Be Excellent To Each Other

Scores are up! Week 9 knockout round songs are up!

Shock upset! After scoring a mahoosive 21.5 out of 24 in the league rounds, Grim... is knocked out on a no-show! Mark X goes through in his place!

The only thing I care about is that I was knocked out -nay, annihilated- by Queen. The shame! I'd jump off a cliff, but with my luck I'd miss the ground.

Goodness me those are close scores.

Er, yeah.
Whoops?

"Default? Woo hoo! The two sweetest words in the English language!"

Oh Grim... you utter

Everyone, please vote. I mean it. Especially those of you who've been a part of the game. We're looking at 10ish people voting in each group, which is a bit rubbish when we started with 30+ players. And of course, everyone else can vote too!

Don't bother voting everyone. I won it already.

Get voting folks.

Not long to go now.

What Pundy and Zardoz said. All three rounds are very close, get your votes in. I'll close this at midnight, so a little more time for voting there.

I'm voting the way i've voted throughout, only for songs I like. I don't think I voted for more than 3 songs in any round, so there's no reason why that should increase now.

I voted on the one(s) I liked best out of the submitted songs.

Like everyone else I presume.

It was getting embarrassing.

Yes. Much better to go out this way.

You belmintrude.

Undefeated?

Unorganised.

The actual reason is that someone got me Portal 2 for my Birthday and it arrived that day.

Was it Mark X? Very cunning....

The votes are counted, and your finalists are Malc, Curiosity, Mr Russell, and Bluecup (because of a tie). However, I'm still missing some songs - and knocking out finalists at this stage for no-shows would be super-lame, so I'm allowing an extra 24 hours. Get it done, you lazy arses!

If only it had run a bit longer - all the votes are tied now!

Hah!

Having got to the final with some unashamedly popular songs in the knockout rounds, I think I'll pick something less well known for the final (and will inevitably lose).

Or you could just pick another song by Queen and win by a landsl(Now now now young man! I'm Officer Migginsley of the Bad Loser Police. Any more nonsense like that and you'll be accompanying me to the station!)

Fuck you, buddy.

Haha, yeah I know.

Aw, never mind, Grim...

Look at it this way - it's like... *cough* Adopts Shatneresque vocal mannerism

It's like every rose. Has it's... thorn.
It's like. Every. Night. Has it's... dawn.
It's like every. Goddamn. Cowboy. Sings a sad, sad. Song.
It's like. Every. Rose. Has it's thorn.

(Applause. Fade to black.)

Final round! Go!

Neck and neck going into the final straight! Get voting, people!

BAM! There it is folks! Your winner, after 11 weeks of voting is.....Malc and Bluecup! It's a tie!

Congrats to those two, and thanks to everyone for taking part.

Special awards:

Storming performance in the preliminaries, then belmed it all up by forgetting to enter a round 10 song: Grim...
Managed to submit a song in a grand total of 2 out of 8 preliminary rounds: WTB

Thanks everyone!

I thought we had until Thursday?

Malc

I thought we had longer too... erm... I didn't vote.

I demand a play off to determine the actual winner.

Playoff.... Playoff... Playoff.... Playofff.....!

Oh fuck, I said Thursday.

Erm. That was a trial run winners' announcement! April fool!

Now go and vote.

Who are you going to choose as the winner then?

Every Rose has it's Thorn.

I can vote for that can't I?

And now it really is all over. Congrats to Mr Russell, who staged a dramatic comeback to steal the win on the last day with Europe's The Final Countdown.

Thanks all!

Jesus.

Thanks for hosting, Craster. However, I'm glad i didn't win when The Final Fucking Countdown is the winning song. There's some real music-related issues going on here. You should all be ashamed.

To be fair, I doubt it would've won if Craster hadn't belmed it up earlier in the week and called it a draw.

I think there was a tremendously large amount of jocular voting switches.

God bless those Joculs.

Too right. Do I get a new custom title of "Song Wars Champion" now?

Or Song Wars "Champion"

'Banned'

We held the prizegiving early this morning. Here's the moment when Russ lifts the trophy for the first time

No.

Constructive Criticism: could have done with a day or so gap between the knockout rounds, its just a bit odd otherwise. Oh, and I think it'd be better to have each person in a group pick a theme for a round, so that everyone gets a go, and no-one ends up picking loads, as I'm guessing that gets a little old.

I did make a point of rotating who chose the themes, as you're right getting the same person to do it each week would have been dull in cases. Probably right about the knockouts - having people submit a song even if they didn't know they'd gone through was a little strange.

I think it went on too long. 11 weeks is a long time, and I think the voting towards the end showed that fatigue was setting in. It's definitely going to be a good idea to automate it in future - hunting through PMs for youtube links and building them into threads is tedious, and I think it could be automated pretty easily.

Spreadsheet of Oh God What Am I Doing With My Life, for anyone interested:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... jZpd1JHNlE