Musical Madness 2025! THE FINAL MATCH IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Link to the form for voting: https://forms.gle/TpigphMzpPbMDfLb8

Pieces in the final match:
Czerny - Sonata op. 268 (mvt. 4)

Liszt - S. 252 Rondeau Fantastique "El Contrabandista"

Current bracket: https://challonge.com/musicalmadness2025
Results page on MM website: https://sites.google.com/view/musicalmadness-ps/voting-results
Matches/results spreadsheet: https://1drv.ms/x/c/373bca7cb13fd958/ERCeNi1RJdVCuYiYk2KhQlkBEpSOnfoDFbYla3MknPz-vA?e=oxosxa&nav=MTVfezAwMDAwMDAwLTAwMDEtMDAwMC0wMDAwLTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMH0
Full results will be added in a couple hours. In the meantime, check the bracket for vote counts!


This thread also doubles as the official discussion thread for this match and the results of the previous one.
Additionally, there are some other optional poll questions at the end of the form for award distribution. I would greatly appreciate it if you voted in them!
Voting closes at 5:00 PM on April 19th, 2025 (US Eastern time).

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Thank you to everyone who has voted already, and for those who haven't: there's a little more than two days left to get your votes in!

Also, transitional: don't worry about Mereaux appearing in the future. I've banned him from the competition (/j, though I'm definitely not including anything from him next year).

[transitional]

Another thing I was thinking about is making the pieces more obscure so there are more concrete factors to decide how hard the pieces are. If we keep using La Campanella it's going to be pretty skewed based on popularity and Youtube pianist statements. One thing I was thinking could happen is to have a super obscure tournament where we look for new composers, no composers from this tournament, and no repeat composers to get maximum obscurity. It might be fun if this doubles as a way to discover a lot of new composers, because I don't think we need 10 Liszt pieces another year. There was some funny stuff from this year though, and I really enjoyed the expansion!

Also, transitional: don't worry about Mereaux appearing in the future. I've banned him from the competition (/j, though I'm definitely not including anything from him next year).

Thanks

[gasplamey]

Sorry, haven't had time to comment in a little bit.
I have submitted my vote for both the match and the awards.
If you'll allow this question, how many votes are we at for this match?

Not on topic for this match, but I still can't get over that Feux Follets and Petrushka were tied, and thank God Op. 268 mvt. 4 beat that "Saint Saens Whatever".

[liszt-and-the-galops]

If you'll allow this question, how many votes are we at for this match?

Not going to give away the exact number, but I'll say that we've broken two vote count records with this match, and there's a possibility that we break three.

[gasplamey]

Not going to give away the exact number, but I'll say that we've broken two vote count records with this match, and there's a possibility that we break three.

Holy cow!
What about the award voting stuff?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Holy cow!
What about the award voting stuff?

It's more votes than I remember last time having, though I don't currently have access to last year's form (it's on a different account) so I don't know for sure.

[gasplamey]

...Well? are you going to post the results?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

...Well? are you going to post the results?

I made a typo. Vote ends on the 19th, not the 18th.
Everyone still has one more day.

[gasplamey]

I made a typo. Vote ends on the 19th, not the 18th.
Everyone still has one more day.

Checked the website, and I see that you've also slated the reveal for this match and the awards for April 20...
Tell me, will it be another *** slideshow?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Checked the website, and I see that you've also slated the reveal for this match and the awards for April 20...
Tell me, will it be another *** slideshow?

Don't know yet!

[gasplamey]

Don't know yet!

Oh great.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Oh great.

I appreciate your enthusiasm. /j

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When will results be out? April 20 already passed.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

When will results be out? April 20 already passed.

Basically what happened was I got sick lmao, I'm going to post the stuff in just a minute.