Song of the Week - BATTLE 11 Voting/WEEK 89 Nominating
 

Battle 11 Voting is closed.
Week 89 Nominating is closed.

Battle 11 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Results
1). [22/13.5] Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
2). [22/12.5] Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
3). [20] Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon
4). [13] Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
5). [12] Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)
6). [11] Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
7). [10/8] Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness
8). [10/5.5] Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control

Tracks (links):
Week 88: Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
Week 87: Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control
Week 86: Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
Week 85: Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon
Week 84: Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)
Week 83: Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
Week 82: Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
Week 81: Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness

Notes:
If you are a member at more than one of the forums which this event is being held at, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums.

Week 89 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Here is the link to the corresponding thread in the other forum:
- Soundtrack Central

I made a new rip of The Blue Valley: http://www.sotw.info/music/nominatio...bluevalley.mp3. Can someone (preferably one of the people from last week who was able to hear a big difference between the tracker module and MP3) tell me if it's any better?

Would you like me to replace the existing rip with your new one?

Incidentally, I can't get one of the streaming links to work, even though I've double and triple checked the link. Anyone who wants "Over the Frozen Sea" will have to get it the old-fashioned way.

WHATTT??!!! What is this battle thingamabobber???!! I'm impatient for ny nom to be up already, lol.

Eh... :plant:
(2 pts.) Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)
(2 pts.) Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
(2 pts.) Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon

Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky has grown on me since last week, when I gave it the top spot. Love the melody, love the instrumentation. It's missing the Ennio Morricone flavor of some of the earlier Wild Arms tracks, but who cares?

Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control Snore. I still can't believe this dreadful, boring piece of trance techno took the gold that week.

Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version) As I said in its week, this reminds me of something from the Golden Age of Hollywood film scoring. Some of the standard orchestration problems of Japanese orchestral VGM are present, but not distractingly so.

Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon That beginning misdirect still gets me. When this track gets going, it really cooks, and the strong, infectious melody helps that a good deal.

Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM) Your standard bouncyfun fluff, I suppose. Nice enough, but it lacks that certain oomph.

Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street And wound many innocent civillians. I like the synthy melody, and the entire track has that distinct 1980's cop show flavor.

Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished? _DH_, nominating an SoTW winner? I think this may have been the first time :) As one would expect, the track is saturated with jazz and funk; it's really got the same 80's vibe as Lethal Enforcers.

Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness I've noticed a real trend, both here and in the BCC, of 'Mon games having terrific music. I guess we ignore or dismiss them at our peril, eh? This is a terrific piece, with strong melody and so much more.

Aside from Ridge Racer, I either voted for or like most of the winners this time around. Point allocation was a little tough, though, since several tracks are excellent.

The Point Spread
Wild Arms - 3 pts.
Digimon - 2 pts.
Sword Maniac - 1 pt.

It's much easier to vote when you've heard all the tracks.

3 Points: Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
1 Point: Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon
1 Point: Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
1 Point: Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky

This is a great set of winners and the quality is quite balanced. Nothing is so singularly head and shoulders above the rest that I'll feel poorly for backing my own nomination, and then scattering the other three points amongst those that provided me the most smiles along the way.

This was the hardest decision to make ever, because except for Cruise Control, every track in my opinion is pretty well done and no track truly supersedes the others.

I was able to come down to four tracks that I liked the best. After that, I basically used a random number generator to assign two of them 2 points, and the other two 1 point each. There's really no correlation between me giving two points or one point for these songs.

(2pt) Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
(2pt) Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
(1pt) Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
(1pt) Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon

By the way, Cruise Control was a pretty bad song in my opinion...

I missed a couple of these (more like 6/8), so this is the first time hearing a number of them.

Cruise Control - Yeah, I see why this gets the hate it does. How did it win? It has a couple segments of melody, but much of the track is just a muddy, atmospheric sound, with a decent beat. One of the weakest RR tracks I've heard, actually.

Wilderness - Very nice. I've always liked these kind of festive songs and the sitar(?) combined with the flute on the melody is dynamite. Honestly, no complaints...Great track.

Over the Frozen Sea - This about a step up from the Ridge Racer track in all aspects...Better melody, more interesting bassline, more vibrant synth...It's all a step up from the RR track. Unfortunately, that isn't saying a whole lot. I'm extremely surprised this won.

Shoot Into the Street - Boy, whoever nominated this has balls...A super-repetitive rock tune is sure to draw negative attention for either being super-repetitive or rock in general. It had no business beating out the Phantasy Star Medley, but it's enjoyable if you cut it off after about 2 minutes. I wish it developed a tad more instead of the (many) loops...It's on the verge of greatness, but falls short.

40 Year Plan - As I listen to more music, this type of jazz-fusion just doesn't do as much for me as it used to. Just...Too smooth and causes a headache now instead of being relaxing. Good for what it is, but I'm not really interested in it.

Mad Buffoon - Haha, YES! Quirkin turned up to 11. Funky bassline and great catchy melody. Very nice sequenced drums as well.

Dreams Come True Someday - Not the type of Suikoden I'm normally used to and I'm not so sure that's a good thing. This track is actually kind of boring. Like the 40 Years track, it's good for what it is, but it's just "there".

Seeking the Blue Fucking Sky - It's taken 88 weeks to score my first gold, now this sucker has a chance for two in a row. This was simply THE track that jumped out at me on the WA Vth Vanguard OST and I nominated it accordingly. Like the Digimon track, it's a really festive track, but the key is all in the melody. It can work in an RPG in a number of places, but it just has that instant catch to it. I suppose I should address one thing: I'm a noted bagpipe hater and this track has them in it. Truth is, I don't mind bagpipes when they're done right and not hogging center stage with loud, screechy notes (like most bagpipe-based tracks I've been asked to listen to)...Here, they're simply a nice background for the main flute and they provide nice harmonic support, which I have no problem with. I really didn't even associate the sound in this one with "traditional" bagpipe music. This is a far cry from that one annoying-as-all-fuck Arc the Lad song.

Yep, let's do this democratically...Here are my crooked politician-esque votes:

3 point - Seeking the Blue Sky
1 point - Wilderness
1 point - Mad Buffoon
1 point - Shoot into the Street

I hate these battles, too :><:

I'll vote for the konami trio, but I might change it along the week (also want to give points to suikoden):

3 points ~ Tobe! Polystars - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)
1 point ~ Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
2 points ~ Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?

Wait, does this mean that there is a showdown of sorts amongst the winners of each 8 battles?!

Sort of. We had a BSC/BCC-style "Song of the Year" contest between the first 52 first-place winners and a select few second-place finishers. I think that Battle winners had some special consideration in the contest (like winning ties) but it was some time ago.

http://wiki.songoftheweek.info/index...ng_of_the_Year

At this rate, we will have a second Song of the Year following Week 104.

Really? I had no idea that was your first! Congratulations are in order, and for what it's worth I'm pulling for ya in the Battle.

Great collection of winners we have here. Three stand tall above the rest.

2 points - Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?

2 points - Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon

2 point - Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)

Wonderful as well:
Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)
Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness

For what it's worth, Mo0 struggled similarly. He was deprived of the gold for weeks on end, and lamented openly on the subject. However, his luck changed when he nominated "Baba Yetu", which swept its week and the subsequent Battle.

So, I wouldn't doubt that lightning can strike twice and it could happen to you too, Goldfish.

Vote Change!

After further listen to Mad Buffoon, my inclinations have changed. http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/sh...038#post407038

Hey guys what's up. Got some awesome tunes here.

Wild Arms - 12 minutes of 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678 with GM quality samples. If something is going to be that long you know its either going to be epic or excessively played out and uninteresting, guess which one this is.

Ridge Racer 64 - Not bad for something that just melts into the background, good sound quality considering how crappy the N64's output was but it will take more than that to get any points.

Suikoden - This song is way too predictable, I could tell where it was going the whole time. Around 3:37 it starts to sound like "Training Montage" from Rocky IV (evidence) then goes into full posemode at 4:33 and I can't help but be reminded of how much I'd rather be listening to that song.

Sword Maniac - I loved this track to death when it came up a few weeks ago but my opinion of it quickly deteriorated.

Tobe Polystars & Total Vice - This most definitely sounds like something out of Ape Escape 3. That's not a bad thing once you get get past its cutesy sound.

Lethal Enforcers - It starts out with an awesome Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers intro then promptly dies.

Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team - This is the clear winner folks. Please direct all your votes here. If anyone could tell me where I could get the rest of this album that would be kickass.

Digimon Rumble Arena - It's kind of bland in some parts (especially the beginning) but it picks up later on. I could see someone arranging this into something amazing. I'll give it 1 point.

2 points Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard - Seeking the Blue Sky
2 points: Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
1 points: Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea
1 point: Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness

Also I have a nomination, I think it'll do well. Let me know if I'm doing it wrong or if you don't want my nomination ;)

Artist: KEN no SUKE SUEMURA
Album: Nano Breaker (Game Rip)
Title: Downtown
Disc: 1 (of 1 so far)
Track: 03
Cat#: N/A
Year: 2005
Source: http://www.sendspace.com/file/q2juf9

I think you might be confusing "Blue Sky" with "Blue Valley." "Blue Sky" is a lively ethnic tune that clocks in at under five minutes and won last week; "Blue Valley" is the 12-minute, totally uninteresting GM parade that took second.

Kuttlas, I think you have Seeking the Blue Sky mixed up with The Blue Valley from Uplink.

Additional Spam:
Jinx.

Upon actually listening to the correct Blue-something track I have determined that Seeking the Blue Sky is equal in :guitarist: to Forty Year Plan and I have revised my point spread as such.

Really awesome set, Cruise Control included. Though I'd give the points to the 3 winners I've enjoyed the most.

(2 points) Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness
(2 points) Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
(2 points) Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon

Someone? :(

3 points - Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
2 points - Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
1 point - Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?

Well, it sounds like an improvement, though I've long deleted the older mp3 to know for sure. The tracker is still marginally better (note the segment starting at ~3:30).

Would someone mind double-checking my work for me?

I've been trying to update the Voting Archive in the SoTW Wiki with data from Weeks 1-18, which are in the GFF backup database. When I was entering Week 2, I noticed that the numbers didn't seem to add up, and since that was back when people used a lot of different methods to allocate their points, it's concievable that there might have been confusion or a mistake.

SoTW Week 02

Voting Table

My math says that "Credits" should have tied "Dupon (Arrange)" and won by bonus point allocation, which would mean that "Credits," not "Chapter 1: Feena ~ First Step Towards Wars ~ Palace" should have taken third place that week. I have been known to screw math up from time to time, but I went back and re-checked every tally--so I need someone else to have a look.

But was the bonus point system in place so early in SotW's history? If not, then the results should remain as they are.

I don't know if it was or not, actually. Can anyone shed light on that?

If my math is right, both "Credits" and "Dupon (Arrange)" should have 14 points apiece in a tie, while "Chapter 1: Feena ~ First Step Towards Wars ~ Palace," the listed third-place winner, has 13.

So no matter the bonus point system in place, 3rd place would go to "Credits" or "Dupon (Arrange)" rather than "Chapter 1: Feena ~ First Step Towards Wars ~ Palace," the listed winner. If my math is right.

AFAIK, when bonus points first came about, they were used on every track, tie or not (I remember this all too well from Week 23,) and it wasn't until later that it became a tie-only thing, so if they weren't at all there, they wouldn't have been in play yet.

The kicker is, the winners that week had *no* listed point totals, just a ranking--I had to compute the numbers from scratch.

Before my time, so I can't say anything about the process. And I don't remember when the bonus points system started.

What I can tell you is that I did my own tally from the thread and got exactly the same results. So, your math is fine.

Well, since I'm going through and adding in the point totals for Weeks 1-18, and since I've already come across a second tie (this one for fifth place), it's pretty clear I need to do something.

I'll use the current bonus system for now and fire off a PM to Kaleb, see if he might have some more info.

Bonus points are not added to the voting point totals; the two values remain separate. Bonus points are only looked at when a tie-breaker is needed. However, near the beginning, it was preferred to leave voting open for an additional day or so before resorting to this. But anyway, weekly calculation of bonus points for a non-tie situation is irrelevant. As a reminder, the formula is as follows:
# of people who voted for the track + (# of people who awarded it three points / 2)

You can check some of the old spreadsheets for more info.


As for Week 02, I may have made a mistake. I counted Nites' votes by position rather than points, as he didn't specify, and his comments seemed to imply this. I'm still not sure what he really meant. If he was actually using points instead, then "Planescape: Torment - Credits" should have taken 3rd place. The only way to solve this is to ask him, I suppose. Or we could have a recall vote.

Ah, that clears a lot of things up; best of all, those Excel spreadsheets mean that I don't have to re-enter the data by hand and can fill in some of the destroyed weeks.

As far as Week 02 is concerned, I think the results have held for long enough that they shouldn't be changed; I'd rather just make a note in the Voting Archive. Since "Credits" was my nomination, I think it's better to leave it be to avoid a conflict of interest.

Here's how I gave out points:

(3 points) Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished

(2 points) Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control

(1 point) Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)

Wild Arms V came quite close to getting a point. Contrary to common opinion, I really like "Cruise Control". :P

(3 points) Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
(2 points) Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon
(1 point) Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness


Nomination:

• Composer: Yoko Kanno
• Album: Song to Fly
• Track Title: The Man in the Desert
• Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
• Track Number: 7
• Catalog Number: VICL-60159
• Year: 1998
• Additional Information: http://www.chudahs-corner.com/review...log=VICL-60159
• Source: http://www.chudahs-corner.com/soundt...log=VICL-60159

2 Points ~ Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
2 Points ~ Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
1 Point ~ Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
1 Point ~ Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon

Unfortunately, I had to dock one point from Seeking the Blue Sky since Mad Buffoon definitely deserved a little something. A great Battle, though - every track had something cool to offer. I, too, was disappointed with the victory of Cruise Control last week, but it wasn't bad at all when I gave it a few listens this week.

Bless your heart Elorin. Though I'm not surrprised everyone else is dumping on Cruise Control. I'm just as surprised it won as anybody else. Still, a win's a win's a win in my book.

(2 points) Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
(2 points) Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
(1 point) Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control
(1 point) Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness

The only song out of all these I voted for was Cruise Control. I did miss a couple weeks, but still... there were a lot of other songs I wanted to win over most of these winners.

Here's my points!

2 points - Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control
2 points - Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon
1 point - Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness
1 point - Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?

~~~POINTS~~~

2 pts ---> Seeking the Blue Sky
1 pts ---> Dreams Come True Someday
1 pt ---> Mad Buffoon
1 pt ---> Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
1 pt ---> Shoot into the Street

Ugh, this is why I hate trackers. Mind making a copy of the song with whatever player you're using (assuming it allows exportation)? You can drop off a copy in MP3 or WAV or whatever into the nominations folder and I can take care of the rest.

EDIT: VERY short comments right now.

2 pts. - Forty Year Plan, are you finished? - The highlight of all the songs for me. DH never fails to please with his jazzin' noms.
2 pts. - Mad Buffoon - My first gold! I really love this song's groove.
1 pt. - Seeking the Blue Sky - A pleasant song.
1 pt. - Wilderness - Wow, this is from a Digimon game? Pretty cool stuff.

Dreams Come True Someday was right in there with StBS and Wilderness for the 1 pt. considerations; it's unfortunate that I have no more points to give it. :-/

Damn, you got your first gold this cycle too? Congrats.

Maybe we need to keep statistics on "time from first nomination to gold." Both you and Goldfish were with us from the beginning, so that's 80+ SoTW's. Kind of sobering.

Maybe we should have people keep statistics on the amount of time between their first nomination and first gold.

You mind giving me 30mins or less?

EDIT: Not difficult, thanks.

3 points: Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
2 points: Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)
1 point: Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?

Yes. :mad:

(nah, wasn't going to close for a couple of hours yet)

I got my first gold this cycle, too, and was also here from the beginning (First nom was voted on in week 5, don't know what week I nominated it in.)

Voting is closed and nominations are restricted!

1). [22/13.5] Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! ~ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK~ - Forty Year Plan, are you finished?
2). [22/12.5] Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard Original Score Vol. 1 - Seeking the Blue Sky
3). [20] Sword Maniac - Mad Buffoon
4). [13] Suikoden - The Divine Oath - Dreams Come True Someday (Orchestra Version)
5). [12] Tobe! Polystars & Total Vice - Over the Frozen Sea (2nd BGM)
6). [11] Lethal Enforcers (Sega CD Red Book Audio) - Shoot into the Street
7). [10/8] Digimon Rumble Arena (Game Rip) - Wilderness
8). [10/5.5] Ridge Racer 64 (Game Rip) - Cruise Control

It may have fallen a touch short, but Cruise Control will win Song of the Year 2. You heard it here first.

Goddamn you _DH_, winning from beyond the grave when so many have gone winless for so long :(

Sure thing. Uploading it at the moment.

And congratulations to the legendary _DH_ once again! =0

So...close.

Oh well, at least I have one of my BSC nominations sewn up. Not sure if it'll do as good as Wind of Phantom, but I'm impressed by its' two-week performance.

Actually, I'm amazed Digimon didn't amass more points.

I actually like this idea, just out of sheer curiosity's sake. I know that Secret Squirrel has nominated only one track, "Graveyard Labyrinth", and it took gold.
Technically, that gives Secret Squirrel a 1.000% batting average, which is obviously as good as it gets.

I'm sure that others have decent numbers, as somebody obviously won Week 1 and took gold on their first attempt. Likewise, this probably held true for the winners of Week 2 and 3, depending upon how long it took for the nomination queue to recycle itself.


And the Suikoden track finished higher up than I thought it would've. Thanks for the last minute support, Liontamer!

I was actually thinking about starting a thread. Your Personal SotW Nomination History. I dragged out all my (soon to be) twenty and put them in chronological order on a winamp playlist. Now, the effort part, giving a run down on why I nominated each track and what place it took, eh, I've been equally too lazy and busy.

Week 2 gold belonged to me. It's all been downhill since.

Tracking individual success sounds like a fun idea. I joined up in week 65, and in 24 weeks of voting, not only have I had no golds, none of my noms have placed yet. I'd love to see if anyone has had the same levels of futility as me. (I haven't had any last places yet either, thankfully, so my noms aren't terrible...)

Speaking of BSC 2007. Maybe we ought to start talking about that. June is only three months away and Skate isn't going to get the ball rolling like normal.

But we haven't even finished up the Best Chiptune Contest.

I also recall seeing rumblings of discussion over another SotW "One Year Battle" like we had last year.

I'm beginning to wonder if the community's getting a little burned out on all these drawn-out song contests. Participation seems to dwindle with each successive event.

(Also supporting a SotW statistics thread.)

I'm interested, though it would take some effort to run through them all and find my noms.