(The following statement should not be construed as suggesting anything in particular about this contest but as a broad brush generality.)
Bracketed tournaments.
Humans can see the makeup of atoms and are on the verge of a colony on the moon yet we as humans dont seem to be able to come up with a better way of determining “best”.
For me each bracket always seems to break down into a competition where my true feeling/vote is either “Who cares?” and “Both!”
Since this is an open fun poll, where random people with other things to do can play, it’s much easier for them (as well as me) to pick from pairs than ranking 100 songs themselves!
“humans dont seem to be able to come up with a better way of determining “best”.”
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Miss America type pageants never had that problem, you just list ‘em and then vote - top vote-getter is Number 1. Even the Oscars people figured out how to do that.
Brackets? We don’ need no steenkin’ brackets!