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cowboy71 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:36 pm 14 Death Angel

Wrong color.

Looks like you forgot to add Shal's vote for SOLEMN VISION.
Add mine too please:
Scorched Moon
Solemn Vision
Tribunal

The only miss in Stat's list is EPICA getting 75mn, pretty good vs 7 misses last year.
ANGRA gets 60+75.
SOAR and MONSTROSITY (missing from the list) get 45.
There are only 12 bands getting 60+, vs the usual 15.

- “Hey, we’re desperate, can you fill in for NILE?”
- “Do we get their time slots?”
- “Nah, you’re not worthy enough”
- “K bye”

MONSTROSITY got 45mn in 2015.
The easiest solution would be to give them NILE’s slots, which might also sweeten the deal to uproot all their lives with 3 days of notice.

268 cabins have disappeared in 4 days, I have a hard time believing many people book less than a week before sailing, especially given the world class appeal of the bands announced during those 4 days. I think UMC is taking cabins off market. 268 cabins didn’t necessarily disappear. Those categorie...

268 cabins have disappeared in 4 days, I have a hard time believing many people book less than a week before sailing, especially given the world class appeal of the bands announced during those 4 days.
I think UMC is taking cabins off market.

IMO we have 1.5 “headliners” and that’s it. No bigger band coming.
If you miss the old 3x75mn deal, pray that Andy doesn’t alter the deal any further.

Lyllywyn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:54 pm Maybe if we discuss nothing but food, they'll see it and get alarmed and try and grab our attention again with something like an announcement XD

Lol, “get alarmed”. I’m still laughing.

creptorstatus wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:41 am

Godflesh wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:59 pm Also, we already know of two other solid 60mn bands. Allegedly.

Care to share the allegedlys?

A Northern American band that starts with A, a former European band that starts with N.

Since we’re being asked to guess, allow me. We usually get at least 15 60mn+ bands (14 in 2023 courtesy of NIGHTWISH), so I agree with MusakMaker and cowboy71, we only have 4-5 more to announce. I *think* the latest 75mner announced was KREATOR (in 2018?) on October 19th or something, so I doubt we ...

26 days left. Generally, we get our last announcement no later than 2 days before (2015 had 6 bands announced the day before DON'T REPEAT THAT ANDY, IT'S BAD AND BENEFITS NO ONE). So we're reaching the point where it's going to average out to a band a day. Really shitty move on the fest's part to d...

If this is true I will be the happiest sadgirl on the boat, I still haven't seen them and I am DESPERATE. I would be out of my mind excited if they did a set from their metal days. Nothing has captured the magic of Dance of December Souls in the 30 odd years since it was released. Sadly you're more...

Could leave room open for a Japan date or two on the way over from Miami or some SA/CA dates pre cruise. Indeed, and their name starts with K: Sat, JAN 20, 2024 Zorlu PSM - Turkcell Sahnesi İstanbul, Turkey Mon, FEB 5, 2024 Umeda TRAD Osaka, Japan Tue, FEB 6, 2024 渋谷ＣＬＵＢ ＱＵＡＴＴＲＯ 渋谷区, 日本 Fri, FEB 9,...

Also, I’m not seeing Wraith61636, who opted in, in the list.

Great job, after 6 cruises I agree with everything written, except that I never heard about the helipad.
I did get directed to the parking garage on level 16 once, but I never found it.

hi guys ...i want to ask something im not sure about: does anyone have experience with canceling their cabin? my dad passed away some weeks ago and i can't imagine going on the boat...i feel so sad i can't even think clearly, and i don't think i should go....sorry to bother you with that question. ...

hi guys ...i want to ask something im not sure about: does anyone have experience with canceling their cabin? my dad passed away some weeks ago and i can't imagine going on the boat...i feel so sad i can't even think clearly, and i don't think i should go....sorry to bother you with that question. ...

Looking at this in comparison to this time last year, the number of sold out categories is roughly the same. Guessing that will mean a nice and not-too-crowded boat! And while on one hand you could argue that it does not bode well for the longevity of 70k, on the other hand it obviously doesn't bot...

sflheadbanger wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:27 am I'm thinking a 4ish month drought from July to October, so put me down for 125 days.

You’ll win for the wrong reason, but you’ll get your free pizza nonetheless

Here we go. One full day has passed without a band announcement. Of course, long gaps between band announcements are nothing new to this event. For the always wonderful prize of free Sorrentos, how long do you think our longest gap between band announcements will be for this cruise? Edit: I'll try ...

Andy, the biggest bang for your buck is obviously the cheapest row of the top 100 list below.
Andy, look at the only two yellow names: SCORCHED MOON and SOLEMN VISION.
You can book them for cheap, and make lots of people happy.
Please book them!

creptorstatus wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:02 am

cegr80 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:40 am but I know there's been crossover with MORC and 70K on a few occasions.

I was going to ask if any band has ever played two cruises in one year.. ive never seen it.

SABATON played the SABATON cruise on Dec 19 2017, and 70K on Feb 2nd 2018.

Another interesting bit is that if there's no announcement by 11/15, then it will be impossible for there to be a longer drought. That would be 76 days since 8/31 and only 75 days until sailing. So if Andy doesn’t make an announcement within 5 days, this contest ends within two weeks after, but if ...

Woe to you, oh earth and sea For the Devil sends the beast with wrath Because he knows mooyagi's time is short Let he who hath understanding reckon the number of the drought For it is a human number Its number is sixty six That would be great for AverageMetalDrummer. Technically, if an announcement...

I agree, for me those bands are ruled out for 70K25, not 70K24.
October 30th is only 3 months away from January 30th.

The sands of time for me are running low…

Woe to you, oh earth and sea For the Devil sends the beast with wrath Because he knows mooyagi's time is short Let he who hath understanding reckon the number of the drought For it is a human number Its number is sixty six That would be great for AverageMetalDrummer. Speaking of which, watch your p...

toby wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 10:48 am Woe to you, oh earth and sea
For the Devil sends the beast with wrath
Because he knows mooyagi's time is short

Let he who hath understanding reckon the number of the drought
For it is a human number
Its number is sixty six

Death to the optimists! :death: Current longest drought: >45 days 30 days - Metalhead_80s 44 days - aleyeahed 45 days - metalforever 56 days - mooyagi 60 days - godflesh 67 days - AverageMetalDrummer 70 days - MMatti 75 days - MuzakMaker 80 days - Mr.Kito 90 days - Amalu 91 days - toby 125 days - s...

Wut. What kind of math are y'all doing? 44 is greater than 37...so if the rule is closest without going over...then the guess of 30 is still winning, yes? :stagger: Yes, the rules are simple: Mooyagi made the thread, Mooyagi makes the rules :P Why do you think we have ranks here? The Captain is alw...

My advice is to not put the year, so that you can reuse it.
Also, no need to mention "70000 Tons of Metal" IMO, it's pretty much implied by the situation.
Basically, all you need is "Forum meetup", LOL.

Metalhead_80s wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:22 am I'm still in the lead!

If we get an announcement before October 12th, you’ll still be in the lead.
Source: I’m confused.

White Ward would be great. Wolves in the Throne Room or Winterfylleth also. It's probably Wintersun, unfortunately. I would be very happy with all of these bands. But most of all White Ward. False Light, what an album, probably my AOTY in 2022. But it is not a repeat. Dare we hope? 13 newbies vs 23...

Tono_Fyr wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:30 pm Statsman, I just realized I missed Tribunal on my list, please correct this mistake for me!

Same for me, please!

Looking at the list of sold out cabins and there being over 1000 cabins in sold out categories, that means we probably have over 2500 bookings so far just in sold out categories. I wouldn't be surprised if we're approaching 3000 people booked. I don't believe the cruise is considered sold out when ...

Metaltrout wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 7:25 pm It's one of the Thy bands. thy light or thy catafalque

We already have Thy Rfing.

This band is not in my wishlist, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Vexed is the V announcement. To me, they have a similar sound to Infected Rain, and Andy may want to pull in some numbers from that audience. Just a theory. Edit: to clarify, I’m not hoping for this band, just presenting a theory that ...