The 10’s were out like wildfire this round, and 3 of them went to those guys. Intervention takes Where Is My Mind, 71.5-60.5. I have personally been listening to this song non-stop all weekend. This thing hasn’t stopped blowing my mind, and I look forward to seeing how it does in consequent rounds.
Scores will look a little low, we only had 8 voters this week…I guess everyone else has personal lives or something silly like that. Dancing In The Dark over Heroes, 70.5-61. Redemption Song over Rock With You, 71.5-51.5. Sitting On The Dock of the Bay over Twisting The Night Away, 74.5-56. And Me And Bobby McGee over It’s Oh So Quiet, 71.5-56.
Out of the tournament: Bjork. MJ goes to 4-1. Pixies go to 0-2 with 1 left.
Division L continues. I’m running out of interesting things to say, but I am tearing my hair out a little because two of my absolute, go-to, do not mind my wallet chain, Mossimo and/or Stussy shirts, bedroom speaker blasting songs are up against each other. We’ll see what happens. Votes are due by Monday at 8 pm. 
When I was 8, I spent a few months in the hospital- long story. But one of the five cassette tapes I had for my brand new walkman I listened to everyday was Michael Jackson’s Dangerous. Black and White tops Once In A Lifetime, 91-80.5. Surely the last hurrah, but MJ never really stops, does he?
Nothing in this round seemed to blow anything out of the water, but there was the token close match-up that wavered back and forth over the last two days…before falling on Rancid’s side. Roots Radicals defeated Southern Cross, 76-74.75 (apparently more voters are taking Margot’s cue of every now and then voting on a more specific increment than 0.5. Cool with me.)
Division L is looking really, really strong. L1 screams accessibility for new voters too, perfect opportunity to get some more friends involved. Plus, in the same way Janos mentioned earlier that he loved the K2 match-ups, I think the L1 line-up actually might include 8 songs that have been in Elite 8’s of mine own in the past. But to each their own musical inclination. 
I feel pretty good saying we are closing out Division K with a bang. I struggled over choosing a picture for the post…you’ll probably see why in the match-ups, lotta recognizable and prolific images associated with these songs and artists. 
Gaga lovers, you are vindicated, and my bold claims of the invulnerability of Motown are thus disproven. On a late surge, Bad Romance defeats It’s The Same Old Song, 111.5-108.5.
This award goes to the voters who on average give any song the highest score. There are a good number of one-time voters who hit the top on this (StephenK, Elizabeth B, 2 of the 3 Lardo sisters,) but for award purposes and keeping degrees of freedom in mind, I thought it would be more reasonable to say you had to vote in at least two days of match-ups. (For benchmark purposes, the average score across every vote submitted for every single match-up is 6.809. And for you stats nerds like me, the standard deviation is 1.727.)
In the same sense, there is certainly appreciation for those voters who truly scrutinize all match-ups and don’t dole out 8s and 9s like candy. These multi-day voters gave songs the lowest scores on average:
This award goes to the voters that have voted in the most match-ups. You guys have been the backbone- thank you.
The unweighted average difference between voter scores on two songs is 1.914. Voters who on average give two songs in a match-up the lowest differential get this award. We know- choosing songs is constantly tough, makes us pull our hair out at times, and there’s no shame in the heartfelt tie or +0.5.
This award goes to the voters who on average vote with the highest differential between the two songs. These voters are the most decisively in a given camp on a given day. (Yes, that is a picture of Gheorge Muresan.)
Last, I wanted to recognize the songs to which voters gave 10s- an act not to be taken lightly, and as sure a sign of true love for a song as any. So it’s like if you were one of those two people and your song you gave a 10 to was the other person. I’ve never seen this movie but I think this makes pop culture sense.
Living the Dream 