I can't get out of my head the idea of running a new Steven Wilson tournament in Polls & Survivors. Especially as two albums have come out since the last Steven Wilson Survivor was run in 2013. I've got two formats in mind, either of which I would vastly prefer to running a standard survivor.
1. A tournament like soccer's World Cup, with a round-robin "group stage", followed by a single-elimination tournament (last 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final).
2. A straight-ahead round-robin where each song will go up against all the others across 49 rounds.
Whichever format we go for, the idea is for 50 songs to participate. Most of the standard album tracks are included, giving us 45 songs. The remaining songs (including bonus tracks, the 4½ EP, Cover Version, plus shorter interlude tracks from the albums) will compete in a qualifying tournament for the remaining five slots. (This may be fairly short, so we can get to the main tournament as quickly as possible.)
I know there are pros and cons to both formats. The more I'm thinking about it, I'm swaying towards format 1. I like the idea of having a Final match, whereas with format 2 it's fairly likely we'll know the champion before we get to the final round of matches.