Cinerama Cup: Introduction/Home Page

 


After spending nine months forensically evaluating the back catalogue of The Wedding Present, it's time to do something similar with Cinerama...

The panel of judges is very similar to the TWP one: Mandy and Ali are bowing out, but we welcome Dave, Marc, Derek, Chris, Jona and Phil aboard.


Format

The process will largely follow the same structure as the TWP Cup, but we are going to have a prelimary stage this time. There are 86 songs (as covered in my And Guess What I Found blog), 25 of which are either cover versions or early versions of what became TWP songs (e.g. 'Always The Quiet One' and 'Edinburgh'). These 25 will go into two preliminary groups of 12/13, which will be voted on 'Eurovision' style (12 / 10 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 points). 

The two winners, plus the highest scoring runner-up, will join the remaining 61 tracks in eight groups of eight. The voting in this stage will be similar to stage 2 of the TWP Cup:

  • The panel must award a total of 36 points to the songs in each group
  • No song may receive more than 12 points
  • They must give points to at least 5 of the 8 songs in each group (i.e. no more than three zeros) 

The top 4 from each group go through to the last 32, after which it becomes a knock-out until we reach the last four songs. The last four will go into a 'round robin' competition as in the TWP Cup.


Timescale

As a number of the panel are away during August, we're going to start at the beginning of September. No strict deadlines after that, but I hope to keep to roughly a round a week as we did with TWP.


Index of Posts

Preliminary Round:

Group 1

Group 2

Stage 1:

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Last 32:

Ties 1-4

Ties 5-8

Ties 9-12

Ties 13-16

Last 16:

Ties 1-4

Ties 5-8

Quarter-finals

The Final Stage

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3 - the final result!



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