March Beatle Madness: Opening Round [Closed]

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A
I Saw her Standing There
Do You Want to Know a Secret
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Rock n Roll Music
Please Please Me
All My Lovin’
Hard Day’s Night
I’ll Follow the Sun

B
Eight Days a Week
Yesterday
Help!
In My Life
Eleanor Rigby
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
We Can Work it Out
Paperback Writer

C
Hey Jude
Strawberry Fields Forever VS While My Guitar Gently Weeps (I can’t. I Won’t!)
Penny Lane
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
I Am the Walrus
Lady Madonna
A Day in the Life
Helter Skelter

D
Something
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Across the Universe
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Here Comes the Sun
Let It Be
Get Back
Come Together

Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about this.

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And there’s the horn (an hour and a half ago)! Voting is done for this round; I’m currently tallying the scores, and will post them ASAP.

I’ll post the second round thread in a couple of hours.
Thanks for playing!

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Here are the finals from round 1. Winners are in bold. Upsets are in red. (OT) after a matchup means it was a tie, and the winner was decided by coin flip.
A
I Saw her Standing There 35, I’m a Loser 9
Twist and Shout 28, Do You Want to Know a Secret 16
I Wanna Hold Your Hand 22, Can’t Buy Me Love 23 (OT)
Rock n Roll Music 27, Roll Over Beethoven 17
Please Please Me 36, Long Tall Sally 8
I Should’ve Known Better 22, All My Lovin’ 21
I Feel Fine 24, Hard Day’s Night 20
I’ll Follow the Sun 23, Love Me Do 22 (OT)

B
Rain 17, Eight Days a Week 27
Yesterday 17, Ticket to Ride 27
Help! 34, Yellow Submarine 10
In My Life 26, Nowhere Man 18
Eleanor Rigby 25, You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away 19
Taxman 13, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 31
We Can Work it Out 23, Day Tripper 21
Drive My Car 18, Paperback Writer 26

C
Hey Jude 36, Magical Mystery Tour 8
Strawberry Fields Forever 18, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 25
Revolution 22, Penny Lane 23 (OT)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 27, When I’m 64 17
I Am the Walrus 39, Piggies 5
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 17, Lady Madonna 27
A Day in the Life 40, Sexy Sadie 4
All You Need is Love 25, Helter Skelter 19

D
Something 38, Old Brown Shoe 6
The Ballad of John and Yoko 31, Hey Bulldog 13
Across the Universe 40, Free As a Bird 4
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window 24, The Long and Winding Road 20
Here Comes the Sun 33, Oh Darling! 11
Let It Be 40, Real Love 4
Get Back 37, Octopus’s Garden 7
Come Together 36, I Me Mine 8
The Round 2 thread will be posted shortly.

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Define “upset.” “Lady Madonna” can hardly be considered in any way an inferior song to the pap that is “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”

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Further define “upset.” I have “Norwegian Wood” winning Bracket B, and depending how I feel that day, beating “Penny Lane” in Finals. But then I guess that’s why we play the games.

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“Upset” here is, just like in any tournament, if a lower seed beats a higher seed. And of course, the seeding was done by me. In the OP, I alluded to the formula I used to determine seeds.

But really, the seed numbers and what I consider to be “upsets” are irrelevant. Like 5 time champ said, that’s why we play the games; the results are all that matters.

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I think you’re missing a vote here – and/or I think this should have been an OT.

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WHAT?!? The single best song the Beatles ever put out, and it gets knocked out in the 1st round? By a fricking coin flip?! Booooo!!!

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Can we get the seeds listed next to the songs for the next round?

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There was a mis-vote where someone voted for both, so i tossed both votes out.

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:dubious:

I didn’t know that “Revolution” was “Tomorrow Never Knows” misspelled. :wink: