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People posting coded rankings is stressing me out. x

Semi 2 voters bringing the #manifestpartners together once more

Oh Nelly doing the semi voting analysis I was going to do king of spreadsheets I fear Ojnoj getting only 1 point from the opposite semi seems wild, admittedly not a stat I ever look out for but that can't be something that happens often. (Also wait are you talking about an actual accountant? I thought that was a euphemism for Leww or something xx)

Is there nothing sufficiently spooky in your electronic vault? x

My point is I'd rather have better music that doesn't generate posts on here than some of the stuff in the other categories xx (I don't really see why this is an "issue" that needs to keep being pointed out)

Silence or Tom Grennan, I know which one I'm picking x

I see I actually qualified pretty comfortably after all despite the unfavourable looking semi draw, there were a few more fans in my semi than I realised - 10 voters who all gave it at least 5 points, nice. (Retained points in the final from 9 of the 10, dropped to 0 in the final from Ajanaeda but conversely went from 0 in the semi to 6 in the final from The Spodic Empire). Eek that it was actually the other 'Manifest' that was in substantially more trouble with Lookylion only qualifying by 1 point Greenfroze going from projected 17th to the win - that's now two of the top 10 biggest such rises ever within just the last 3 contests ('Caught In A Jam' went from 20th to 1st)! 300SkullsAndCounting nestling in just ahead of Sarah Kinsley in the semi 2 scoreboard is beautifully unhinged also x My run this year now reading DNQ-17-11-19-DNQ-DNQ-DNQ-02-12 - still a fairly rough year overall but it's nice to once again have more top 20 hits than DNQs for the year, here's hoping I can make it a 60/40 split next month x (not got anything lined up for 190 yet so remains to be seen if Popsephonia will continue into a third contest in a row). Thanks to @blacksquare for the hosting again, has been a very fun and chaotic contest <3 I really hope you enjoyed the hosting more yourself than you did last time, another win from you could always be only a month away so you better get used to it etc. xo @Freeze ofc the mod team will be on hand to assist you with anything if you do want to have another go at hosting - the contest you hosted before is one of the earliest ones that I have particular memories of (I had been entering for a couple of years before it but not really paying that much mind to it x) and I think I remember it being quite above and beyond for its time! Coming up to 15 years ago now, whew. I'd probably better go to bed now lol but I will hopefully belatedly get up the qualification streak update for this contest (in the semi results thread) as well as the penultimate YTD update of the year (in here) in the next few days x

The Persephonian auditors have completed their scurry to verify the final spreadsheet x No biggies - @Freeze won't be waking up to a nasty reversal x - but the ties are all upside down so a few minor positional differences (all the points totals are correct). Will leave Nelly to amend the final scoreboard but these are the correct tiebreaks: 17th East Rukahavian (25 votes) 18th Sovarasma (24 votes) - no change to the position here, the other two have swapped around 19th Séyetana (21 votes) 24th Mothertopia (21 votes) 25th Lotunia (15 votes) 33rd Thelonia (19 votes) 34th Daehun (17 votes) So turns out Sarah Kinsley did finish higher than 19th after all! (and sorry to the K-Pop songs and I oop xox).

Thanks muchly to Noche, Liam, Tim, Lex (just about) and Juranamo for the remaining votes for manifest <3 If I find the energy to do so I might run a bit of basic spreadsheet analysis on people's point splits between semi 1 and 2 songs this month as perhaps the closest we can get to a simple proxy for pop bloc vs. alt bloc x (as I already calculated from my own votes I was a bang on centrist with 60 points to each semi plus 4 to the AQ, although I did vote for 8 semi 2 songs vs. 6 semi 1, semi 1 was just bolstered by having all of my 2nd-4th places). Anyway. Scoreboard checking now. Back in a bit x

I haven't started yet hehe, I was just reacting to Pavi's random.org prognosticating x

Argh

Who had 'suspiciously upbeat pop metal song about Japan's answer to Jimmy Savile' on their 2026 BJSC winners bingo eh x Well done Freeze! We do love a surprise winner, not one I voted for but it was a commiseration and certainly a standout song, that's two of those in a row so I'm reverting to form clearly. (And speaking of reverting to form - Terra Avium in the bridesmaid position, all is well with the world!! still a great result for that ofc) I will go tot up my own spreadsheet as quickly as I can now to verify everything before I go to bed x

Is now a bad time to say I didn't set up my spreadsheet for this yet so it's gonna be a bit of a wait before I can verify the scoreboard oop

Lol Greenfroze are actually also in the 2 win club currently so my company is shrinking again either way.

The wait for a second K-Pop winner goes on - WD Chrisso on a top 5 tho x 'The Box' is not too bad for an Altyr entry but definitely the weak link of the top 3 there - rooting for Adult DVD but SKYND would be quite an interesting curveball winner!

Bigger gap between 5th & 6th than between 1st & 5th then! I stand by saying I'm not sure why 'Flight Simulator' is a much bigger hit than 'The Heron' but that's more because 'The Heron' should have done better than vice versa. Happy 4 Nelly x

Oh it could actually be anyone then. I want to say Adult DVD take my energy despite that meaning I'd be losing another one of my fellow 2 win clubbers x

Fantastic showing for Herbs - it was an immediate standout for me and then just continued to sound better with each listen, you should have got your first top 10 last month but at least it wasn't a long wait after that (and with an even better song)! Think I'm calling Altyr winning based on Pestolia's dropoff

Pestolia with a similar fate to Aeroche last month - I fear people need to take my moaning more seriously (happy for Ansel getting a good result for the anniversary but I just cannot get into 'Natural High' at all unfortunately (even though I usually like Perfume Genius oop), obviously had a lot of big fans though!)

Welp I guess I was overhyping Bronzil a tad but yay for a top 10 at least (that's still higher than the previous entries by both artists finished!) Pleased at a top 10 for Danæviia too ~ (that is now half of the top 10 songs I voted for gone already oop but still 3 to go). Metal and electronic combining to make a hit again like my Chikoi The Maid x

Good start to the top 10, was worth it bringing it back after swapping it out in a previous contest!

6 of the top 10 made my votes! (but there is also one of my bottom 3 in there x)

Oh Nelly is a cruel mistress. Herbilore top 10 though! <3

Almost exactly 100 points between the YTD top 2 going into the final contest of the year! Mildly surprised at Temples not being top 10 in the end (and again sorry for it not making my votes, I'd have thought it would earlier on in the month but again too many other songs crept up on me more). manifest being my 3rd biggest hit of the year yay, a nice round 200 points as well we love to see! (now I hope 10th place isn't on like 201 points or I might bring out the salt again x) also beautiful banner

Another fine result for another Spodbanger. (will we get another graph? x)