Author Topic: Leprous Survivor: Main Thread (Read 1947 times)

LordCost · « **on:** March 27, 2016, 08:04:55 AM »

Hi! I would like to run a Leprous Survivor in the next days. I'll start from Tall Poppy Syndrome going in chronological order.
Rules: Two songs for each of the four albums (Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bilateral, Coal, The Congregation) are automatically classified for the finals, the 3th and the 4th of each album goes to Consolations and 2 out of those 8 songs passes into finals. I thought that a bigger consolation round would be a good idea because there is more possibility to confront songs of different albums, and also because the single album survivors remains interesting until the second-to last round. So we will have a final with 10 songs.
I want to adopt the DT League format for the final only, instead of having another survivor for the last 10 songs. So every round there will be 5 matches and the song which will win more matches will be crowned champion.
For the finals: 3 points for every match won, 1 for every tie, 0 points for every match lost. In case of final tie at the end of 9th round the difference of votes will be count

I will include the bonus track Pixel in the Congregation survivor and Bury in the Coal survivor, excluding the remix of Foe.

Both survivor rounds and final league rounds will last 1 day.

Aeolia:

1-
2-
3-
4-
5-
6-
7- CANCELLED
8- Aeolus Shadow - 2 votes (3 total votes)
9- Deformed Beauty: 2 votes (3 total votes)

Tall Poppy Syndrome:

1- White: 7-2 win to Passing
2- Passing: 7-2 loss to White
3- Not Even A Name: 5 votes (8 total votes)
4- Phantom Pain: 3 votes (9 total votes) Tie: 7-4 loss to White
5- Dare You: 5 votes (11 total votes)
6- He Will Kill Again: 3 votes (8 total votes) Tie: 5-2 loss to White
8- Fate: 5 votes (10 total votes)
8- Tall Poppy Syndrome: 5 votes (10 total votes)

Bilateral:

1- Forced Entry: 8-1 win to Thorn
2- Thorn: 8-1 loss to Forced Entry
3- Acquired Taste: 4 votes (7 total votes)
4- Painful Detour: 3 votes (7 total votes) Tie: 5-4 loss to Thorn
5- Mb. Indifferentia: 3 votes (8 total votes)
6- Restless: 4 votes (9 total votes)
7- Waste Of Air; 4 votes (8 total votes)
8- Mediocrity Wins: 3 votes (8 total votes) Tie: 6-5 loss to Waste Of Air
9- Bilateral: 5 votes (8 total votes)
10- Cryptogenic Desires: 4 votes (11 total votes) Tie: 6-5 loss to Bilateral

Coal:

1- The Valley: 6-4 win to The Cloak
2- The Cloak: 6-4 loss to The Valley
3- Contaminate Me: 3 votes (8 total votes) Tie: 6-3 loss to The Valley
4- Coal: 3 votes (8 total votes) Tie: 4-3 loss to Contaminate Me
5- Foe - 4 votes (8 total votes)
6- Echo - 3 votes (8 total votes)
7- Chronic: 4 votes (7 total votes)
8- Salt: 2 votes (6 total votes) Tie: 3-2 loss to Chronic
9- Bury: 4 votes (6 total votes)

The Congregation:

1- The Flood: 5-2 win to Rewind
2- Rewind: 5-2 loss to The Flood
3- The Price: 5 votes (8 total votes)
4- Third Law: 6 votes (8 total votes)
5- Slave: 3 votes (7 total votes) Tie: 5-3 loss to Third Law
6- Down: 4 votes (8 total votes)
7- Triumphant: 3 votes (9 total votes)
8- Moon: 3 votes (8 total votes)
9- Red: 3 votes (8 total votes)
10- Lower: 3 votes (8 total votes)
11- Within My Fence: 3 votes (7 total votes)
12- Pixel: 3 votes (5 total votes)

Consolations:

1- Acquired Taste - qualified for finals
2- Painful Detour - qualified for finals
3- The Price: 6 votes (8 total votes)
4- Contaminate Me: 3 votes (6 total votes)
5- Coal: 3 votes (8 total votes)
6- Not Even A Name: 1 vote (5 total votes) Tie: 3 votes received (3 votes Coal, 2 votes Contaminate Me, The Price, Painful Detour)
7- Phantom Pain: 2 votes (6 total votes)
8- Third Law: 7 votes (8 total votes)

Finals:

1- Forced Entry: 27 points (+52)
2- The Flood: 20 points (+15)
3- White: 15 points (+5)
4- Passing: 15 points (+2)
5- Painful Detour: 13 points (+2)
6- Rewind: 11 points (-5)
7- Acquired Taste: 10 points (-7)
8- Thorn: 9 points (-2)
9- The Valley: 7 points (-27)
10- The Cloak: 0 points (-45)

Forced Entry clearly wins the 2016 Leprous Survivor! You can see other interesting things clicking in the round 9 finals link.
Calendar for finals:

Round 1 Results: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47334.0

Painful Detour - The Valley: 6-0
The Flood - Acquired Taste: 4-2
White - Forced Entry: 0-6
Passing - Thorn: 3-3
Rewind - The Cloak: 5-1

Round 2: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47348.0

Passing - The Flood: 3-3
Rewind - The Valley: 4-2
The Cloak - Acquired Taste: 2-4
Thorn - Forced Entry: 1-5
Painful Detour - White: 2-4

Round 3: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47359.0

The Flood - Thorn: 7-2
White - The Cloak: 7-2
Passing - Rewind: 6-3
Acquired Taste - Painful Detour: 4-5
Forced Entry - The Valley: 8-1

Round 4: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47375.0

Rewind - Forced Entry: 0-7
The Cloak - Thorn: 0-7
Painful Detour - The Flood: 3-4
The Valley - White: 4-3
Acquired Taste - Passing: 2-4

Round 5: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47391.0

Forced Entry - Acquired Taste: 5-1
Passing - Painful Detour: 3-3
White - Rewind: 3-3
The Cloak - The Flood: 1-5
Thorn - The Valley: 3-3

Round 6: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47407.0

Painful Detour - Thorn: 4-3
Forced Entry - The Cloak: 7-0
Rewind - Acquired Taste: 3-4
Passing - The Valley: 4-3
The Flood - White: 3-3

Round 7: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47413.0

Thorn - Rewind: 3-3
Forced Entry - Passing: 6-0
White - Acquired Taste: 3-3
The Valley - The Flood: 1-6
Painful Detour - The Cloak: 6-0

Round 8: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47422.0

Thorn - White: 3-5
The Flood- Forced Entry: 2-6
Acquired Taste - The Valley: 5-3
The Cloak - Passing: 1-6
Rewind - Painful Detour: 5-3

Round 9: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=47429.0

Painful Detour - Forced Entry: 0-7
Acquired Taste - Thorn: 2-5
The Valley - The Cloak: 6-1
The Flood - Rewind: 5-3
White - Passing: 5-2

BlackInk · « **Reply #1 on:** March 27, 2016, 08:59:18 AM »

I think I know the albums good enough to participate in this, aside from Aeolia.

jakepriest · « **Reply #2 on:** March 27, 2016, 09:34:57 AM »

Leprous is a band I've been meaning to check out for some time. Too bad you're starting with the latest albums though, I wanted to start with those and maybe I could have participated for them down the line.

Elite · « **Reply #3 on:** March 27, 2016, 09:39:36 AM »

Definitely in for all albums. I actually considered running something like this, bit I'm doing my top 50 albums first

Please do the albums in order though, starting with TPS.

LordCost · « **Reply #4 on:** March 27, 2016, 10:52:30 AM »

If Jakepriest doesn't know The Congregation I will start from TPS. Maybe it was Parama or me7 that, if I remember well from the Leprous thread, didn't know the first albums.
So ok Elite.

Crow · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2016, 12:04:29 PM »

i'll participate for the congregation but none of the others

Elite · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2016, 12:40:53 PM »

Loser

Scorpion · « **Reply #7 on:** March 27, 2016, 01:39:41 PM »

I'll have to dust TPS off again, as well as listen to Aeolia, but I'm definitely down for this.

Crow · « **Reply #8 on:** March 27, 2016, 01:43:24 PM »

Quote from: Elite on March 27, 2016, 12:40:53 PM

Loser

if you wanna buy their other albums and mail them to me so i can keep up, go for it

Elite · « **Reply #9 on:** March 27, 2016, 01:53:12 PM »

They're all on Spotify, but you're weird that you don't use that

Crow · « **Reply #10 on:** March 27, 2016, 01:56:55 PM »

i like buying my albums before digging into them
i'm basically a 40 yr old guy in a 22 yr old body,get off my lanw

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 27, 2016, 01:58:31 PM »

I'll be sure to participate in all 4 main albums.

Elite · « **Reply #12 on:** March 27, 2016, 02:03:23 PM »

So, does your body feel younger or your mind older? Or something else entirely?

(yes, let's keep this pointless discussion going. I'm not even on your lawn, if anywhere, I'm behind a desk that's not mine)

krands85 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 27, 2016, 03:21:19 PM »

I can rank the albums as a whole (1. Tall Poppy Syndrome; 2. The Congregation; 3. Bilateral; 4. Coal), but ranking the songs individually would be too tough for me I'm afraid

Passing and White are my 2 favourite tracks though I think.

ToT-147 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 27, 2016, 03:45:02 PM »

I'm in!..

And yeah, I also think you should start from TPS..

LordCost · « **Reply #15 on:** March 27, 2016, 04:18:26 PM »

Quote from: krands85 on March 27, 2016, 03:21:19 PM

I can rank the albums as a whole (1. Tall Poppy Syndrome; 2. The Congregation; 3. Bilateral; 4. Coal), but ranking the songs individually would be too tough for me I'm afraid Passing and White are my 2 favourite tracks though I think.

This morning I listened a lot of songs by Leprous and I totally don't know how I can decide between most of them. I think I will have not more than 5 easy choices among all the four album survivors and during the Consolations and Finals it will be even tougher

LordCost · « **Reply #16 on:** March 27, 2016, 04:58:51 PM »

I think we can make a record for number of disappointed people in a survivor, there are so many possible favourite songs in their discography

Elite · « **Reply #17 on:** March 27, 2016, 05:45:24 PM »

There is only one best Leprous song though.

LordCost · « **Reply #18 on:** March 27, 2016, 06:10:45 PM »

Quote from: Elite on March 27, 2016, 05:45:24 PM

There is only one best Leprous song though.

The one we send at every roulette

LordCost · « **Reply #19 on:** March 31, 2016, 01:07:03 PM »

Updated the rules of the survivor in the first post. 1 day rounds and the Aeolia round will be run in parallel to the Congregation survivor. If there are enough people that partecipate in it I might think to add only the best song from Aeolia into Consolations

LordCost · « **Reply #20 on:** May 31, 2016, 05:44:08 PM »

I made a tentative of complete ranking in the final round discussion. The survivor is over, at first post there are the complete final results! Thanks to everyone who participate!

Crow · « **Reply #21 on:** June 14, 2016, 08:08:53 PM »

looking over this after becoming more familiar with bilateral myself

...acquired taste is really that popular? i find it one of the more forgettable tracks on bilateral tbh

BlackInk · « **Reply #22 on:** June 15, 2016, 04:27:24 AM »

Yeah I think it scored too high here as well. Although I still think it's pretty good.

LordCost · « **Reply #23 on:** June 16, 2016, 01:14:19 PM »

Acquired Taste is the first Leprous song I liked, I remember listening it for the first time on youtube at random. Without having heard it maybe I won't listen to them today. Forced Entry didn't impress me the first time, it took more listen to me to appreciate it.
I think it's third or fourth best on the album, but I really like nearly all the Leprous ballads (Mb. Indifferentia is my second favourite of Bilateral)

ToT-147 · « **Reply #24 on:** June 16, 2016, 01:34:47 PM »

https://youtu.be/p2Rch6WvPJE?t=52

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