Battle of the bands - The Devil takes the hindmost format
 

To forestall any complaints, we have done BotBs before more than once, yes. However, a wrinkle in the traditional battle format is that it pits Band A versus Band B and Band X versus Band Y, which can skew the results if one's indifferent to Bands A & B but absolutely loves Bands X & Y.

To overcome this fankly glaring flaw I'm shamelessly appropriating the Pop Idol/X Factor format (it's about time some good came out of the shows) of having multiple contenders in each battle and ejecting the least supported bands each time.

My thought is this: ideally we start with 100 bands and 10 battles of 10 bands in the 1st round. Voters then rank the bands in order of preference from 1-10 (or until one's indifferent) with points being scored from 9 for 1st down to 0 for 10th. The bottom two bands are excluded from the comp, leaving us with 80 bands for round 2. We then have 8 battles of 10 bands, leaving us with 64 for round 3 and so forth. Briefly the rounds should shape up like this:

Round 1: 10 battles of 10 bands
Round 2: 8 battles of 10 bands
Round 3: 8 battles of 8 bands
Round 4: 4 battles of 12 bands
Round 5: 4 battles of 10 bands
Round 6: 4 battles of 8 bands
Round 7: 3 battles of 8 bands
Round 8: 2 battles of 9 bands
Round 9: 2 battles of 7 bands
Round 10 & onwards: 10 bands reduced by 1 each subsequent round until we have a champion.

Piece of the proverbial, eh? :cool: Everyone can have 10 proposals initially, which can be used as nominations or seconds. Once a band has two nods they enter the comp. This might be increased subject to take up.

Don't be shy, people. Nothing to lose but your diginty and the respect of your peers. Happy nominating.

Great idea Brumbers.

Nominate

1. Radiohead
2. Modest Mouse
3. The Shins
4. REM
5. Arcade Fire
6. The Cure
7. Explosions In The Sky
8. Joy Division
9. The Stone Roses

Liking the concept.

I'll nominate Smashing Pumpkins, Sigur Ros and Okkervil River.

Nominate:

Guns N Roses
Motley Crue
Oasis
Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Blur

Led Zeppelin
Animals
Iron Maiden
Pink Floyd
The Cult
Queen
The Jimi Hendrix experience
Metalica
U2
The Doors

nominate

outkast
goodie mob
beastie boys
wu tang clan
nwa
back street boys
n*sync
spice girls
s club 7

Appreciate the enthusiasm but:

one of zinzans ones can go in mine. i only nominated 9.

Apologies, edited accordingly

1. Cannibal Corpse
2. Soilwork
3. In Flames
4. Napalm Death
5. Electric Wizard
6. Morbid Angel
7. Deicide
8. Dead Infection
9. Nile
10. Suffocation

1.Dire Straits
2.Karnivool
3.The Temper Trap
4.Metallica
5.The Cat Empire
6.Phoenix
7.Two Door Cinema Club
8.Bag Raiders
9.Pendulum
10.British India

Second

10. Phoenix

Might I humbly suggest that people number their proposals to make it easier for Brumby to see who has used theirs up?

Do not remember making that post in brumbys sig, must have been drunk.

CBF checking whats been listed etc now, so I'll throw 10 in and see what happens

Pearl Jam
Guns N roses
James
Bush
Rage Against The Machine
REM
Counting Crows
Iron Maiden
Dropkick Murphys
the Kinks

Nominations
1. The Fall
2. The Smiths
3. Pixies
4. At The Drive-In
5. Mars Volta

Seconds
6. REM
7. Joy Division

Will reserve some for later on.