The Astonishing's Final Round's ResultsThe Gift Of Music 20 (69%)The Path That Divides 9 (31%)
Total Members Voted: 29
01. The Path That Divides
02. The Gift Of Music
03. Moment Of Betrayal
04. A Life Left Behind
05. Three Days
06. Lord Nafaryus
07. Heaven's Cove
08. A New Beginning
09. The X Aspect
10. A Savior In The Square
11. Dystopian Overture
12. Ravenskill
13. A Better Life
14. When Your Time Has Come
15. Our New World
16. The Walking Shadow
17. Chosen
18. A Tempting Offer
19. Act Of Faythe
20. My Last Farewell
21. The Road To Revolution
22. Astonishing
23. Hymn Of A Thousand Voices
24. 2285 Entr'acte
25. The Answer
Brother, Can You Hear Me?
Begin Again
28. Losing Faythe
Whispers On The Wind
30. Descent Of The Nomacs
The Hovering Sojourn
Digital Discord
Machine Chatter
Power Down
I think most of us can agree that this has been a bit of a mess once we got past the first couple of rounds. I think because this is such a HUGE album, the differences between this run and the one from 2017 will be the most drastic compared to any of the other albums, whose rankings were fairly consistent. Here are the results from the 2017 Survivor for comparison:
The Astonishing
01. Three Days
02. Moment Of Betrayal
03. A Life Left Behind
A Tempting Offer
05. A Better Life
06. A Savior In The Square
07. Dystopian Overture
08. The Path That Divides
09. Lord Nafaryus
10. A New Beginning
11. The Gift Of Music
12. The X Aspect
13. Ravenskill
14. Heaven's Cove
15. When Your Time Has Come
16. The Walking Shadow
17. Our New World
18. Chosen
19. The Road To Revolution
20. Astonishing
21. The Answer
Act Of Faythe
My Last Farewell
24. Brother, Can You Hear Me?
25. Hymn Of A Thousand Voices
26. Begin Again
27. Losing Faythe
28. 2285 Entr'acte
29. Whispers On The Wind
30. Digital Discord
Machine Chatter
32. Descent Of The Nomacs
The Hovering Sojourn
Power Down
"The Gift Of Music" didn't even make the top ten last time. ALLB and MOB swapped spots but both remained in the Top Four to advance to the Finals, while TPTD jumped up from 8th to 1st. "Three Days" went from 1st to 5th this time, while "Lord Nafaryus" jumped up three spots from 9th to 6th to make it to Consolation Rounds this time. Meanwhile, former Finals song "A Tempting Offer" went from top 4 to 18th, and the former Consolation songs "A Better Life" and "A Savior In The Square" went from 5th and 6th to 13th and 10th, respectively.
It'll be interesting to see how these rankings shake out next time we run this survivor. At least the NOMAC tracks will always be at the bottom.
-Marc.