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@vg-soundtrack-showdown
Congratulations to our victors - Undertale/Deltarune and Professor Layton!
Thank you everyone for your participation! This is where the Video Game Soundtrack Showdown ends for now, but I hope to run another tournament in the future. Hope y'all stick around for whatever I decide to do next and feel free to check out some stuff related to the tournament below.
Major Bracket Playlists
Minor Bracket Playlists
Nomination Spreadsheet
Very Accurate Meme
Tournament Data To Come
Inspired primarily by @bestgameostcrownduel and the video game tracks submitted to @its-to-the-death's Villain Song Showdown, I'm making a video game track tournament!
Rules:
Just to be clear, I'm referring to individual tracks/songs, not full soundtracks!
Tracks should be official/come from an actual game. So no fan songs, and no K/DA situations.
Related to the above, music that was created specifically for (and used in) rhythm games is allowed, but no pre-existing songs or covers of them that happened to be used in rhythm games.
Though I hope this should go without saying, I wonāt be allowing any tracks from games from the Harry Potter franchise. Iām also not allowing tracks from the series The Last of Us, and may disallow other series/games if I feel the need.
Please donāt spam the submissions with the same track multiple times, but feel free to submit as many different ones as you want.
I do require a link to the track. If you canāt find (or upload) it anywhere online, itās not getting in, sorry.
The rules may be updated if I remember anything important Iāve left out, but thatās all of them for now. So beyond that, go wild! Iām tentatively setting the end date for the submission period to February 25; it may be extended depending on how many submissions I receive.
Submissions go here! (make sure you've read the rules!)
Tags for visibility under the cut!
Villain Song Showdown Submissions
Hello! Do you have an evil little guy who sings an evil little song? Well, this tournament will find out which evil song slaps the hardest.
Some quick rules for submissions:
Must be sung by an antagonist/villain
Must be an official song for the media. (Sorry but no fan songs as good as they may be)
I will also take instrumental themes for villains.
Please don't spam one submission.
Otherwise, you can submit songs from shows, movies, plays, albums with their own lore, or any other place! The size of the bracket will be determined based on how many submissions I get so don't be afraid to put in as many as you want.
Submissions will close on December 10 at 12:00am EST (midnight).
Submit your evilest songs!
Tagging some cool tournaments I'm following right now to help spread the word: @cinderpoll @namedafterflowerstournament @episodeoftv @gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat @booktomoviebrawl @yen-sids-tournament @fuck-you-upmusicbracket
Hello, and welcome to the best game OST crown duel, where your favourite games get to battle to the death for the crown and title of having the best soundtrack among all the other competitors!
Submissions are open! Go wild, and if you don't understand some of the wording used, I'll be happy to clarify!
However, please remember: this bracket is about the games with the best *soundtrack*, not the best game. I feel like this might go without saying, but reminders are always helpful.
Okay, so to cover the rules, in no particular order:
I, as the owner of this blog, will not be voting in anything. You even have my word on this, even though I like pressing buttons.
Bigots stay away (Zionists, racists, islamophobes, misogynists, ableists, etc).
Only submit games that have an audible or in-game soundtrack, obviously.
Idol/rhythm games are not allowed, sorry!
If it's a franchise, then you'll have to submit a specific game from that franchise.
Popular IPs are allowed.
I may not let some games in if they promote hateful content or are severely controversial. If the decision is difficult, I'll host a poll for whether it gets in. The Last of Us, Harry Potter, and South Park games are never getting in, btw.
Be respectful.
You may submit campaigns for your favourite game soundtrack in the asks or in the submission form.
And with that, let the games begin! Have fun and send in any concerns you may have :]
Welcome to the Epic Song Lyrics Showdown!
General Information:
Is there a song lyric that fucks you up? That you can never get out of your head? That you have complex thoughts about daily? Then this is for you.
If itās not a lyric, no worries. You can also submit cool instrumental bits, cool vocals, basically anything cool that happens only for a bit in a song.
So how much can we submit?
You can submit as many songs as you want, also as many lyrics from a song as you want. We will have multiple lyrics from the same song in the showdown probably. (The exception to this would be possibly some consolidation or maybe some elimination rounds for equity, but itās not limited to just one lyric). In terms of length, basically donāt just submit the whole song, otherwise youāre good. As an example: the 35 āKnow itās for the betterā in Waiting Room by Phoebe Bridgers, thatās fine. As long as itās not the whole song we donāt care.
How long will submissions be open?
Weāre not totally sure. In our other showdowns weāve run weāve had submissions open for months, but we donāt think thatās gonna happen here. We will probably run at least a 128, but are willing to get as big as we need to. There will be at least 24 hour notice before we close submissions.
What canāt be entered?
Thereās not anything specific that canāt be entered, just know we do reserve the right to just not include some submissions. As we will not be publishing a list of song lyrics that have been entered until right before we get the showdown started, if you want to know if your song/lyric got in, shoot us an ask.
How to submit song lyrics:
There is a google form linked. If you donāt want to use the google form you can shoot us an ask with the song, artist, lyric, where it can be found, and why you like it if you want.
Song Lyrics that fuck you up.
What is the best animated fight?
Special thanks to @dumbass-duo-showdown @transgenderswagcompetition @tournament-of-x @top-fictional-unhinged-women @fandomanimatic-tournament @ygo-monster-type-tournament
We're here to discuss what animated fight kicks the most ass. Is the the Agni Kai between Zuko and Azula? Naruto vs Pain? Only one way to find out.
Lets get it trending with #best animated fight
If you wanna create fanart use #best animated fight art
Rules! 1. Western and Eastern fights do apply so long as they're animated 2. If it's a fight from a tv series you must name the episode(s) and if it's the the first round or not. 3. If they fought more than once in a movie try to tell me what part they fight in it. 4. Please remember this is for fun. No starting actual fights
Now lets get it on!
Created by @a-r-finch
Best Animated Fight
when the boss music slaps but youāre tryin not to die
me listening to a musical about the most terrible heartwrenching tragic fucked up shit to ever exist
The VIDEOGAME SOUNDTRACK SHOWDOWN bracket is about to start, once I finish putting together the actual polls...
These are the round one match-ups, stay tuned!
Best Overplayed Song Bracket (part two) - round two
full playlist here
Side A
the sound of silence vs. dreams
low vs. jolene
take me to church vs. smooth
billie jean vs. cigarette daydreams
what's up? vs. tiny dancer
wake me up when september ends vs. drops of jupiter
killer queen vs. welcome to the black parade
escape (the pina colada song) vs. californication
free fallin' vs. roxanne
american pie vs. you spin me round
everybody wants to rule the world vs. stairway to heaven
stacy's mom vs. don't stop me now
seven nation army vs. the chain
highway to hell vs. eye of the tiger
zombie vs. livin' on a prayer
Side B
careless whisper vs. unwritten
little lies vs. dancing queen
hey soul sister vs. get lucky
oops!... i did it again vs. a thousand miles
wake me up vs. toxic
born this way vs. before he cheats
tik tok vs. dynamite
fireflies vs. truth hurts
running up that hill vs. ...baby one more time
rolling in the deep vs. dog days are over
thnks fr th mmrs vs pompeii
mr. blue sky vs. video killed the radio star
total eclipse of the heart vs. viva la vida
YMCA vs. pumped up kicks
africa vs. take on me
view previous bracket here
going back to leitmotifs from a few days ago but please know sonic also has leitmotifs??? that is a common musical technique used??? this is from an undertale sweeper btw like undertale has amazing songs and im so glad it won but like they dont own leitmotifs š
Fair point, though I think itās more of an association thing. Like if I were to pick out the best/most iconic part of Sonic music, Iād think of itās vocal tracks before how it uses recurring themes (granted, I am a Nintendo girlie and not too too familiar with Sonic).
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For the ask game?
š©» Whatās the best piece of propaganda youāve gotten from this tourney?
My favorites were definitely the ones where people were just gushing about how good their favorites are and what makes them special. Any song can slap but additional context can make you appreciate it more. The fact that thereās a made up language just for the songs in Nier and they hand carved flutes for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is incredible and will never leave me.
Video Game Soundtrack Showdown Playlists - Minor Bracket
Professor Layton series
The World Ends With You series
Transistor
Mad Rat Dead
Project DIVA series
ULTRAKILL
Rhythm Heaven series
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Celeste
Kid Icarus Uprising
DOOM series
Rain World
Miitopia
Night in the Woods
Xenoblade Chronicles series
Ghost Trick
Video Game Soundtrack Showdown Playlists - Major Bracket
Undertale/Deltarune
Sonic the Hedgehog series
Splatoon series
Kirby series
Portal series
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series
Legend of Zelda series
Ace Attorney series
Hollow Knight
Minecraft
Super Mario Galaxy series
Persona series
Final Fantasy series
Nier series
Pokemon series
Hades
Ask game, mostly āam mid-way/finished running a bracketā edition because Iām bored:
š¬ Which character(s) did you originally have in mind when making this tournament?
š§¢ Were there any characters you predicted would win that actually ended up loosing?
š§Are you running/have you ran any other tournaments? If so, which ones?
š Which, if any, was your favorite matchup and why?
šAre there any fandoms you found out existed via this tournament that youād now be interested in checking out?
šWhatās your favorite part about running this tournament?
šæ Which character(s) sweeps took you most by surprise?
š«Do you plan on running any other different tournaments after this one?
š©» Whatās the best piece of propaganda youāve gotten from this tourney?
š½Favorite image(s) youāve used in a poll?
Feel free to ask me any of these! (:
I understand that Sonic songs slap, but the thing is the Undertale songs are fucking MASTERFULLY woven together. Look up "undertale leitmotif* flowchart" and you will see just how wonderfully interconnected the whole game is in terms of its music. Hell, Undertale has a whole PAGE on the Fandom wiki dedicated to leitmotifs. A whole page! Just for listing the leitmotifs and where they appear! Sonic songs are good, yes, but Undertale deserves to win due to how woven together it is. I swear, the song Undertale makes me fucking bawl my eyes out.
*A leitmotif is a musical melody that appears several times throughout the soundtrack, used to represent a person, place, or thing. Watch Sideways's videos and you'll get it nsdfgdkfds
UNDERTALE SWEEP!
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Are we not going to get a final final fight between the winner of the minor and the winner of the major bracket after this?
Honestly, Iām kinda torn on whether or not I want to do it. Cause on the on hand, it makes sense. But on the other hand, UTDR has been crushing everything itās gone against and Iām worried it would be kinda anticlimactic.
Definitive answer time - Iāll admit that the major bracket final isnāt as one-sided as I thought itād be. However, the match is still getting like 3-4 times as many votes as the minor bracket final, so I still think a final final fight would be a not very interesting/competitive/fun finale.
