User blog:Stezie95/July 2015 - Keyboard Solos

July 1 - July 7: Round 1

 * 1) Ho-kago Tea Time (Song): 7
 * 2) Sunday Siesta: 4
 * 3) Dear My Keys ~Kenban no Mahou~: 3
 * 4) Joyful Todays/Heart Goes Boom!! (Tied): 1

Round 1: Which song out of the following has your favourite keyboard solo? Dear My Keys Sunday Siesta Ho-kago Tea Time Joyful Todays Heart Goes Boom!!

Analysis
I feel a little bad about this one. Dear My Keys is the best keyboard solo in the lot, and I felt it would've been in the finals. HTT proved to be the real dark horse in the polling. Originally, I voted Sunday Siesta just to give it a little nudger. I was about to change my vote so that DMK could get in, but decided against just to see how it turned out.

July 7 - July 14: Round 2
Round 2: Which song out of the following has your favourite keyboard solo? Diary wa Fortissimo Shiawase Biyori Curry Nochi Rice Genius...!? Jump
 * 1) Curry Nochi Rice: 9
 * 2) Diary wa Fortessimo: 5
 * 3) Jump: 3
 * 4) Shiawase Biyori/Genius...!? (Tied): 1

Analysis
Another surprising upset. Curry's solo is nice, but I don't think it was anything spectacular.

July 14 - Aug 29
Final Round: Which song out of the following has your favourite keyboard solo? (Links below to listen to each solo!) Curry Nochi Rice Ho-kago Tea Time Diary wa Fortissimo Sunday Siesta
 * 1) Diary wa Fortessimo: 32
 * 2) Ho-kago Tea Time (Song): 27
 * 3) Sunday Siesta: 21
 * 4) Curry Nochi Rice: 19

Analysis
Now here's the real meat. I'm firstly surprised that even if Curry did well in Round 2, it got absolutely floored. Near the end, it was neck to neck, with equal votes for Diary and HTT. In the last 5 or so votes, Diary took the clear lead, and I felt it was right to stop the voting at 100.

Aug 29 - Sep 10
Looks like it's time to plan another one of these Post-Competition: The last two months of polls were different than normal. We had 2 pre-polls to select 4 finalists for the main, month-long poll. What do you think about doing another competition style poll in the future? It was fun, and I'd like to see another! It was fun, but I wouldn't want to see it done again I didn't enjoy the poll competition last month I didn't participate in any of the polls in competition last month