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FAQs for the favorite musician tournament:

How will results be decided?

2-4 polls will be posted on this blog every day, lasting for a day, until the semifinals and finals, which will run for one week each.

Why are there two submission polls?

The first 32 musicians to be submitted (counting both on the polls and in my asks) will compete in the A-side bracket. Following the 32 spots being filled, the A-side form will close, and remaining musicians can be submitted in the B-side bracket (and also in my asks). This allows submissions to continue while the tournament is held.

Feel free to ask me any more questions in my ask box at any time!!

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Submit your favorite musician and musical into these polls below to nominate them for the tournaments:

Tumblr's Favorite Musician:

A-Side Bracket

B-Side Bracket

Rules and clarifications

Tumblr's Favorite Musical:

The one and only submission form

Additionally, feel free to send in asks regarding any clarifications, or to send in a nominee if you prefer that means of nomination.

Guess who's back (back again)!! That's right, it's the very tournament that never concluded back in 2023. A lot of stuff happened that year, and I ended up ditching this blog in favor of piecing my life back together. Similar things happened last year just as I was considering holding the tournament again, but hey! Summer is looking pretty free for me, and if you guys wanna do this, let's get started! I'm making some Google forms right now (with my personal email rather than my school one- remind me to tell you a funny story about that), so be on the lookout for musicotd's Best Musician Tournament Summer 2025!!

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So obvs we're rocking with the Tumblr Musician of the Year again, but how about we spice things up by adding a new category: Tumblr's Favorite Musical!! *cue applause* We will not be holding the Best Genre tournament, but I am considering doing Tumblr's Favorite Song. The top 64 or so could go on a playlist. TFS would take a long time and a lot of work though, so don't expect to be voting in that any time soon.

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Guess who's back (back again)!! That's right, it's the very tournament that never concluded back in 2023. A lot of stuff happened that year, and I ended up ditching this blog in favor of piecing my life back together. Similar things happened last year just as I was considering holding the tournament again, but hey! Summer is looking pretty free for me, and if you guys wanna do this, let's get started! I'm making some Google forms right now (with my personal email rather than my school one- remind me to tell you a funny story about that), so be on the lookout for musicotd's Best Musician Tournament Summer 2025!!

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Hello, and welcome to the Hex War!

Inspired by other tournaments such as @colourcontest, the Hex War is a poll tournament where you get to help choose a color!

Unlike many tournaments, this will not be running on a submission list; these polls will include EVERY color with an RGB hex code!

We'll start with wider ranges of red, green, and blue, and whittle our way down to one value for each.

May the Hex War begin!

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welcome to the ultimate instrument poll!

exactly what it sounds like - a tournament to determine the best (tumblr’s favourite) instrument.

submission guidelines

anything capable of making music welcome - including things that might not technically be instrument (like singing) (we are using instrument in the broadest sense here)

slightly silly/impractical/otherwise unusual instruments allowed and encouraged (like the octobass - please google if you haven’t heard of it, one of the most impractical instruments i think)

probably no fictional instruments unless you can make a really compelling argument for why they should be included

if you’re submitting an obscure/fictional instrument please give me a good description/link to wiki page/etc so i can find the right thing to include (and if you have a particular picture you’d like me to use, send that as well)

the number of submissions required for an instrument to be included will probably depend on how many submissions there are overall, as well as how intrigued/convinced i am by them

also the viola will get in automatically because i play it and am not above some moderator bias (sorry)

propaganda is both allowed and encouraged! though please tag me so i definitely see it

all polls/similarly important posts will be tagged with #ultimate instrument poll

please send your submissions below !

submissions will remain open for 2 weeks (probably) (so till the 20th May)

anyway i think that’s everything ! if you have any questions/any of this is unclear please send me an ask :)

go wild !

some other polls i’ve been enjoying/ to spread the word

@mfshipbracket @17-million-years-of-pining-poll @thing-fight @character-of-all-time @the-ultimate-tournament @colourcontest @best-animal-bracket @unreliablenarratorpoll @book-was-better

(also, this seems like an obvious enough concept that it might already exist, so if it does peace and love to other poll makers <3)

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Hopping on this train with my own self indulgent bracket uh Basics really is i'm pitting my ships against each other so yeah My main is @misfittq You can follow along here (I'll mention where the ships are from in the poll ig). There's a couple numbered one but that's just because i don't know the ship name/they don't have one :) Gonna tag tournaments I follow for some traction on here, I'll probably start when I have enough followers that'll vote and I'm free bc i have exam week near the end of June so yeah @let-them-say-fuck-tournament @died-but-not-dead-tournament @ocshowdown @guess-that-ship @amputeeblondiebattle @transgenderautisticbracket @dead-character-showdown @the-nobody-tournament

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Good evening Europe,

And also not Europe ;-)

This blog will host a best Eurovision song showdown.

Whether it's duetting with yourself, putting opera singers on lollipop sticks, or complaining you can't grow a moustache, this tournament aims to promote Eurovision greats, whether bops or flops!

I think you know the drill by now:

Here's the submission form: X

Submissions will close the Sunday after the final, so on the 21st of May (or at a later date if necessary).

Eligible songs are those that have reached the semis or the final of any of the 67 contests. Being an autocrat joke submissions are also welcome, within limits.

Polls will be tagged #escpolls, #eurovision [year of the song], #eurovision [country], #[artist]

Tagging other tournaments for exposition! Boost appreciated please 👉👈 @character-of-all-time @the-ultimate-tournament @tournamentdirectory @raddest-hat-showdown @musicotd @crysongz @john-bracket @mosthomoeroticenemies

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I submitted something for cardiacs sorry it's like 4 paragraphs long LOL

That's great! Thanks!

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i apologise for all the wombats on the song submissions lmao i just love them <3 (can you have blorbos for bands? idk man, if so that's what they are)

It's alright, I like the wombats too and I think that it's great and normal to be very attached to one band.

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Nine Inch Nails vs Lemon Demon

In two words:

NIN: homoerotic swag

LD: Neil Cicierega

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Roar vs One Ok Rock

What the people say:

Roar: owen evans. roots itself in2 my brain like a worm turns my whole world gray

One Ok Rock: Amazing japanese rock band, amazing songs, amazing vocals, amazing everything

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:D I'm so happy about this

Best of the music makers? @musicotd finds out.

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And with that (and me changing the dates on the round two polls) we are all caught up!

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The Garages vs The Mechanisms

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TOOL vs The Beach Boys