listen — Fitz came through the rounds like a bassline you don't notice until it's already in you. 74 points. 1 win. the competition real and the music realer. Fitz. yeah. A 6-point margin sealed the result.
"The Girl From Ipanema - Single Version" — Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim — and the room moved. sgigs put it down and 13 points rose up to meet it. that's the thing about a song that's right: it finds its moment. this was the moment. dig.
"Hot damn this song gets in my head and refuses to leave."
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round by round — "Amy's Theme - 1964" and sgigs with "The Girl From Ipanema - Single Version" and the points came (13) — then "Eric's Theme - World's Longest To-Do List" and it went to jsexe and on and on — the competition a long conversation nobody wanted to end.
first-timers super and ratsimpson joined the fray, an injection of new blood into the rotation. movement in the rankings saw carrie climbed 5 spots and eric slipped 6 spots. new faces, old music, the same beautiful argument.
genre-wise, soul dominated, with classic soul close behind. nostalgia for the 1990s ran deep throughout. the decades don't die — they just wait in someone's library for the right prompt. that's what this is. that's all of it.
Fitz. Fitz. the name at the top of the board. well earned. league 17 is on the horizon and the road — the road goes on and on and there's always another round and another song and that's the whole thing. that's all of it. yeah.