Thanks, it was actually fun.
Some had issue with the way I set it up, even saying the PMJ songs shouldn't be included. In the 'actual' NCAA competition, teams are 'seeded' by their records and opponents, which would be impossible to apply to Haley's songs...by who's metric do I seed every song Haley's performed....do we then seed individual performances? Then how do we make if fair if each video has different levels of audio/video quality (If you noticed, I didn't use any 'video' of Haley except for PMJ/Idol as to keep things as 'fair' as possible)
i knew if I made it too complicated, it might dissuade people from participating. Judging from how often I had to explain the tournament bracket set up, I was glad that I chose to boil it down to it's simplest components. Each song had it's obvious category....that PMJ had the minimum 8 songs to make it work, the delineation of American Idol, Listen Up! and Better, just made sense
The second objective, after having a bit of fun, was to give a reason to listen/watch Haley's songs...for old and new fans. Through my channel, I think there are a good number of PMJ, Morgan, Casey fans who follow me, so it's a nice way to insert the myriad of Haley's performances for them to enjoy (some may not be aware of the Listen Up! songs, for instance.)
But in the end, I think the matches were relatively fair, Creep was going to beat Seven Nation Army and Black Hole Sun whether they met in the first round or the semi finals.
I expected Spiderweb to do better judging from the 'play in' votes it got, and am definitely surprised that Good or Bad outlasted everyone on the 'album' side of the competition. I figured HOTRS would go far.
Still wonder how CHFIL would have done, but it never even got a vote in the 'play in' part of the contest so I guess, it probably wouldn't have done that great?
