All Killer No Filler: about 30 hours to go!
Until this year's tournament kicks off / kicks ass
Quick note here to the Xnessers that the tournament is. About. To. Go off.
You have about 32 hours left to do your bracket (due by midnight on 2/29; you get one extra day this year thanks to leap day).
Here—again—is the bracket. a pdf, Excel, or a Google Sheet (if you use the Google Sheet, you must download or make a duplicate of the master bracket to fill it out).
We’ve got the first couple days of games ready to go for you. Here’s the schedule for the whole first round, which you can always find on the website under the Schedule tab:
MARCH 1
(1) Britney Spears, Toxic vs (16) Matt + Kim, It's a Fact (Printed Stained)
(8) Gorillaz, Feel Good Inc. vs (9) Robbie Williams, Rock DJ
(5) Robyn (w/Kleerup), With Every Heartbeat vs (12) Cupid, The Cupid Shuffle
(4) Ke$ha, TiK ToK vs (13) The Knife, Heartbeats
(Note that these games only go live at 9am Arizona time on Game Days, so while you can click on them now they’re not public until game day.)
MARCH 2
(6) Blu Cantrell, Hit Em Up Style (Oops) vs (11) Depeche Mode, Precious
(3) Destiny's Child, Bootylicious vs (14) Girl Talk, Bounce That
(7) Fatboy Slim, Weapon of Choice vs (10) Jewel, Intuition
(2) Usher, Yeah! vs (15) Tilly & the Wall, Rainbows in the Dark
MARCH 3
(8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Heads Will Roll vs (9) Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse, Valerie
(5) Shakira, Hips Don't Lie vs (12) Spoon, I Turn My Camera On
(1) Kylie Minogue, Can't Get You Out... vs (16) Yelle, Je Veux Te Voir
(8) No Doubt, Hella Good vs (9) Cher, Song for the Lonely
MARCH 4
(5) Gnarls Barkley, Crazy vs (12) DJ Casper, Cha Cha Slide
(4) P!nk, Get the Party Started vs (13) The Avalanches, Since I Left You
(3) 50 Cent, In Da Club vs (14) The Gossip, Standing in the Way of Control
(1) Rihanna, Don't Stop the Music vs (16) Sohodolls, Stripper
MARCH 5
(4) Flo Rida, Low (feat. T-Pain) vs (13) Chemical Brothers, Star Guitar
(1) Beyoncé, Single Ladies vs (16) The Faint, Agenda Suicide
(8) Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Murder on the Dancefloor vs (9) Fall Out Boy, Dance, Dance
(4) Katy Perry, Hot + Cold vs (13) Electric 6, Danger! High Voltage!
MARCH 6
(3) Christina Aguilera, Dirrty vs (14) The Veronicas, Untouched
(6) Sisqo, Thong Song vs (11) Jennifer Lopez, Get Right
(5) Kelis, Milkshake vs (12) Hercules & Love Affair, Blind
(7) Paris Hilton, Stars Are Blind vs (10) Cascada, Everytime We Touch
MARCH 7
(7) Dirty Vegas, Days Go By vs (10) LCD Soundsystem, All My Friends
(2) Lady Gaga, Bad Romance vs (15) Bloc Party, Banquet
(6) LMFAO, Party Rock Anthem vs (11) Peaches, Fuck the Pain Away
(6) The Killers, Mr. Brightside vs (11) DJ Sammy feat. Yanou & Do, Heaven
MARCH 8
(2) Madonna, Hung Up vs (15) Felix da Housecat, Sinnerman
(7) Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out vs (10) Darude, Sandstorm
(2) Nelly, Hot in Herre vs (15) A+D (Missy/Le Tigre), Decepta-Freak-on
(3) Outkast, Hey Ya vs (14) Amerie, 1 Thing
The tournament goes FAST and FURIOUS in the first 8 days, after which HALF of the field will be eliminated. It’s a cruel tournament, but it’s also 64 essays of dance-your-ass-off bliss.
As a reminder, this year we’ll send one email every game day with the day’s games and links. They won’t usually be too long (necessarily since there’s so much to do).
We welcome chatter here via comments and on Bluesky and on the increasingly moribund but you know it’s still doing it kind of Twitter.
This year’s tournament will be conducted entirely via website poll. There is no Twitter poll. There is no Bluesky poll. There is no other poll. So get your vote on while it still matters.
Oh, and, uh, we made some hats? We also have stickers (including Danceness stickers) and shirts for the previous tourneys). We’ll have a March Danceness shirt for you shortly with the updated Roll of Xness Champions on the back.
Alright, back to laying our writers’ bangers out. Get READY.
Ander & Megan