The Wedding Present Cup: Stage 2 Stats

              

Statistics from the second stage

I know you'll all have been on the edge of your seats waiting for this, so here we go...

Highest scores

Nine songs achieved a score of 300+ (average mark per judge shown in brackets.)

• 359 Dalliance (21.1)
• 334 You Should Always Keep In Touch... (19.6)
• 321 My Favourite Dress (18.9)
• 317 What Have I Said Now? / Interstate 5 (18.6)
• 311 Heather (18.3)
• 308 Dare (18.1) [2nd place]
• 307 Come Play With Me (18.1)
• 305 Flying Saucer (17.9) [3rd place]

Biggest winning margin

• 111 You Should Always Keep In Touch...
• 103 Dalliance
• 72 My Favourite Dress
• 52 Heather
• 44 What Have I Said Now?

Lowest Scores

• 31 Him Or Me (What's It Gonna Be?)
• 32 Pinch, Twist, Pull, Release
• 34 Hula Doll / Rekindling
• 40 Felicity
• 42 The Girl From the DDR / Model, Actress, Whatever...

'Unlucky'

Songs that missed out by the narrowest margins:

• Sports Car (4 points)
• Convertible (13)
• Crawl (22)

'Disappointing second stage'

All of the songs that topped their first-stage group qualified for the last 32. However, these tracks finished in second place in the first round but fell short in the second:

• 8th: Sticky
• 6th: Deer Caught in the Headlights / Gone
• 5th: This Boy Can Wait / Ringway To Seatac / Crawl

'Most improved'

Songs that didn't manage a top two finish in the first stage, but still made it through to the last 32:

• 4th in Stage 1: Nobody's Twisting Your Arm 
• 3rd in Stage 1: Octopussy / Corduroy / Suck / It's For You / Take Me!

Cover versions

Nine non-originals made it into the second stage, but they all struggled to compete:

• 10th: Getting Nowhere Fast
• 11th: Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
• 12th: We Should Be Together / Pleasant Valley Sunday
• 13th: Box Elder / Mothers
• 14th: Let's Make Some Plans
• 16th: Felicity / Him Or Me (What's It Gonna Be?)

Performance by album

Percentage of tracks that qualified:

80% Seamonsters

50% George Best

50% Bizarro

50% Take Fountain

33% Hit Parade 1

10% Tommy

Nothing from Hit Parade 2, Watusi, Saturnalia, Mini, El Rey, Valentina, Going, Going... or 24 Songs qualified for the last 32.

Two non-album tracks qualified from the second stage: 'Don't Talk, Just Kiss' and 'I'm Not Always So Stupid'.

Average score by album:

14.7 Seamonsters

11.8 Bizarro

11.4 Take Fountain

10.4 George Best

8.8 Mini

8.8 Hit Parade 1

7.8 Tommy

7.1 Watusi

6.8 Going Going

5.8 Valentina

5.3 24 Songs

4.8 Saturnalia

4.6 El Rey

3.8 Hit Parade 2

The Panel

The average points that each judge awarded to the four songs that qualified (the maximum being 100). I suspect many of us thought that Kirk would win the 'outlier' crown, but in fact it went to Harry.

75.3 Ali

73.3 Gav M

72.0 Gav F

71.9 John

71.6 Gricey

69.5 Steve M

66.0 Johnny

65.0 Steve

64.5 Mike

62.6 Ian

60.6 Bob

58.0 Mandy

57.4 Joanna

48.9 James

47.9 Kirk

46.8 Keg

44.9 Harry

Failed Favourites

The number of times each of the panel awarded 20+ marks to a song that failed to qualify. (Where a song is underlined, this was their solitary 20+ score.)

16 Kirk (Deer Caught in the Headlights, Boo Boo, Science Fiction, Boing!, Mystery Date, Convertible, Snake Eyes, Santa Monica, Two Bridges, Each Time You Open Your Eyes, Wales, No Christmas, Fifty-Six, Niagara, Never Said, Scotland)

12: Harry (Sports Car, End Credits, This Boy Can Wait, Click Click, Once More, Spangle, Convertible, Fleshworld, Sucker, Go Out and Get 'Em Boy!, Drive, Niagara) Keg (Deer Caught in the Headlights, End Credits, This Boy Can Wait, Convertible, Fleshworld, Sucker, Larry's, I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You, Go Out and Get 'Em Boy!, Drive, Sticky, Niagara)

8: Bob (Sports Car, This Boy Can Wait, Click Click, Gazebo, Go, Man, Go, Drive, No Christmas, Crawl) Ali (We Should Be Together, I'm From Further North Than You, Ringway To Seatac, I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You, Shivers, Be Honest, Three, Not From Where I'm Standing) Mike (Sports Car, Box Elder, Convertible, Go, Man, Go, Rotterdam, Mercury, Drive, Be Honest)

7: Johnny (Don't Laugh, Larry's, Wales, Be Honest, Dan Dare, Niagara, Never Said) Gav M (The Girl From the DDR, Don't Laugh, Rotterdam, Lovenest, Rachel, Three, Crawl)

6: Joanna (I'm From Further North Than You, Spangle, Gazebo, Skin Diving, Mars Sparkles Down On Me, Be Honest)

5: Gav F (Once More, Ringway To Seatac, Granadaland, Gone, Never Said) John (Deer Caught in the Headlights, Click Click, Santa Monica, I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You, Each Time You Open Your Eyes)

4: Gricey (Love Machine, Fleshworld, Santa Monica, Crawl)

3: Ian (This Boy Can Wait, Three, Crawl)

2: Steve (No Christmas, Crawl) Mandy (Lovenest, Be Honest)

0: Steve M / James

Songs that were the most frequent 'failed favourites':

5: Crawl / Be Honest

4: Convertible / Niagara / This Boy Can Wait / Drive

By Album

The average score each judge awarded to each album. (It's worth remembering that these scores reflect the judges' views on the best songs from each album - i.e. the ones that qualified - rather than the album as a whole).

By Judge

Each judge's voting pattern - again, remember it's their votes on the songs that went through to the second stage only.

Comparison with my rating

All of the top 32 songs on my 'Suddenly It's Tuesday' blog made it through the first stage. The most notable first-stage casualties were:

• Bear (33rd - 11th in group 1)
• Catwoman (36th - 9th in group 5)
• Little Silver (52nd - 9th in group 4)
• Can You Keep A Secret? (55th - 11th in group 9)

Here's how my top 32 fared in the second stage (non-qualifiers in red):

1 Crawl (5th)
2 Perfect Blue (2nd)
3 Take Me! (4th)
4 Anyone Can Make A Mistake (4th)
5 Flying Saucer (3rd)
6 Suck (4th)
7 Blonde (4th)
8 Bewitched (2nd)
9 Dalliance (1st)
10 Interstate 5 (1st)
11 Come Play with Me (1st)
12 Heather (1st)
13 My Favourite Dress (1st)
14 Click Click (6th)
15 Dare (2nd)
16 Santa Monica (5th)
17 You Should Always Keep in Touch With Your Friends (1st)
18 Boo Boo (10th)
19 Deer Caught in the Headlights (6th)
20 Blue Eyes (3rd)
21 Carolyn (2nd)
22 Don't Touch That Dial (3rd)
23 Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft (3rd)
24 Granadaland (6th)
25 No Christmas (9th)
26 Octopussy (2nd)
27 Corduroy (4th)
28 Sports Car (5th)
29 Brassneck (9th)
30 Kennedy (3rd)
31 Rachel
32 2, 3, Go (9th)

Overall, 69% of my top 32 made it into the last 32 of this competition.

Songs in the last 32 of this competition that weren't in my top 32 (my placings in brackets):

• I'm Not Always So Stupid (34)
• Silver Shorts (35)
• A Million Miles (37)
• What Have I Said Now? (41)
• Don't Talk, Just Kiss (43)
• Queen Anne (51)
• Give My Love To Kevin (56)
• Nobody's Twisting Your Arm  (81)
• It's For You (86)
• What Did Your Last Servant Die Of? (102)
• No (131)

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