Author Topic: READ THE OP!! It's finally here...WHO'S THE BEST THEM?!?!? Round 1 (Read 12156 times)

black_biff_stadler · « **on:** November 12, 2011, 02:17:00 AM »

Welcome and salutations guys and goils!

_floyd productions is proud to present the 2011 edition of what shall herein on a perennial basis be known as:

WHO'S THE BEST THEM?!?!?

This delightful extravaganza will determine which band is the forum's favorite outside of Dream Theater. Last year Pink Floyd won an exciting final against Porcupine Tree and both should probably continue a strong showing this year since they remain DTF darlings. I'll try to avoid this OP getting much longer than it needs to be and cover as much as necessary to avoid confusion and make this thing as fun as it was last year, perhaps more funner.

What are/is the rules/format?

Pretty simple. Vote for your three favorite bands from the list of 207 that were contributed by a wonderful lot of future world leaders, Rhodes scholars, necromancers, luminaries, larcenists, and jaded shutins we like to refer to as the dreamtheaterforums.org community (DTF for short for those who may be new to our humble e-Abode.)

Each round will be 3 days EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST WHICH WILL BE 7 DAYS so I and hopefully some of my wonderful DTF friends can send messages to anyone who contributed their nominations to this thing but may not currenly be active on this forum. It's been about two months since the nomination phase ended and I PM'ed several dozen members that played along in last year's tournament to let them know I'd be running it again this year and didn't want them to miss out. But, like I said, that was two months ago and many of them have had ample time to forget so this first round going for 7 days will give me time to get ahold of them and time for them to hopefully realize they've received the PM about it.

The narrowing of the field will be loosely based on the powers of 2 in descending fashion (round of 128, then 64, then 32 and so on) but all bands tied at the cutoff point will advance to the next round. For instance, if we were in the round of 64 and trying to narrow it down to 32 but had a 10-way tie at #29, then all bands from #29-38 would advance to the round of "32."

The results will be visible at the conclusion of each round. I'm not a fan of doing it that way but the issue is that some people intentionally will forsake the rule of voting for their favorite bands that are available at the time if they realize those bands have no chance of making it to the next round and then just vote for their favorite bands out of the ones that have a decent chance of advancing which defeats the whole purpose of the original rule "Vote for your three favorite bands."

I need y'all to help me if some of you can be so kind.

Like I said earlier in this post, it's been two months since everyone made their nominations for this tournament and we had over 100 members contribute and I'd hate for any of them to miss it on account of my failing to start this thing in a more timely manner so once this thing's been going on for two days I'm gonna check my list of all whom contributed to this and cross off any who've already voted and then try to contact all of the ones whom seem to be unaware of the fact that the tournament finally started. I'd gladly do it all by myself but I ran into the problem that the forum is programmed to only let you send a certain amount of PM's per hour so I'd literally be tied up for hours if I tried to fly solo on this.

Anyone that is kind enough to be willing to help me can do so by PM'ing me or simply posting in this thread which I'll be following closely and then I'll supply them with a pre-typed body of text they can simply copy/paste into a PM. There will only need to be like 50-80 tops by my estimate so if even eight people can help me by sending out like five PM's on two separate occasions we can get this all done very efficiently.

All that aside, I now beg of you...

Allez Cuisine!!!

Edit #1: A decent bit of posts have been made saying something along the lines of "Why wasn't *insert band name* included?!?" Simple. Because they weren't nominated during the extravagantly long two-week period I left the thread for nominations open. I already covered it in an earlier post but reading a two-page thread is apparently asking far too much of some folks so I decided to make it clear right here. It'd be very nice to not have to keep seeing posts like this so I'll thank y'all in advance for hopefully making no more of those kinds of posts.

ariich · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2011, 03:27:55 AM »

From that list:

Devin Townsend
Haken
The Dear Hunter

Zydar · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2011, 03:28:31 AM »

Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Who

black_biff_stadler · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:14:39 AM »

Quote from: ariich on November 12, 2011, 03:27:55 AM

From that list:

Devin Townsend
Haken
The Dear Hunter

I had the nomination thread open for two weeks

Jirpo · « **Reply #4 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:20:38 AM »

Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest

MK_Ultra · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:25:57 AM »

Iron Maiden
Metallica
Muse

obscure · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:38:03 AM »

Pink Floyd
Megadeth
Queensryche

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:39:13 AM »

Chicago
Led Zeppelin
The Allman Brothers Band

obscure · « **Reply #8 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:43:51 AM »

.... oh and happy to help.

Mladen · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:48:10 AM »

Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles

black_biff_stadler · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:50:34 AM »

Quote from: obscure on November 12, 2011, 04:43:51 AM

.... oh and happy to help.

Strange

You appear to be a striking young lady but I'd swear you were an abacus since I can always count on you

obscure · « **Reply #11 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:56:16 AM »

I've got a funny feeling that this will trigger other jokes.

Zantera · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:58:58 AM »

I went with Oceansize, Sigur Rós and Radiohead.

black_biff_stadler · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:59:15 AM »

Quote from: obscure on November 12, 2011, 04:56:16 AM

I've got a funny feeling that this will trigger other jokes.

Well, while we're on the subject off numerical devices and potentially-naughty humor, "80085" spells "BOOBS" on a calkamalater

obscure · « **Reply #14 on:** November 12, 2011, 05:33:24 AM »

Holy crap.... You crack me up Floyd.....

Jamesman42 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 12, 2011, 06:09:35 AM »

Neal Morse
System of a Down
Thrice

Perpetual Change · « **Reply #16 on:** November 12, 2011, 06:09:52 AM »

Blind Guardian
Iron Maiden
Yes

kirksnosehair · « **Reply #17 on:** November 12, 2011, 06:10:48 AM »

Whoa, this is very cool. If I can help in any way, I'll be happy to.

From that list I selected:

Iron Maiden
Spock's Beard
Transatlantic

Nekov · « **Reply #18 on:** November 12, 2011, 06:20:36 AM »

Rush
King Crimson
Haken

jingle.boy · « **Reply #19 on:** November 12, 2011, 06:25:17 AM »

Led Zeppelin
Rush
Ayreon (including all of Arjen's projects for this one since Star One isn't listed)

PlaysLikeMyung · « **Reply #20 on:** November 12, 2011, 06:25:56 AM »

Poll is NOT working for me

Rush
Opeth
Symphony X

King Postwhore · « **Reply #21 on:** November 12, 2011, 06:53:29 AM »

Rush
Porcupine Tree
Dada

contest_sanity · « **Reply #22 on:** November 12, 2011, 08:27:17 AM »

Rush
Theocracy
Galactic Cowboys

Jamesman42 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 12, 2011, 08:37:20 AM »

BRGM · « **Reply #24 on:** November 12, 2011, 08:56:25 AM »

Steve Vai
Neal Morse
Joe Satriani

This is pretty tough though

Gorille85 · « **Reply #25 on:** November 12, 2011, 08:59:29 AM »

Unexpect
Thrice
Ulver

Heretic · « **Reply #26 on:** November 12, 2011, 09:00:14 AM »

Avenged Sevenfold
Between the Buried and Me
Fair to Midland

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #27 on:** November 12, 2011, 09:00:42 AM »

God, I'm so fucking boring.

Iron Maiden
Opeth
Porcupine Tree

ZKX-2099 · « **Reply #28 on:** November 12, 2011, 09:02:59 AM »

Avenged Sevenfold
Between the Buried and Me
Devin Townsend

Heretic · « **Reply #29 on:** November 12, 2011, 09:06:27 AM »

Quote from: ZKX-2099 on November 12, 2011, 09:02:59 AM

Avenged Sevenfold
Between the Buried and Me
Devin Townsend

I'm pretty sure we should be best friends.

jammindude · « **Reply #30 on:** November 12, 2011, 09:50:14 AM »

RIVERSIDE
Porcupine Tree
Rush

(HM's go out to: Pain of Salvation, Fates Warning, Galactic Cowboys...this was really difficult)

Accelerando · « **Reply #31 on:** November 12, 2011, 09:57:00 AM »

Alter Bridge
Queen
Led Zeppelin

Fran521 · « **Reply #32 on:** November 12, 2011, 10:06:52 AM »

Opeth
Riverside
Porcupine Tree

WindMaster · « **Reply #33 on:** November 12, 2011, 10:20:39 AM »

Riverside
Tool
Foo Fighters

(HM's to Rush, Muse, Pink Floyd. This was tough!)

KevShmev · « **Reply #34 on:** November 12, 2011, 10:26:44 AM »

Wait, Stryper is an option, but U2 and ELP aren't?

News: Track-by-track video for Paralyzed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd5TbGbalPs&feature=youtu.be

Poll

Vote for your three favorite bands

Author Topic: READ THE OP!! It's finally here...WHO'S THE BEST THEM?!?!? Round 1 (Read 12156 times)