Battle of the Bands Finals

**Phr34k** · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: Battle of the Bands Finals

ScoreHero and Harmonix Presents:
Battle of the Bands: Finals

It's been a couple of long grueling weeks of fighting between the bands, but only 1 band can be named the winner around these here parts. First, here's a recap of how the tournament has gone so far, leading up to the finals.

The Bands:
1up - Beard Rock
GameSpy - NinjaPlease
GamePro Online - GP Bad Touch
Yahoo - The Ya Who
GameTrailers - The Final Cut
GameSpot - Stunt Position
IGN - Ignorant Sluts
TeamXbox - Murdoch Spawn
AOL - Hans Gruber
GamesRadar - The Masters of Unrocking

Round 1:
This round consisted of each band playing as seperate instruments online against another band. Only total combined score on all the instruments would determine your placing for the round. Instruments were to play on Hard.

Starting off with the vocalist, they performed Faith No More - Epic. Gamespot pulls out a first with 118,673, with GameSpy in last at 64,538.

Next up was the bassist playing Nine Inch Nails - The Hand that Feeds. GameSpy got it together and pulled out a first with 109,060, with GamesRadar in last with 76,806.

Now for some skin beating, the drummer grabs his throne and smashes out The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation. 1up took 1st on this song with 68,275, and GamesRadar in last with 30,275.

Now for the string snappers to step up to the plate, the guitarists were to play Mountain - Mississippi Queen. GameSpy pulls up a 1st place with 57,171 and TeamXbox in last with 23,091.

Round
1st 1up - 311,804
2nd GamePro Online - 306,841
3rd GameSpy - 292,319
4th GameSpot - 288,898
5th TeamXbox - 283,774
6th Yahoo - 278,248
7th GameTrailers - 276,288
8th IGN - 257,653
9th AOL - 253,108
10th GamesRadar - 225,811

Round 2:
The entire band would be playing together from here on in Local Band Quickplay pm any difficulty they wanted. Starting off with Black Sabbath - Paranoid, 1up shows their prowess and pulls out a huge 944,894 (which is over 300k higher then 2nd place) and AOL in last with 143,694. (Details)

Next up is The Strokes - Reptillia. 1up seems to be using some form of holy grail to win these with a score of 829,943 and AOL in last with 210,869.

The Police - Next to You is up next with 1up again in 1st with 552,113 and AOL in last with 106,265.

Last song of the round is Sweet - Ballroom Blitz. GameSpy got their stuff together and pulled out 1,288,111, which just beats 1up by 30k. AOL seems to have been drinking too much beer during their set, which has ended with 417,044.

Round
1st 1up - 3,581,069
2nd GameSpy - 3,012,862
3rd GameSpot - 2,763,694
4th TeamXbox - 2,484,120
5th IGN - 2,479,034
6th GamePro Online - 2,283,916
7th GameTrailers - 2,208,890
8th Yahoo - 1,841,603
9th GamesRadar - 1,722,320
10th AOL - 877,872

Round 3:
This is the last of the normal rounds before the finals. Working the same as Round 2, the bands started up with Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive. 1up again shows dominance with a huge 916,896, 150k higher then GameSpy in 2nd. AOL has drank too much again for their set only scoring 277,112, passing out for the remainder of the round. (Details)

Metallica - Enter Sandman is next, and you guessed it, 1up takes 1st on this song (but only by 2k) with 1,242,465. IGN takes 9th with 475,950.

Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter is up with 1up again showing serious dominance scoring 1,219,515. GamesRadar ponies up 522,339 for 9th place on that song.

Up last is Guees of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow. 1up wins this song by 2k again, with 904,727. IGN pulls up 9th with 305,520.

Round
1st 1up - 4,283,603
2nd GameSpy - 3,968,609
3rd GameSpot - 3,214,782
4th GameTrailers - 3,150,782
5th TeamXbox - 2,828,822
6th GamePro Online - 2,697,024
7th Yahoo - 2,375,631
8th GamesRadar - 2,056,971
9th IGN - 1,709,799
10th AOL - 277,112

Rankings going into the Finals
1st 1up - 8,176,476
2nd GameSpy - 7,273,790
3rd GameSpot - 6,267,374
4th GameTrailers - 5,635,960
5th TeamXbox - 5,596,716
6th GamePro Online - 5,287,781
7th Yahoo - 4,495,482
8th IGN - 4,446,486
9th GamesRadar - 4,005,102
10th AOL - 1,408,092

Does GameSpy have what it takes to overcome the rock gods that are 1up? Or will 1up continue this massive path of destruction and face melting?

Finals:
The Finals work the same as previous rounds, but only 1up and GameSpy this time around.

Boston - Foreplay/Longtime:
1up - 1,354,362
GameSpy - 1,204,890

1up wins the song by 149,472 points

Totals:
1up - 1,354,362
GameSpy - 1,204,890

1up is in the lead by 149,472 points

Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
1up - 1,840,460
GameSpy - 2,010,584

GameSpy wins the song by 170,124 points

Totals:
1up - 3,194,822
GameSpy - 3,215,474

GameSpy is in the lead by 20,652 points

Deep Purple - Highway Star
1up - 1,424,719
GameSpy - 1,584,110

GameSpy wins the song by 159,391 points

Totals:
1up - 4,619,541
GameSpy - 4,799,584

GameSpy is in the lead by 180,043 points

Rush - Tom Saywer
1up - 881,387
GameSpy - 726,004

1up wins the song by 155,383 points

Totals:
1up - 5,500,928
GameSpy - 5,525,588

GameSpy is in the lead by 24,660 points

Congratulations GameSpy for winning the first (hopefully annual) Battle of the Bands!
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**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596

Well congrats Gamespy. I hope that absolutely no sluggo clones were harmed during the securing of that victory, or the party afterwards..
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**Huwonk** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2432 Location: Marysville, Ohio

Awesome job Sluggo and co! Such a close match!!! I think it kind of proves the balance of the game between instruments... So there is supposed to be an announcement available for the winner... how soon will we see that?
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**microgamer2vs2** · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

Holy shit, Go NinjaPlease! I was really expecting to see Beard Rock win because of their constant domination throughout the rounds...major congrats on the win.

**sluggo** · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 850

The match was indeed ridiculously close. We had about a dozen people crowded around my desk around 8:30PM last night as Phr34k gave us the results song-by-song, crowded around the largest IRC window in history (I have a 37" monitor), and they all went nuts when we won.

We should have a writeup on the finals later today -- if anyone wants to see the photos of the scores, I believe the BOTB mini-site has been updated.

(it's not listed in the photos, but I played X-guitar on Highway Star and Green Grass, and H-drums on Foreplay and Tom Sawyer.)
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**HellAshes** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 8320 Location: Livingston, NY

Very nice finish. I did not see that coming.
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**crazymonkey841** · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 1183 Location: South Jersey

Go Sluggo, great job! An upset victory, perhaps

**Huwonk** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2432 Location: Marysville, Ohio

**Dodongo** · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject:

Hehe sweet! Go Gamespy! They pulled it out in the finals for sure.
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**CrackerRiley** · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 3085

wow, nice stuff there. I actually started to sit up in my seat in anticipation as I was scrolling down through the results of each song. Congrats, Sluggo.

**GeetarHiro** · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

Good job Gamespy! They for sure pulled that out of nowhere

**Magnet** · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 644

Congrats sluggo and Gamespy! Can't wait to find out what this exclusive announcement is from the winners. Wonder when that will be.

**sanchny** · Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Bronx, NY

Congratulations! I was rooting for you.

Can't wait for the final writeup.
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**Starz007** · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 146 Location: Franklin Lakes, NJ

Sigh... Gamespot was a close third. kind of... No video of the finals though?

**akaRaZe** · Joined: 06 Apr 2007 Posts: 415 Location: Bothell, WA

Close finish. I knew you had it in you sluggo and friends.
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