Planet Rock's: The Euros of Rock

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Coinciding with Euro 2020, Planet Rock have been doing their own competition based on European rock groups... well there are "some" non-UK groups in the mix but not many! I think they even forgot about The Scorpions and Accept!

It works by putting the competing teams in a Twitter Poll for 1 day and the score is based on the %age points that each band get (1 goal for 10%, 2 for 20% etc). A combined score will therefore add up to 10.

The group stages have finished and the tables are shown below. The results are shown at the end, but I;m not sure how readable it is!













The last 16 head to heads start today.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Def Leppard are doing better than I would expect. But that is probably because Joe Elliott is a regular presenter on Planet Rock so sorta has home advantage!!

There are some typos in the table, U2 conceded 23 goals not 13 etc.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

There are 4 matches in the round of 16 today, the scores at the moment (but with 18 hours -- as of 14:45 BST --to go) are:

Pink Floyd v Thin Lizzy is currently 5 all but Lizzy are about 0.4 of a % ahead

Motorhead v Def Leppard is currently 6-4 to Motorhead

Whitesnake v Europe is currently 9-1 to Whitesnake!

Iron Maiden v Thunder is currently 7-3 to Iron Maiden

[Zzzptm]

Is that an accurate photo of Black Sabbath? I see Bill Ward in it.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

The first set of last 16 matches ended 9:00 BST this morning. The results didn't change much from the first few hours:

Pink Floyd 49% Thin Lizzy 51%

Motorhead 57% Def Leppard 43%

Whitesnake 85% Europe 15%

Iron Maiden 73% Thunder 27%

Those bold go through to the Quarter Finals

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Todays matches starting 10:00 BST

The Who v Black Sabbth is currently 23% - 77% to Sabbath

Deep Purple v Rammstein is curently 73% - 27% to Purple

Led Zeppelin v Judas Priest is currently 67% - 33% to Zeppelin

Queen v Saxon is currently 68% - 32% to Queen

There's about 16 hours left as 16:30BST

[Zzzptm]

... and then Purple has to face off vs Sabbath...

I'll expect Motorhead to beat Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden to beat Whitesnake. Motorhead beats Iron Maiden.

Zeppelin will beat Queen. Whoever wins DP vs BS will then beat Zeppelin.

Predicting Motorhead to make the final vs either DP or BS. And then DP or BS wins overall.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

It's more of a mainstream pop-rock radio station so...

Yes, Motorhead will probably beat Thin Lizzy, and Iron Maiden will beat Whitesnake...

But, I think Queen may well beat Zeppelin, and you're correct I don't know which will win between DP and BS.

I think Maiden will beat Motorhead (but I don't think it will be by much), and Queen have already beaten BS in the group stages and I suspect they would beat DP too.

I think it will be a Queen v Iron Maiden final and frankly I couldn't call it, but I would vote for Maiden.

[Zzzptm]

True, I do see that - both Queen and Purple are 3-0 in the group phase, as were Zeppelin and Maiden.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

The results are pretty much as shown yesterday give or take a %age point.

It looks like the Quarter Finals start on Monday. The Line Up is:

Motorhead v Thin Lizzy

Whitesnake v Iron Maiden

Deep Purple v Black Sabbath

Queen v Led Zeppelin

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

The official results:




Oh! Come on! Why has that come out so big!!!

[Zzzptm]

That's a very large graphic, indeed.

I'm thinking DP beats Black Sabbath with the way the matches have gone. Led Zeppelin had a weak group, I think they lose to Queen and it may be Queen that beats Deep Purple.

[Charger]

Sabbath vs Purple...yikes. That's like choosing which testicle you want to lose!

If there is any justice in the world. Motörhead and Maiden should have easy wins and Queen should humiliate zeppelin.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Surprisingly they're doing all four Quarter Finals today.

After about half an hour:

Led Zeppelin v Queen, there's a narrow lead for Zeppelin (52:48)

Black Sabbath v Deep Purple, there's a good lead for Sabbath (65:35)

Whitesnake v Iron Maiden, unsurprisingly there's a big lead for Maiden (28:72)

Thin Lizzy v Motorhead, shockingly this is really tight with Lizzy even having a slight lead (51:49)


... but early days, there's still over 22 hours to go (at 10:30 BST)



EDIT: BTW if you want to join in on Twitter you can find the polls at: @PlanetRockRadio

[Zzzptm]

Some upsets in the making today!