Welcome To The Top Rock Band Of All Time Bracket Challenge 2025

Every Friday at 1pmPT/4pmET on twitch.tv/samnation3000

How the Bracket works:

• This bracket is based solely off of the Forbes Magazine article, The 30 Best Rock Bands Of All Time published June 30, 2025 (see below). These are BANDS ONLY - no solo artists. Taking the top 16, that's how this bracket was formed. Debate about order or who is/isn't on the list is not needed. This is all just to share the love of music in a fun, competitive way:
  
• 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 Level Battles. The #2 band plays the #15 band in the First Level Battles, and on and on. See below.
• There are 4 levels: First Level, SemiFinals, Finals, and Championship
• The First Level will have 8 battles. The winners go to the SemiFinals narrowed down to 4 battles. The winners from SemiFinals 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. Dealer's choice. But I do alternate which band goes first for each round.
• 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 of the round. Your votes decide the winner of each round, and the winner will be 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 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. And if you don't like a particular band, please don't hate on them in the chat. Good vibes only!

All song choices are subjective and not conisdered perfect or "the only way." Just have fun with it.

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

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