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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Epsilon

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.

Originally Posted by GoldfishX

It's taken 88 weeks to score my first gold, now this sucker has a chance for two in a row.

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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by kuttlas

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.

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by KyleDunamis

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Drakken

2 pts. - Mad Buffoon - My first gold!

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?