The Fall Cup: Last 32 Stats

    


As we're down to so few songs, there's only a small amount of stats to share. Firstly, here's a round-up of the results:

  • New Puritan 3 Shake-Off 2
  • Bury 3 Couples Vs Jobless Mid 30s 2
  • Fiery Jack 3 The Container Drivers 2
  • The Classical 3 Dedication Not Medication 2
  • Blindness 5 All Leave Cancelled 0
  • Garden 2 Leave The Capitol 3
  • Noel's Chemical Effluence 2 How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' 3
  • Winter 4 Neighbourhood Of Infinity 1
  • Gross Chapel–British Grenadiers 2 Weather Report 2 3
  • Mountain Energei 3 Wings 2
  • Dr Bucks' Letter 4 I'm Into CB 1
  • Lie Dream of a Casino Soul 2 Theme From Sparta FC 3
  • The N.W.R.A. 2 Crop-Dust 3
  • Last Commands Of Xyralothep Via M.E.S 4 Smile 1
  • Fantastic Life 2 Fortress/Deer Park 3
  • I Am Damo Suzuki 4 New Big Prinz 1

It's probably a mark of how difficult these decisions were that 11/16 ties ended in a 3-2 result.

The year-by-year distribution of the songs that made it to the last 16 is interesting...


Last 16 By Year:





The Panel:

The number of selections that went through:

13 (81%) - Lewis
12 (75%) - Me
11 (69%) - Richard
  9 (56%) - Eric/bzfgt











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