Vote: Royal Carnage 2006 March Madness Finals

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Ellestin said:
I hope it will involve 9826503904680236 albums, so we can settle it once and for all and close the board in warmonging harmony
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It does include albums, but it's not random albums from all time. We've been selective.

Problem with including Bathory is that people will vote for them by default, and that kinda takes the fun out of it all.

Let me ask a general question, if either Nordland I or II is included, would Bathory worshippers vote for it EVERYTIME just because it's Bathory?

OK so now comes the predictable part:

(a) since I've asked the question, people will vote now anyway just out of spite
(b) people will say "no, we won't vote by default" just to get Bathory included in the tournament, and then vote for them by default by default

:lol:

You're all cunts, I hope you realize. :saint:
 
Erik said:
This attitude is absolutely fucking gay, I hope you realize. "Oh, people actually like a band, let's not include it lest Nevermore's super awesome masterpiece Dreaming Gay Manlove gets voted out?"
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No man, what I'm saying is that even if people think the other album is better, they'll still vote for Bathory through some form of loyalty. It just takes the FUN out of it.

And now you're going to get people saying, "but I REALLY DO think this Bathory album is better"....

I'm just saying it makes it more fun if it's honest voting so don't shout at me. :cry:
 
Erik said:
You have no grounds for this whatsoever.
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Jesus christ Erik, you are way highly strung these days. What is the issue here? This is RANDOM band selection from the top of our heads. We didn't even REMEMBER to include Bathory until you mentioned it.

Relax.

You are trying to get a more balanced result by unbalancing the poll. This is not the way to go about things.
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Says who Erik? If you don't like the poll then don't participate, but since you haven't even seen the poll yet, how do you know it's unbalanced. There are 64 bands selected by complete random, so isn't it always going to be unbalanced simply because we couldn't include everyone?
 
Erik said:
People vote for what they like. What takes the FUN out of things is purposefully leaving out VERY POPULAR bands just because people will vote for them.
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Two things. First off, in the new poll, we don't intend to leave things out, just because people will vote for them. In this current poll, the Final 4 from 2005 were left out, simply because we didn't see any point in having a poll, that yields identical results, year after year.

As for the coming poll, I'm hoping it shows what bands are at the top of the scene today, not which bands we all loved during our youth.

Zod
 
Erik said:
You're right, I don't know what it's about, but since you haven't said anything I assume it's some sort of "vote for your favourite shitz!" (I mean it's absolutely useless to discuss anything if this is going to be "your favourite band that starts with the letter N" or "your favourite band with a lead singer called Tony") AND in that case I would think you would include bands/albums that RC regulars like/find relevant. If it's COMPLETELY RANDOM then great, I look forward to voting "The Heartwork EP" over "Blood for the Blood God" on Flexi disc
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Yeah, it is COMPLETELY RANDOM because we picked bands from RANDOM BRAIN PATTERNS in e-mail exchanges.

Bathory wasn't even in the running (blame aforementioned brain patterns) until you reminded me.

I'm deferring to Zod. It's his poll, he can feel free to speak up here.
 
Erik said:
but what you did now in this thread was say "oh right bathory" and then "no let's not include bathory because it will skew the results".
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I think it was more along the lines of lurch saying "guess" and then me thinking, "yeah of course, d'uh".

I think you flew way off the handle here, jesus.
 
Erik said:
Fair enough, although you realize that all this accomplishes is a "what's your favourite band except your favourite bands" poll, which can easily be produced by taking last year's list, printing it out, and through the usage of a pair of scissors cutting off the top 4 bands.
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Not so. It's quite possible that a Final 4 band from 2005, knocked someone out in the 1st Round, who might have made it to the Elite 8, had they been faced with different matchups.

Erik said:
If it includes Nevermore or Opeth I will make angry smileys at you on the Internet. If it doesn't include Skepticism, Deströyer 666, Sólstafir or Negurã Bunget I'll print out angry smileys on paper and mail them to you.
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What I've tried to do with all of these polls, is reflect the bands that generate the majority of the chatter in this forum. This has never been skewed by what I listen to (or at least, I've tried not to skew it). If you compare the 64 bands in this tournament, with my own posted list of 25 Top CDs of 2005, you'll find very few similarities:

Bands from Both:

Nevermore
Primordial
Novembers Doom
Riverside
Moonsorrow
Bllod Red Throne

I think it's fair to say, that all of those bands belong in this poll, with the possible exception of Riverside (whose been generating more chatter as of late).

Zod
 
Goddamn I've been posting too much here lately (blame easy classes), these tournament things are making everyone gay for some reason
 
Erik said:
Yeah, my point is that that train of thought is heading directly for the Siberian labour camp, one-way
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Why? Because you're playing the ever old faithful, "prove it"..."see you can't naah naah" card. Fuck that.

And by the way, truth be known, we don't need to consult your fucking approval for a poll that hasn't even been posted yet. Zod can include which ever bands he wants.

Way to go in just draining the fun out of everything.
 
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