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Half-Decade Chaos Tourney: Update 1

Half-Decade Chaos Tourney: Update 1
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Saturday, March 8, 2025 (10:34 a.m.) 

Original announcement: https://www.filmtracks.com/scoreboard/forum.cgi?read=139829

Was going to wait a full week, but I figured let's get those weekend eyeballs.

Phase One, the Nomination Round, is still in progress. So far we have 22 ballots, nominating 171 different scores. Right now there's a clear top four, but plenty could move around still. Ballots will be accepted through Monday, March 17 (St. Patrick's Day!) See above link for guidelines.

Also, I still need to figure out a tiebreaker procedure to determine seeding (and possibly to figure out which ones get in if there's a tie for 16th). My current thought is to use that score's vote share from that year's community awards, but I'm open to suggestions. Also, if there is a tie for the final bracket spots, would y'all prefer I just make a play-in round for you to vote on instead of making up a tiebreaker?

Here's everyone who's voted so far, so if you don't see your name and you did vote please let me know! And if you don't see your name and you haven't voted, get to it!
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Jblough
madtrombone (could you please check my reply to your ballot?)
Jon Broxton
Trout Mask Original
Riley KZ
GW
JB11sos
Craig Lysy
Edmund Meinerts
Peter G
Lonestarr
Steven P
Clint Morgan
Joel Griswell
Tasos B
Robert Taylor
Luke
Nate U
Chris Scheffey
Soundtracker94
JLFM

Rad-swaggity.


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Saturday, March 8, 2025 (12:35 p.m.) 

Masters of the Universe: Revelation
The Batman
June Again
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
The Piper
Picard: Season 3
Avatar: The Way of Water
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
1923
Fear Street
One Piece
Death on the Nile
Prey
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Coppélia


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Sorry, the Doyles don't count tongue
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Saturday, March 8, 2025 (1:04 p.m.) 

> The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Which season?

> Fear Street

If you have a particular one you want to highlight I will change it, but perhaps embracing the chaos means treating the trilogy as one film score...


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Saturday, March 8, 2025 (10:57 p.m.) 

> Which season?

But if the chaos allows fear street to be counted as a triptych or miniseries, surely it can accommodate a series rather than mere seasons? But I guess if push comes to shove, season 2.


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Sunday, March 9, 2025 (9:51 a.m.) 

> But if the chaos allows fear street to be counted as a triptych or
> miniseries, surely it can accommodate a series rather than mere seasons?

I'm here for chaos, but not the kind where I backtrack on my previous statements. I already insisted one season = one vote (unless you want to include two Russo seasons in your Picard pick), so I have to at least be consistent on that front.

> But I guess if push comes to shove, season 2.

Thank you.


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Half-Decade Chaos Tourney: Update 1
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Saturday, March 8, 2025 (6:24 p.m.) 

Without agonizing over it too much:

Here (Silvestri)
Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 2 (McCreary)
The Piper (Young)
The Legend and Butterfly by Naoki Sato
Succession Season 4 by Nicholas Brittell
Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror by Christopher Young
The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power S1 by Bear McCreary
The Railway Children Return by Edward Farmer and Martin Phipps
Moon Knight S1 by Hesham Nazih
COPPELIA by Maurizio Malagnini
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: Revelation by Bear McCreary
The Personal History of David Copperfield by Christopher Willis
Fukushima 50 by Taro Iwashiro
Call of the Wild by John Powell
Wonder Woman 1984 by Hans Zimmer
The Marvels by Laura Karpman


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Monday, March 10, 2025 (4:07 a.m.) 

> madtrombone (could you please check my reply to your ballot?)
Sorry I missed that! You can sub out the Journey and the two remakes for the following:
SPELLBOUND - Alan Menken
JUNGLE CRUISE - James Newton Howard
THE WILD ROBOT - Kris Bowers


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> Sorry I missed that! You can sub out the Journey and the two remakes for
> the following:
> SPELLBOUND - Alan Menken
> JUNGLE CRUISE - James Newton Howard
> THE WILD ROBOT - Kris Bowers

Got it, thanks! Bennett talked me into counting the remake scores, so I'll just add Spellbound to your list.


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Half-Decade Chaos Tourney: Update 1
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 (2:51 p.m.) 

Nom nom nom nom

Wonder Woman 1984 (Hans Zimmer) 2020 #1
The Queen's Gambit (Carlos Rafael Rivera) TV 2020 #2
Jungle Cruise (James Newton Howard) 2021 #1
Coppelia (Maurizio Malagnini) 2021 #2
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: S1_V1-V7 (Bear McCreary) TV 2022 #1
NHK Taiga Drama: The 13 Lords of the Shogun V1-V4 (Evan Call) TV 2022 #2
God of War: Ragnarok (Bear McCreary) VG 2022 #3
The Time Traveler's Wife (Blake Neely) 2022 #4
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton) 2023 #1
Creation of the Gods Pt.1: (Gordy Haab) 2023 #2
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (John Williams) 2023 #3
Planet of Lana (Takeshi Furukawa) VG 2023 #4
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922 (Christopher Young) 2023 rescore
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power:S2 (Bear McCreary) TV 2024 #1
Avatar: The Last Airbender 2024 (Takeshi Furukawa) TV 2024 #2
The Primevals (Richard Band) 2024 #3


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> Nom nom nom nom

> Wonder Woman 1984 (Hans Zimmer) 2020 #1
> The Queen's Gambit (Carlos Rafael Rivera) TV 2020 #2
> Jungle Cruise (James Newton Howard) 2021 #1
> Coppelia (Maurizio Malagnini) 2021 #2
> The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: S1_V1-V7 (Bear McCreary) TV
> 2022 #1
> NHK Taiga Drama: The 13 Lords of the Shogun V1-V4 (Evan Call) TV 2022 #2
> God of War: Ragnarok (Bear McCreary) VG 2022 #3
> The Time Traveler's Wife (Blake Neely) 2022 #4
> Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton) 2023 #1
> Creation of the Gods Pt.1: (Gordy Haab) 2023 #2
> Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (John Williams) 2023 #3
> Planet of Lana (Takeshi Furukawa) VG 2023 #4
> Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922 (Christopher Young) 2023 rescore
> The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power:S2 (Bear McCreary) TV 2024 #1
> Avatar: The Last Airbender 2024 (Takeshi Furukawa) TV 2024 #2
> The Primevals (Richard Band) 2024 #3

This list delights me, partially because it's exactly your taste, but it also vexes me. 26 ballots cast, and I now have 15 scores with 6 or more votes. Almost perfect for a 16 score bracket, just have a play-in for the final spot, right? Except I now have SEVEN scores with 5 votes apiece. And you voted for three of those seven! (None of this is actually your fault btw)

I assume you will not be my last voter, but we're far along enough (and the response rate has fallen off enough) that I have to start thinking about what this bracket is going to look like in case this is all I get. Vexing! big grin


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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 (12:43 p.m.) 

> This list delights me, partially because it's exactly your taste, but it
> also vexes me. 26 ballots cast, and I now have 15 scores with 6 or more
> votes. Almost perfect for a 16 score bracket, just have a play-in for the
> final spot, right? Except I now have SEVEN scores with 5 votes apiece. And
> you voted for three of those seven! (None of this is actually your fault
> btw)

> I assume you will not be my last voter, but we're far along enough (and
> the response rate has fallen off enough) that I have to start thinking
> about what this bracket is going to look like in case this is all I get.
> Vexing! big grin

I think, if it gets difficult, you just claim DOGE intervention, and use your 16 scores. We're all getting used to that completely powerless and stolen feeling anyway, right?

Good luck 👍✨

I didn't want to question my lists too much, but more than a handful of scores in those lists that I apparently hold feelings for that didn't get the benefit of a fresh listen.

Looking back clarified something for me that I didn't realize a few weeks ago: not many scores from 2024 that will stick with me, or at least my love for my list is not as deep as the prior years in the decade.


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