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New official thread for it.

The basic idea is that every sends in a list of their 20 favourite albums. They're pitted against each other in groups of 5 where the highest scoring album goes through. We do this until we've whittled the total down to 24 and then use the same format as this Summer's Euros.

I've limited the number of applicants to 25 so we can have a maximum of 500 albums. I've already had 17 people send their lists in:

Craig
Cheese and Biscuits
Aber gas
les.gtfc
Martino Knockavelli
JoeJoeJoeJoe
The Cards
TomPNE94
Dave
This Charming Mike
blade1889
Stevencc
epic73
StagsForLife
Vanni
SF_
eightiesrobin

Deadline Friday 9pm.

Happy listening everyone!

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Been asked to add the closing dates of each set of pools.

1-8- Finished
9-14- 20/07/16
15-20- 21st
21-26- 22nd
27-32- 23rd
33-38- 24th
39-44- 25th
45-50- 26th
51-56- 27th
57-62- 28th
63-67- 29th

A 68th poll will determine the last few teams to get into the last 64.
 
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Does it need to be 20 albums? I've sent 10 and I'll think about adding another 10 but just in case I don't...
 

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No. 10 or 20 is fine.
Thanks. Last daft question from me:

Do they need to be ordered or is it just a list of 20? Thinking you may want them ordered for seeding purposes. We don't want the big guns of Chas n Dave being up against the Smurfs in the group stages, it'd make a mockery of the whole thing.
 

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Thanks. Last daft question from me:

Do they need to be ordered or is it just a list of 20? Thinking you may want them ordered for seeding purposes. We don't want the big guns of Chas n Dave being up against the Smurfs in the group stages, it'd make a mockery of the whole thing.
For the whole preliminaries, there were going to be randomly drawn. Obviously, there will be favourites in each 5 but you'd hope people will listen to each album and decide for themselves. No one but me will know where each song was ranked anyway.

As for the (eventual) group stage, I'd hope all the songs are there on merit so wouldn't need seeding anyway.

Really hope that makes sense...
 

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For the whole preliminaries, there were going to be randomly drawn. Obviously, there will be favourites in each 5 but you'd hope people will listen to each album and decide for themselves. No one but me will know where each song was ranked anyway.

As for the (eventual) group stage, I'd hope all the songs are there on merit so wouldn't need seeding anyway.

Really hope that makes sense...
Makes sense to me.

Good stuff :thumbs:
 

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Deadlines a bit tight but I'll try to get a list in tomorrow. I assume this needs to be full artist albums and that mix albums won't be accepted? Unlikely to put any in but just so I know.

Does the order matter in this format ? If not that will make my list easier.
 

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Order isn't important.

In terms of mixes, I'd say 1, possibly 2 are ok but try and make it as artist-based as possible.
 

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I'll make it all artist album based. :)
 

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They can't all be techno!
 

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Now, first pool coming up. Try not to be biased; listen to all albums if you can. Don't go ahead and choose your own straightaway.
I won't reveal who chose the albums (unless you really want me to) until the group stages.
 

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All those who would rather go to the effort of PMing me their choice can do so.
 

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Scrap this lot, a new thread will be created for each round with a relevant poll.
 

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Seeing as this new format is working better, decided to keep it.

Possibly 8 pools posted a day but with 4 days to decide on your vote. If some of you are struggling to decide in time, I'm fine to give you more.
 

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