Category: advent bracket

The play-in round was a RAGING success! Don’t listen to those naysayers on Facebook. Ok, they were the only ones who said anything and they said they didn’t like the themed play-in rounds, and they don’t like this song, but I said it was a …

You’d think that since we are in the second decade of Advent Caroling Madness there would be no more new good ideas…but NO! My brain has stormed and I am so excited! I had too many submissions for a 16 team bracket. AND I noticed …

Such an amazing response! 32 submissions! How should that many submissions be dealt with? First, I made sure everyone who submitted a song got their place in the bracket. Then, no person got more than two submissions. That got it down to 28 songs. But …

Here are all the winners of our voting over the years! 2013 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Angels We Have Heard On High Pentatonix (1 seed) Joy to the World Aretha Franklin (1 seed) Original Christmas Song Breath …

Windham Hill and Adam Sandler watch their valiant, improbable runs come to an end. Celine Dion, the plucky 15 seed with a stunning voice and a boring arrangement, takes on Take 6 in the finals. Get your votes in by 7 pm PST on Christmas …

My last minute entry, Take 6’s Hark the Herald Angels Sing, is the highest remaining seed…and it’s a 5! I can’t decide which is the biggest surprise for sure, but it’s probably Windham Hill. My seeds were hugely wrong compared to your voting. Vote fast! …

I am not going to lie. I am in shock. All four Amy Grant songs were defeated. Only one Steven Curtis Chapman song advanced. Koskela Family Nostalgia™ is on life support and I’ve checked in with my #1 Amy supporter. Now we are speeding up …

Here is our bracket after the play-in round: We had some robust voting numbers—thank you for participating! Now, the top six seeds are in matchups, so you have some new songs to listen to as we vote down from 16 to 8 on our way …

Whew. We’ve got 26 submissions again (I added one of my own to be able to use the same bracket as last time), lots of Amy Grant, lots of Koskela Family Nostalgia™ backing Steven Curtis Chapman, BIG voices in Whitney, Mariah, and Celine, and quite …

Little sister has triumphed over big sister. Flesh and Blood conquers hand-guided cloth figures. The Muppets, a plucky 20 seed winning upset after upset, are finally defeated. It’s time for one last round of voting…will Elizabeth Curtis Gemeroy’s Advent dreams come true? Voting deadline is …