Hello! Today we will be putting two (or more) bad bitches against each other, in the BEST UNDERTALE SONG tournament!
Whereupon all 101 songs in the soundtrack compete to see which is the best!
The tournament was HEAVILY seeded to make sure no songs get steamrolled, and as a result your favorite songs probably won't join the bracket until the fifth round out of nine. (bracket here)
I was going to make each round last a week, but that would take an eternity, so maybe not? We'll see!
There will be a revival poll featuring every knocked out song EVERY ROUND, so your fave has a good chance of being resurrected.
In case of a tie, one of the songs will be added to another battle. (love loses)
There will be "show results" options on every poll.
The first round will begin next Sunday.
Should the rounds be:
Always a day long
Always a week long
Rounds 1-4 a day, Rounds 5-9 a week
All rounds a day long except for the finals and semifinals (rounds 8 & 9)
It's not the first week of February, nor is it 10 days after April 20th, but the Undertale OST Tournament is back!
Please, spread the word, because Stage 2 is starting soon!
I will not be rerunning the previous 11 knockout-stage posts: Death By Glamour, Dogsong, Last Goodbye, Spear of Justice, Bonetrousle, Nyeh Heh Heh, Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap, CORE, Spider Dance, It's Raining Somewhere Else, and Metal Crusher are all moving on. I'll do the rest of Round 1, then we'll be onto Round 2, and so forth until the end of the tournament!
Then, we might finally be able to move on to a more complicated tournament. >;]
As I've said before, I'm no longer going to be doing propaganda, with some exceptions: I'll answer asks, and if you say something especially interesting I'll also reblog it. Otherwise, no tag sceenshots, no dedicated propaganda posts. They were a fun idea, but it just took up too much time.
I'm probably not the first person to do this, but I decided I wanted to, and so I will.
Tournament Layout
The tournament will be split into two stages.
In the first stage, polls containing 4 songs will be posted. Each will last a week, and there will be 25 polls in total, one posed a day. This means Stage 1 will take about a month to complete.
The winner and second place in each poll will move onto Stage 2. The top 14 third place songs (as decided by the proportion of the votes they recieved) will also move on.
I've tried to partially seed the groups, placing one of the 25 most popular (to me, you may disagree with the choices) Undertale songs into each group.
In Stage 2, there will be several rounds of single elimination, going from 64 to 32 to 16 and 8 and 4 and 2 and finally the best Undertale song. I can't say anything for certain about how I'll post these, and there may be a short break between the end of Stage 1 and the start of Stage 2.
Feel free to send in propaganda for your favourite tracks.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where's Megalovania!?
Megalovania is by far the most popular Undertale song, and we all know it would win the whole tournament if entered. Hence, I've removed it from the list. This also has the additional bonus of giving exactly 100 tracks to work with.
I also may or may not run a quote-unquote "thug finals" after the winner is crowned, to see if MEGALOVANIA really would have beaten it.
Where's Mad Mew Mew/Wrong Number etc.?
This tournament is being run using only the tracks from the official Undertale OST. However, I may eventually do a tournament for ALL Undertale and Deltarune (and Homestuck) songs, and if so, Mad Mew Mew will definitely feature.
Who are you?
I doubt many people will ask this, but my main is @airprime7. I don't really post Undertale content there, but I enjoy the game and especially the music.
Tagging other Tournament blogs, because that seems to be general etiquette for this?
@tournament-winners-tournament @tournament-announcer @who-do-i-know-this-man @autismswagsummit @overworkedblorbobattle @ao3femslashtop100-tournament @characterswithgodsnamesbattle @queerplatonicshipshowdown @best-transgender-character probably a bunch of others i cant find, someone please tag the sexyman and sexywoman tournaments too I can't find them either.
Also @doyoulikethissong-poll because they're a song-related poll blog.
