Nightwish Survivor - Album League - Round 1

[Evermind]

Welcome to the Nightwish Album League! We're running this as a bonus part of our Nightwish Survivor, just for fun. The eight albums will face each other in seven rounds, and the results will determine the board's favourite Nightwish album!

Rules:

• Each round will consist of four match-ups between Nightwish albums.
• The order in which the albums will face each other was determined by random.org. Every album will face each other once.
• Every person has four votes to place in the poll: one for each match-up. Vote for the album you'd like to see win its respective match. Don't vote for both albums in the match-up. If you can't decide between two albums, better don't vote in this match-up at all.
• The match-ups are separated by "Next Match Below" options — please don't vote for them.
• The ties are allowed. No tiebreakers.
• Each round will last 48 hours.

Standings:

#. Album | W - L (Votes difference)

1. Angels Fall First | 0 - 0 (0)
1. Oceanborn | 0 - 0 (0)
1. Wishmaster | 0 - 0 (0)
1. Century Child | 0 - 0 (0)
1. Once | 0 - 0 (0)
1. Dark Passion Play | 0 - 0 (0)
1. Imaginaerum | 0 - 0 (0)
1. Endless Forms Most Beautiful | 0 - 0 (0)


Round 1 match-ups:

Angels Fall First - Imaginaerum
Oceanborn - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Wishmaster - Once
Century Child - Dark Passion Play

Vote for the album you'd like to win each match.

[Evermind]

My votes:

Imaginaerum
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Once
Century Child

Most of those were no-brainer really, except maybe Wishmaster - Once. I've listened to Wishmaster a few times recently, and I kind of appreciate it more than before now. Still not enough for it to win here, though.

[jakepriest]

Imaginaerum
Oceanborn
Once
Dark Passion Play

[Destiny Of Chaos]

Neat to see the format implemented here.

Angels Fall First - Imaginaerum
Oceanborn - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Wishmaster - Once
Century Child - Dark Passion Play

[425]

My votes:

Imaginaerum
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Once
Century Child

Most of those were no-brainer really, except maybe Wishmaster - Once. I've listened to Wishmaster a few times recently, and I kind of appreciate it more than before now. Still not enough for it to win here, though.

All of this except that the tough one for me was Century Child vs. Dark Passion Play. I love DPP and think it's a really underrated album, but it's up against Century Child, so no.

[ToT-147]

Angels Fall First

Oceanborn

Wishmaster

Century Child

Toughest choices: Oceanborn vs Endless Forms Most Beautiful (two that I like a lot)
and Century Child vs Dark Passion Play (two that I don't care so much)..