A Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives moves up a rank from last year to 3rd place in a vote of 5 to 3 over Sinatra's Santa Claus is Coming to Town. This year, White Christmas couldn't be denied again as it also moves ahead one spot to become the winner of the showdown and heads back into retirement. That means that our 2nd place song this year goes to Christmastime Is Here - Vince Guaraldi after a vote of 6-3 in favor of Bing.
That leaves us with the Top 16 Challenge. Every year, people attempt to guess the 16 songs that will go the furthest in the season and the ultimate winner (which earns them an additional 5 points.) The top 2 scores only have two points between them. Who won?
Before we get to that, we have a three way tie for third place with : Steph W, TSO Forever and Team Christmas All Year Round. All of these teams had 44 points. Steph W. Was the the first competitor to enter the Top 16, but by official rules it all comes down to the tie-breaker question: How many votes will there be in the final song showdown round? This year, we had 9 votes in the Championship. Using price is right rules, the closest without going over is TSO Forever in Third Place!
Second Place, a former song showdown winner with 49 points - You forgot CranBillys 2?!
In First Place, winner of the challenge this year, can you say threepeat? Fa Lala Lala pulls in another victory with 51 points to add to victories in 2017 and 2018! Congrats!
I hope you are all having a happy holiday season, and I hope to see you all back again next November for the start of another holiday song showdown!