Musical Madness! Round 1, match 16; bracket contest???

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Should there be a bracket contest after this match?

Islamey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsxdZRkli8A
Chromatic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_49Bp8Xr64

Link to round 1-15: https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=70801.0

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Yeah, of course, a bracket contest would be fun.

Surprising how the hardest Chopin etude is (almost definitely) getting out so quickly. The other one is pretty competitive, because Petrushka is a hard piece itself but mvt. 2 is slower and the technique is more comprehensible, while Op. 10 No. 8 isn't too hard but has many tricky spots.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Yeah, of course, a bracket contest would be fun.

Surprising how the hardest Chopin etude is (almost definitely) getting out so quickly. The other one is pretty competitive, because Petrushka is a hard piece itself but mvt. 2 is slower and the technique is more comprehensible, while Op. 10 No. 8 isn't too hard but has many tricky spots.

I'd argue Double Thirds is the hardest Chopin Etude; the double notes are simply absurd.
Petrushka mvt. 2 is all over the place; it has some hard double note sequences, big jumps with the left hand, parts with large trills and overlapping hands, and that absurdly hard, but brief, octaves section. 10/8 is mostly just massive arpeggios, with a few particularly tough ones every now and then. The musical difficulty of both is fairly high, but I'd say the Petrushka is much, much harder.