Post by Lemon Bloody Cola on Jun 13, 2010 1:40:23 GMT
I took today as the opportunity to relive a fun past time I had as a young'un in the days before the internet. I'd draw bits of paper out of a hat and make up imaginary football/wrestling tournments. Later on I'd do them with favourite songs of a specific artist etc. I made one today in regards my favourite artists.. and you should too!
You will need.
1) the top 32 most played artists on your Lastfm or other playrecording device
2) a random number generator like www.random.org/
3) perhaps a real football world cup fixture list to use as a guide uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/world-cup/fixtures-results/
Basically take the 8 most played as "seeds" and play them at the fore of eight "groups" and then use the random generator to fill out the groups with the rest.
Then put the groups in the your order of preference from those artists. The top two from each go on to the next round. From there on it's knock out and you pick your favourite out of the two options, allocate a "score " if you like indicating your level of preference in each match.
Here's mine.
Group A
1) The Beach Boys
2) Leonard Cohen
3) Florence+The Machine
4) Metric
Group B
1) Daniel Johnston
2) El Perro Del Mar
3) Sonic Youth
4) Red House Painters
Group C
1) The Smiths/Morrissey
2) Super Furry Animals
3) Neil Young
4) Blue Roses
Group D
1) Belle and Sebastian
2) Teenage Fanclub
3) XTC
4) Cocteau Twins
Group E
1) The Magnetic Fields
2) The Smashing Pumpkins
3) Heavenly
4) Stina Nordanstam
Group F
1) Kate Bush
2) Prefab Sprout
3) Otis Redding
4) Throwing Muses
Group G
1) Saint Etienne
2) The Auteurs
3) Orange Juice
4) Prince
Group H
1) Scott Walker
2) Regina Spektor
3) David Bowie
4) Fleetwood Mac
LAST 16
The Beach Boys 3- 0 El Perro Del Mar
Leonard Cohen 1- 0 Daniel Johnson
The Smiths/Morrissey 4- 1 Teenage Fanclub
Belle and Sebastian 3-2 Super Furry Animals
The Magnetic Fields 1- 1 Prefab Sprout
(Prefab Sprout won on pens)
Kate Bush 2-2 Smashing Pumpkins
(Kate Bush won on pens)
Saint Etienne 2-0 Regina Spektor
Scott Walker 1- 0 The Auteurs
Quarter Finals
Kate Bush 3-0 Prefab Sprout
Beach Boys 1-0 Leonard Cohen
Belle and Sebastian 2-1 The Smiths/Morrissey
Scott Walker 0-0 Saint Etienne
(Scott Walker won on pens)
Semi Finals
Kate Bush 1- 2 Beach Boys
Belle and Sebastian 2- 0 Scott Walker
Third place play off
Scott Walker 3-1 Kate Bush
Final
Belle and Sebastian 4-3 Beach Boys
Belle and Sebastian win!
As you can tell I get A LOT of sex.
You will need.
1) the top 32 most played artists on your Lastfm or other playrecording device
2) a random number generator like www.random.org/
3) perhaps a real football world cup fixture list to use as a guide uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/world-cup/fixtures-results/
Basically take the 8 most played as "seeds" and play them at the fore of eight "groups" and then use the random generator to fill out the groups with the rest.
Then put the groups in the your order of preference from those artists. The top two from each go on to the next round. From there on it's knock out and you pick your favourite out of the two options, allocate a "score " if you like indicating your level of preference in each match.
Here's mine.
Group A
1) The Beach Boys
2) Leonard Cohen
3) Florence+The Machine
4) Metric
Group B
1) Daniel Johnston
2) El Perro Del Mar
3) Sonic Youth
4) Red House Painters
Group C
1) The Smiths/Morrissey
2) Super Furry Animals
3) Neil Young
4) Blue Roses
Group D
1) Belle and Sebastian
2) Teenage Fanclub
3) XTC
4) Cocteau Twins
Group E
1) The Magnetic Fields
2) The Smashing Pumpkins
3) Heavenly
4) Stina Nordanstam
Group F
1) Kate Bush
2) Prefab Sprout
3) Otis Redding
4) Throwing Muses
Group G
1) Saint Etienne
2) The Auteurs
3) Orange Juice
4) Prince
Group H
1) Scott Walker
2) Regina Spektor
3) David Bowie
4) Fleetwood Mac
LAST 16
The Beach Boys 3- 0 El Perro Del Mar
Leonard Cohen 1- 0 Daniel Johnson
The Smiths/Morrissey 4- 1 Teenage Fanclub
Belle and Sebastian 3-2 Super Furry Animals
The Magnetic Fields 1- 1 Prefab Sprout
(Prefab Sprout won on pens)
Kate Bush 2-2 Smashing Pumpkins
(Kate Bush won on pens)
Saint Etienne 2-0 Regina Spektor
Scott Walker 1- 0 The Auteurs
Quarter Finals
Kate Bush 3-0 Prefab Sprout
Beach Boys 1-0 Leonard Cohen
Belle and Sebastian 2-1 The Smiths/Morrissey
Scott Walker 0-0 Saint Etienne
(Scott Walker won on pens)
Semi Finals
Kate Bush 1- 2 Beach Boys
Belle and Sebastian 2- 0 Scott Walker
Third place play off
Scott Walker 3-1 Kate Bush
Final
Belle and Sebastian 4-3 Beach Boys
Belle and Sebastian win!
As you can tell I get A LOT of sex.