Into the Round of 32!

Just a few trivial things I find interesting about our tourney so far, now that we've cut 75% of our original albums from contention....

* Talking Heads are, so far, the greatest victors going 7-1 in our first 2 rounds. Their one loss came against R.E.M., a band that they have beaten twice before. The two could meet up again in the sweet 16.
* Our other major player, Prince, started strong at 3-1 in the first round. He now has only 1 album left in contention.
* R.E.M. started with 3 albums in the tourney. They are down to one. As mentioned, both other albums lost to different Talking Heads albums.
* David Bowie, The Pixies, Beastie Boys, and Tom Waits all started with 2 albums. All still have 2 albums in the tourney.
* The soonest we could have 2 albums from the same artists facing off would be in the Sweet 16 where we could see Talking Heads and/or Beastie Boys facing themselves.
* Metallica appears to be the biggest bust as they went 1-2 in the first round and were eliminated in the second.
* Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Janet Jackson and Queen all started with 2 albums in and now have 0.
* There were 3 shut-outs in the first two rounds and 17 one-point differential matches. That's a lot of close ones.
* The most combined votes an album received in the first 2 rounds is a 3-way tie at 19 total votes. Those albums were Paul's Boutique (Beastie Boys), Doolittle (The Pixies) and.....Rio (Duran Duran).
* The lowest combined total of votes an album received and still somehow remained in the tourney was also a 3-way tie at 9 votes. Those albums were Back In Black (AC/DC), A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (Pink Floyd) and Full Moon Fever (Tom Petty).

Don't forget, if you want to check out the entire tourney bracket you can always click the link close to the top left (from your viewpoint) on this page.