Buddyhunter1's Roulette v4: Post-Roulette Updates: Sacul

[Buddyhunter1]

First Roulette: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=39608.0
Second Roulette: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43933.0
Third Roulette: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=48099.0

Hey folks, it's time for another one of these! My last roulette was unfortunately running at one the most busy times of my life - I was busting my ass off in my senior year of college and I just didn't have much time to dedicate to the roulette. As a result, it ended up being pretty basic and slow, and I believe I cut off the last round because I was done with it at that point. Thankfully, I'm now working full-time at a job that gives me plenty of time to listen to music, and my goal with this roulette is to make it much more fun and interesting for everyone involved.


---RESULTS SHORTCUTS---
Round 1
Round 2
Round 2 Tiebreaker
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8


---PARTICIPANTS---

1: Puppies_On_Acid
2: Kattelox
3: jingle.boy
4: Nekov
5: Cyril (v3 Champion)
6: Stadler
7: TAC
8: DTA
9: senecadawg2 (v1 Champion)
10: Ruba
11: kingshmegland
12: Sacul
13: Evermind (v2 Champion)
14: Tomislav95


---FINAL SCORES---

1: Kattleox - 76 [ALL PERKS USED]
2: Cyril - 90 [ALL PERKS USED]
3: Sacul - 92 [ALL PERKS USED]

Eliminated

4: Ruba - 72 [ALL PERKS USED]
5: Nekov - 68 [ALL PERKS USED]
6: Tomislav95 - 59 [ALL PERKS USED]
6: jingle.boy - 59 [ALL PERKS USED]
8: DTA - 36 [ALL PERKS USED]
9: Puppies_On_Acid - 34 [ALL PERKS USED]
10: TAC - 31 [ALL PERKS USED]
11: Stadler - 18 [PERKS USED: DOUBLE POINTS]
12: kingshmegland - 17 [PERKS USED: DOUBLE POINTS]
13: senecadawg2 - 12 [PERKS USED: DOUBLE POINTS]
14: Evermind - 9 [ALL PERKS USED]


---PARTICIPANT SONG RANKINGS---

Sacul
1: Indukti - And Who’s The God Now?!...
2: Have A Nice Life - Bloodhail
3: Massive Attack - Risingson
4: Obscure Sphinx - Lunar Caustic
5: DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
6: Bent Knee - Being Human
7: Bent Knee - In God We Trust
8: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Pt. 1

Cyril
1: Warforged - Cellar
2: Exist - Writhe
3: Slice The Cake - The Holy Mountain
4: Cryptodira - Constituted
5: Cryptodira - The Gods Of Epicurus
6: Parius - Crashing Black Moon
7: Hacride - To Walk Among Them
8: Spectral Lore - A Rider In The Lands Of An Infinite Dreamscape

Kattleox
1: Lauri Porra - Dislocated
2: Arcturus - For To End Yet Again
3: Omnium Gatherum - Frontiers
4: IQ - Without Walls
5: Prince - Purple Rain
6: Lauri Porra - The Prisoner
7: Enya - Storms In Africa
8: Kings Of Leon - The End

Ruba
1: Glassjaw - Cosmopolitan Blood Loss
2: Wilderun - Ash Memory
3: At The Drive In - Arcarsenal
4: Jinjer - I Speak Astronomy
5: Tori Amos - Winter
6: A Perfect Circle - The Package
7: Death - Crystal Mountain
8: Glassjaw - Piano

Nekov
1: Dream The Electric Sleep - Listen To Me
2: Toundra - Tuareg
3: Pure Reason Revolution - Bullitts Dominae
4: Subsignal - Where Angels Fear To Tread
5: Scale The Summit - Odyssey
6: Yann Tiersen - Pern
7: Eric Gillette - Lost
8: Subsignal - A Giant Leap Of Faith

Tomislav95
1: Respire - Bound
2: Todtgelichter - Neon
3: Klone - Nebulous
4: Harakiri For The Sky - Fire, Walk With Me
5: mewithoutYou - Julia (Or, 'Holy To The LORD' On The Bells Of Horses)
6: mewithoutYou - Another Head For Hydra
7: Thy Light - ...And I Finally Reach My End

jingle.boy
1: Ayreon - Into The Black Hole
2: Alithia - Thirteen Revelations
3: Evergrey - The Grand Collapse
4: Queensryche - Promised Land
5: Kingcrow - If Only
6: Mystery - Delusion Rain
7: Kingcrow - A New Life

Puppies_On_Acid
1: Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Skepsis
2: Sieges Even - Sequence III: Unbreakable
3: Marillion - The Invisible Man
4: Altar Of Plagues - As A Womb

DTA
1: Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
2: Immortal - One By One
3: Roine Stolt - Little Cottage By The Sea
4: The Flower Kings - The Judas Kiss

TAC
1: Cereus - Ocean
2: Anabasis - Human Supremacy Illusion
3: Keep Of Kalessin - Epistemology
4: Testament - Throne Of Thorns
5: Stormlord - Mediterrania

Stadler
1: Black Sabbath - The Sign Of The Southern Cross
2: Aerosmith - Back In The Saddle Again
3: Train - Drops Of Jupiter

kingshmegland
1: Mile Marker Zero - 2001
2: Southern Empire - Goliath’s Moon
3: Karnivool - Goliath
4: Slow Motion Reign - Life Simulator

senecadawg2
1: Downfall Of Gaia - The Grotesque Illusion Of Being
2: Primordial - Gallows Hymn
3: Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up

Evermind
1: The Human Abstract - A Violent Strike
2: So Hideous - Yesteryear



---RULES---

- There will be eight rounds, with some being themed, and others being open.
- At various points, the bottom-ranking participants will be eliminated until there are only three participants left for the final round. In the event of ties, a quick tiebreaker round between the tied contestants on the verge of being eliminated will occur. See the "rounds" section below to see where the eliminations will take place.
- Submitted songs cannot be 14 minutes or longer, unless the round specifically allows for something longer.
- I'll allow submissions that are 2-3 tracks that form a single cohesive piece, if they're under the time limit and I judge them to be cohesive enough, which will have to be a case-by-case basis thing.
- For song submissions, a Spotify link is preferred. If the song isn't on Spotify, sending me a YouTube link or mp3 file is fine.
- The submissions for each round will be ranked from best to worst, and the higher your song ranks, the more points you get (1 point difference between each ranking). In addition, each contestant will have their own song rankings, so you can easily tell which of your submissions I liked the best and which ones I liked the least (this has no impact on scores).
- Each contestant will have two perks. Each one can only be used once in the roulette, you cannot use both in the same round, and no perks will be allowed in the final round. See the "perks" section below for more information.
- The structure of each round will be as follows: everyone submits their tracks, and once everyone has submitted, I post anonymous first impressions for each song and start a hangman. You're able to activate a perk if you want to during this point. As I get close to finishing the results, I'll announce a deadline to activate a perk for that round, otherwise it won't count. After that deadline, I'll update everyone's personal song rankings and then post the full results afterwards.
- No more than two songs per band can be submitted in this roulette. Check out the "Newly Banned" section below to see which ones become unavailable. I will also add bands to this list if I get a submission that I like enough.


---PERKS---

As mentioned above, you will have access to two perks in the roulette, which can each only be used in one round.
- You can activate a perk as soon as you submit, during the hangman, or after the hangman finishes before the perk activation deadline, which I will announce ahead of time.
- You cannot active both perks in a single round.
- No perks will be allowed in the final round. If you haven't used one by then, you will have wasted it.

The two perks are:
Double Score: You'll simply get double the amount of points for the round you use this in. Only use if you're confident I'll like your submission!
Ranking Swap: If you use this perk, your submission will automatically be bumped up one ranking, giving you more points, and the contestant you swapped with less points! However, if I was already going to rank your song at #1, this perk won't give you any extra points.

- If multiple contestants use the Ranking Swap perk in a single round, they will apply top to bottom. For example, if #2 and #3 both use it, they will become #1 and #2, respectively.
- The Ranking Swap perk will apply before the Double Score perk. If a contestant who used the Double Score perk gets knocked down by a contestant who used the Ranking Swap perk, their new, reduced score will be doubled, rather than their original score.
- Using the Ranking Swap perk will make you immune from the participant underneath you swapping with you if they also used the Ranking Swap perk, even if your song was already #1.


---ROUNDS---

Round 1: Opener
Round 2: Heavy
[Bottom 2 participants eliminated]
Round 3: Atmospheric
[Bottom 2 participants eliminated]
Round 4: Open
[Bottom 3 participants eliminated]
Round 5: Double Submission (two songs from the same artist)
Round 6: Epic (10-23 minute requirement)
[Bottom 2 participants eliminated]
Round 7: Semifinal / Open - last chance to use perks!
[Bottom 2 participants eliminated]
Round 8: Top three contestants submit a full album. The winner of this round wins the roulette, regardless of prior score.


---BANNED ARTISTS---

Bolded: Favorites

- Agalloch
- Alcest
- Anathema
- Baroness
- Behemoth
- Between The Buried And Me
- Casualties Of Cool
- Celldweller
- Chroma Key / Kevin Moore
- Cynic
- David Maxim Micic
- Deafheaven
- Decapitated
- Deftones
- Destiny Potato
- Dethklok
- Devin Townsend (or anything Devin Townsend-related)
- Dir En Grey
- Dream Theater
- Gallowbraid
- Ghost
- Gojira
- Gorillaz
- Guilt Machine
- Haken
- Ihsahn
- In The Presence Of Wolves
- Iron Maiden
- Katatonia
- Kauan
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
- Kvelertak
- Leprous
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Mastodon
- Maudlin Of The Well
- Meshuggah
- Metallica
- Native Construct
- Ne Obliviscaris
- Nevermore
- Nightwish
- Nine Inch Nails
- The Ocean
- Oceansize
- Opeth
- OSI
- Pendulum
- Periphery
- Phideaux
- Pink Floyd
- Porcupine Tree
- Protest The Hero
- Rage Against The Machine
- Riverside
- Rush
- Sigur Ros
- SikTh
- Shining
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- Steven Wilson
- Storm Corrosion
- Strapping Young Lad
- System Of A Down
- Tesseract
- Thank You Scientist
- Thy Catafalque
- Tool
- Type O Negative
- Ulver
- Unexpect
- Vektor


---PARTIALLY BANNED---

- Barren Earth: The Devil's Resolve
- Brand New: The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
- Circus Maximus: Nine
- The Contortionist: Language
- Converge: Jane Doe
- The Dear Hunter: The Color Spectrum, All Is As All Should Be
- Destrage: Are You Kidding Me? No.
- Infected Mushroom: Legend Of The Black Shawarma
- Insomnium: Shadows Of The Dying Sun
- Kayo Dot: Choirs Of The Eye
- Queensryche: Operation: Mindcrime
- Thrice: The Alchemy Index
- VOLA: Applause Of A Distant Crowd
- The Wildhearts: Endless, Nameless (I actually liked it)
- Wintersun: Time I


---NEWLY BANNED---

- Respire
- Exist
- Indukti
- Obscure Sphinx
- Have A Nice Life
- Todtgelichter
- Massive Attack
- Arcturus
- Cryptodira
- Lauri Porra
- Bent Knee
- Glassjaw
- Subsignal
- Kingcrow
- mewithoutYou
- Wilderun
- Ayreon
- Warforged

[TAC]

Does Opener mean first song off an album?

[Buddyhunter1]

Does Opener mean first song off an album?

Yes, but not exclusively. Any song that would work well as the first song in an album or live setlist will work.

I'll clarify / offer more details for the themes for each round as they come up.

[Crow]

let's get this bread 

[TAC]

Sent for Round 1!


Give me a D!

[jingle.boy]

Yeah, count me in.  Your "favorites" aren't any of mine, so I'll have to go a couple of degrees off course from my usual fare, but I ought to be able to send stuff that doesn't make you want to throw up in your ears.

[DTA]

Never done one of these before but I wouldn’t mind joining in. Do I just PM you the song I’m choosing?

[Buddyhunter1]

Never done one of these before but I wouldn’t mind joining in. Do I just PM you the song I’m choosing?

Yup! A Spotify link, if you can.

Also you all don't need to worry about submitting for Round 1 quite yet - I'm not going to start listening until everyone's joined.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Your banned list has lots of holes. Should be easy to find stuff. I think I know what to send for round 1. 


Edit: And sent!

[Buddyhunter1]

Senecadawg has joined in via DM. We've now got two former champions in here, this should be interesting.

[DTA]

Never done one of these before but I wouldn’t mind joining in. Do I just PM you the song I’m choosing?

Yup! A Spotify link, if you can.

Also you all don't need to worry about submitting for Round 1 quite yet - I'm not going to start listening until everyone's joined.

Ok cool. I don't know anything about Spotify so I'll have to just do a youtube link.

[Ruba]

Oh what the heck. Sign me in.

[The Walrus]

Fudge yeah.

Only I didn't say fudge.

[King Postwhore]

Is up to the task!

[Buddyhunter1]

Sweet. I'll give it until tomorrow morning to see if anyone else joins and then I'll start the first round.

[Sacul]

I'm in if there's still time

[Evermind]

Senecadawg has joined in via DM. We've now got two former champions in here, this should be interesting.

Should we make it three then? If there's still room, of course.

[Tomislav95]

In if you'll have me

[Buddyhunter1]

Whoo boy, gonna cap it at 14, then. This was more people than I was anticipating, so more people get eliminated at each cutoff point to compensate. And with that, let's get started!

ROUND 1: OPENER
Time to make a good first impression. Send me any song that would work well as the opener for an album or live set, however you interpret that. Note that the song doesn't have to come from the start of its respective album; you can send a song that isn't an opener but sounds like one (i.e. Metropolis Part 1 or Bridges In The Sky).

Once everyone submits and I've given every song a listen, I post my first impressions (without revealing which song is which) and we'll get a hangman going.

[Crow]

i'll work out something to send tonight most likely

[senecadawg2]

I'm pumped for this one! Narrowed my list down to about 20 artists. Will send for round one soon.

[Evermind]

Sent!

[Tomislav95]

I think I dreamed this roulette, I was late, first impressions were already posted so making sure it won't happen, sent something atmospheric

[Nekov]

Sent! It is on bitches

[senecadawg2]

seeent

[The Walrus]

Will send this afternoon/evening, apologies for being slow.

[Crow]

Oh yep I forgot

Might just pick some random crap

[jingle.boy]

Will send this afternoon/evening

Ditto.  Was out all day yesterday.  Thanks for your patience on my tardy submission

[Buddyhunter1]

No worries. I won't start bothering people until it's been a few days. (Currently have 9/14 submissions)

[jingle.boy]

Make it 10!

[Buddyhunter1]

Nope, rejected that one.

[jingle.boy]

Nope, rejected that one.

Reloaded

[King Postwhore]

Sent!

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Nope, rejected that one.

Oddly enough, I haven't seen that DTF emoticon yet. I have a list of about 70 or 80 of the "secret" ones that I've been compiling

[King Postwhore]