Many people think La Campanella is the hardest, period, for some reason. If you do a quick Google search for "hardest piano piece," La Campanella comes up many times. Still, I didn't expect it to lose that badly. My bracket was broken for sure, I thought it was definitely gonna be Op. 25 no. 6.
Not to mention anyone who saw the La Campanella video probably took one look at the double notes passages and assumed that that, in combination with everything else, made it an easy choice.
They might have even ignored them entirely; double notes don't really look that hard until you try them, at least to an amateur musician.
I figured La Campanella would definitely win it's first two matchups but would be stopped by whatever piece faced it in the quarters; whether it be Scarbo, Petrushka mvt. 3, or --as it somehow ended up-- Feux Follets. As it stands, half of the perfect brackets have FF in the semis; half have La Campanella. A total of 8 brackets have La Campanella winning the whole thing.
Honestly, I'm worried La Campanella might beat Feux Follets and Islamey. If the Toccata makes the finals, La Campanella could ****ing win.
TL;DR I guess I just knew La Campanella would beat 25/6. I thought it would be about 60/40, if not closer. The fact that it won with almost 75% has me worried.
Slightly off-topic, but how many of us actually think Feux Follets is harder than Petrushka mvt. 3, and how many just predicted that outcome based on Feux Follets vs. Scarbo? I fall into the 2nd category, by the way.