I vote Gershwin

Gershwin

Holly: 8
Gershwin: 7

Bump for continued voting

Bump

OBI MAKE IT TWO AT A TIME DAMNIT WHY DO YOU RUIN EVERYTHING?

holly

Why two at a time?

And damn it, ssoren! I meant "Bump" so Gershwin could take the lead! :p

Holly: 9
Gershwin: 7 (come on, people!)

@obi: Because two at a time is doable, and much more expedient, even if we only do it for the first round or two.

Yeah, just do three tomorrow and then two per day moving forward. This tournament will take almost nine months if you don't.

Oh, shit, lol...good point...

OK, so two at a time from the same group, or do we want a bit of variety and do two groups at once (we can start another thread for the other group.)

Also, come on, Gershwin people!

you might as well do 4 per day

I'd be in favor of doing two groups at once just to vary it. I'd actually suggest that you make threads for rounds rather than groups. It's more fun to go round by round and we don't want to flood the forum with threads.

Yeah. Make a thread by round, and we can do the match-ups from A&B one day and C&D the next. However, three match-ups tomorrow to catch-up would be nice.

I think one thread per group would be fine, just give us the matchups and we're smart enough to follow along. Oh, and BUMP.

OK, I'll do that, so look out for this and the other thread tomorrow, and we'll do one here and two there to catch up.

This is like having Ken Blackwell run the voting. I feel like as soon as Obi's favs get a majority he'll close the voting.

Obi, please keep it to one thread. More than that will clog the forum, and arranging the threads by groups doesn't make a lot of sense.

Putin...you weren't here for the Greatest Author Tournament.

So maybe that's why that one was so much fun, I don't know...

But my candidate lost--TWICE. To Vergil (acceptable) and J.K. Rowling (which...I like J.K., but come on...she'd be to concede to the Bard.)

The furthest any of my candidates got was Virginia Woolf (surprisingly enough...she somehow made the Elite 8 in a field of 64...how she did that, I don't know...talent, genius, a couple soft opponents--you be the judge! Oh, wait, it's you--you've already pre-judged.)

Anyway, point is, the voting ends (roughly) 24 hours after each cycle...regardless of whether Gershwin (who should totally win this and is one of my guys) looks poised to lose by two.

And if you don't like it when I bring up the fact you're a fan of *insert terrible dictatorship here,* maybe you should do your own due diligence and avoid pissing on ME whilst we have a good time listening to music and talking about it...FOR FUN.

Can you do that, Putin, hm? Can you stuff your smugness...for once?

And OK, by round it is.

meh who cares Kanye is the GOAT and will win this

i'm with pe on this one.

This isn't close: Gershwin beats the entire Holly catalogue with the opening bars of Rhapsody in Blue all on it's own. The rest is gravy.

It's midnight,looks like Holly wins (really, guys?).

Obi, the nitpicky side of me kind of wants a new thread with a typoless title reflecting the change in process, but feel free to ignore that request.

Which I think bring the count to Holly 9, Gershwin 8 - a miscarriage in the making, to be sure.

And so...sadly...this tourney begins the same way the last one did...

With one of my guys losing! lol...damn it...I've got the Blue Monday Blues now too, Gershwin! (Even if it's now Friday.)

But it's Buddy Holly that moves on...

So, from the other three Groups in the Round of 128 (I guess?)--

Group Mid 90s-Now:

PE's boy Kanye West vs. The New Pornographers (whoever the hell they are...honestly, I don't know most of the names from this era, lol.)

Group 80s-Mid 90s:

Portishead vs. Foo Fighters

Group 60s-70s:

Frankie Valli vs. Black Sabbath

Yeezus
Foo Fighters
Black Sabbath

Foo & Sabbath, abstaining on the 'Now' pairing.