#song tournament

[cavetown-song-of-all-time]

hi !!!! welcome to the cavetown song of all time tournament !

it's all in the title. we're here to appoint the most cavetown song of cavetown songs

the bracket ~

(it's hard to read ik)

preliminaries and first rounds will last 1 day, the remaining will last a week

propaganda is ofc allowed! but absolutely no anti-propaganda i will cry. i mean it's bad in general but i specifically will cry. and don't mess with me as i am a big boy now and i'm very scary (and i do know karate)

plsplspls listen to the songs before you vote if u haven't already. as you can see he's got a lot of songs and a lot of them are more obscure and underrated and they slap. also even if they're not obscure. do it.

match-ups are almost entirely random

sorry if the general manner of this tournament isn't timely lol i am a singular sad, sad person

tag key-

polls- #polls (creative ik)

non-polls- #get a load of this (monster)

preliminaries- #cavey prelims[1/2/3/4] (ex cavey prelims1)

rounds- #round![1-5].[bracket 1-4] (ex round!1.1)

propaganda- #bugs who understand (if u guys have better funny-i see what u did there-reference tag names pls tell me)

tags 4 reach :) (on the chance they overlap with cavetown listeners) @tournament-announcer @tournamentdirectory @characterswithcolorsnamesfight @sleepygirlbracket @blue-hair-and-pronouns-tourney @doyoulikethissong-poll @fuck-you-upmusicbracket @mermaidbracket @badass-queer-couples-battle

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

The 90s Song Ever - Round 1, Side A1

Here begins the first quarter of the heavily anticipated 90s song bracket! We've got it all around here. All polls are currently live!!!

Midlife Crisis vs When You Sleep Emotions vs Barbie Girl Sugar Kane vs Firestarter More Than Words vs Born Slippy Sabotage vs Wonderwall November Rain vs I Want It That Way Losing My Religion vs Kiss Of Life Stratford-On-Guy vs Grace, Too Shitlist vs Freak On A Leash Blue (Da Ba Dee) vs Doll Parts Peaches vs Bulls On Parade All Star vs Flagpole Sitta Push It vs The Distance I Could Fall In Love vs Blue Monday Two Princes vs Bitch End of the Road vs The Private Psychedelic Reel Sour Times vs Sober 1979 vs Constant Craving Now That We Found Love vs Sunburn Loverman vs Wakko's America Around The World vs Lightning Crashes Believe vs Nothing Compares 2 U Pepper vs Windowlicker Fly vs Law & Order Theme Black Hole Sun vs Sex and Candy Animal Nitrate vs Unfinished Sympathy No Rain vs The Rain Free Your Mind vs My Heart Will Go On Du Hast vs The X-Files Theme C'est la Vie vs Fear Of The Dark Supersonic vs Deceptacon Running in the 90s vs The Tourist

This is only one of four Round 1 groups- don't panic if you see that something is missing! There are a total of 256 songs in this tournament, and these are only the first 64. Feel free to send in propaganda, start fights and debates, be insane in the tags. It's what we do around here.

Playlist with all the Side A-1 songs! Join ColosseumCord - we talk about music and other stuff here :)

The Music Colosseum Cinematic Universe: my friends @the-80s-music-colosseum @the-70s-music-colosseum @60s-musician-tournament @bestalbumsincethe80stournament and @siblings-in-music-bracket @80s-music-tourney

[sequestered-song-skirmish]

Bequeath the Basement Bangers!

Do you enjoy music so niche that one must squint through opera glasses to find the niche?

Interested in discovering new music? Do more people need to know about a disco ska metal band from Lake Wobegon? Do you want to make fun of cringefail artists that flopped? Or perhaps you have a penchant for pretending to be a fan and using elaborate schemes to promote your music...

Then this is the tournament for you, pal!

Submission Rules

This is for songs with under 3000 views/streams (on whatever platform). (It was going to be <1000, but I wanted to be able to put in OrcaMind songs. Basically just the less popular the better.) Songs with more views will still be considered, though. It depends on how many submissions I get. It’s preferable to be able to listen to the song online somewhere. Since obscurity is key, though, inaccessible songs on physical or lost media still qualify, they just might not get many votes.

Submit songs in this form or the ask box. (The linked form is preferred, to keep it organized, but whatever.)

Submissions will close on… I don’t know, July 4th maybe? Depends on submission quantity.

How this will work

I don’t want to deal with complicated brackets, so the bracket will be single-elimination, and will have a power of 2 (or maybe 3, depending?) number of songs. In determining which songs will fill that number, the following will be considered (in order of priority):

Obscurity

Submitter enthusiasm/provided description and reasoning

How good I think it is

Propaganda is allowed and encouraged.

These folks couldn’t compete in the big leagues, so now we’ll make them compete against each other, but for no reward!

Inspired by stuff like: @musical-song-competition @best-fnaf-song-competition @fictionaladoptionpolls @4thwallbreakersshowdown @obscure-hottie-fight @hit-song-showdown (Mine is like the opposite of that) @guess-that-ship @purpleboytournament @arrowtossingtournament @christian-denominations-poll @theater-kid-throwdown @obscuremilfoff @ponysongbracket @weird-song-bracket @songshowdown @fuck-you-upmusicbracket

[bestsynthpop]

The Spotify playlist is fully updated!

Sorry, it took me a little bit to get all the Bracket 2 songs up on there. Eventually, I'll probably also do a B-sides playlist with the songs from the biggest synthpop artists that didn't make it onto the bracket!

[hachisongs]

welcome to the kenshi yonezu song tournament! 

submissions status: closed!

this is a poll tournament being held entirely for fun :-) hosting will be lax and the rules will be somewhat laidback too so keep in mind!! & note that this isn’t necessarily a tournament to find the best or most well written/produced song of his (though you can absolutely vote based on that) just vote for whichever song you like more! i’d personally encourage more of a gut-feeling than logical/technical aspects, but the criteria upon which you vote is ultimately up to you!

submit your favorite kenshi yonezu/hachi song through the google form here and stay tuned for when voting starts! once again, submissions will close january 10th 11:59pm est, and i plan to start the actual polls later that january.

while waiting for submissions to fill up, i'll post an occassional miscellaneous poll for fun, you can view them at #misc polls!

once all songs have been submitted they’ll be seeded according to popularity (as per my attempt at creating a more fair bracket), but i’ll post the bracket and ask for a general consensus/confirmation before we go through with it! ← please be nice to me 

guidelines for submission:

must be a song either written by or featuring kenshi yonezu (meaning collaborative songs like uchiage hanabi & nanimono are eligible for submission!)

yes, this includes his vocaloid songs as hachi!

if a song has both a vocaloid ver + self cover, please specify which version you're submitting! and of course, you're welcome to submit both!

multiple submissions are encouraged!

propaganda is optional but highly encouraged!

lyric analysis, music theory, interview quotes, song background + context etc. are more than welcome as supplemental material

have funnnnnn :-) and diorama sweep 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

if you have any questions the askbox is open :D but be nice im at most a casual fan of his okay. lets have a good time yayyy

[bastille-songs-battle]

Round 1

Shame

“but here we are, my friend, we’re miles from way back when”

The Anchor

“'cause when it feels when I'm lost at sea, you're the song that I sing again and again”

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[this-must-be-the-tourney]

Testing, Testing…

Is This The Place?

Welcome to This Must Be the Tourney, the latest (and this pollmaker’a debut) entry in the field of increasingly specific Tumblr gimmick brackets.

Our competitors, you ask? None other than the different covers of Talking Heads’ 1983 Classic, “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” - Because goddamn, there are a lot of them! Maybe even enough to give someone the crazy idea of making them fight to the death!

Rules are the same single elimination bracket you’re used to, with one minor twist: The Talking Heads’ original 1983 studio and 1986 live versions of the song will not be included in the primary bracket. Instead, they will both be given byes all the way to the semifinals, where the victors of the main bracket will finally get to face off with the versions that started it all!

Participant Conditions are just what you’d expect: If it’s a version of the Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place, it’s eligible for entry - Although the pollmaker will be doing their level best to make include only one entry per band. Other than that, knock yourselves out - Live performance, studio performance, street performance, shittiest mic you’ve ever heard performance - If they’ve got a place, this must be it.

Entries Are Now: OPEN.

[bad-for-businesses]

WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME . . .

To the Sabrina Carpenter Ultimate Song Tournament. Where, the Carpenters of Tumblr (Us) vote and decide the best song of Sabrina's discography. But before it starts, I need to conduct a poll

Thank you!

[bracketsoffear]

Songs for the 15 Fears (w/ links to the spotify playlists I made):

BURIED

Bottom of the River by Delta Rae

Choke by Poppy

Hey, Little Songbird from Hadestown

The Yawning Grave by Lord Huron

CORRUPTION

Neglected Space by Imogen Heap

Parasite Eve by Bring Me the Horizon

Decay by Pitou

Fear the Fever by Digital Daggers

DARK

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

My House by PVRIS

Dark Matter by Les Friction

Enter Sandman by Metallica

DESOLATION

Home by AlicebanD

Ashes by The Longest Johns

Eyes On Fire by Blue Foundation

Hellfire by the Mechanisms

END

Ex-Mortis by Ice Nine Kills

The Doomed by A Perfect Circle

Old Black Train by The Blasting Company

This Too Shall Pass by Danny Schmidt

EXTINCTION

1,000,000AD by QBomb

First Light by STARSET

Carnival of Rust by Poets of the Fall

This is Not a Place of Honour by Jessica Law

EYE

Watcher in the Sky by Ghost

Evil Eye by Franz Ferdinand

Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell

She Doesn't Sleep by Anthony Amorim

FLESH

Infamous Butcher by Amigo the Devil

The Red Means I Love You by Madds Buckley

Misery Meat by Sodikken

Kitchen Fork by Jack Conte

HUNT

Devil's Flesh & Bones by Eliza Rickman

Kill of the Night by Gin Wigmore

Werewolf Gimmick by The Mountain Goats

Actaea and Lyssa by The Mechanisms

LONELY

Forsaken by Adam Hurst

Emerald Star by Lord Huron

No Face by Haley Heynderickx

Ship in a Bottle by fin

SLAUGHTER

Drumming Song by Florence + the Machine

War Pigs by Black Sabbath

Rose Red by The Mechanisms

Go Get Your Gun by The Dear Hunter

SPIRAL

The Little Man Who Wasn't There by Glen Miller

I'm Going Slightly Mad by Queen

Mr. Doctor Man by Palaye Royale

Hotel California by The Eagles

STRANGER

Terry's Taxidermy by Teddy Hyde

Human by Anavae

Toys in the Attic by OMNIA

The Greatest Show Unearthed by Creature Feature

VAST

On the Mountain Tall by The Oh Hellos

Vertigo by Alice Merton

The Balancer's Eye by Lord Huron

Diving Bell by STARSET

WEB

Mother Knows Best from Tangled

House of the Rising Sun by Lauren O'Connell

Telekinetic by STARSET

Twisted Threads by The Mechanisms

Finally, here is the playlist for all 15! and yes, the order is the same as the 160 invocation ;)

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[hatchetfield-song-tournament]

Round 1

Nightmare Time (Killer Track Cover) • La Dee Dah Dah Day

What Do You Say • Axe Man

Just for Once • Adore Me

If I Fail You • America is Great Again

Black Friday • The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Not Your Seed • Monsters and Men (Reprise)

Monsters and Men • Tickle Me Wiggly Jingle

Literal Monster • Cool as I Think I Am

Run Away With Me • Our Doors Are Open

What Do You Want, Paul? • The Nibbly Ditty

What Tim Wants • Dirty Girl

Use It or Lose It • The Summoning

The Web I Spin for You • Let It Out

You Tied Up My Heart • Forever & Always

The Best of You • Peanuts!

The Witch in the Web • Show Me Your Hand

Virginity Rocks • Take Me Back

Made in America • Time Bastard

Nightmare Time 2 Theme • Yellow Jacket

One Thousand Eyes • Cool as I Think I Am (Reprise)

Inevitable • Do You Want to Play

Killer Track • Hatchet Town

Bully the Bully • Let Him Come

Nightmare Time Theme • The Blinky Song

High School is Killing Me • Jane’s a Car

Next Time • Show Stopping Number

CaliforM.I.A. • Perky’s Buds

Nerdy Prudes Must Die • What If Tomorrow Comes

Cup of Poisoned Coffee • Snoolze Town

Latte Hatte • Wiggle

Deck the Halls (of Northville High) • Feast or Famine

Dirty Dudes Must Die • Join Us (And Die)

Cup of Roasted Coffee • Honey Queen

If I Loved You • Queen B

The Hatchetfield Ape-Man • Bury the Bully

Young At Heart • Go Go Nighthawks!

[aic-song-tournament]

ROUND 2, GROUP 2, MATCH 6

[linkinparkshowdown]

welcome to the linkin park song tournament!

bracket credit

let's see what tumblr thinks is their best song!

(note that this specific bracket was made 3 years ago, so some songs like lost aren't included sorry)

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

The 90s Song Ever - Round 6 (Quarterfinals)

From 256 songs all the way down to just eight. It's been quite the journey so far, but the violence isn't over just yet. In fact, consider yourself warned, because it might be worse...

Losing My Religion vs Black Hole Sun Basket Case vs Friday I'm In Love Personal Jesus vs Pure Morning Closer vs Smells Like Teen Spirit

Round 5 // Round 4 // Round 3 // Round 2 // Round 1 playlist with all the songs // join ColosseumCord! Past tournaments: #most attractive 90s musician // #90s album battle royale

created with love (and some evil) by @goodmotorfinger

[sequestered-song-skirmish]

Yeah, I'm a graphic designer.

HOERA FOR THE GRAND CHAMPION:

The House of God by Skippocalyptic! 🎉

Our runner-up is hourglass by yacine!

In third place we have Bound for Hell by The Mercenaries

with The Ballad of the Seafaring Wenches by The Hot Mamas following closely behind.

Thank you all for submitting songs, giving support, and following along for the ride.

[leatherandrain]

Journey Song Bracket: Round 6, Side A

[hachisongs]

hosting a kenshi yonezu song tournament!! submit your fav song here :D submissions will close jan 10th!