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Category Archives: Music Tournament
Last Band Standing: Game 5 Match-ups (and Game 4 Results)
Note (1:40 am/Thursday): Grooveshark is back up, but that was a scary few hours. The Shark’s days seem potentially numbered, and we’ll continue figuring out what service we should use instead (Spotify, PlayIt, YouTube.) Calling all coaches! We’re on … Continue reading
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Tagged last band standing, Living the Dream, Music Tournament
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Last Band Standing: Game 4 Match-ups (and Game 3 Results)
Music tournament strategizing is in full swing this weekend. Some coaches see the first round slipping away, others try to lock it down, and a few in the middle are trying to navigate wins without pitching their big guns. … Continue reading
Last Band Standing: Game 3 (and Game 2 results)
This is where it gets exciting, folks. Coaches down 2-0 have to start fighting now to stay alive. Those tied at 1-1 have to assess what worked and what didn’t heading into Game 3. Listen to Game … Continue reading
Last Band Standing: Day 2 (and Day 1 results)
Past tournament participants will recall that we usually have a results post and match-ups post, but since I’m flying solo we’re going to combine the two. When you’re trying to win a best of seven series, it’s poison to fall … Continue reading
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Tagged catalogue, last band standing, Music Tournament
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Last Band Standing: Day 1
Welcome to the first round of Last Band Standing, an exciting music tournament that we’re trying for the first time, in which fans like you “coach” artists to victories in a series of Best of Seven series. For a more … Continue reading
Last Band Standing- First Round Revealed!
So we’ve gotten a few months without returning to the hallowed structure that launched LTD popularity into the triple digits- the music tournament. I’m happy to announce that starting Monday, we will be launching our 4th tournament in history, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, Clash, David Bowie, last band standing, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke, super furry animals
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Covers Tournament Retrospective: The Originals
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Tagged Covers Tournament, Living the Dream, Originals
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Adrock Presents His World Cup Tournament
Few voters were more reliable during this year’s tournaments than Adrock of Mass., who has also held many personal music tournaments of his own since rooming with me freshman year of college. This is his first crack at a World … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrock, Blind Guardian, Personal Music Tournament, World Cup
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How to hold your own World Cup Music Tournament
With LTD taking a break from large-scale music tournaments this winter, now is the perfect time to host your own personal tournament, and there’s no better personal music tournament format than the World Cup. Just as in soccer, 32 … Continue reading
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Tagged Living the Dream, Personal Music Tournament, World Cup
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Hanukkah Song In Practice (Part 1 of 3)
I’m involved in this Secret Snowman thing at work. It’s what we call Secret Santa to make sure we aren’t alienating the one participant that is of the Judaic persuasion. But how excited was I to pick from this hat … Continue reading
