Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Play-In Artist SubTournament: Phase 2 TIEBREAKER


The Play-In Sub-Tournament is almost over!!!  

But not quite.  Although Flights 3 through 6 produced clean results, sending a first and second place winner on to the big show, the first two flights both had a first place winner followed by a three-way tie for second.

In this Tiebreaker Flight, we bring those six tied second-placers back for one last chance at glory!  We will use the familiar Flight Two rules:
    • You can vote for two artists.
    • One vote per artist per person.  No "both of my votes for X."
But this time, there's a catch: to avoid long farcical successions of tiebreak rounds, any pertinent ties will be resolved by seeding order.   
  • Example: Jansen, DeMuth, and Saendredam tie for second.  In this case, Jansen will advance to the main Tournament because he is the highest seed, and it's just tough beans for DeMuth and Saendredam.  
  • Seeding strength, since you ask, is determined by the product of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 voting scores.

The Phase 2 TIEBREAKER Flight will be open only until Friday, May 23.



#1 Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
American

Tied for First in Phase 1, Flight 4, with a voting score of .733.
Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 1, with a voting score of .417.







#2 Thomas Hart Benton
1889 - 1975
American

Finished First in Phase 1, Flight 10, with a voting score of .818.
Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 2, with a voting score of .364.







#3 Theo Jansen
born 1948
Dutch

Finished Second in Phase 1, Flight 5, with a voting score of .692.
Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 1, with a voting score of .417. 
 






#4 Giovanni di Paolo
Siennese
c. 1403-1482

Tied for Third in Phase 1, Flight 10, with a voting score of .636.
Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 1, with a voting score of .417. 
 








#5 Charles DeMuth
1883 - 1935
American

Tied for Second in Phase 1, Flight 11, with a voting score of .727.
Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 2, with a voting score of .364.








#6 Pieter Saenredam
1597 - 1665
Dutch

Placed Third in Phase 1, Flight 3, with a voting score of .583.
Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 2, with a voting score of .364.







Vote for up to two artists! Votes go in the comments. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. 

16 comments:

Christine M. said...

Adams and Demuth

Chuckdaddy said...

Three really stand out to me: Adams, Paolo, and Saenredam. I vote Adams and... Saendradam.

Morgan said...

Let's go underdogs! DeMuth and Saenredam!

DrSchnell said...

Adams and Benton, though this set had a bunch that I liked.

mrs.5000 said...

Ooh, owie! I voted for all of these in the last round, and nominated 3 or 4. And...I'm going old school, with Saenredam and Giovanni di Paolo.

Elizabeth said...

Countering mrs.5000 with the 20th century and my votes for Ansel Adams and Theo Jansen.

Though I *almost* voted for Saenredam because I really like his massively tall spaces. But I like possibly-might-become-self-aware-recycled-material beachwalkers better.

Ben said...

As much as it pains me to not vote for Ansel Adams, I'm going to have to go with Benton and DeMuth.

pfly said...

Oh my. I like them all. Well, okay...

Thomas Hart Benton and Pieter Saenredam

Anonymous said...

Adams and Saenredam

(yes, it pains me not to vote with di Paolo or DeMuth)

lamanyana said...

Adams and di Paolo

Nichim said...

Jansen and di Paolo!

Michael5000 said...

Man, every time I've looked at this I've had different ideas about whom I'd vote for. Guess it's gonna be Tom Hart Benton and, and, and, Demuth, in memory of my Kansas days.

Michael5000 said...

And [Anonymous], your vote doesn't count if you don't give yourself some kind of nom de vote. Which is a shame in a match with such razor-thin margins!

Candida said...

Jansen and Saenredam because they make my heart soar a bit more than the others.

Michael5000 said...

Here are some emailed votes for Benton & di Paolo.

Michael5000 said...

And the drschnell ticket takes it, with the top two seeds managing to scrape together five votes apiece despite the scattershot voting pattern in a strong field of crowd favorites.

It's a tough break for Pieter Saendredam, who also scraped together five votes but whose run ends here; based on his earlier performance, he needed an outright first or second place to advance.

Giovanni di Paolo, as it turns out, will have one more desperate shot at fame. But we'll get to that next week.

And so (mostly) ends the play-in tournament!