Ultimate Battle of The Beatles

Cheers Necro!

Format of the tournament will be as follows.

Kicks off around 20:00 this evening assuming I get the kids to bed and nothing unexpected crops up.

In round 1, there are 92 groups with 2 songs per group.

I will post them in blocks of 4, so in each post there will be 8 songs and people pick their preferred choice from each of the 4 and post their picks on thread.

People will obviously have their favourites but Im conscious of overloading so Im thinking making 2 posts per night to allow people to give a listen or two to some of the lesser known songs. That would equate to 16 songs per day for 12 days to get us past round 1. Votes will be counted for a 24 hour period only.

The winners from Round 1 will be entered into an open draw for round 2 and so on until we whittle it down to the top two songs.

Im thinking for the final, we will have a secret vote as in people will PM me their pick, allow 48 hours for people to decide then have the reveal. For the sake of transparency, once the winner is revealed I will post on thread who voted for what song.

I will abstain from voting in any of the rounds but will cast the deciding vote in the event there is a tie in any of the rounds.

Looking forward to kicking it off and hopefully people discover something new, its hard to top finding new songs to stick on repeat!

May the best Beatle win!!

quickbeam wrote: »

Sounds good. Will the songs be seeded? You don't necessarily want potentially the two most popular songs against each other in the first round and one getting knocked out immediately. Or if no seeding, then maybe consider a second chance round where all the losers from Round 1 are voted for and 2 (say) get to go in to roud 2?

Nope, no seeding, just a straight shoot out.

I toyed with the idea of having seeds but tbh that just gives (imo) an unfair advantage to the heavy hitters. By not having seeds it means people really have to consider their choices and that in essence is what this is all about, getting the consensus of what is their best song overall.

Could maybe have a second chance for round 1 only where 2 songs that are eliminated in round 1 can get back in for round 2 based on a second vote. Let me think about it and I will finalise something before we kick off.

Its 20:00, the kids are in bed, and we are ready to go.

Group A

I'm a Loser



Vs

Another Girl



I'm Happy Just to Dance With You



Vs




Long, Long, Long



Vs

Come Together



Tomorrow Never Knows



Vs

Honey Pie



Group A
I'm a Loser vs Another Girl
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You vs Dear Prudence
Long, Long, Long vs Come Together
Tomorrow Never Knows vs Honey Pie

Collie D wrote: »

Apologies if you’ve explained this but I’ve scanned the thread and can’t see it but won’t that leave you with uneven numbers?

92 Round 1 winners and 2 wild cards is 94. So after Round 2 we’ll be down to 47 songs.

Looking forward to this by the way.

Ballbag, you are correct!!

Damn you Quickbeam!!!!!!!

:pac::pac::pac:

Ok, we will amend it to the top 4 from those eliminated after round 1 will be added to round 2. That should even it out?

Group B

Something



vs

Till There Was You



The Word



vs

If I Needed Someone



Let It Be



vs

I'll Cry Instead



I Want To Tell You



Vs

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da



Group B
Something vs Till There Was You
The Word vs If I Needed Someone
Let It Be vs I'll Cry Instead
I Want to Tell You vs Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da