....I just... had trouble making up my mind, that's all.

VOTED!

Nah man, I said "what?" at my apparent polling gaffe. Some of these were very hard for me to vote on, as well.

Damn, this is hard. I'll try to vote when I can, but I'll skip if I really can't decide.

Edit: For example, I'm skipping S.Y.L. vs. Underneath The Waves

Edit 2: For Kingdom vs. Hide Nowhere, do live versions count, too? I really dislike the Physicist production, which would make me like Hide Nowhere more, but as a song, Kingdom blows Hide Nowhere away for me.

Edit 2: For Kingdom vs. Hide Nowhere, do live versions count, too? I really dislike the Physicist production, which would make me like Hide Nowhere more, but as a song, Kingdom blows Hide Nowhere away for me.

I don't see why not. In my case, I voted based on what the song means to me. For example, Deadhead vs. By Your Command. I love Deadhead, but By Your Command is just so much fun for me, so it really depends on how I felt when I voted. And since I just listened to Accelerated Evolution in its entirity (again), that would probably change again.

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Ki vs. Deconstruction in the first round is brutal. The two climaxes of the project? FIGHT.

Ki vs. Deconstruction in the first round is brutal. The two climaxes of the project? FIGHT.

That match is one of the most interesting ones for me to track as this week progresses. For me, it was easy; Deconstruction wins by a mile. But it'll probably be really close.

Ki vs. Deconstruction in the first round is brutal. The two climaxes of the project? FIGHT.

That match is one of the most interesting ones for me to track as this week progresses. For me, it was easy; Deconstruction wins by a mile. But it'll probably be really close.

Cool, for me Ki wins by a mile

Okay, who voted for Material over The Death of Music... Come on, own up.

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Okay, who voted for Material over The Death of Music... Come on, own up.

Seriously.

Material is my 2nd-favorite song on Physicist. The Death of Music is roughly my fourth or fifth favorite song on Ocean Machine. And yet I still didn't do it. I'm far more surprised by the fact that Christeen is posterizing Planet Rain. Granted, I voted for Christeen, but still.

EDIT: I'm also surprised by how much ass Deadhead is kicking against By Your Command. The way I'm looking at it, By Your Command was the only song that had a chance at stopping Deadhead from an Elite 8 (and quite possibly beyond) run.

[swervedriver]

Blackberry vs Sumeria
Ki vs Deconstruction
Color Your World vs Canada
By Your Command vs Deadhead
Triumph vs Nobody's Here

Those were my tough match-ups this round. I've bolded the ones I eventually went with.

Also boo to Love? beating Detox.

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Yeah Love?'s cool and all, but screw that business.

Yeah Love?'s cool and all, but screw that business.

Love is up by 1 vote, and there's still like five days left in voting. So if you want Detox to win, just link this to all of your City loving buddies

EDIT: I am really impressed with what The Way Home! has done against Mighty Masturbator thus far. I absolutely adore that song. But Namaste is getting destroyed by Truth.

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Feels weird that there's no Vampira.

I was surprised by many and more of the results so far as I went down through that list... Should be interesting to see how it all pans out. Lots of reeeeally close ones in there.

Feels weird that there's no Vampira.

I was surprised to find that so few people considered Vampira a favorite of Synchestra, which is why that song wasn't even close to making the field for this tournament. In that particular regional, I think the first song that just missed the cut was Slow Me Down.

EDIT: Waking up this morning, the most shocking result that I'm seeing is easily Canada leaping over Color Your World by one vote. Make no mistake, I think Canada is a great song, but I was under the impression that Color Your World was one of those songs that nearly everyone loves.