Country Music Bracket RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT

Tequilla

Commence your bitching and moaning about who is in/out and seeding

First matchup will be up in the next 24-48 hours

dnc

How do the brackets work?

PurpleThrobber

Lady Antebellum?!?!

What about Jason Aldean? Rascal Flatts? Florida Georgia Line? Luke Bryan? Dierks Bentley? Toby Keith? Keith Urban? Eric Church?

Seedings a little weird other than LADY FUCKING ANTEBELLUM, not a bad field.

A THREE SEED?!?! C'mon! Play-in game. Maybe.




Sugarland, way hotter than Lady Antebellum, too,

whlinder

The bottom right quadrant.... umm WTF?
Chesney, Dixie Chicks and maybe C-Wood and Paisley can make an argument. The rest of that is some fucking shit. Like ATBSJBS level of shit. Toby Keith! Clint Black! Travis Tritt! If you're going to include pop singers with a touch of cuntry just call Taylor Swift #1 and be done.

Zac Brown Band also blows except for like 3 songs and when they cover Enter Sandman. They can GTFO.

The rest is fine.

PurpleThrobber

Are we being *whooshed* on the lower right bracket? That's the only explanation.

No sign of Tim McGraw?

YellowSnow

Teq will go over the names of the brackets but as you can see the left side is mostly 50s to 80s (with a few exceptions) and the right side is 90s to present. Teq was the new country expert and @swaye and I were there to make sure old country got the appropriate seedings.

dnc

YellowSnow said:

Teq will go over the names of the brackets but as you can see the left side is mostly 50s to 80s (with a few exceptions) and the right side is 90s to present. Teq was the new country expert and @swaye and I were there to make sure old country got the appropriate seedings.

So it it basically two 16 entry brackets rather than 4 8 entry brackets?

YellowSnow

dnc said:

YellowSnow said:

Teq will go over the names of the brackets but as you can see the left side is mostly 50s to 80s (with a few exceptions) and the right side is 90s to present. Teq was the new country expert and @swaye and I were there to make sure old country got the appropriate seedings.

So it it basically two 16 entry brackets rather than 4 8 entry brackets?

Grand Ole Opry

1) Johnny Cash
2) Hank Williams Sr
3) George Jones
4) Patsy Cline
5) Loretta Lynn
6) Reba McEntire
7) Dolly Parton
8) Charlie Daniels Band


Outlaws & Outsiders

1) Willie Nelson
2) Merle Haggard
3) Waylon Jennings
4) Alabama
5) Hank Williams Jr
6) Linda Rondstadt
7) Dwight Yoakam
8) Zac Brown Band

The Game Changers

1) Garth Brooks
2) George Strait
3) Alan Jackson
4) Randy Travis
5) Brooks & Dunn
6) Kenny Rogers
7) Shania Twain
8) The Judds

Country Music Television

1) Carrie Underwood
2) Miranda Lambert
3) Dixie Chicks
4) Lady Antebellum
5) Little Big Town
6) Chris Stapleton
7) Kenny Chesney
8) Brad Paisley

ThomasFremont

The bottom right should all be disqualified for sucking balls. Also, Carrie Underwood is a trash human. How is she a 1 seed for anything that’s not shitting on kids with terminal cancer?

Tequilla

whlinder said:

The bottom right quadrant.... umm WTF?
Chesney, Dixie Chicks and maybe C-Wood and Paisley can make an argument. The rest of that is some fucking shit. Like ATBSJBS level of shit. Toby Keith! Clint Black! Travis Tritt! If you're going to include pop singers with a touch of cuntry just call Taylor Swift #1 and be done.

Zac Brown Band also blows except for like 3 songs and when they cover Enter Sandman. They can GTFO.

The rest is fine.

If this was a 64 bracket then many of the names listed get in

Lady A is a 4 seed and not a 3 seed ... their awards mantle is pretty vast which was a heavy factor in the criteria for inclusion. Having them vs Little Big Town as a 1st round matchup is consistent with the debates that many have of who is better

Doog_de_Jour

YellowSnow said:

dnc said:

YellowSnow said:

Teq will go over the names of the brackets but as you can see the left side is mostly 50s to 80s (with a few exceptions) and the right side is 90s to present. Teq was the new country expert and @swaye and I were there to make sure old country got the appropriate seedings.

So it it basically two 16 entry brackets rather than 4 8 entry brackets?

Grand Ole Opry

1) Johnny Cash
2) Hank Williams Sr
3) George Jones
4) Patsy Cline
5) Loretta Lynn
6) Reba McEntire
7) Dolly Parton
8) Charlie Daniels Band


Outlaws & Outsiders

1) Willie Nelson
2) Merle Haggard
3) Waylon Jennings
4) Alabama
5) Hank Williams Jr
6) Linda Rondstadt
7) Dwight Yoakam
8) Zac Brown Band

The Game Changers

1) Garth Brooks
2) George Strait
3) Alan Jackson
4) Randy Travis
5) Brooks & Dunn
6) Kenny Rogers
7) Shania Twain
8) The Judds

Country Music Television

1) Carrie Underwood
2) Miranda Lambert
3) Dixie Chicks
4) Lady Antebellum
5) Little Big Town
6) Chris Stapleton
7) Kenny Chesney
8) Brad Paisley

I think new/modern country is garbage, but that’s my personal preference - that being said, you seeded that particular bracket perfectly. I respect your decision to include that era.

greenblood

ThomasFremont said:

The bottom right should all be disqualified for sucking balls. Also, Carrie Underwood is a trash human. How is she a 1 seed for anything that’s not shitting on kids with terminal cancer?

Kenny is great in concert. And saying Chris Stapleton sucks balls is blasphemy!!!

greenblood

I’m surprised Tom McGraw missed the cut, over the likes of lady, little big town, and the chicks.

ThomasFremont

greenblood said:

ThomasFremont said:

The bottom right should all be disqualified for sucking balls. Also, Carrie Underwood is a trash human. How is she a 1 seed for anything that’s not shitting on kids with terminal cancer?

Kenny is great in concert. And saying Chris Stapleton sucks balls is blasphemy!!!

I missed him on the list actually. 1/8...I stand by my original statement.

PurpleThrobber

I cracked the code -

It was Teq tl;dr and he assumed we wouldnt get all the way to the lower right hand bracket.

GrundleStiltzkin

Neko was robbed

UW_Doog_Bot

No Free Pub!!!!!

Tequilla

greenblood said:

I’m surprised Tom McGraw missed the cut, over the likes of lady, little big town, and the chicks.

Was trying to also respect the balance between solo and group acts ... Tim McGraw was a difficult omission for me as I’m a big fan of his work

Tequilla

UW_Doog_Bot said:

No Free Pub!!!!!

Very much deserving of pub - thank you for compiling the bracket ... was focused on getting it posted after a soccer double header

Swaye

Good morning everyone. I am sitting at the airport and my plane is broken. Fuck you United Express. Anyway, none of this bitching matters because if Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings or John Cash don't win, you are all fags anyway.

ThomasFremont

Swaye said:

Good morning everyone. I am sitting at the airport and my plane is broken. Fuck you United Express. Anyway, none of this bitching matters because if Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings or John Cash don't win, you are all fags anyway.

Outlaw country!