Welcome To The New Wave Bracket Challenge 2024

Download on desktop by right-clicking and saving the Bracket above, on mobile "save to..." Photos, or click this ZIP file.

Fill out the Bracket and WIN!

1. Download the bracket above.
2. Fill it out with your best guesses on who will win. Please fill out every level's winners all the way to who you think will win.
3. Email your finished bracket to sam@samjennings.com BEFORE SEPT 19th.
4. POINTS FOR CHOOSING THE CORRECT BATTLE WINNER:
   • 1pt each for the First Round
   • 2pts each for Semi-Finals
   • 3pts each for Finals
   • 4pts for the Winner
5. Tune in to twitch.tv/samnation3000 every Friday at 1pmPT/4pmET to VOTE in each battle. You vote for who you want to win!
6. Whomever has the most points by the end will win the oppotunity to pick the bands for the next week's Friday Artist Battle! Any bands/artists, Any genres, Any decades - YOU decide!

How the Bracket works:

• After searching for the top New Wave bands of the 80s, I narrowed it down to this Top 16. You may or may not agree with the choices or the order, but that is what I came up with based on my research.
• Once the order of the Top 16 was established, I followed typical playoff seeding rules: The #1 band plays the #16 band in the First Round. The #2 band plays the #15 band in the First Round, and on and on.
• There are 4 levels: First Round, Semi-Finals, Finals, and Championship
• The First Round will have 8 battles. The winners go to the Semi-Finals narrowed down to 4 battles. The winners from Semi-Finals move on to the Finals narrowed down to 2 battles. And finally, the 2 winners of the Finals will battle it out in the Championship.

How the twitch.tv/samnation3000 battles work:

• Each individual battle will have 2 bands facing off against eachother for your votes.
• I like to start with one warm-up song before the battle as people arrive.
• The actual battle consists of 9 rounds. One song from each band will be played against eachother in each round.
• The songs are chosen by me and put together based on tempo, popularity or sometimes at random.
• During the second song of each round, a poll will appear at the top of the Twitch chat window for 2 minutes.
• You vote in the poll for your favorite song from each band. Your votes decide the winner of each round, and they will awarded one point for that round. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
• After 9 rounds, the band with the most points WINS and advances on to the next level of the bracket.
• If a round ties, each band will get one point.
• In the unlikely event that a battle ties, there will be one "winner take all" poll to decide who wins.

AND REMEMBER...

This is all just for FUN. It's not scientific or conclusive. It's purely subjective, and just another way to enjoy some music from some terrific bands. Adding a little competiveness to the spice things up.

Please, no angry attacks on fellow viewers for their band preferences, and no angry complaining about anything being "rigged" or "fake." I have no interest or personal gain from rigging anything. Also please refrain from complaining about the song choices or order. All song choices are also subjective and not conisdered perfect or "the only way."

I've tried to make it as fair and easy as possible. Every viewer has an equal opportunity to vote. Every band has their shot at winning.