Rec Wars 2: The Recently Departed - Results

Here's the score totals for people who played and didn't win:

0 points - 0 users
1 point - 6 users - 0.47%
2 points - 17 users - 1.3%
3 points - 45 users - 3.5%
4 points - 91 users - 7.2%
5 points - 152 users - 12%
6 points - 157 users - 12%
7 points - 188 users - 15%
8 points - 144 users - 11%
9 points - 132 users - 10%
10 points - 133 users - 10%
11 points - 87 users - 6.9%
12 points - 65 users - 5.1%
13 points - 32 users - 2.5%

Due to the number of ties, rather than just go three-winners deep (or as many as a second-place tie would require), we're going to make the most of it and go three-brackets deep, which means more winners

Winners

14 points - Third Place Bracket
1 personal collage, 1 invite, 10 Merit Tokens
15 users - 1.2% -

15 points - Second Place Bracket
1 personal collage, 1 invite, 15 Merit Tokens
3 users - 0.24% -

16 points - First Place Bracket
Contest Winner badge, 2 personal collages, 2 invites, 20 Merit Tokens
1 user - 0.079% - perfect score -

Congratulations *****, all of our Second Place and Third Place Bracket winners, and thanks for everyone for filling out brackets and voting on individual albums. We hope you enjoyed the contest

Album Results

★★★ Aretha Franklin's Aretha Arrives came in first place.

★★ Conway Savage's performance in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds's Henry's Dream earned that album second place.

★ Malcom Young's AC/DC's album The Razors Edge took third place among user preferences.

In terms of overall initial strength in the placement criteria (which was not the order they were arranged in), and placing the Clyde Stubblefield release in a difficult-to-quantify first, Aretha Franklin's album was 5th strongest, the Nick Cave album was 15th, and the AC/DC album was 7th. (2nd was the Chester Bennington album, third was the Chris Cornell release).