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8/x

All over! The curtain comes down and the roar goes up!

UNDER PRESSURE - 23

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - 26

Perhaps the most predictable song has won, but perhaps we should consider what a bizarre song it is to be so popular.

A worthy winner.

But I love Bicycle Race.

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7/x

A little bit of space for one side over the other now.

If we get a late flurry, we’ll get the highest-scoring game of the cup, which would be fitting.

Come on, where do you stand? Vanilla Ice or Wayne’s World?

Vote #UP or #BR to decide the greatest Queen song ever.

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6/x

There was one vote in it when I went out earlier.

I come back, votes have pretty much doubled, but there’s still only one vote in it.

Tight, high-scoring. Neither team getting a run together.

More like a tactical snooker frame than a football match.

Which I like.

Will there be an upset in the final of #queenworldcup? Will you pick the one you love or the one with the claim?

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3/x

In my gold corner, nominated by 10 friends, voted for 110 times in this tournament, with victories over Teo Torriatte, Too Much Love Will Kill You, A Kind Of Magic, Don't Stop Me Now and Killer Queen:

UNDER PRESSURE

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2/x

Hopefully, you've been filling in your World Cup wallchart.

In case you have not...

THE GRAND FINALE
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VOTE!

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FINAL THREAD 1/x

OK, here we go.

We have had 1,753 votes in this tournament so far and they have sorted all the Queen songs 12 of my friends and I could think of to a last pair.

Let's step onto the stage at the Hammersmith Apollo and pretend it's Christmas Eve.

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That’s it! All over! We have our final pair.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, the most streamed Queen song on a popular site - 14

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, in more top 10s than any other Queen song - 25

Tomorrow. We finish this thing.

Get hyped.

Or don’t. I’m not your boss.

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One of these songs has maintained a consistent 2:1 ratio votes.

Totally in control.

Can we get a late flurry like we’ve had in some games? Turn the vote upside down?

Tell me: Which is the better Queen song, Another One Bites The Dust or Bohemian Rhapsody?

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Two principles, here.

Another One Bites The Dust is the most streamed Queen song on a popular site, as was Here Comes The Sun (the Beatles winner).

But each game in this cup has been won by the song with the most nominations at the start. In this case, Bohemian Rhapsody.

Vote!

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Wake up, babe, we have the other semi-final to do.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
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I’m not saying we’ve whittled this down to the hits, but this could have been Stone Cold Crazy v More Of That Jazz. Y’know, like we were cool and edgy.

Anyway, VOOOTE

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That’s it! All over!

KILLER QUEEN - 17

UNDER PRESSURE - 19

The song which gave us Vanilla Ice’s career is into the final.

Finally, recognition for the narrator from the Snowman.

Semi-final 2: The Semi Revenge kicks off tomorrow morning.

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One song edging ahead.

You have until the end of this Futurama episode. Then I’m calling time.

Football analogy: I’m watching the funny show about the cantankerous robot and the idiot lobster. It has nothing to do with football.

Reply to vote!

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Still only one vote in it.

One. Yours.

Will it be #KQ for Killer Queen or #UP for Under Pressure?

Clock will go a bit longer as we started late. Or I get the result I want.

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One-vote difference right now.

If it’s as busy as yesterday, we are in for a mildly diverting Friday night.

Football analogy: Neither team knows how to defend.

Reply-vote #KQ for Killer Queen, #UP for Under Pressure.

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Semi-final 1

KILLER QUEEN
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UNDER PRESSURE

Very late start, apologies, after record-breaking QF yesterday.

Get voting: #KQ for laser beams, #UP for Bowie collabs.

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Right, that's it. All over. Final whistle.

RADIO GA GA - 28
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - 31

The highest losing score of the tournament beaten by the second-highest winning score of the tournament.

Do the actual fandango, what a game.

Semi-final tomorrow.

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We have far surpassed the highest vote score in a single game today.

It’s the last moments of the final quarter final.

I’m actually working right now and will keep the final whistle until midnight.

So vote if you still must! #RG or #BR

VOTE NOW FOR THE QUEEN WORLD CUP!
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We are six votes from our highest scoring game of the comp.

It’s getting tasty. Only a two-vote gap.

Scaramouch-a-goo-goo.

Roger Taylor’s last track in the competition is in a real fight.

Vote #RG or #BR in reply!

Mamaaaa!
#BR
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These two really are knocking bells, synths and four-part choral interludes out of each other.

A monumental scrap. You'd have to fancy today's winner to take the whole tournament.

SO STOP LIKING THESE POSTS AND TELL ME WHICH SONG IS BETTER.

(Please keep liking these posts.)

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The final quarter-final. Couple of titans. Both from the Live Aid set, and the movie with the quick edits.

RADIO GA GA
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Winner will join Killer Queen, Under Pressure and Another One Bites The Dust in the semis.

Reply vote #RG or #BR!

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HEY HEY

Full-time whistle.

Another One Bites The Dust 21
Somebody To Love 16

The winner swaggers on, singing its own anthem; the loser looks forlornly at the couples exiting the stadium.

Last quarter-final tomorrow. Bring your big trousers.

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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST is clear ahead and looking in control now.

It’ll be out with the olés unless SOMEBODY TO LOVE can, well, find a little adoration.

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Scores level!

SOMEBODY TO LOVE ahead by one!

Scores level!

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST ahead by one!

It is a tennis tie-break right now.

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I mean it when I say some lawyers have got involved and voted overwhelmingly.

SOMEBODY TO LOVE had a six-vote lead, then four, then it was level.

Now ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST is ahead by a single vote.

They’ve thrown it away, the lads. Heads have gone.

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I used the term cupset too early yesterday and once before, only for Big Hit Songs to rally.

But…

No votes for ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST from BBC or Transformers blocs. None on here.

My music mates are the only ones so far not to go all-in on SOMEBODY TO LOVE.

Reply to vote!

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RECAP, last night: After two recounts, Under Pressure beat Don’t Stop Me Now by a vote.

BBC mates and music pals went Don’t Stop Me Now.

Transformers fans edged Under Pressure, but BlueSky was the difference.

Today: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST or SOMEBODY TO LOVE