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Album Nomination Game -- ROUND THREE

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Thrillho:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bringing It All Back Home
OK Computer
N/A (ooh, jazz vs. jazz)
Unkown Pleasures
Highway 61 Revisited
Surfer Rosa
London Calling

This round is the first time I've struggled. Sorry Public Enemy and Beach Boys!

Scarychips:
BLUE
ABSTAIN
Bringing It All Back Home -- Bob Dylan

YELLOW
ABSTAIN
Blue Train -- John Coltrane

GREEN
Unknown Pleasures -- Joy Division
Highway 61 Revisited -- Bob Dylan

ORANGE
Things We Lost In the Fire -- Low
London Calling -- The Clash

Catacombs:
BLUE
the Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

GREEN
ABSTAIN
the Beatles - Abbey Road

YELLOW
Radiohead - OK Computer
John Coltrane - Blue Train

ORANGE
the Pixies - Surfer Rosa
the Clash - London Calling

I haven't followed this thread at all this week, so I'll probably be disappointed/upset by a matchup or two when voting ends tomorrow.  This round was pretty easy, except maybe Aeroplane... vs. Sgt. Pepper's... and Highway... vs. Abbey Road.  I love Dylan, but I like Abbey Road more.  I specifically voted Kind of Blue down because it beat out Springsteen last round.

SilentJ:
Not trying to just shit all over you guys, but am I the only one not doing any kind of strategic voting here?  Even if the comments are in jest or tongue-in-cheek or what have you, more than half of the posts in these threads when people vote talk about why they voted a certain way because they just don't want to see a certain album win, or because one album beat out another in a previous round, or what have you.  No offense meant to Matt, who is doing a pretty great job with all of this, but the system he's implementing, just like pretty much any kind of elimination game you could set up, is flawed, and there's not a whole lot you can do to fix that.  Like I said in the thread for last round, I've reduced to just opening the thread, opening my reply in a new tab so I can still see the bracket, voting, and trying to not look through the thread at all because most, if not all, of my votes are just being repeatedly attacked by people who are hell-bent on seeing a specific album get shot down.  Just sayin'.

Hat:

--- Quote from: McTaggart on 09 Apr 2009, 23:30 ---
--- Quote from: Alex C on 08 Apr 2009, 09:55 ---runs a bit counter to the idea of giving everyone a vote in the first place.
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I think that this is only true if you just had a list of albums that were all weighted equally and it was simply the album with the most votes is the winner. The moment you add more rules and have situations where a vote for one album is equivalent to voting against another album and this exchange can have an effect on a later part of the game you give players the mechanisms to play with strategy and playing naively is not a strategy that leads to winning. This means that you probably shouldn't put too much weight in the outcome of the game and if you wanted to poll which was the most popular album you would be better off just doing a straight up poll.

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I think it would be really interesting to just have a vote for what the best album on the list is and compare the rankings to what we wound up with here.

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