Here we go again! It's time to scout the music world for a new band to join The Eagles - "Hotel California" in Rock Band's Most Wanted Hall of Fame. This time, it'll be bigger and badder. In the Rock Band's Most Wanted Tournament II, we will see 100 new bands fighting to see who will come out on top. That's not all. They will be joined by 28 bands from the last tournament who are hungry for revenge. It's time to see who will be crowned the next Rock Band's Most Wanted. To the veterans of this tournament, you all probably know most the run-down. For the newbies to the tournament, I hope you got your reading glasses handy.

Second Chance Nomination Round

The first round of the first Rock Band's Most Wanted Tournament saw many upset victories and ultimately 67 bands and artists were sent packing. This round will see those 67 bands battling for a second chance, but only 28 will advance. You will have 5 points to use a day. First 28 bands to 20 points will advance to the next round.

Band Qualifying Round:

The Rock Band's Most Wanted Tournament has several rounds. The Qualifying round is for selecting the Top 100 bands as voted on by all of us. The way a band qualifies is by receiving 20 points. Once it reaches the 20 point mark, it has officially qualified. When the band has qualified, it must be taken off of the voting list and put onto the qualifers list. Each person has 5 points to give to their band per day, so choose wisely. After the Qualifying Round comes the Song Selection Round.

Song Selection Qualifying Round:

The Song Selection Round directly follows the Qualifying Round. The purpose of this round is to select the Top 3 songs for each of the 128 bands (If anyone cares, that would be a total of 384 songs). Songs for each band will be selected in groups of 4 bands at a time. When three songs have have been selected, another band will take its place on the list. It works almost entirely the same as for the Band Qualifying Round except each person has 3 points per day. Once a song has 20 points, it will be added as one of the 3 songs for that artist. Once every band has 3 songs, we move on to the Song Elimination Round.

Song Elimination Round:

The Song Elimination Round is where we narrow down the Top 3 songs for each band down to just the best song. Instead of 3 points per day, you now may only recieve 1 point to award. It will remain 1 point for the remainder of the tournament. Again, the first band will be in the first voting window, etc. Once that song receives 20 points, that song will be officially entered into the tournament as one of the Top 128. This will continue until there is one song for each band. The next round is the start of the Rock Band's Most Wanted Tournament (I will start a new thread for Round 1 and past).

Round 1:

Round 1 is basically where the Top 128 is chopped down by 75%. 4 bands will go up against each other. There will be a total of 3 matches going on at a time. The first song to reach 20 points will advance to Round 2. Remember, you will only have 1 point to award. Once all 32 groups of 4 battle, the Top 32 will enter into Round 2 and Beyond!

Rounds 2-5:

The way to win is to, again, receive 20 points. At the end of Round 2, 32 will become 16. Round 3 will end up with 8, Round 4 with 4, and Round 5 with 2. This leads into the Final Round.

Final Round:

The Final Round will feature the Top 2 songs going face to face. The first song to receive 20 votes will be the winner of the Rock Band's Most Wanted Tournament II!


Rules:

1. Do not post any song currently released on disc or that is already available as DLC.
2. Do not post any artist that was in the last tournament, except for the specified ones in the Second Chance Nomination Round, which is the only place that should occur.
3. You may award more than 1 point to a band/song at one time.
4. You may only award 1 point to a band or song per day, except for the Band Qualifying Round, which has 5 points and the Song Selection Qualifying Round, which has 3 points. Note: Points reset after each voting window.
5. On weekends, you may award double the points.
6. Do not subtract points. There's no point to it anyways.
7. If your post isn't in the proper format, it will not count.
8. If there are any questions, just send me a PM and I will respond as soon as possible.

Top 128

1. Ne Obliviscaris

• And the Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope
• Forget Not
• As Icicles Fall

2. Bathory

• Nordland
• One Rode to Asa Bay
• A Fine Day to Die

3. Fall Out Boy

• "The Take Over, The Break's Over"
• Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy?
• I’m Like a Lawyer With the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)

4. Rush

• Freewill
• The Fountain of Lamneth
• A Farewell to Kings

5. Blink-182

• Man Overboard
• Dumpweed
• After Midnight

6. Dethklok

• Thunderhorse
• Bloodlines
• Dethharmonic

7. Guns N' Roses

• Sweet Child O' Mine
• Welcome to the Jungle
• Paradise City

8. Porcupine Tree

• The Sound of Muzak
• Lazarus
• Time Flies

9. Pink Floyd

• Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 1/Happiest Days of Our Lives/ Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2
• Comfortably Numb
• Money

10. "Weird Al" Yankovic

• Smells Like Nirvana
• Canadian Idiot
• I Lost on Jeopardy

11. Muse

• Uprising
• Knights of Cydonia
• Stockholm Syndrome

12. Emperor

• I Am the Black Wizards
• Empty
• Ensorcelled By Khaos

13. Bob Seger

• Old Time Rock & Roll
• Hollywood Nights
• Turn the Page

14. Green Day

• Macy's Day Parade
• Walking Contradiction
• The Simpson's Theme

15. Elvis Presley

• Hound Dog
• Jailhouse Rock
• Burning Love

16. Bruce Springsteen

• Born in the U.S.A.
• Glory Days
• Born to Run

17. Avenged Sevenfold

• Not Ready to Die
• Chapter Four
• A Little Piece of Heaven

18. Heart

• Crazy On You
• Magic Man
• What About Love?

19. Led Zeppelin

• Stairway to Heaven
• Whole Lotta Love
• Kashmir

20. My Chemical Romance

• Teenagers
• Dead!
• Helena

21. Huey Lewis & the News

• Hip to Be Square
• Perfect World
• Back in Time

22. Genesis

• Land of Confusion
• Invisible Touch
• That's All

23. Paramore

• Decode
• Emergency
• Monster

24. The Beach Boys

• Surfin' U.S.A.
• I Get Around
• Wouldn't It Be Nice

25. Yes

• Yours is No Disgrace
• Long Distance Runaround/The Fish
• It Can Happen

26. Bullet for My Valentine

• Hearts Burst Into Fire
• Alone
• All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)

27. King Crimson

• 21st Century Schizoid Man
• In the Court of the Crimson King
• Starless

28. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

• Listen to Her Heart
• Don't Do Me Like That
• You Got Lucky

29. Van Der Graaf Generator

• Killer
• Darkness
• Man-Erg

30. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

• Face Down
• You Better Pray
• In Fate's Hands

31. Cream

• Crossroads
• White Room
• Sunshine of Your Love

32. Velvet Underground

• Rock & Roll
• Heroin
• Sweet Jane

33. All That Remains

• Six
• The Last Time
• Not Alone

34. Three Days Grace

• Break
• Riot
• Home

35. Elton John

• Rocket Man
• Philadelphia Freedom
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

36. You Me at Six

• Trophy Eyes
• Stay With Me
• Bite My Tongue

37. The Pretenders

• Back on the Chain Gang
• Middle of the Road
• My City Was Gone

38. Chicago

• You're the Inspiration
• Saturday in the Park
• I'm a Man

39. Enslaved

• Queen of Night
• Path to Vanir
• The Watcher

40. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

• Red Right Hand
• Tupelo
• The Weeping Song

41. Styx

• Come Sail Away
• Mr. Roboto
• Lady

42. X-Japan

• Silent Jealousy
• Kerunai
• Art of Life

43. Amorphis

• Silver Bride
• Silent Waters
• The Smoke

44. David Bowie

• Starman
• Rebel Rebel
• Changes

45. Hall & Oates

• Say It Isn't So
• You Make My Dreams
• Head Above Water

46. Disturbed

• Ten Thousand Fists
• Liberate
• This Moment

47. Godsmack

• Awake
• Voodoo
• Cryin' Like a B*tch

48. Garbage

• Only Happy When It Rains
• Vow
• Stupid Girl

49. Fates Warning

• Guardian
• Point of View
• The Apparition

50. 3 Doors Down

• Loser
• Citizen/Soldier
• Let Me Go

51. Marillion

• Kayleigh
• Incommunicado
• The Garden Party

52. Five Finger Death Punch

• The Bleeding
• Remember Everything
• Bulletproof

53. Gentle Giant

• I Lost My Head
• Free Hand
• Alucard

54. Blondie

• Atomic
• Maria
• The Tide is High

55. Michael Jackson

• Beat It
• Thriller
• Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

56. Lenny Kravitz

• Fly Away
• It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
• Always on the Run

57. Arcturus

• The Chaos Path
• Fall of Man
• Star Crossed

58. Smashing Pumpkins

• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• 1979
• Geek U.S.A.

59. Lamb of God

• Redneck
• Walk with Me in Hell
• What I've Become

60. Miles Davis

• Blue in Green
• John McLaughlin
• Black Satin

61. Killswitch Engage

• My Last Serenade
• This Fire Burns
• This is Absolution

62. Bryan Adams

• (Everything I Do) I Do it for You
• Heaven
• Here I Am

63. The Guess Who

• No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
• Laughing
• These Eyes

64. Triumph

• Lay it On the Line
• Follow Your Heart
• Magic Power

65. Earth, Wind & Fire

• September
• Let's Groove
• Boogie Wonderland

66. Machine Head

• Imperium
• Darkness Within
• Locust

67. Timeless Miracle

• The Red Rose
• Memories
• Into the Enchanted Chamber

68. Jukebox the Ghost

• Somebody
• Hold It In
• Everybody Knows

69. R.E.M.

• Bad Day
• Daysleeper
• Shiny Happy People

70. Helloween

• Phantoms of Death
• I Want Out
• Halloween

71. Queensrÿche

• Jet City Woman
• Silent Lucidity
• Eyes of a Stranger

72. System of a Down

• Sugar
• Highway Song
• Revenga

73. Electric Wizard

• Black Mass
• Vinum Sabbathi
• Electric Wizard/Wooden Pipe

74. Prince

• Purple Rain
• Computer Blue
• Little Red Corvette

75. Coheed and Cambria

• The Willing Well II: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
• In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
• Devil in Jersey City

76. Death Cab for Cutie

• Soul Meets Body
• You Are a Tourist
• Cath...

77. Darkthrone

• In the Shadows of the Horns
• Canadian Metal
• Under a Funeral Moon

78. Slipknot

• People=Sh!t
• Dead Memories
• Vermillion

79. The Monkees

• I'm a Believer
• Pleasant Valley Sunday
• (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

80. The Doobie Brothers

• What a Fool Believes
• Takin' it to the Streets
• Black Water

81. Sick Puppies

• Odd One
• Riptide
• Howard's Tale

82. Emerson, Lake, & Palmer

• Lucky Man
• Tarkus
• Karn Evil 9

83. Candlemass

• Samarithan
• Mirror Mirror
• At the Gallows End

84. The Band

• Up On Cripple Creek
• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
• King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

85. Fleet Foxes

• Mykonos
• He Doesn't Know Why
• The Shrine/An Argument

86. The Offspring

• Why Don't You Get a Job?
• Original Prankster
• You're Gonna Go Far, Kid

87. Skillet

• Hero
• Awake & Alive
• Comatose

88. Loverboy

• Turn Me Loose
• The Kid is Hot Tonite
• Hot Girls in Love

89. Foreigner

• Double Vision
• Head Games
• Juke Box Hero (Original Version)

90. Savatage

• Mozart & Madness
• Taunting Cobraz
• Commisar

91. Incubus

• Redefine
• Stellar
• Anna Molly

92. Vampire Weekend

• Holiday
• Cousins
• Campus

93. Steve Winwood

• Back In the High Life Again
• Higher Love
• While You See A Chance

94. Taking Back Sunday

• It Doesn't Feel A Thing Like Falling
• Cute Without the "E" (Cut From the Team)
• Sink Into Me

95. Sugar Ray

• Fly
• Someday
• Every Morning

96. Van Morrison

• Brown Eyed Girl
• Wild Night
• Domino

97. Ulver

• Capitel I : I Troldskog Faren Vild
• Velvet Sunsets
• Magic Hollow

98. Joy Division

• Disorder
• Dead Souls
• Transmission

99. Angels & Airwaves

• Everything's Magic
• Surrender
• Call to Arms

100. The Isley Brothers

• It's Your Thing
• Footsteps in the Dark
• That Lady (Part I & II)

101. Neil Young

• Rockin' in the Free World
• Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
• Cinnamon Girl

102. Phil Collins

• Take Me Home
• Easy Lover
• In the Air Tonight

103. Sum 41

• We're All to Blame
• Motivation
• The Hell Song

104. Mumford & Sons

• The Cave
• Little Lion Man
• Winter Winds

105. Tenacious D

• Low Hangin' Fruit
• Wonderboy
• Kickapoo

106. Linkin Park

• Faint
• Bleed It Out
• The Catalyst

107. Badfinger

• Come and Get It
• Day After Day
• No Matter What

108. The Grateful Dead

• Box of Rain
• Friend of the Devil
• Ripple

109. Matchbox Twenty

• Push
• If You're Gone
• Real World

110. Oasis

• Champagne Supernova
• Falling Down
• Morning Glory

111. The Allman Brothers Band

• Whipping Post
• Revival
• Melissa

112. Morbid Angel

• Chapel of Ghouls
• God of Emptiness
• Where the Slime Live

113. The Shins

• Turn On Me
• Split Needles
• Simple Song

114. Trivium

• Like Light to the Flies
• Down From the Sky
• Forsake Not the Dream

115. Papa Roach

• ...To Be Loved
• Getting Away With Murder
• Scars

116. The Clash

• Tommy Gun
• Safe European Home
• This is Radio Clash

117. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

• I Hate Myself for Loving You
• Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)
• Victim of Circumstance

118. Volbeat

• Fallen
• Radio Girl
• Another Day, Another Way

119. Wings

• Silly Love Songs
• Live and Let Die
• Jet

120. Opeth

• The Lotus Eater
• The Drapery Falls
• Bleak

121. Rod Stewart

• Young Turks
• Baby Jane
• Maggie May

122. Hüsker Dü

• Dead Set on Destruction
• I Apologize
• Makes No Sense At All

123. Alter Bridge

• Blackbird
• Metalingus
• Isolation

124. OK Go

• This Too Will Pass
• Do What You Want
• Get Over It

125. Adele

• Set Fire to the Rain
• Rolling in the Deep
• Rumour Has It

126. Elvis Costello

• Oliver's Army
• (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
• Watching the Detectives

127. The Zombies

• Time of the Season
• This Will Be Our Year
• Care of Cell 44

128. Electric Six

• Danger! High Voltage
• Dance Commander
• Synthesizer

Wild Card Round - Preliminaries

1. Type O Negative

• Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
• Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity
• Love You to Death

2. Yellowcard

• Way Away
• Lights and Sounds
• For You, and Your Denial

3. Fleetwood Mac

• Gypsy
• Big Love
• Seven Wonders

4. Within Temptation

• What Have You Done (feat. Keith Caputo)
• Ice Queen
• Angels

5. Madonna

• Like a Prayer
• Like a Virgin
• 4 Minutes (ft. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland)

6. Zac Brown Band

• Chicken Fried
• Knee Deep (ft. Jimmy Buffett)
• As She's Walking Away (ft. Alan Jackson)

7. Billy Joel

• Uptown Girl
• The River
• The Downeaster Alexa

8. Dire Straits

• Sultans of Swing
• Love Tunnel
• Money for Nothing

9. Damn Yankees

• High Enough
• Run Away
• Come Again

10. Katy Perry

• Hot 'n Cold
• Waking Up in Vegas
• California Gurls (ft. Snoop Dogg)

11. Steve Miller Band

• Swingtown
• Jungle Love
• Jet Airliner

12. The Strokes

• 12:51
• Last Nite
• Machu Picchu

Wild Card Finals

Match 1:

• Fleetwood Mac - "Gypsy"
• The Strokes - "Last Nite"
• Within Temptations - "Angels"

Match 2:

• Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing"
• Katy Perry - "Hot 'n Cold"
• Damn Yankees - "High Enough"

Match 3:

• Type O Negative - "Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity"
• Yellowcard - "Way Away"
• Zac Brown Band - "Chicken Fried"

Match 4:

• Billy Joel - "Uptown Girl"
• Madonna - "Like a Prayer"
• Steve Miller Band - "Swingtown"

EDIT: Nevermind. Didn't finish reading.

Here's the Second Chance Nomination Round template to use:

The Police
Bathory
George Thorogood
Deadsy
Kiss
Dethklok
George Harrison
Porcupine Tree
Jethro Tull
Alanis Morissette
Avenged Sevenfold
Agnostic Front
Huey Lewis & The News
AC/DC
Heart
Gong
Pink Floyd
Rush
Green Day
Ringo Starr
Genesis
Nirvana
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Camel
The Bangles
Beastie Boys
Bullet for My Valentine
Meshuggah
Fall Out Boy
Evanescence
Bruce Springsteen
Yes
Blind Guardian
John Mellencamp
Amon Amarth
My Chemical Romance
Reel Big Fish
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Slayer
Emperor
Bob Seger
Megadeth
Guns N' Roses
H.I.M.
Arcade Fire
Led Zeppelin
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Streetlight Manifesto
"Weird Al" Yankovic
VNV Nation
The Who
Muse
Radiohead
Dream Theater
Manowar
Paramore
Dragonforce
Elvis Presley
Ne Obliviscaris
Paul McCartney
Ghost
Skinny Puppy
King Crimson
Children of Bodom
Anthrax
Night Ranger
Santana

Don't forget that the tournament doesn't begin until 12:00 midnight Monday morning.

Midnight, eastern time. That means the tournament shall BEGIN!

And my first 10 nominations for the second chance is...

Rush - 1
Genesis - 1
Led Zeppelin - 1
The Who - 1
Huey Lewis & the News - 1
Pink Floyd - 1
Bruce Springsteen - 1
Heart - 1
Elvis Presley - 1
Guns N' Roses - 1

Guys, the tournament has started.

I know. But I really have a hard time deciding to give 1 nomination to ten "old" bands.

Rush - 1
Genesis - 1
Led Zeppelin - 1
The Who - 1
Huey Lewis & the News - 1
Pink Floyd - 2
Bruce Springsteen - 1
Heart - 2
Elvis Presley - 2
Guns N' Roses - 2
KISS- 1
Scorpions- 1
U2- 1
The Beach Boys-1
Bob Seger-1
Muse-1

An important note:

You may only vote for a band if they were eliminated in the first round in the last tournament. You may not vote for bands that advanced further. Voting for new bands will begin in the next round. After weeding through this so far and adding my nominations, this is the current standings:

Rush - 1
Genesis - 1
Led Zeppelin - 2
The Who - 1
Huey Lewis & the News - 2
Pink Floyd - 2
Bruce Springsteen - 2
Heart - 2
Elvis Presley - 2
Guns N' Roses - 3
KISS- 1
Scorpions - 1
Bob Seger - 1
Muse - 2
Porcupine Tree - 1
Green Day - 1
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - 1
"Weird Al" Yankovic - 1
Paramore - 1

Rush - 1
Genesis - 2
Led Zeppelin - 2
The Who - 2
Huey Lewis & the News - 2
Pink Floyd - 3
Bruce Springsteen - 3
Heart - 2
Elvis Presley - 2
Guns N' Roses - 3
KISS- 1
Scorpions - 1
Bob Seger - 1
Muse - 3
Porcupine Tree - 2
Green Day - 1
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - 1
"Weird Al" Yankovic - 2
Paramore - 1
Alanis Morissette - 1
Radiohead - 1
Arcade Fire - 1