Deep Fried In Kelvin

This Is Hardcore

Acrylic Afternoons

Inside Susan

Separations

an easy one for me this week.

Misshaped wrote:

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I must ask, how is it decided what goes against each other? Is it completely random, or is there a method to all of this?

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It's done in Excel, and it works like this:

Step 1 - Songs ranked (1 = imperial-phase single, 2 = other single, 3 = imperial phase album track, and so on)

Step 2 - List sorted by rank (shuffled first to avoid alphabetical sorting / give it the random element)

Step 3 - Bottom half of list cut and pasted next to top half

Step 4 - Pairs of songs voted on

Step 5 - After all pairs have been voted on, copy second column back  into first row and return to step 2

....and so on until there's only one song left.

So famous singles will generally be matched against album tracks, more obscure album tracks matched against live-only 80s tracks, etc.

....I did say this wasn't interesting, didn't I?

weej wrote:

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Misshaped wrote:

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I must ask, how is it decided what goes against each other? Is it completely random, or is there a method to all of this?

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It's done in Excel, and it works like this:

 

Step 1 - Songs ranked (1 = imperial-phase single, 2 = other single, 3 = imperial phase album track, and so on)

Step 2 - List sorted by rank (shuffled first to avoid alphabetical sorting / give it the random element)

Step 3 - Bottom half of list cut and pasted next to top half

Step 4 - Pairs of songs voted on

Step 5 - After all pairs have been voted on, copy second column back  into first row and return to step 2

....and so on until there's only one song left.

So famous singles will generally be matched against album tracks, more obscure album tracks matched against live-only 80s tracks, etc.

....I did say this wasn't interesting, didn't I?

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Not interesting? Sir, I feel as if I have peeled back the curtain and witnessed the magic happen.  

P.S. It seems that Sylvia is going to lose to Susan by a pinch, just as I expected really. It's probably for the best but I'm to miss that portentous old' gal.

RESULTS!

Deep Fried in Kelvin 11 vs The Day That Never Happened 1

This Is Hardcore 10.5 vs The Babysitter 1.5

Acrylic Afternoons 12 vs Simultaneous 0

Sylvia 3 vs Inside Susan 9

Separations 10 vs Nights of Suburbia 2