A discussion came up on twitter over what method will be used to score.  Here’s my opinion on it… First, I took a look at the  rundown of the known information about the way they want to score:

• Percentage of notes hit
• Level of difficulty of song (as determined by highest score recorded on Scorehero.com)
• Longest run of notes hit

Yea.. it made no sense to me either… but then I found out this tidbit:

• Since all qualifiers will be within a full band during normal events, we’re going to take your % and weight it to how hard song is

Ahh ha!  Okay, so I asked:

So MyScore would be My% of the Top on SH? Or just higher score songs = harder than lower score (visions doesnt break top10?)

They asked for an opinion after that, so I commented:

Would prefer @cybercircuit scores using My% of Top Score w/NS tiebreaker

and linked to this post to explain why this would be the most fair given the circumstances… Heres why:

If a ranking has to be formed based on % and Note Streak alone, there needs to be some way to mathematically evaluate the differences between two performances.  Score exists for a reason, and is generally what all competitions are based on.  This makes sense.  So how would I do the math?  Take the % that the player receives, and calculate that percentage of the top score from scorehero.  Then use Note streak as a tiebreaker.  This works great if you assume that everyone will FC every song (as Note Streak would differentiate who got the squeezes under the activations, because they aren’t counted in %).

Whats the disadvantage here?  Well if you assume that all the top players will be able to 90% or higher each of the songs, the only ones worth playing are Panic Attack, Painkiller, Teen Age Riot, Ramblin’ Man, Battery, Bodhisattva, Let There Be Rock, Lazy Eye (everything else would give you a score of less than 300k even if you FC the song).  Also, this scoring completely ignores OD usage (the scores on SH are top scores with perfect paths, and often also have the under-OD squeezes also) – but that is really the price that has to be paid to take scores from BQP.

But, if we want to even out the competition a bit, there could be a wonky way of giving extra points based on Note Streak.  Still calculate the %, but then, for each note in the the players NS, add 25 points to that score.  How would this work out in practice?  Lets look at some examples (note that the difficulty of each song is increasing with each player):

Player A plays “Eye of the Tiger” and scores a 100% with a 1331NS
they score 158375+33275 = 191650

Player B plays “Shooting Star” and scores a 98% with a 50NS
they score 209279 + 1250 = 210529

Player C plays “Carry On Wayward Son” and scores a 98% with a 640NS
they score 210675 + 16000 = 226675

Player D plays “Let There Be Rock” and scores a 99% with a 2500NS
they score 378037 + 62500 = 440537

Player E plays “E-Pro” and scores 100% with a 1449NS
they score 181775 + 72450 = 254225

Player F plays “Spoonman” and scores 99% with a 500NS
they score 192233 + 12500 = 204733

Player G plays “Panic Attack” and scores 95% with a 200NS
they score 416741 + 5000 = 421741

What do we see here?  Player D wins.  Why?  Because while player E may have FC-ed a song within the same approximate difficulty range, “e-pro” has no-where near as many notes to hit.  Similarly, player G went for broke and played a rediculous song, but because he couldn’t hold a combo (despite doing very well) – he comes up short.

This system rewards players for playing at/slightly above their skill level, on complex songs that have large volumes of notes.  A player who can 98-100% any of the aforementioned top scoring songs will still probably win, but a player who can 96-97 a fairly challenging song within his skill level will still have a chance if an “elite” player doesn’t show up…

Just my thoughts… take em for what you will..

Back In Black        ACDC
Hells Bells        ACDC
You Shook Me All Night Long        ACDC
Im Eighteen        Alice Cooper
Almost Easy        Avenged Sevenfold
Sorry        Buckcherry
Stupid Girl        Cold
Believe        Disturbed
Prayer        Disturbed
Stupify        Disturbed
Down With the Sickness        Disturbed
Inside the Fire        Disturbed
Panic Attack        Dream Theater
Bad Religion        Godsmack
Voodoo        Godsmack
Vampires        Godsmack
Crawling In The Dark        Hoobastank
Coming Undone        Korn
Inja        KoRn
Kottonmouth Kings – Round & Round        Kottonmouth Kings
Break Stuff        Limp Bizkit
My Way        Limp Bizkit
Nookie        Limp Bizkit
Rollin        Limp Bizkit
One Step Closer        Linkin Park
Antichrist Superstar        Marilyn Manson
mOBSCENE        Marilyn Manson
Cruci-fiction In Space/Album Version        Marilyn Manson
This Is The New Shit        Marilyn Manson
Disposable Teens        Marilyn Manson
The Beautiful People        Marilyn Manson
The Dope Show/Album Version (Explicit)        Marilyn Manson
I Don’t Like The Drugs        Marilyn Manson
Bat Out of Hell/Album Version        Meat Loaf
The Monster Is Loose        Meat Loaf
In the Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King        Meat Loaf
Battery        Metallica
Enter Sandman        Metallica
Teenagers        My Chemical Romance
Closer        Nine Inch Nails
Crazy Train        Ozzy Osbourne
Youth Of The Nation        P.O.D
Satellite        P.O.D
Walk        Pantera
Last Resort        Papa Roach
Boom        POD
Smack My Bitch Up        Prodigy
Blurry        Puddle of Mudd
She Hates Me        Puddle of Mudd
Testify        Rage Against the Machine
Give It All        Rise Against
Dragula        Rob Zombie
Bleed For Me        Saliva
Your Disease        Saliva
I Can’t Drive 55         Sammy Hagar
Remedy        Seether
Today        Smashing Pumpkins
Bullet With Butterfly Wings        Smashing Pumpkins
Spoonman        Soundgarden
Black Betty        Spiderbait
Outside        Staind
Fever Dog        Stillwater
Violent Pornography        System of a Down
Aenima        Tool
Headstrong        Trapt
11 Slither        Velvet Revolver

Starry Eyed Surprise – Paul Oakenfold
Everything Falls Apart – Dogs Eye View
Get Stoned – Hinder
Drowning – Dashboard Confessionals
Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit
The Fight Song – Marilyn Manson
Disposable Teens – Marilyn Manson
My Own Worst Enemy – Lit
Misery - Soul Asylum
Boom – POD
Coming Undone – Korn
One Step Closer – Linkin Park
Miserable – Lit
In the Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King – Meat Loaf
Symphony Of Destruction – Megadeth
Disenchanted – My Chemical Romance
I Write Sins Not Tragedies – PANIC! At The Disco
Dragula – Rob Zombie
Your Disease – Saliva
What Hurts The Most – Rascal Flatts
We Be Burnin – Sean Paul
Fake – Shinedown
Black Betty – Spiderbait
Violent Pornography – System of a Down
The Bitch of Living – Spring Awakening Soundtrack
Totally Fucked - Spring Awakening Soundtrack
Life Is A Highway – Tom Cochrane
Changes – Tupac

Dude is a bit stuttery..but the info is right at least

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Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZiT3iC-_qsc
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nd2B5RkL5nY

Ohh and for reference, as of 1:53 in the workday:

Avenge Sevenfold – Bat Country.mp3
Avenge Sevenfold – Beast and the Harlot.mp3
Bee Gees – Grease Theme.mp3
Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love.mp3
Bee Gees – Stayin Alive.mp3
Buckcherry – Crazy bitch.mp3
Christina-Lady Marmalade.mp3
Disturbed – Down With The Sickness.mp3
Elton John – Tiny Dancer.mp3
Eric Prydz – Call On Me.mp3
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris.mp3
green day -boulevard of broken dreams.mp3
Hinder – Lips of an Angel.mp3
Jackson Five – ABC 123.mp3
James Blunt – You’re Beautiful.mp3
Lifehouse – Hanging by a Moment.mp3
Lustra – Scotty Doesn’t Know.mp3
Nickleback – Far Away.mp3
Nickleback – Photograph.mp3
Nine Inch Nails – Closer.mp3
oasis – wonderwall.mp3
Papa Roach – Last Resort.mp3
Puddle of Mudd – Blurry.mp3
Rammstein – Du Hast.mp3
RKelly – Remix to Ignition.mp3
Rob Zombie – Foxy, Foxy.mp3
Sean Paul – We Be Burnin.mp3
Shinedown – I Dare You.mp3
Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings.mp3
Soul Asylum -Misery.mp3
System of a Down – Violent Pornography.mp3
The Darkness – I Believe in a Thing Called Love.mp3
The Fray – How to Save a Life.mp3
The Fray – Over My Head.mp3
The Killers – Mr Brightside.mp3
The Who – Teenage Wasteland.mp3
Third Eye Blind – Never Let you Go.mp3
three days grace – pain.mp3
Three Doors Down – Kryptonite.mp3
Tool – Aenima.mp3