Annual Pearl Jam March Madness

I haven't updated this blog in forever, so I guess this would be a good time to do so.

This post is to make mention of the Pearl Jam Song Tournament that is held annually on the Red Mosquito pearl jam fan board (www.theskyiscrape.com).

I've set it up so that this is a 172 song competition, the songs came from the song list on pearl jam.com. They consist of the songs from the 8 studio releases, 1 B-side Compilations disc (entitled: Lost Dogs), songs that were just released as singles, the 16 10Club Holiday Singles, the two songs from the Singles Soundtrack, and then to top off the 172 song list I added the songs that were titled "PJ Original" but they can't be found on any media.

If you'd like to see the list where I got the songs from, you can go to: https://www.pearljam.com/music/songs. The only Cover Songs that I've included in this tournament are songs that were released by the 10Club for the Holiday Singles.

Now onto the Brackets and the rules to this tournament:

I've divided up the 172 songs into 4 groups (43 songs each).
Each bracket was given the unofficial name of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. I gave them these titles because I gave the number one seed in each of these brackets to the March Madness champion of that year, I also gave those songs a bye through the 1st and 2nd rounds (denoted on the graphic as Champion Provisional.

The Top Ten Songs in each bracket was ranked by pearljamfan80, and then 11-43 were randomly sorted by the website random.org.

With an odd number in each bracket, I had to come up with what I found as a good and unique way to get this tournament down to the Final Four and then to the Champion of all 172 songs.

This is what I came up with, 1st Round will have 14 matches of 3 songs in each match. (Song A versus Song B versus Song C).

After the 1st round all future rounds will just be a duel, Song A versus Song B.

When we get the champion of all 4 brackets the final four will be like this, the Winner of Bracket 2005 and 2007 will face off against each other, then the winner of Bracket 2006 and 2008 will face off.