Please vote for your LEAST FAVOURITE song.
Welcome to the very first round of Best Song Survivor! The object of this game is to find Interference's favourite U2 song. To do so, songs will be eliminated album-by-album in 24 hour long rounds to leave the favourites to contest a final that will determine the very favourite. Only original U2 songs with official studio releases will compete. Due to dominating past tournaments and the inevitable likelihood that they will do the same this time, Where The Streets Have No Name and One are not in the tournament and can be assumed default equal #1 over and above the ultimate winner. This initial round is the first round for Boy. Below is an explanation of how the tournament will work.
The tournament will have nineteen qualifying groups: the twelve standard albums, Passengers, and six miscellaneous groups of non-album songs (1978-81, 1982-85, 1987-89, 1991-97, 2000-02, 2004-06 [possibly 2004-09]). Each group is seeded so that more popular albums send more songs to the finals. Seeding is determined by placing in the Worst Album Survivor, as it gave a clear ranking without any ties. The top four albums will send four songs to the finals; they are The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and Pop. The middle four albums will send three songs to the finals; they are Boy, War, Zooropa, and ATYCLB. The bottom three albums will send two songs to the finals; they are October, RAH, and HTDAAB. The two albums not in the Survivor, Passengers and NLOTH, and the miscellaneous groupings will send two songs to the finals. While regular albums will all be contested by an elimination vote, the miscellaneous groups and Passengers will be contested by a single round in which you have a multiple choice selection for your favourite songs, preferably no more than five, and the top two proceed to the finals.
The finalists will contest a semi-final series broken by decade. Due to the abundance of eighties albums, they will also contest a quarter-finals series. Thus Boy, October, and War will contest a quarter-final and UF, JT, and RAH will contest another quarter final, with the top four from each proceeding to the eighties semi-final, where the finalists from the three eighties miscellaneous categories will meet them. The nineties semi-final will feature the finalists from the three nineties albums, Passengers, and one miscellaneous category; the 2000s semi-final will feature the finalists from the three 2000s albums and two miscellaneous categories. The eighties, nineties, and 2000s finals will then send their top four tracks to the ultimate final, where the top twelve tracks will battle it out for supremacy.
That may sound confusing, but it's actually a logical progression. Individual albums (--> eighties quarter-finals) --> era semi-finals --> grand final.
The schedule, assuming no ties, will be as follows:
BOY: 8 rounds [3 songs proceed]
OCTOBER: 9 rounds [2 songs proceed]
WAR: 7 rounds [3 songs proceed]
EARLY EIGHTIES QUARTER-FINAL: 4 rounds [4 songs proceed]
THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE: 6 rounds [4 songs proceed
THE JOSHUA TREE: 6 rounds [4 songs proceed]
RATTLE AND HUM: 7 rounds [2 songs proceed - only studio songs compete]
LATE EIGHTIES QUARTER-FINAL: 6 rounds [4 songs proceed]
1978-81 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
1982-85 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
1987-89 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
EIGHTIES SEMI-FINAL: 10 rounds [4 songs proceed]
ACHTUNG BABY: 7 rounds [4 songs proceed]
ZOOROPA: 7 rounds [3 songs proceed]
PASSENGERS: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
POP: 8 rounds [4 songs proceed]
1991-97 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
NINETIES SEMI-FINAL: 11 rounds [4 songs proceed]
ATYCLB: 8 rounds [3 songs proceed]
HTDAAB: 9 rounds [2 songs proceed]
NLOTH: 9 rounds [2 songs proceed]
2000-02 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
2004-09 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
2000S SEMI-FINAL: 7 rounds [4 songs proceed]
GRAND FINAL: 11 rounds [1 winner]
Total rounds: 147
I will post the miscellaneous categories in the next post for your perusal, in the hope that if I have omitted anything, somebody will notice.
Here we go! Enjoy, folks.
Welcome to the very first round of Best Song Survivor! The object of this game is to find Interference's favourite U2 song. To do so, songs will be eliminated album-by-album in 24 hour long rounds to leave the favourites to contest a final that will determine the very favourite. Only original U2 songs with official studio releases will compete. Due to dominating past tournaments and the inevitable likelihood that they will do the same this time, Where The Streets Have No Name and One are not in the tournament and can be assumed default equal #1 over and above the ultimate winner. This initial round is the first round for Boy. Below is an explanation of how the tournament will work.
The tournament will have nineteen qualifying groups: the twelve standard albums, Passengers, and six miscellaneous groups of non-album songs (1978-81, 1982-85, 1987-89, 1991-97, 2000-02, 2004-06 [possibly 2004-09]). Each group is seeded so that more popular albums send more songs to the finals. Seeding is determined by placing in the Worst Album Survivor, as it gave a clear ranking without any ties. The top four albums will send four songs to the finals; they are The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and Pop. The middle four albums will send three songs to the finals; they are Boy, War, Zooropa, and ATYCLB. The bottom three albums will send two songs to the finals; they are October, RAH, and HTDAAB. The two albums not in the Survivor, Passengers and NLOTH, and the miscellaneous groupings will send two songs to the finals. While regular albums will all be contested by an elimination vote, the miscellaneous groups and Passengers will be contested by a single round in which you have a multiple choice selection for your favourite songs, preferably no more than five, and the top two proceed to the finals.
The finalists will contest a semi-final series broken by decade. Due to the abundance of eighties albums, they will also contest a quarter-finals series. Thus Boy, October, and War will contest a quarter-final and UF, JT, and RAH will contest another quarter final, with the top four from each proceeding to the eighties semi-final, where the finalists from the three eighties miscellaneous categories will meet them. The nineties semi-final will feature the finalists from the three nineties albums, Passengers, and one miscellaneous category; the 2000s semi-final will feature the finalists from the three 2000s albums and two miscellaneous categories. The eighties, nineties, and 2000s finals will then send their top four tracks to the ultimate final, where the top twelve tracks will battle it out for supremacy.
That may sound confusing, but it's actually a logical progression. Individual albums (--> eighties quarter-finals) --> era semi-finals --> grand final.
The schedule, assuming no ties, will be as follows:
BOY: 8 rounds [3 songs proceed]
OCTOBER: 9 rounds [2 songs proceed]
WAR: 7 rounds [3 songs proceed]
EARLY EIGHTIES QUARTER-FINAL: 4 rounds [4 songs proceed]
THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE: 6 rounds [4 songs proceed
THE JOSHUA TREE: 6 rounds [4 songs proceed]
RATTLE AND HUM: 7 rounds [2 songs proceed - only studio songs compete]
LATE EIGHTIES QUARTER-FINAL: 6 rounds [4 songs proceed]
1978-81 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
1982-85 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
1987-89 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
EIGHTIES SEMI-FINAL: 10 rounds [4 songs proceed]
ACHTUNG BABY: 7 rounds [4 songs proceed]
ZOOROPA: 7 rounds [3 songs proceed]
PASSENGERS: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
POP: 8 rounds [4 songs proceed]
1991-97 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
NINETIES SEMI-FINAL: 11 rounds [4 songs proceed]
ATYCLB: 8 rounds [3 songs proceed]
HTDAAB: 9 rounds [2 songs proceed]
NLOTH: 9 rounds [2 songs proceed]
2000-02 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
2004-09 NON-ALBUM: 1 round [2 songs proceed]
2000S SEMI-FINAL: 7 rounds [4 songs proceed]
GRAND FINAL: 11 rounds [1 winner]
Total rounds: 147
I will post the miscellaneous categories in the next post for your perusal, in the hope that if I have omitted anything, somebody will notice.
Here we go! Enjoy, folks.
i'd strategically vote to keep it in!
