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RESULTS, round 18, October 26-29

Beside Yourself 0 - Heyday 11
Sing-Songs Remote Luxury Persia 4 - Seance 7
Priest=Aura 11 - Sometime Anywhere 0
Starfish 11 - Parallel Universe 0
Pangaea Coffee Hounds 0 - The Blurred Crusade 11
Uninvited Like The Clouds 7 - Of Skins And Heart 4
Magician Among The Spirits 5 - A Box Of Birds 6
Untitled #23 11 - Shriek 0
Hologram Of Baal 8 - Back With Two Beasts 3
After Everything Now This 11 - Jammed 0
Gold Afternoon Fix 9 - El Momento Descuidado 2
El Momento Siquiente 0 - Forget Yourself 11

7 of the 12 matches were clear landslide wins and the leading albums took easy wins from backmarkers. MATS - ABOB was the close match this round, ending in narrow 5-6 win to ABOB. ULTC had to work for it´s win over OSAH too, which was expected as that usually happens to ULTC. Seance couldn´t get easy points from SS/RL/P either.

The Church Album Championship [Standings after round 18]

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Status	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	GF	GA	WIN%	Points
1	Priest=Aura	17	0	1	183	36	94.44	35
2	Starfish	17	1	0	188	30	94.44	34
3	Heyday	16	2	0	175	45	88.89	32
4	Untitled #23	16	2	0	168	53	88.89	32
5	After Everything Now This	15	3	0	168	54	83.33	30
6	Hologram Of Baal	13	3	2	155	65	72.22	28
7	The Blurred Crusade	13	4	1	157	64	72.22	27
8	Forget Yourself	13	4	1	151	69	72.22	27
9	Gold Afternoon Fix	12	5	1	148	74	66.67	25
10	Seance	11	7	0	125	96	61.11	22
11	Uninvited Like The Clouds	10	8	0	112	106	55.56	20
12	Sing-Songs Remote Luxury Persia	9	9	0	105	116	50.0	18
13	Of Skins And Heart	8	9	1	109	111	44.44	17
14	Back With Two Beasts	7	10	1	99	123	38.89	15
15	Sometime Anywhere	7	10	1	95	127	38.89	15
16	Magician Among The Spirits	5	12	1	87	134	27.78	11
17	El Momento Descuidado	5	13	0	89	131	27.78	10
18	Pangaea Coffee Hounds	4	13	1	72	150	22.22	9
19	Beside Yourself	4	14	0	62	156	22.22	8
20	Parallel Universe	2	15	1	51	168	11.11	5
21	A Box Of Birds	2	16	0	47	172	11.11	4
22	Shriek	2	16	0	40	177	11.11	4
23	El Momento Siquiente	2	16	0	40	180	11.11	4
24	Jammed	0	18	0	15	204	0.0	0

MATCH LIST, round19, October 29 - November 2

The Blurred Crusade - Priest=Aura
Sometime Anywhere - Shriek
Seance - Starfish
Of Skins And Heart - After Everything Now This
Parallel Universe - Uninvited Like The Clouds
A Box Of Birds - Pangaea Coffee Hounds
Sing-Songs Remote Luxury Persia - Untitled #23
Back With Two Beasts - Magician Among The Spirits
Jammed - Beside Yourself
El Momento Descuidado - Hologram Of Baal
Heyday - El Momento Siquiente
Forget Yourself - Gold Afternoon Fix

The numbers 6-5 prove empirically that A Box of Birds is about 9% better than Magician Among the Spirits. Unfortunately the sample group of fans was quite limited but that is the best information on the matter that is available to us at the moment.

Of course Hanani can argue that if his input had been included in the survey too, then the result would have been 6-6. Then the albums would have been equally well favoured. This result however wouldn´t have made Magician Among the Spirits better album than A Box of Birds. It can also be argued that if the sample group had been larger then there could have also been more votes in favour of A Box Of Birds and the result would have been the same .

...now I hang my white coat and exit from the hotelwomb lab quietly towards the hotelwomb headquarters cafeteria. Hmm, what is there for lunch today? Is Fando there ranting about MATS while munching his bratwurst?...

Oh, that was a good lunch. Fando is still dissecting another still unknown The Church release and couldn´t make it. I had to have a lunch with my new hotelwomb lab assistant (photo). Poor me.

AQSAS is now a part of Starfish and GAF, and therefore not present in this experiment. It was stuck in deep space somewhere between 1989 and 2005. AQSAS is still bonus material after all, so my estimate would be near Back With Two Beasts (position 14), which is the best bonus material album currently. That is just an estimate and no scientific data exists, sorry.