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« on: 25 Jun 2006, 11:06 »

Link to the QC Battle Of Teh Bands page is here (http://www.questionablewiki.com/index.php/Battle_of_teh_bands).  Please read the rules before voting!
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« Reply #1 on: 25 Jun 2006, 12:13 »

We've realized it's pointless to fight against the endless tide of hipsterism.

More importantly, how the fuck does Incubus have 3 votes when Iron Maiden is stuck at two? INJUSTICE
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« Reply #2 on: 25 Jun 2006, 15:02 »

The situation is fluid.

The following votes need timestamps:

Kai: King Crimson, Fugazi
Storm Rider: King Crimson, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Don't worry about the timestamp being inaccurate; just as long as it's before the Round 1 deadline, the vote is still counted.
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« Reply #3 on: 25 Jun 2006, 15:15 »

I did mine.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #4 on: 25 Jun 2006, 17:04 »

It's currently a tie between Arcade Fire and Pixies, but Bob Dylan is catching on fast.
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« Reply #5 on: 25 Jun 2006, 20:12 »

Unoffical Standings as of 11:10 PM EST, June 25.

1   8 Arcade Fire
2   8 Pixies
3   7 Bob Dylan
4   6 Broken Social Scene
5   6 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6   6 Joy Division
7   6 Neutral Milk Hotel
8   6 Radiohead
9   5 Dead Kennedys
10   5 The Doors
11   5 The Flaming Lips
12   5 Fugazi
13   5 Architecture in Helsinki
14   5 The Smiths
15   4 Incubus
16   4 Black Sabbath
17   4 the Avalanches
18   4 Led Zeppelin
19   4 Mogwai
20   4 My Bloody Valentine
21   4 Belle and Sebastian
22   4 Elliott Smith
23   4  Dead Can Dance
24   4 Rilo Kiley
25   4 The Decemberists
26   4 Sonic Youth
27   4 Stars
28   4 Sufjan Stevens
29   4 The Velvet Underground
30   4 Wilco

And now the threes... there are alot.

31   3 The American Analog Set
32   3 Bright Eyes
33   3 Cat Power
34   3 De La Soul
35   3 DJ Shadow
36   3 H・ker D・
37   3 Iron & Wine
38   3 Jimi Hendrix
39   3 Johnny Cash
40   3 King Crimson
41   3 Metric
42   3 Modest Mouse
43   3 Queen
44   3 R.E.M
45   3 Skyclad
46   3 Sleater-Kinney:
47   3 Wolf Parade
48   3 Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

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« Reply #6 on: 25 Jun 2006, 21:51 »

Come on guys! Zappa at least has to make it to the second fucking round.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #7 on: 25 Jun 2006, 21:55 »

Zappa IS making it to the second round.

I'll vote for his solo if I HAVE to, but it's kind of unnecessary if the Mothers are going too.
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« Reply #8 on: 25 Jun 2006, 22:01 »

but it would be awesome if the Final was Zappa and The Mothers VS Zappa solo.
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« Reply #9 on: 26 Jun 2006, 03:19 »

why was my wiki input deleted?
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« Reply #10 on: 26 Jun 2006, 06:09 »

Quote from: Willem
why was my wiki input deleted?


I don't see your input in the history page, Willem, so it looks like for some reason your edit was never posted.  Why don't you try voting again?
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« Reply #11 on: 26 Jun 2006, 06:26 »

weird, i was sure i did everything correct. oh well, voted again.
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« Reply #12 on: 26 Jun 2006, 06:29 »

edit: fix'd, votes are in.
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« Reply #13 on: 26 Jun 2006, 13:51 »

12. Arcade Fire
11. Radiohead
11. Daft Punk
9. Pixies
8. Joy Division
8. Broken Social Scene
8. The Smiths
7. Modest Mouse
7. Led Zeppelin
7. Bob Dylan
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7. Architecture in Helsinki
7. The Doors
6. Black Sabbath
6. Fugazi
6. Neutral Milk Hotel
6. Wilco
6. Dead Kennedys
6. Nirvana
6. Stars
6. The Decemberists
6. The Flaming Lips
5. The Avalanches
5. Wolf Parade
5. Incubus
5. My Bloody Valentine
5. The White Stripes
5. Elliot Smith
5. The Velvet Underground
5. Dead Can Dance
5. Jimi Hendrix
5. Depeche Mode
5. Johnny Cash
5. Sufjan Stevens
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
5. Soundgarden
5. The Beatles
5. Sonic Youth
5. Belle and Sebastian


This is 39 bands instead of 32, so I guess the point is that nobody with fewer than five votes is moving on at this point.

Also, I'm so tempted to add Coldplay (not that I think they'd get anywhere but y'know) but I won't.
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« Reply #14 on: 26 Jun 2006, 13:54 »

Also guys, be sure to check the page again after you've already voted, because there might be new bands on the list that you didn't see or weren't there before.
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« Reply #15 on: 26 Jun 2006, 14:33 »

Based on input from various persons, I propose we make the following changes to Round 2 and beyond:

Seed the top 16 bands and bracket them against the bottom 16 chosen randomly.  If multiple bands are tied for the bottom 16, choose randomly among them.

The winner of each band vs. band matchup will be the one with the most votes.  Everyone can vote once in each matchup.  

 The brackets would look like this:



Sorry about the width.

Also, change Round 3 through Finals to 3 days a piece rather than a week.  Since 8 or less votes will be cast each round, a week seems excessive.

Objections?  Comments?  Assuming people are generally ok with these changes, I'll make them to the wiki site late tonight.  The bracketed/seeded rounds are going to make this a lot more fun and dynamic than the one vote/per band/per round that I suggested initially.  For one thing, band vs. band matchups are going to be fun, and for another, more votes will be cast by each voter.
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« Reply #16 on: 26 Jun 2006, 14:38 »

See, this is what it should've looked like BEFORE Kyuss got eliminated, because they can blow 50% of the bands on the current list completely out of the water.
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« Reply #17 on: 26 Jun 2006, 14:40 »

Nothing is eliminated yet.  Still 3 days to nominate and vote for any band you want.
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« Reply #18 on: 26 Jun 2006, 14:51 »

Shit, Kyuss is up there and I missed it all this time? fuck. I am totally going blind.



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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #19 on: 26 Jun 2006, 16:38 »

The first round of the knockck out looks fairly huge would it be easier to do it in two halfs, each with a 3 day opening or is that just a pointless extention of the time needed?

I'm not bothered either way to be honest just making sure that it wont get confusing on the wiki page with loads of matchups ?

Also how are we going to choose which artists progress if 25 have the same number of points with only 5 spaces left to fill?
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« Reply #20 on: 26 Jun 2006, 16:51 »

I think a week to vote for 16 matchups in Round 2 is sufficient.  There are really two ways to handle your second question, how to determine who is included if multiple teams are tied for 32nd place with equal votes.

The first to randomly select teams.

The second is to include tied teams in 3 band brackets in Round 2.  

I'm more inclined to randomly select teams since that's easier, but if enough people want to have 3 band brackets, then I will do that instead.

Incidentally, a similar situation will arise if, in any given bracket, both teams are tied.  In this situation, I definitely think that both bands should progress to the next round for a three team (or possibly four team -- if both brackets end up tied) round.  Where there is a three team bracket, I envision each voter casting one vote for each of the three teams.

Thoughts?

EDIT: With regard to the wiki page getting confusing, I'm not anticipating any problems.  The scoreboard will be at the top, and Round 2 would look like this:

BATTLE #1

[1st Seed] vs. [Random]

Voting for [1st Seed]:

Voting for [Random]:

BATTLE #2

[15th Seed] vs. [Random]

Voting for [15th Seed]:

Voting for [Random]:

etc.

Each Battle will be a section heading, so hyperlinks to each battle will be available at the top of the wiki page.

EDIT2: I'm going to pull random numbers off the www.random.org generator to determine matchups and which teams are included in the case of a tie for the bottom rungs.  I'll provide screenshots of the random number generation on request to keep the process transparent.
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« Reply #21 on: 26 Jun 2006, 17:08 »

I'd like to be an asshole and point out that Elliott Smith's name is spelt like this. Not with one t. This thread's driving me mad for this very reason.

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« Reply #22 on: 26 Jun 2006, 17:13 »

Elliott says:



Thank-you Julia, it was driving me crazy too.
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« Reply #23 on: 26 Jun 2006, 22:04 »

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See, this is what it should've looked like BEFORE Iron Maiden got eliminated, because they can blow 100% of the bands on the current list completely out of the water.


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« Reply #24 on: 27 Jun 2006, 01:16 »

Seeding and bracketing is now on the page.  I tried to keep the instructions as simple as possible so that this didn't start to become boring work.   Please pose questions and comments here or on the discussion page.

Also I kept Rounds 2 and 3 at one week a piece, and reduced future rounds to 3 days.  This means that at least 2 days of Round 2 will not fall on an extended July 4 weekend so that Yanks can get their Coldplay votes in.
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« Reply #25 on: 29 Jun 2006, 07:43 »

Battle of teh bands update Thursday, June 29th, 10:40am EDT

Voting for Round 1 ends tonight at 11:59pm EDT.  Get your final votes in!
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« Reply #26 on: 29 Jun 2006, 08:27 »

Dude, if 'Trane is fair game, then you better be putting out for Ella and Billie.  Whom I just added.
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« Reply #27 on: 29 Jun 2006, 09:40 »

That was supposed to have read "Lady Day".  My bad.
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« Reply #28 on: 29 Jun 2006, 10:49 »

Vote for the Cocteau Twins!  And My Bloody Valentine, who should totally be beating a bunch of those 6 voted folks.
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« Reply #29 on: 29 Jun 2006, 12:57 »

You know what sucks? I wanted to vote for the Dresden Dolls,but I couldn't figure out how to properly add my name to the list.

 HMPH.
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« Reply #30 on: 29 Jun 2006, 13:53 »

I entered your vote for you.  For future reference, click edit, then make a space under the last entry and type "#~~~~".
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« Reply #31 on: 29 Jun 2006, 13:55 »

If you are registered just click edit on the right of the bands name and add this to the list:

#~~~~

edit: moiche beat me to it
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« Reply #32 on: 29 Jun 2006, 18:35 »

Vote for Thelonious Monk, come on people!
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« Reply #33 on: 29 Jun 2006, 19:16 »

Hm. I've been registered to the Wiki,but could not quite figure that out! Thanks,guy!
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« Reply #34 on: 29 Jun 2006, 22:27 »

Round 2 has begun!
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« Reply #35 on: 29 Jun 2006, 22:33 »

Battle #2: Jimi Hendrix(15s) vs. Led Zeppelin

Battle #6: Godspeed You! Black Emperor(1s) vs. Frank Zappa Solo

Battle #14: The Smiths (8s) vs. Fugazi

OH FUCK YOU!!!!!!!! (this is with tongue firmly in cheek)
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« Reply #36 on: 29 Jun 2006, 22:36 »

I am totally expecting things to get violent.  I won't be voting this round forward because I don't want my impartiality questioned.
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« Reply #37 on: 29 Jun 2006, 22:38 »

Actually, I'm abstaining from voting in #5 #8 and #14, I am a coward.
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« Reply #38 on: 29 Jun 2006, 23:28 »

The Smiths have a special place in my heart, thant prevents subjectivity.
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« Reply #39 on: 30 Jun 2006, 02:54 »

GY!BE Vs. Frank Zappa solo?

The Smiths Vs. Fugazi??

Jimi Hendrix Vs. Led Zeppalin???

John Coltrane Vs. Black Sabbath????


Its like choosing which one of your children dies.
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« Reply #40 on: 30 Jun 2006, 04:52 »

#2 and #13 are so unfair...
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« Reply #41 on: 30 Jun 2006, 06:38 »

Coltrane Vs. Sabbath?



You are a terrible terrible person. Now I have to choose.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #42 on: 30 Jun 2006, 08:20 »

Bwhahaha, Wilco is getting reamed.
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« Reply #43 on: 30 Jun 2006, 10:44 »

Oh dear. Radiohead vs. The Decemberists is extremely unfair since a large percentage of the world looks very highly at Radiohead.

Nonetheless, my vote went to The Decemberists because I love them. I won't say more, lest I start some sort of eFight.
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« Reply #44 on: 30 Jun 2006, 10:46 »

It should be noted that the point of the seeding/bracketing was to maximize the unfairness in Round 2 and save the drama for later rounds.  Still, looks like there will be a few upsets.
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« Reply #45 on: 30 Jun 2006, 12:36 »

As I mentioned on the discussion page, I voted for the Decemberists because I hate Radiohead, not because I really give a damn about their own merits.
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« Reply #46 on: 30 Jun 2006, 19:40 »

I'd like to apologize to Kraftwerk, since I haven't listened to them enough to give them my vote.

  Wow, Sonic Youth are getting kicked out of this sooner than I would've thought.  Sucks that they were placed against the Beatles.  Same with Wilco and Bob Dylan.

  But, just to buck the trend, The Arcade Fire beating the Doors?  WHY?
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« Reply #47 on: 02 Jul 2006, 16:01 »

Then you should be educating yourself now! Comeone people, Daft Punk would NOT EXIST if not for Kraftwerk. I love Daft Punk- LOVE them but still: its got to be Kraftwerk.

You can limewire a lot of their music and I'd be happy to post mp3s if people don't feel like they've heard enough to vote for them.

Kraftwerk is only behind 7-10- they're still in it!
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« Reply #48 on: 02 Jul 2006, 17:12 »

Dark Flame, rest assured, there is Kraftwerk on that mix cd and YOU WILL ENJOY IT SO VOTE KRAFTWERK SRSLY
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« Reply #49 on: 02 Jul 2006, 17:19 »

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Then you should be educating yourself now! Comeone people, Daft Punk would NOT EXIST if not for Kraftwerk. I love Daft Punk- LOVE them but still: its got to be Kraftwerk.

You can limewire a lot of their music and I'd be happy to post mp3s if people don't feel like they've heard enough to vote for them.

Kraftwerk is only behind 7-10- they're still in it!


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