Pop Open Group D RESULTS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As before I'll be updating the results regularly over the afternoon. It was VERY close, though with a clear winner. Top three go through.

First Place - "Stripper Friends" by Aimee Allen. 9 first-place votes. 31% of total points. piratemoggy wins and goes into the Noughties group for Round 2.

Second Place - "Loving Pauper" by Gregory Isaacs. 5 first-place votes. 21% of total points. martinskidmore qualifies and is put into the Fifties And Before group for Round 2.

Third Place - "Equal Share" by Lutan Fyah. 5 first-place votes. 17% of total points. byebyepride qualifies on # of first-place votes and is put into the Eighties group for Round 2.

Fourth Place - "Making Money" by Elephant Man. 4 first-place votes. 17% of total points. boyofbadgers is OUT.

Fifth Place - "Dollar Sign" by Sticky ft Lady Stush. 3 first-place votes. 15% of total points. dubdobdee is OUT.

What this means is that piratemoggy gets to choose which Round 2 group she is in (out of Noughties, Nineties, Eighties, Seventies, Sixties and Fifties & Before) and which the third-placed qualifier (byebyepride) is in.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow's group is INJUSTICE, by the way, but it's dependent on my home internet working for more than 15 minutes at a stretch (which it wasn't last night).

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

OMG :D I thought I was going to crash and burn in the first round by getting nil points, League style.

This was definitely worth deciding to phone in sick to work for.* Am too excited to choose decade yet and have to go and wait for the maternal unit anyway but how VERY EXCITING.

*Did actually have marginally better reason than just wanting to see Pop Open results but obv. this is bonus.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I am glad the Pop Open can bring joy as well as anguish!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I fear anguish in my future! Depends how many people hadn't heard Stush before, judging by how things stand now.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Through by a squeak on # of first-place votes.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

blimey!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It's nice to know that one's vote counts. That's the second week in a row I think where it made all the diff.

Of course I'd rather more Poptimists overall were voting...

One step at a time!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Up to 26, plus I know a handful of possible voters were at Glasto, so I'm hopeful of 30 on Injustice. (Though the zipfile is much bigger this week, lots of 320 kbps rips).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My top two = the voters' bottom two! :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well Stush would have been my top pick easily, if I hadn't heard it before.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ironically I think it was giving my No 2 vote to Lutan rather than Aimee or Gregory - which was pretty close - that sent poor Ele home!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

If I had entered a no. 2 place vote for Elephant Man, what would have happened? Would I have still gone through on no. 1 votes, even though EM would have a higher %age points?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, you'd have been out. It's %age first, then # of first place votes, THEN who got their track in first.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha! my tactics paid off.

INDIE WINS!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Albeit unsuccesful LA emo-rawk-chick indie, but still...

Re: INDIE WINS!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What nonsense! Almost TWICE as many voters put a non-indie track in first place :)

(Such is the influence of teenpop that I don't really parse emo-rawk-chicks as "indie" any more)

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I forgot to vote this week! Can't disagree with that as #1 though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of surprised by these results! To me, Stush aside, Elephant Man was the obvious stand-out, and it hasn't cropped up yet...

[koganbot]

I don't remember what order I put them, but the two winners were my top two (not counting Stush). Elephant Man never quite does it for me, though he's genial enough (but twas Kat Deluna who put the "Whine Up" single over for me).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I love plenty of Ele songs... but this one didn't do much for me. Come on Luton AirportLutan Fyah!

Stush :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well over half the people who could have voted for Stush did (in either first or second place) - there obviously is a critical level of "people know it" above which you're pretty much doomed - I suspect dubdob was only slightly over it this time though.

Re: Stush :(

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

today's group is INJUSTICE more like

do you see what i did there (er i DO see what i did here, oh well...)

Re: Stush :(

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my pain.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Scraped through! (Yes, I'd have voted for Stush if I didn't already know it well.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Your Round 2 fate is now in the hands of the RANDOMISER, though in your case I'm fairly sure you could cover any of the groups effectively!

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think any will cause special problems for me. I guess it's easier for me to find stuff hardly anyone will know from ages ago, but I'm not short of music from any era.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Bvgger. Maybe I should have gone with the Band Of Susans track instead.