3rd Annual Music Tournament

[Ether's Bane]

It's late September again, and you know what that means! It's time for the Music Tournament! We had 97 contestants last year, so we're shooting for an even 100 this year. You may nominate two musical acts, whether band or soloist, every 24 hours. Last year's top 20 bands automatically qualify. Fortunately, I had saved the names of the top 20 last year, so they weren't wiped with the forum.

Contestants:

1. Dream Theater
2. Symphony X
3. Blind Guardian
4. Judas Priest
5. Nevermore
6. Opeth
7. Iron Maiden
8. Nightwish
9. Stratovarius
10. Pain of Salvation
11. Slayer
12. Black Label Society
13. Led Zeppelin
14. Annihilator
15. Iced Earth
16. Gamma Ray
17. Testament
18. Blackfield
19. Porcupine Tree
20. Sonata Arctica
21. Kamelot
22. Nox Arcana
23. Epica
24. After Forever
25. Metallica
26. Dethklok
27. Queen
28. The Who
29. Red Hot Chili Peppers
30. Muse
31. Radiohead
32. Tori Amos
33. Emilie Autumn
34. YUI
35. Pink Floyd
36. Frank Zappa
37. Coldplay
38. Michael Buble
39. Morbid Angel
40. KMFDM
41. Depeche Mode
42. Arcade Fire
43. The Flaming Lips
44. Children of Bodom
45. Sirenia
46. Vienna Teng
47. Vertical Horizon
48. Alice in Chains
49. DragonForce
50. Sigur Ros
51. Sarah McLachlan
52. Disturbed
53. Queens of the Stone Age
54. Elis
55. Tarja
56. AC/DC
57. Guns n' Roses
58. Sum 41
59. Linkin Park
60. Paramore
61. Hanzel und Gretyl
62. Phil Collins
63. Helloween
64. Megadeth
65. Kelly Clarkson
66. Kid Rock
67. Rammstein
68. Ozzy Osbourne
69. Poison
70. Skid Row
71. Bamboo
72. Deicide
73. Leaves' Eyes
74. Within Temptation
75. Neutral Milk Hotel
76. The Dismemberment Plan
77. Mediaeval Baebes
78. Tristania
79. Okkervil River
80. Of Montreal
81. 30 Seconds to Mars
82. Pain
83. R.E.M.
84. Yellowcard
85. Motley Crue
86. Deep Purple
87. Lamb of God
88. L'Arc-en-Ciel
89. Maximum the Hormone
90. Godsmack
91. Killswitch Engage
92. The Gathering
93. Qntal
94. Amon Amarth
95. The Dilinger Escape Plan
96. The Decemberists
97. Gorillaz
98. Fear Factory
99. God Is An Astronaut
100. Regina Spektor

EDIT: The Golden Gun Award will make a return, as well as one ultra-secret rule that I cannot reveal until the scoring round starts.

 

[Furretsu]

Kamelot
Nox Arcana

 

[Cryssie]

Epica and (since Furret already nominated Kamelot) After Forever.

Will this ultra-secret rule do anything about the voting-purely-for-the-sake-of-killing thing? Or the spite-voting? :/ The focus should probably lean a little more towards, y'know, how good the music is.

 

[Valerunner]

Metallica
Dethklok

 

[Jolty]

Jolty shall join in this year

Nominating Queen and The Who

 

[Jetx]

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Muse.

A bit more variety.

 

[Altmer]

Radiohead
Tori Amos

 

[Minish]

Blaaah, it's annoying that the top twenty last year were basically all metal, rock etc. because that's what the majority of the forum listen to.

I'll participate anyway, just for the fun of it. XD

Emilie Autumn
YUI

 

[Espeon]

Nominating Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa.

 

[Valerunner]

Blaaah, it's annoying that the top twenty last year were basically all metal, rock etc. because that's what the majority of the forum listen to.

I'll participate anyway, just for the fun of it. XD

Emilie Autumn
YUI

'tis true.

The first one was a bit of a farce with Megadeth(everyone was downvoting their most hated and voting a random band up.

 

[Lorem Ipsum]

I nominate Coldplay and Michael Bublé.

 

[Morbid]

Morbid Angel
Slayer

 

[Fireworks]

KMFDM
Depeche Mode

 

[Furretsu]

Epica and (since Furret already nominated Kamelot) After Forever.

Will this ultra-secret rule do anything about the voting-purely-for-the-sake-of-killing thing? Or the spite-voting? :/ The focus should probably lean a little more towards, y'know, how good the music is.

I approve of both of these nominations, although Altmer will make it his mission to get Epica off asap. >:|

also Squarewalker you fucking rule for KMFDM

 

[#1 bro]

Arcade Fire
The Flaming Lips

a bunch of my other favorite bands are on there already

 

[Vyraura]

^agreed

Children of Bodom and Sirenia.

 

[Keltena]

Hi, everyone! It's Salamander, with Artists Nobody Else Has Heard Of!

Vienna Teng
Vertical Horizon

 

[Furretsu]

I've heard of both of those artists. o_O Vertical Horizon especially; they were really popular in the 90s.

 

[Ether's Bane]

I'll nominate Alice in Chains and DragonForce.

 

[Altmer]

I approve of both of these nominations, although Altmer will make it his mission to get Epica off asap. >:|

also Squarewalker you fucking rule for KMFDM

nah glam and gay metal bands like dragonforce are going off first