even look at the poll now.

Kind of regretting not voting for NYD, but ... couldn't vote for it when it's leagues ahead of Streets or WOWY.

 

[Vlaco]

It's not really fair to change votes at the last time if a particular song is on the chopping block, is it?

 

[Galeongirl]

Axver, you must hand in your Hive card right now.

 

[Axver]

The Hive is not as contrarian as I thought.

 

[Nick66]

ASOH on the chopping block? Really? It's only U2's best song.

If The Hive™ votes off this song this early, I'm going to have to seriously reconsider my participation on this site.

 

[lemonfly]

It's not really fair to change votes at the last time if a particular song is on the chopping block, is it?

I'm sure that five of the seven people who voted for Bad would now like to switch their vote to NYD now that they have realized the error of their ways. They are just too shy to speak up. Digitize, kindly add five votes to NYD's tally

 

[digitize]

It's not really fair to change votes at the last time if a particular song is on the chopping block, is it?

My policy is and has always been that anyone may request to have their vote changed up until the point that the point closes, and not a second after.

 

[mama cass]

What the blithering fuck, New Year's Day or ASOH will get the chop? They're the two best songs here.

I'm not voting for one to protect the other. ASOH is my #1 U2 song, studio-wise, and NYD is #4.

Streets it is then.

ha i voted Streets off too!

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I'm going to have to seriously reconsider my participation on this site.

Oh no!