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Sonicjedi12 wrote:

Morpheus414 wrote: That sounds like a good idea. I propose that zones/levels with multiple acts (Say, Angel Island or Skyscraper Scamper) should get counted as one, to help further consolidate the data.

And Eggman Rox nailed this premise--EVERYONE has Live & Learn or City Escape at the top of their list. Quite literally everyone. I briefly considered excluding those two, but that would be going the wrong direction. So maybe if it's separated by type(instrumental level themes, character/appearance themes, vocal themes, hub/menu themes--unless we're not doing those) and just single elim. those until we eventually come up with something from each bracket going against each other. I like that idea of having the lyrical and instrumental songs separate, that would give us the opportunity to have all (or a large majority) of the lyrical songs, and an equal amount of level themes. We would have what seems like 2 different tournaments; one of lyrics, and one of instruments. Once the 2 brackets have a single representative, the winner of both brackets face each other; winning lyrical song vs. winning instrument song. I predict Live and learn but if this is anything like last tourney, Sonic heroes would surprisingly win.

My only question is: what do songs like "Vela Nova" count in? It barely has any lyrics, it's mostly instrumental, but it still does have lyrics. As mentioned above the Sonic Rush soundtrack's lyrics are too primitive and repetative to be rightfully considered lyrical songs. In addition while this is a very good idea and let's the tournament be to a rightfully needed larger scale I think that rather then 1 winner picked from the two categories, 2 should be picked, to better connect the two tournaments together.