"Best Coldplay Song Ever" Competition

[heelsrule1988]

Obviously, all of us here love Coldplay. To us, they are the greatest band in history. We could go on and on talking about our favorite Coldplay songs, which makes one particular question very difficult to answer: which song is Coldplay's best? To answer that question, I've created a competition to determine which song is the best of them all. Over the next five weeks, 61 of Coldplay's songs will battle it out in a qualifying round (AKA pool play), and 32 of those songs will advance to a single-elimination tournament. In pool play, the songs will be divided into six pools (one for each album, one for Prospekt's March, and one for eight songs that were never on an album), and will play each song in their pool once. After pool play is complete, the top six songs in each of the four album pools and the top four songs in each of the two remaining pools will advance to the 32-song tournament play. Of course, the winner of each matchup will be determined by your votes. In each day of pool play (with the exception of the final two days), there will be 10 matchups to vote on. Please vote in every matchup per day, as uneven voting can cause an imbalance in the competition. Once you vote on one matchup, just click the back button in your browser after the results page appears, and you can vote on the remaining matchups in the same way. The voting period for each day will end at exactly midnight (ET), and very shortly after, a new voting day will begin (I will attempt to have everything set for the next voting day almost immediately after the previous voting day ends, but I can't promise punctuality every night). There will be no tiebreakers to determine the winner of a pool play matchup (they will simply count as ties), but in a tournament play matchup, higher seed will be the first tiebreaker. If that fails to break the tie, then the second tiebreaker will be largest margin of victory throughout the entire competition. Margin of victory will also be the tiebreaker used to determine tournament play seeding after pool play is complete. So... I think that's about all you need to know. I look forward to a highly-competitive five weeks with lots of participation from all of you!

 

Bracket | Schedule | Pool Play Standings

[MartinFan]

Pretty cool, you took some time to do this, much appreciated! Looking forward to seeing what wins!!

[heelsrule1988]

I hope this thread stays close to the top so people won't forget it! Participation needs to stay high throughout the entire competition so that the results will truly mean something.

[Juanma]

BRILLIANT!

 

im voting

[Miss Mags]

Obviously, all of us here love Coldplay[/color][/b]. To us, they are the greatest band in history. We could go on and on talking about our favorite Coldplay songs, which makes one particular question very difficult to answer: which song is Coldplay's best? To answer that question, I've created a competition to determine which song is the best of them all. Over the next five weeks, 61 of Coldplay's songs will battle it out in a qualifying round (AKA pool play), and 32 of those songs will advance to a single-elimination tournament. In pool play, the songs will be divided into six pools (one for each album, one for Prospekt's March, and one for eight songs that were never on an album), and will play each song in their pool once. After pool play is complete, the top six songs in each of the four album pools and the top four songs in each of the two remaining pools will advance to the 32-song tournament play. Of course, the winner of each matchup will be determined by your votes. In each day of pool play (with the exception of the final two days), there will be 10 matchups to vote on. Please vote in every matchup per day, as uneven voting can cause an imbalance in the competition. Once you vote on one matchup, just click the back button in your browser after the results page appears, and you can vote on the remaining matchups in the same way. The voting period for each day will end at exactly midnight (ET), and very shortly after, a new voting day will begin (I will attempt to have everything set for the next voting day almost immediately after the previous voting day ends, but I can't promise punctuality every night). There will be no tiebreakers to determine the winner of a pool play matchup (they will simply count as ties), but in a tournament play matchup, higher seed will be the first tiebreaker. If that fails to break the tie, then the second tiebreaker will be largest margin of victory throughout the entire competition. Margin of victory will also be the tiebreaker used to determine tournament play seeding after pool play is complete. So... I think that's about all you need to know. I look forward to a highly-competitive five weeks with lots of participation from all of you!

 

Voting Page | Schedule | Pool Play Standings

thats not true, there are some (alot) non-coldplay lovers/haters here :uneasy:

 

but it's still an awesome idea I'm in :lol:

[cleeson7]

yea sounds good, ill do it

[Raphaele]

voted

[Miss Mags]

amsterdam vs. the scientist and Clocks vs. politik

 

SRSLY thats hard !

[RachieSound]

Some of their best have barely any votes.... Green Eyes and Spies better make it! :whip:

[AnnaElisabeth]

Wow, cool! :nice: I voted, of course :) Some were actually quite hard to choose... Like Shiver vs Sparks :uhoh:

[Lu'kaa]

I voted :) Sounds like an official poll for the thread "War of the Coldplay songs", great idea !

[heelsrule1988]

Remember folks... I'm glad to see that there's a lot of votes so far, but remember that this is only day one. Let's have this kind of participation continue throughout the entire five weeks... vote every day!

 

Also... I'm seeing some uneven voting. Remember to vote on each matchup!

[Juanma]

thats not true, there are some (alot) non-coldplay lovers/haters here :uneasy: [/color]

 

but it's still an awesome idea I'm in :lol:

 

sad but true :sad:

[pickle]

So.............we just....vote for songs? :thinking: /too lazy to read the first post

 

thats not true, there are some (alot) non-coldplay lovers/haters here :uneasy: [/color]

 

but it's still an awesome idea I'm in :lol:

 

:cool3:

[jehrenfried]

Omg, my favorite song is horribly losing. It's Politik btw. No!

[geekchic]

voted.

that was so hard!

[heelsrule1988]

Tuesday's matchups can now be voted on.

[Pockets]

Thanks for coming up with this! And I just voted.

[Cyan Kat]

Some of their best have barely any votes.... Green Eyes and Spies better make it! :whip:

 

Same , I love Green eyes , crests of waves but they won't win, if Viva la vida wins I will not be happy :angry:

[Cyan Kat]

Come on Vote Swallowed in sea , I'm gonna lose her from this competition :(

[RachieSound]

DOWN WITH FIX YOU!

 

*hides and waits for fangirls/boys to kill her*

[AnnaElisabeth]

Aaaaah, Strawberry Swing vs Death and All His Friends :uhoh:

 

Strawberry Swing :shame:

[RachieSound]

Why don't we ever do worse Coldplay song?

[heelsrule1988]

I love all this enthusiasm... you guys are really getting into it. :D

 

Some of you may think that pool play is going to take too long, but think about it this way. In this competition, pool play is like a tournament within a tournament, because before the single-elimination tournament begins, we'll find out what the best songs on each album are.

[heelsrule1988]

Bumping so this won't get overlooked... there's still five hours left to vote in today's matchups! X&Y and Viva la Vida are the albums being voted on today.