Dream Theater Album (Discography) Tournament - Quarterfinals

[Destiny Of Chaos]

2019 Album Tournament

Album Tournament Seeding (Based on % of Songs placed in the Championship Tournament)
1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 6/6 (Lowest song was 37th) (1.000)
2. Images & Words 8/8 (Lowest song was 43rd) (1.000)
3. Awake 9/11 (.818)
4. Train of Thought 5/7 (.714)
5. Scenes From a Memory 8/12 (Lowest qualified song was 49th) (.667)
6. Distance Over Time 6/9 (Lowest qualified song was 52nd) (.667)
7. A Dramatic Turn of Events 5/9 (.556)
8. Octavarium 4/8 (.500)
9. Falling Into Infinity 4/11 (.364)
10. Dream Theater 3/9 (.333)
11. Systematic Chaos 2/7 (.286)
12. Black Clouds & Silver Linings 1/6 (.167)
13. The Astonishing 1/29 (.034)
14. When Dream & Day Unite 0/8 (.000)

Opening Round
8. Octavarium defeats 9. Falling Into Infinity 27-8
5. Scenes From a Memory defeats 12. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 36-0
4. Train of Thought defeats 13. The Astonishing 26-10
3. Awake defeats 14. When Dream & Day Unite 34-2
6. Distance Over Time defeats 11. Systematic Chaos 29-6
7. A Dramatic Turn of Events defeats 10. Dream Theater 31-5
Quarterfinals

Please vote for the Album that you'd like to see win each match.

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence vs. 8. Octavarium
4. Train of Thought vs. 5. Scenes From a Memory
3. Awake vs. 6. Distance Over Time
2. Images and Words vs. 7. A Dramatic Turn of Events

I will only vote to break a tie.

48 hours to vote.

[MirrorMask]

Octavarium
Scenes from a Memory
Awake
the original Images and Words 

No brainers here.

[CharlesPL]

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5. Scenes From a Memory
3. Awake
2. Images and Words

[Shalev Amir]

6DOIT
🚂 of 💭(impossible decision...)
Awake & Images & Words.

[krands85]

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence vs. 8. Octavarium
4. Train of Thought vs. 5. Scenes From a Memory
3. Awake vs. 6. Distance Over Time
2. Images and Words vs. 7. A Dramatic Turn of Events

Awake vs D/T was pretty close.

[pg1067]

The only one of these that gave me pause was SDOIT v. 8VA.

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence vs. 8. Octavarium
4. Train of Thought vs. 5. Scenes From a Memory
3. Awake vs. 6. Distance Over Time
2. Images and Words vs. 7. A Dramatic Turn of Events

[hefdaddy42]

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5. Scenes From a Memory
3. Awake 
2. Images and Words

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Top seeds. All are pretty much no brainers

[MirrorMask]

I thought Six Degrees vs Octavarium would have been more uncertain....

[TheCountOfNYC]

Octavarium
Scenes From a Memory
Distance over Time
Images and Words

[RoeDent]

I have to say, I'm a bit surprised Train of Thought is seeded as high as No. 4. Probably explains why it's getting utterly tonked by the lower-seeded SFAM.

[MirrorMask]

I have to say, I'm a bit surprised Train of Thought is seeded as high as No. 4. Probably explains why it's getting utterly tonked by the lower-seeded SFAM.

SFAM lost rankings because it was dragged down by Regression and Through My Words (and One Last Time being relatively short doesn't help either). Train of Thought has only 7 songs and better chances of having tighter results. Quality of the album aside, it's no wonder that Six Degrees with just six songs managed to be the top #1 album.

[pg1067]

I have to say, I'm a bit surprised Train of Thought is seeded as high as No. 4. Probably explains why it's getting utterly tonked by the lower-seeded SFAM.

SFAM lost rankings because it was dragged down by Regression and Through My Words (and One Last Time being relatively short doesn't help either). Train of Thought has only 7 songs and better chances of having tighter results. Quality of the album aside, it's no wonder that Six Degrees with just six songs managed to be the top #1 album.

Yup.  As per the original post in this thread, the seedings were "Based on % of Songs placed in the Championship Tournament."  TOT had 5/7 songs make it (I assume Honor Thy Father and Vacant were the two that didn't make it), so its percentage was .714.  SFAM got 2/3 of its songs int he championship bracket (not sure what the fourth song was that didn't make it), so it had a lower percentage (.667).

Note that SDOIT benefited from this method of ranking (and from having all of disc 2 being considered a single song), but one of its songs got unceremoniously bounced in the first round (and, IMO, didn't belong there in the first place).

[SleeperAwake]

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Scenes From a Memory
Awake
Images and Words

[Dublagent66]

6
Scenes
Awake
Words