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| Match 1 | ||
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| Turned Up Clocked On Laid Off | ||
| Asparagus Next Left | ||
Voting closed
| Match 2 | ||
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| Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years | ||
| Paintball’s Coming Home | ||
Voting closed
| Match 3 | ||
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| Restless Legs | ||
| Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled) | ||
Voting closed
| Match 4 | ||
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| Westward Ho! – Massive Letdown | ||
| Everything’s AOR * | ||
Voting closed
| Match 5 | ||
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| Descent Of The Stiperstones | ||
| For What Is Chatteris… †† | ||
Voting closed
| Match 6 | ||
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| Bob Wilson – Anchorman | ||
| Rock And Roll Is Full Of Bad Wools | ||
Voting closed
| Match 7 | ||
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| The Light at the End of the Tunnel ** † | ||
| When The Evening Sun Goes Down | ||
Voting closed
| Match 8 | ||
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| Swerving the Checkatrade | ||
| Them’s The Vagaries | ||
Voting closed
| Match 9 | ||
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| The Unfortunate Gwatkin | ||
| National Shite Day *** | ||
Voting closed
| Match 10 | ||
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| The Trumpton Riots † | ||
| We Built This Village On A Trad Arr Tune | ||
Voting closed
| Match 11 | ||
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| Joy In Leeuwarden (We Are Ready) | ||
| All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit | ||
Voting closed
| Match 12 | ||
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| Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not | ||
| Joy Division Oven Gloves | ||
Voting closed
| Match 13 | ||
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| Dickie Davies Eyes | ||
| Every Time a Bell Rings | ||
Voting closed
| Match 14 | ||
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| Terminus | ||
| Eno Collaboration | ||
Voting closed
| Match 15 | ||
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| A Country Practice ††† | ||
| Knobheads on Quiz Shows | ||
Voting closed
| Match 16 | ||
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| Twenty Four Hour Garage People * | ||
| Outbreak of Vitas Gerulaitis | ||
Voting closed
*** Winner 2015
** Runner-Up 2015
* Semi-Finalist 2015
††† Winner 2011
†† Runner-Up 2011
† Semi-Finalist 2011
Chris The Siteowner
OK, I have a plan for the draw – I hope it’s suitably contrived and unnecessarily complex. We’ll allocate the songs to riders in the Tour de France in an arbitrary fashion, and then the draw will be decided by the classification of the riders after stage 4 (tomorrow, Tuesday). Does that work for people? You can see the details here.
8 July 2019
dickhead in quicksand
Looks perfectly sensible to me, I’m surprised you’re in any doubt.
Are you beginning to wish that you’d designed the BD Round to reduce the field to 128?
8 July 2019
Quickben
Steven Kruiswijk born just 241 km from Leeuwarden so should be handicapped accordingly. No record of his korfball prowess though.
8 July 2019
FEATURELESS TV PRODUCER STEVE
I can’t speak for everyone else, but the phrase “suitably contrived and unnecessarily complex” pretty much sums up why I come to this site.
8 July 2019
Gok wan acolyte
Have put together the last 32 as a Spotify playlist.
(Thanks GWA – I have included this on the ‘About’ page – CtSO)
8 July 2019
Gipton Teenager
You certainly type for me FTVP Steve.
8 July 2019
Steve Blackmore
An utterly silly and ridiculous way to do the draw – Brilliant!!!!
CtSO take a bow.
9 July 2019
this leaden paul
Is there a plan to account for possible non-finishers/non-starters?
EDIT : Yes there IS a plan. Carry on. Unlike Kasper Asgreen, possibly.
9 July 2019
dr desperate
You’re going to know how you’ll want to feel about this and I’ve no idea how these things work (Simon Harwood, W1A), but when we get to the ’16 Teams Are Taking Part’ round, how about retrofitting the draw which has already been made for the knockout stage of next month’s Korfball World Championship in Durban?
It would be a simple matter of sequentially allocating each of the sixteen winners from the Round of 32 an alphanumeric identifier (A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, etc) in the draw.
The winner of Tie 16 would obviously have to take the place allotted to the ‘Best 4th Placed Team’, but otherwise I can see no unnecessary complexity.
9 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
Great idea, although maybe we can think of a way to make it even more complex. In the meantime, the draw for the last 32 has been made! Watch this space for voting details, maybe later tomorrow.
Update: not so sure it is a great idea, as the Korfball draw has already been made, which makes linking them a bit pointless, right? Surely the point is to define the draw procedure as being related to something that hasn’t happened, so we don’t know what it’s going to be. otherwise I could just make it up.
9 July 2019
Two fat feet
Flipping blood I was so pleased at the number of personal favourites that got through and they’re all up against one another.
Scientific predictions to follow
9 July 2019
Lux inferior
First out the hat and a fairly straightforward home tie for TUCOLO. Happy days are here again.
9 July 2019
Lux inferior
Fascinating local derby in tie 7. I predict a minor upset with the fading light outshining the oncoming light.
9 July 2019
paul f
The Unfortunate Gwatkin. I’ll say.
9 July 2019
Iguana andy
Ouch! So many difficult decisions…
9 July 2019
Iguana Andy
Post 4 (curtesy of FTVPS) made me laugh so much I had to leave the bar. Precisely how I sate my pedantic urges too. Keep up the good work all.
9 July 2019
Steveee
Will tie 7 be televised, looks pick of the round.
9 July 2019
Lux inferior
Research reveals that tie 7 is a repeat of a 2011 quarter-final, from which TLATEOTT emerged a fairly comfortable winner, despite the vast majority of comments suggesting it might require extra time. It was all over well before Evening Sun sent on its final rhyme deep in injury time.
9 July 2019
Transit full of keith
Two fine chandlers you may have, Chatteris, but they’re no match for Bunners.
9 July 2019
Poopleby
Cup fever! Even better, though, not only is my team still in the draw, I’ve got a team in every tie. Looks like a good draw but only because I can identify my preferred choice in each tie. The reality might be that my favourites get discarded every time.
Upset in tie 9?
9 July 2019
parsfan
I see obvious favourites in most ties, the two I really don’t think should have made the cut would be coupon-busters to progress, but I’ll still listen to them head-to-head and see what happens on the day.
Is this going to be a one-man-one-vote* thing or will the militants be able to stuff the ballot boxes?
I was around for the previous two competitions but only really checked the site once a week or so and only rarely voted. There was some chat a while ago that multiple voting was not only allowed but encouraged. Was that really for the knockout stages?
I hope not, it would be a shame if all the effort so far was just so that the knockout ends up being a duel between a two folk with too much time on their hands.
*one-IP address-one-vote, of course
10 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
Yep, we avoided a Man City Vs Liverpool 3rd round tie, so bad news for Sky Sports. I’m going to use a third-party polling site for the voting (Polltab, I think, unless anyone has any better recommendations), which should do a decent enough job of restricting votes to one each. Multiple voting was only ever encouraged for the Baguette Dilemma Round!
10 July 2019
Edward Ian L’Ampoon
In keeping with the Tour de France selection process is there any possibility of having an accompanying recipe of the day suggestion. Meanwhile, I’m off to an empty room to start a fight with myself over the Gwatkin v NSD tie.
10 July 2019
EXXO
@Parsfan. I must admit the one thing I expected about this year’s edition is that those who take this seriously would spend months beforehand discussing how best to establish some sort of voter registration process. The only internet polls I know that have any sort of reliability are on closed forums with fairly tight registration. All the carping and work-thic-ist-sounding statements about “too much time on their hands” (very ironic in the context of HMHB) are extremely naive and fairly pointless if you don’t have that.
@Keith. The only prediction I made about this when the topic came up pre-Holmfirth (and at least two Tonies could bear witness if the ale-fuzz permits) was that the strangely optimistic Umberstonians would have their hopes dashed, and that you in particular, as a newbie, would then engage in the gnashing of teeth over ‘favourite’ and ‘best’, subjectivity v. whether there can be objective truth over the quality of an art work (which we both know there probably can).
10 July 2019
EXXO
“work-ethic-ist-sounding” was how I meant to neologise there.
I first typed “Tebbit-sounding.”
If god had meant for us to work …
10 July 2019
Edward Ian L’Ampoon
Don’t tell me that aesthetics are subjective. You know the truth, whatever it is, or maybe I’m quoting the wrong band.
10 July 2019
EXXO
Dunno. Which band are you quoting?
I hasten to add of course that despite my cynicism about internet polls, this preliminary round, especially if given even-ish numbers of votes between voters, is actually not too far off the most reliable internet polling system I’ve ever heard of, and the results should be fairly reliable within a % or two, so @Paul Parsfan, if you want a fairly reliable result then just look at the 1-205 when it’s published. If you have a massive league with 400,000 matches, it won’t be as exciting as a knock-out cup with 31 matches, but it will be more reliable in establishing where your team finishes (hmm, just realised why you might prefer the cup Paul!)
10 July 2019
Two fat feet
Thorough scientific analysis of the ties and, where possible, their previous performance in this arena indicates two photo-finishes and two landslides (70% or more of the votes). Any ties involving tracks from Creative Hub are therefore impossible to calculate at this point but I’ll predict them anyway. However I anticipate only getting 9/16 of my choices through.
10 July 2019
Transit full of keith
@Exxo, not gnashing my teeth really. At any rate, buoyed by the vocal support for the song on here, I have cancelled plans to picket Junction gig-goers in September in a ‘Justice for Umberstone’ T-shirt.
10 July 2019
Gipton Teenager
@Exxo I do vaguely remember Your prophecy about Harsh Times. With regard to objective truth over art I went to the Bridget Riley exhibition in Edinburgh last week. Some people see dots and lines whereas my flabber has never been so gasted
10 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
OK… the first four matches are live for voting. Let me know if there are any problems with the service we’re using! I plan to put four more live each day until they’re done, each set having a six-day voting lifespan.
10 July 2019
The Donkey Centre Half
Glad I have a couple of days to think about tie 10. Riots is a seminal HMHB track but then again, Trad Arr has always been a real live favourite of mine.
10 July 2019
Parsfan
@Chris, thanks, that’s good to hear. From your stats it sounds like if there’s more than 1,000 votes (less, I’d say) being cast then there’s probably something afoot.
@Exxo that just makes me wonder if we need the KO stages at all. You could use the results from the baguette round, assuming they’ve played each other. Or the same format with just the 32.
Not that I’m advocating that, just pished on holiday with the rain on the tent drowning out my thoughts.
10 July 2019
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
Just worked out that I’m going to be on holiday during the next round. Are there any options for postal votes?
11 July 2019
Boo Weekley
Predictably tough draw for the The Unfortunate Gwatkin who has National Shite Day to deal with. Unlucky.
11 July 2019
SERA69
Oh come on! Matches 7 & 9 are the definition of hung parliament.
11 July 2019
Cresta!
Hi Chris, I can’t vote in Match 1 it defaults to Match 2. Perhaps one of the vagaries…
Thanks to everyone who pointed this out. Now sorted – CtSO
11 July 2019
Cresta!
Can confirm it works. Super-speedy corrective action.
11 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
@Parsfan: You’re right, a knockout tournament after a completely fair league does seem daft, but try telling that to the organisers of the Cricket World Cup, the EFL, etc etc. You’re also right that it’ll be fishy if we get 1700 votes in any knockout stage matches (indeed, probably 700). I don’t think we will. The system can be beaten by voting from different places, but nobody’s likely to be able to vote from dozens of different ones and have a significant impact. So I think it’ll be pretty fair and we won’t get the nonsense we had in the last quarter final where (I suspect) a rather sad spoilsport organised a mailing list somewhere to vote against a particular song, or spent hours with some sort of VPN to spoof IP addresses. It’s all a bit of fun and I hope everyone will treat it as such!
11 July 2019
TWO FAT FEET
Selections then :
TUCOLO, Tending, Restless, Westward Hooooooo, Chatteris, Anchorman, Light, Vagaries, NSD, Trumpton, DPAK, Damnation, Bell, Eno, ACP, 24H
Predictions :
TUCOLO 51%
Tending 51%
Swing 69%
AOR 78%
Chatteris 63%
Bad Wools 57%
Light 67%
Vagaries *
NSD 78%
Trad Arr 57%
DPAK 56%
JDOG 68% (sob!)
Bell *
Terminus *
ACP *
24H 67%
The inevitable asterisk is for those songs where at least one has no past performance to gauge it by so I’ve just gone by gut feeling as to the winner.
11 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
The Analyst Has Spoken.
11 July 2019
Two fat feet
Not so much of the anal please
11 July 2019
Paul f
I hope refereeing of these games will be more impartial than for tonight’s game at Prenton Park. Mike Dean himself officiates.
11 July 2019
Pirx The Purist
Well, I’m pretty sure of my votes on these (and I intend only to vote once for each tie; I mean, what would be the point of multiple voting now?), but Tie 13 is a proper sod. A classic of the early period (especially in its Peel Session version) against a new classic. I’ll go for DDE mostly out of sentiment, as it may have been the first HMHB track I ever heard in 1986 (again, the Peel Session version).
11 July 2019
Gipton Teenager
Ooh that was difficult, especially tie 7. I’ve made myself a playlist so I can play the ties in my car. It’s just like being on the terraces, but a bit drier.
11 July 2019
Edward Ian L’Ampoon
Fortunately, having a good i pod coupled with a shite job, I have plenty of opportunity to listen to and evaluate the options. Always difficult to factor in songs which in their recorded version are not on the same level as their live incarnations, (such as AOR), but that’s just my lowly opinion. Incidentally band I slightly misquoted in last post was The Stranglers “Ugly”.
12 July 2019
transit full of keith
The Ogwen Valley derby (Match 3). The superior elevation of the Glyder boulders in relation to the lake is a fair prediction of the outcome I’d say.
(Great spot – CtSO)
12 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
Another four matches open for voting. While I’m here, thinking ahead to the draws for future rounds, my favourite ever draw was this one in 2011. Sadly, eight years on, the guest officials who made the draw are now at university so I can’t re-create it. But if anyone thinks they might have the components to record something similar (small children, smartphone, YouTube account), do get in touch.
12 July 2019
paul f
Really tough batch this lot. Where they’ve been a toss up for me, I’ve tended to go with the one I suspect is the underdog.
12 July 2019
johnny kwanGo
CTSO… might be a glitch in the system. I was meddling… looks like I can repeat vote in ties 1-8.
(Thanks for the report – I don’t think there’s an issue, I’m not seeing obvious clues that’s happening, so I’m guessing any ‘duplicate votes’ are not being recorded – CtSO)
12 July 2019
ken-Ted Moult
Is tactical voting permitted? (asking for a friend)
13 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
I’m trying to imagine the circumstances in which you’d want to. Maybe voting against the big guns in the hope that a sensitive outsider sneaking through may have a better chance? It’d be interesting.
13 July 2019
dickhead in quicksand
That’s my civic duty done. Every tie was clearcut; except for #1, which went to sudden-death extra time and penalties, and was only resolved when the last taker did a Diana Ross.
13 July 2019
ken-ted moult
That’s the thinking Chris, like hoping for Manchester Utd to beat Man City so that Prescot Cables have a clear run at the cup.
13 July 2019
Gipton Teenager
Sorry CtSO, I’m not trying to make multiple votes, just making sure I’ve voted in every round. (I imagine you at the centre of a giant spiderweb of technological gubbins, alert to the tiniest fluttering of suspicious activity.)
(I’m touched by your sadly misplaced faith that I have much idea what I’m doing – CtSO)
13 July 2019
Gipton Teenager
You mean we’re all on the top deck of the bus heading for Bridge Street?
13 July 2019
Mickey Roberts
No Thomas De Gendt ! … what a let down.
15 July 2019
wobbly Jelly
I assume “random” TdF riders were based on groupsets – Shimano v’s Campag etc? not many on Sturmey Archer.
15 July 2019
OLd Biscuit
Ah well, old biscuit site’s favourite gets a hammering in the last 32. Not enough Thomas Hardy completists these days.
19 July 2019
Chris The Siteowner
OK, here are all the results…
19 July 2019