Remember when I said about Ayreon Finals beginning today? I forgot about changing your predictions, guys.
So here are the songs we've got for Ayreon Finals!
Sail Away to Avalon
The Awareness
Merlin's Will
Abbey of Synn
Computer Eyes
Isis and Osiris
Across the Rainbow Bridge
Amazing Flight
My House on Mars
2084
Into the Black Hole
Dawn of a Million Souls
Day Twelve: Trauma
Day Three: Pain
Day Two: Isolation
Age of Shadows
Beneath the Waves
The Sixth Extinction
Phase II: Symmetry
The Day That the World Breaks Down
Star of Sirrah
Everybody Dies
Day Twenty: Confrontation
Liquid Eternity
Day Eleven: Love
For the purposes of the predictions,
Top 5 is what matters here.
Before I begin explaining this one, three big things:
1. The order of your predictions matters here.
2. You can change your predictions without losing points, as long as you don't change the songs that you think you've got right from the beginning.
3. If you predicted that the song will get to Top 5, but guessed the wrong spot for it, you still get 1 point.For the songs you decide not to tamper with (as in, not change either their placement or replace them entirely), if you predicted them correctly, you get
15/12/9/6/3 (correct prediction for the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th place). For the songs you tampered with in any way (swapped their places in your prediction, for example), you get two thirds of the points—
10/8/6/4/2. However, it should be noted, that this doesn't affect your whole prediction (unlike in Consolations)—if you change one song and leave the other intact, you can still get full points for the ones you didn't change. So it's possible to receive, say, 15/8/9/4/3 or 10/12/6/6/2.
Since this competition is mostly for fun, I'm going to reveal all of your initial predictions for this round—you also won't need to go look for your own predictions.
The songs that aren't in the competition are colored
gray.
425:1. Day Twelve: Trauma
2. Into the Black Hole
3. Age of Shadows
4. Day Two: Isolation
5. Isis and Osiris
Elite:1. Amazing Flight
2. And the Druids Turn to Stone3. The Sixth Extinction
4. Phase III: Entanglement5. Isis and Osiris
home: 1. Age of Shadows
2. Day Sixteen: Loser3. Computer Eyes
4. Day Three: Pain
5. Into the Black Hole
Kwyjibo:1. Day Two: Isolation
2. Isis and Osiris
3. Dawn of a Million Souls
4. Day Twelve: Trauma
5. Phase I: SingularityMirrorMask:1. Into the Black Hole
2. The Sixth Extinction
3. Amazing Flight
4. The Fifth Extinction5. Day Twenty: Confrontation
Nick: 1. Into the Black Hole
2. And the Druids Turn to Stone3. Day Two: Isolation
4. Day Twenty: Confrontation
5. The Two GatesParama:1. Day Two: Isolation
2. The Sixth Extinction
3. Day Twenty: Confrontation
4. Age of Shadows
5. The Garden of EmotionsScorpion: 1. Into the Black Hole
2. Age of Shadows
3. Isis and Osiris
4. My House on Mars
5. Across the Rainbow Bridge
Tomislav: 1. Day Two: Isolation
2. And the Druids Turn to Stone3. Into the Black Hole
4. Isis and Osiris
5. Phase IV: UnificationTrain of Naught: 1. Phase I: Singularity2. Into the Black Hole
3. Day Two: Isolation
4. Computer Eyes
5. Day Sixteen: Losertwosuitsluke:1. Day Twelve: Trauma
2. Day Two: Isolation
3. Day Three: Pain
4. Age of Shadows
5. ChaosEvermind: 1. Isis and Osiris
2. Into the Black Hole
3. The Sixth Extinction
4. Day Two: Isolation
5. Phase I: Singularityjingle.boy: 1. Day Two: Isolation
2. Isis and Osiris
3. Day Twelve: Trauma
4. Dawn of a Million Souls
5. Eyes of TimeAnd here's second biggest competition of the entire run—Ayreon Survivor Finals! We only have one step ahead of us after that, the Grand Finals League; but this is probably the most important one prediction-wise. Everyone got some songs that are in competition, and some songs are already out now, so it's time to decide which songs to put instead of the ones in gray, and think about switching some songs for others or perhaps rearrange the order at the expense of the points you can get. The rules are basically the same, except the amount of points you gain for the songs you tampered or not tampered with.
I know it's nearing holidays and I won't be posting any Survivor threads during December 24th—January 2nd, so you basically have until January 2nd to update your predictions! Perhaps you should do it sooner than later though, just so you won't forget to do it.
If there are any questions you've got, fire them away.