Post by Vizier on Jun 2, 2010 22:27:06 GMT -5
Yes, yes, the time has come! After two and a half long months of polling, we have the finalists to crown the Wrestlecrap forum's Best Hot 100 #1 of ALL TIME! In case you don't know what I've been doing, I went through and did a poll of each #1 song from the Billboard Hot 100 from it's inception in August of 1958, all the way to the current #1 song. With each year's poll the winner (or winners in case of a tie) qualified to the champion's bracket. The bracket will proceed in this thread, until we crown a winner!
Here's how the bracket was formed:
Songs were seeded based on how much of a vote percentage they got in their year's poll. If a song was "more definitively the best" song of it's year, it got seeded higher. For example, the overall #1 seed of the bracket, "Lose Yourself" by Eminem, won 2002's poll with 10 of 13 votes, or 76.9%. This rewards songs that won handily and "punishes" songs that tied for victory with a lower seed. The lowest seeds were part of a 5-way tie for victory in 1982's poll, all receiving 2 of 15 votes, yet still winning.
Due to the amount of years (53) and the amount of ties, we have 80 songs in the bracket. In contrast to the ideal 64, as seen in the NCAA Basketball tourney. Fortunately, for the 4 "regions", 80 divides evenly down to 20, so each corner has 20 songs. The matchups in the first round will be 4 1v1 matches, and 4 1v1v1's, with the following seeds being paired:
1vs20
2vs19
3vs18
4vs17
5vs15vs16
6vs13vs14
7vs11vs12
8v9v10
In theory, the lower ranked songs "should" be easier for the high seeds to beat, similarly to the NCAA tourney, and the "middle seeds" have hard matchups (due to each song needing to beat two others).
The matches will be conducted in a style similar to the NFL Draft Bust tournament, currently being played out on this very forum, with matches being posted in this thread, by me. The benchmark for victory will be FOUR votes. First to FOUR wins and advances. In the case that, say, overnight a song hits four, but the other song comes from behind and wins, I'll be advancing the one with more votes at the time of my availability to post. In addition, if there's a tie above four, first to four wins.
With that, The first match of the first round will be posted in this topic in a moment. Happy voting, happy discussing, and thank you all for your support of this little project
Here's how the bracket was formed:
Songs were seeded based on how much of a vote percentage they got in their year's poll. If a song was "more definitively the best" song of it's year, it got seeded higher. For example, the overall #1 seed of the bracket, "Lose Yourself" by Eminem, won 2002's poll with 10 of 13 votes, or 76.9%. This rewards songs that won handily and "punishes" songs that tied for victory with a lower seed. The lowest seeds were part of a 5-way tie for victory in 1982's poll, all receiving 2 of 15 votes, yet still winning.
Due to the amount of years (53) and the amount of ties, we have 80 songs in the bracket. In contrast to the ideal 64, as seen in the NCAA Basketball tourney. Fortunately, for the 4 "regions", 80 divides evenly down to 20, so each corner has 20 songs. The matchups in the first round will be 4 1v1 matches, and 4 1v1v1's, with the following seeds being paired:
1vs20
2vs19
3vs18
4vs17
5vs15vs16
6vs13vs14
7vs11vs12
8v9v10
In theory, the lower ranked songs "should" be easier for the high seeds to beat, similarly to the NCAA tourney, and the "middle seeds" have hard matchups (due to each song needing to beat two others).
The matches will be conducted in a style similar to the NFL Draft Bust tournament, currently being played out on this very forum, with matches being posted in this thread, by me. The benchmark for victory will be FOUR votes. First to FOUR wins and advances. In the case that, say, overnight a song hits four, but the other song comes from behind and wins, I'll be advancing the one with more votes at the time of my availability to post. In addition, if there's a tie above four, first to four wins.
With that, The first match of the first round will be posted in this topic in a moment. Happy voting, happy discussing, and thank you all for your support of this little project