Top of the Charts (2011) (July)

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Original thread: viewtopic.php?t=151567

Welcome to Top of the Charts!

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Summary of Game Load and Charting

In each round you will play 2 sets of 5 games each for every single you have in the chart. So if you reach the Top 10 in Round 1, you can expect 2 sets of 10 games in Round 2 as you'll have two singles out.

Charting is based on number of wins, with tie-breaks settled by CC Score in Round 1, and in future rounds by how well the single charted in the previous round.

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This tournament has a musical theme and will consist entirely of 1v1 games on Random Map.

Premium only please (5 games at a time) with 97% attendance or higher.

All games will be:

1v1, Random Map
Automatic
Sequential
Escalating
Chained
Sunny

The Scenario

The plan between you and your record company is to release up to 5 singles over the year, as long as they do well!

Format

EDIT: Please see red text for edits to the format to make tiebreaks less common.

For each single you have in each round you will play 2 batches of 5 games against random opponents. You will score points for winning games, and bonus points for getting a high chart position at the end of the round. Everyone will start with 1 single, therefore 2x5 games per round.

There will be 12 rounds, one to represent each month of the year.

Outcome of Results

Starting in July:
If your single makes the Top 10, the record company are delighted and will rush out your next single (you can have up to 5 singles).

If your only current single fails to make the Top 25, your brutal record label drops you and you’re out of the tournament!

If a single fails to make the Top 15, your record label decide that they like you as an artist, but feel it was the wrong single, so it will be withdrawn from the shelves and your next single will be released instead. If you run out of singles, the record label feel you’ve run your course and you get eliminated.

show: June

show: January-May

Scoring

Points (sales) awarded for winning a game:

January: 500
February: 1000
March: 1500
April: 2500
May: 3500
June: 5000
July: 7500
August: 10000
September: 15000
October: 25000
November: 40000
December: 75000

Bonus Points (sales) awarded for high chart positions:

show: January

show: February

show: March

show: April

show: May

show: June

show: July

show: August

show: September

show: October

show: November

show: December

Tie-Breaks

In Round 1 (January), any ties will be settled by CC Score (see next post). After that, ties will be settled by who performed the best in previous rounds (most recent first). Songs that were not out in a prior month will be ranked as if they had earned half the maximum possible number of sales in that month, but no bonuses. Any meaningful ties still remaining will be broken via 1v1 round robin between the tied players.

Summary

Each round escalates, so more sales (points) are on offer as we go through the tournament. Bonuses for charting well will also increase through the tournament.

Monthly Chart Positions

show: July

show: June

show: January-May

Winning and the End of the Tournament

The winner of the tournament will be the player who has sold the most singles over the course of the year.

Signing Up

Here’s your chance to be creative! Please sign up with your band/artist name (this will be your username if you can’t think of anything!) and the titles of 5 singles.

Boring Stuff

All games must be joined within 3 invitations. If you are going to be away, please let me know so I can try and work around it, but I can't guarantee I will be able to and the tournament may move on.
Reserves will be welcome until the end of Round 3 (March). After that the number of players in the tournament will simply decrease.
I reserve the right to disqualify anyone from the tournament for foul play or unsportsmanlike behaviour.
If you can't think of names for your singles I'll give you a song title by the Spice Girls or an equally embarrassing artist.

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Overall Scoreboard

Total Artist Sales at the end of May (active artists only)

1 shoop76 [ shoop76 ] - 306700
2 The Avett Brothers [ dustin800 ] - 300950
3 YoBFelip [ YoBFelip ] - 228500
4 Gromph [ Gromph ] - 227700
5 jug68 [ jug68 ] - 192200
6 Bandiera Rossa [ Odeuminus ] - 148250
7 The Scarecrows [ chapcrap ] - 143900
8 nibotha [ nibotha ] - 139150
9 BluU [ BluU ] - 129500
10 Moncton Maniacs [ gubarretto ] - 115200
11 Britney Spears and Band [ jcarter1 ] - 107800
12 Journey [ osujacket ] - 102500
13 Steve The Mighty [ Steve The Mighty ] - 88450
14 Monkey Rehab [ drunkmonkey ] - 82600
15 douitashimashite [ douitashimashite ] - 80400
16 Skillet [ br4nd0n2002 ] - 65500

show: CC Scores that will be used for Tiebreaks

Scores taken between 18:50 and 19:05 UK Time (13:50 and 14:05 EDT) - Aug. 17, 2011

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June Sales Figures
After all 10 games each and bonuses

1 Can't Make You Love Me by Britney Spears and Band [ jcarter1 ] - 65000
2 Andante by Bandiera Rossa [ Odeuminus ] - 55000
3 Stone in Love by Journey [ osujacket ] - 50000
4 Song 3 by jug68 [ jug68 ] - 40000
5 Song 2 by The Avett Brothers [ dustin800 ] - 40000
6 Song 4 by the Avett Brothers [ dustin800 ] - 37500
7 Song 1 by YoBFelip [ YoBFelip ] - 37500
8 Pray for Mojo by Monkey Rehab [ drunkmonkey ] - 37500
9 Song 1 by The Avett Brothers [ dustin800 ] - 32500
10 Song 5 by shoop76 [ shoop76 ] - 32500
11 As You Wish by BluU [ BluU ] - 31000
12 Song 4 by Steve The Mighty [ Steve The Mighty ] - 31000
13 Song 2 by jug68 [ jug68 ] - 31000
14 Song 2 by nibotha [ nibotha ] - 31000
15 Song 1 by The Scarecrows [ chapcrap ] - 31000
16 Song 3 by Gromph [ Gromph ] - 31000
17 Song 4 by YoBFelip [ YoBFelip ] - 31000
18 Song 1 by shoop76 [ shoop76 ] - 26000
19 Hub City Party by Moncton Maniacs [ gubarretto ] - 26000
20 Song 4 by shoop76 [ shoop76 ] - 26000
21 Sarabanda by Bandiera Rossa [ Odeuminus ] - 25000
22 Song 4 by nibotha [ nibotha ] - 25000
23 Nobody Does It Better by Moncton Maniacs [ gubarretto ] - 25000
24 Balkan Boy by Rambo Amadeus [ uckuki ] - 20000
25 Song 2 by The Scarecrows [ chapcrap ] - 20000
26 Song 5 by Gromph [ Gromph ] - 20000
27 Song 5 by YoBFelip [ YoBFelip ] - 20000
28 Song 2 by shoop76 [ shoop76 ] - 20000
29 Monster by Skillet [ br4nd0n2002 ] - 20000
30 Song 1 by douitashimashite [ douitashimashite ] - 20000
31 Tying It Together by The End of the Rope [ evertonian ] - 20000
32 Song 2 by Gromph [ Gromph ] - 15000
33 Song 4 by jug68 [ jug68 ] - 15000
34 Communist Daughter by Neutral Milk Hotel [ friesuschrist ] - 15000
35 The Taking Tree by The Pizza Kings [ kgbpizza ] - 15000
36 Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel [ friesuschrist ] - 10000
37 I Didn't Read the Rules by BluU [ BluU ] - 10000
38 I Really Don't Recall by BluU [ BluU ] - 10000
39 Jimmy Jimmy by Nick Harper [ wrexham ] - 10000

show: May

show: April

show: March

show: February

show: January

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List of Artists

1. br4nd0n2002
2. HaireWolf1
3. osujacket
4. Britney Spears and Band (jcarter1)
5. Razorvich
6. ViperOverLord
7. Quickening Rises (HighlanderAttack)
8. The end of the rope (mr. CD - Replaced by solar evertonian in May)
9. wrexham
10. scottishleaf
11. Michael Jackson (SouthernWarrior)
12. Moncton Maniacs (brsteelers74) - Replaced by gubarretto in May)
13. Jajas prost (hagardunor) - Replaced by Lufsen75 before tournament started
14. shoop76
15. joeaggie98
16. Rambo Amadeus (uckuki)
17. nibotha
18. SuperWang
19. YoBFelip
20. PATMB
21. Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society (IcePack)
22. Neutral Milk Hotel (twbenson - Replaced by friesuschrist in May)
23. Faro
24. Monkey Rehab (drunkmonkey)
25. BluU
26. kgbpizza
27. jug68
28. Depeche Mode (sirron - Replaced by Foreverman in May)
29. The Living Dead (notyou2)
30. Gromph
31. Rotting Fungus (Captain Jack) - Replaced by MattiWacklin before tournament started
32. Odeuminus
33. douitashimashite
34. The Avett Brothers (dustin800)
35. totalacid1
36. DBandit70 - Replaced by Steve The Mighty before tournament started
37. Metallica (kroovi)
38. The Happily Violent (sempaispellcheck)
39. chapcrap
40. Steely Dan (Metsfanmax)
41. Tastes Like Chicken (saraith)
42. Pearl Jam (ckyrias - Replaced by topper musicalmaven in May)
43. Pedrox - Replaced by Zorbas before tournament started
44. Bleed_Green
45. herus
46. Mana Burn (Nikita42)
47. Mr Mouthy (dazza2008)
48. Springsteen (dorsettrob)
49. Divided by Stupid (dividedbyzero)
50. Maverick0711

Reserves

1. Steve The Mighty - Replaced DBandit70 before tournament started
2. FF Sake! (MattiWacklin) - Replaced Captain Jack before tournament started
3. Guano Apes (Zorbas) - Replaced Pedrox before tournament started
4. Lufsen75 - Replaced hagardunor before tournament started
5. Friesus (friesuschrist) - Replaced twbenson in May
6. Left for Dead (topper) - Replaced ckyrias in May, then withdrew
7. gubarretto - Replaced brsteelers74 in May
8. Social Distortion (kennys777) - Offered spot, did not take it
9. Pink Floyd (solar) - Replaced mr. CD in May, then withdrew - replaced by evertonian
10. musicalmaven - Replaced topper in May
11. The Lonely Island (soccerghost) - Offered spot, did not take it
12. Light Years (Foreverman) - Replaced sirron in May
13. therev1957
14. Rock Tonka (co-co)
15. Crimson Hammers (ZionT)
16. PrincipalFoe
17. akabob2
18. Cathode Ray and the Electric Beavers (stollmike)
19. vragus
20. Nocturnal Emissions (evilkingjay)

Please note: Any Reserves who do not get to play will be the first to be notified about the 2012 edition of this tournament.

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Statistics and such can be found here:

How well each song sold in each month: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... li=1#gid=0
(Each artist is on a different sheet)

I will no longer be keeping track of how well each song does during a given month - it has become a pain, and an unnecessary one at that.
Results will be tallied at the end of each month.

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In the 2 set of games that Tupence created for May, one artist played for more singles then he was supposed to have out (by my calculations), and two artists didn't play at all - with Tupence playing for only one of the two.

Therefore, once we fill the two remaining open spots, we will start playing from the beginning of May.

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Remaining spots have been filled, invites have been sent out, and we are underway!

whew.

[mcshanester29]

This Tournament is Still Active

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Next round of invites to go out later today.

[Gromph]

i have a missing opponent for my game #4

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i am waiting to see if I have to replace a player before I send out the invites for Game 1 of the second half of May.

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musicalmaven has replaced topper, who I still have not heard from.

First games of the second half of May have now been sent out.
I apologize for the delay, but as some of you may know, I am currently running 6 tournaments at once, and one of them in particular has been giving me a bit of a headache for the past week or so, so everything else kind of took a backseat.

My apologies, again, and I will do my best to ensure that this kind of thing does not happen again.
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[musicalmaven]

this is to inform you that i won game # 11544026 (game 2) against gromph.

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Unfortunately, it has happened - two lucky players have drawn Hive.
For those of you who have already finished your games, my apologies.
Please be patient - it may be a while before the next games are made.

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solar is having internet problems, and will be removed from the tournament.
evertonian will replace him.