Worst Ivy League A Capella Tournament, Day Two: Enter Brown

by | October 30, 2007 at 4:25 pm

Welcome to Day Two! Day One featured two landslides, with #1, Penn’s Chord on Blues, trouncing #8, Harvard’s Fallen Angels by like 70 percent. Dartmouth’s Cords (#4) also steamrolled the competition and beat Columbia’s Nonsequitur (#5) by like 70 percent too. Thanks for playing, Harvard and Columbia!

But let us celebrate not! We must trudge forth with today’s matches, however aurally painful that becomes. One of today’s contestants will introduce two thus-far overlooked a cappella tropes: white rapping and beatboxing. LOTS of both.

In our #2 versus #7 seeds matchup, respectively, we bring you the Brown Jabberwock’s epic rendition of Talib Kweli’s “Get By” (strongly urge you to watch it all!) against the Princeton Roaring 20 performing that Third Eye Blind song.

Brown Jabberwocks:

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Princeton Roaring 20:

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Still with us? The last opening round match-up squares the #3 seed, Cornell’s famous Absolute A Cappella singing Oasis’ “Wonderwall,” against the #6 seed, Yale’s Living Water performing some Jesusy song.

Cornell Absolute A Cappella:

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Yale Living Water:

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Voting will go through 5:00 tomorrow (Wednesday), and then we will have the semifinals around 6:00. At least tomorrow you won’t have to watch any new videos, right? 

 
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  • yale10

    poor living water. they mean well but oh lord. I want them to be good, I really do, but compared to the rest of the yale groups they’re pretty much the standout worst one. poor christians.

  • yale10

    poor living water. they mean well but oh lord. I want them to be good, I really do, but compared to the rest of the yale groups they’re pretty much the standout worst one. poor christians.

  • T-T ’07

    MHSTTD word.

  • T-T ’07

    MHSTTD word.

  • T-T ’07 (2)

    MHSTTD, keep it hangin’

    Jabberwocks & R20 are definitely the better of the 4 remaining. And the beatboxing is still impressive, even if it’s a little long (and by a little i mean a lot).

    cornell got rid of the video. thank god.

  • T-T ’07 (2)

    MHSTTD, keep it hangin’

    Jabberwocks & R20 are definitely the better of the 4 remaining. And the beatboxing is still impressive, even if it’s a little long (and by a little i mean a lot).

    cornell got rid of the video. thank god.

  • T-T ’07 (2)

    MHSTTD, keep it hangin’

    Jabberwocks & R20 are definitely the better of the 4 remaining. And the beatboxing is still impressive, even if it’s a little long (and by a little i mean a lot).

    cornell got rid of the video. thank god.

  • T-T ’07 (2)

    MHSTTD, keep it hangin’

    Jabberwocks & R20 are definitely the better of the 4 remaining. And the beatboxing is still impressive, even if it’s a little long (and by a little i mean a lot).

    cornell got rid of the video. thank god.

  • pton T-T ’07

    MHSTTD, keep it hangin’

    Jabberwocks & R20 are definitely the better of the 4 remaining. And the beatboxing is still impressive, even if it’s a little long (and by a little i mean a lot).

    cornell got rid of their video. thank god.

  • pton T-T ’07

    MHSTTD, keep it hangin’

    Jabberwocks & R20 are definitely the better of the 4 remaining. And the beatboxing is still impressive, even if it’s a little long (and by a little i mean a lot).

    cornell got rid of their video. thank god.

  • yale09@trumbullyalie2011

    for the record, i actually think Red Hot sounds better than Shades. they’ve really stepped it up since my freshman year… it’s pretty obvious that their arrangements are the hardest on campus and they actually pull them off. can we talk about how most of the girls’ groups can’t manage to stay in key while singing that ONE measure over and over that seems to make up the background for all of their solos? okay, thanks. but yeah – red hot pulls off a way harder rep. that’s saying something.

  • yale09@trumbullyalie2011

    for the record, i actually think Red Hot sounds better than Shades. they’ve really stepped it up since my freshman year… it’s pretty obvious that their arrangements are the hardest on campus and they actually pull them off. can we talk about how most of the girls’ groups can’t manage to stay in key while singing that ONE measure over and over that seems to make up the background for all of their solos? okay, thanks. but yeah – red hot pulls off a way harder rep. that’s saying something.

  • bc376

    I don’t know what y’all are talking about.. but living water is pretty awesome, not even close to the worst, for the little number they have in their group, they sound like they have 20 or more people singing at the same time, and they actually sing for a purpose, and not to discriminate, LW is the only group that actually does that, and audience can see it

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