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This Twitter contest to crown the best Christmas song ended exactly as it should have

Let the battle begin...

Sam Haysom

on December 18, 2017

This Twitter contest to crown the best Christmas song ended exactly as it should have

Mariah Carey made it to the 'World Cup of Christmas Songs' final four. She wasn't the winner, though... Credit: Gregory Pace/REX/Shutterstock

'Tis the season for arguing about Christmas songs.

Some people like them, some people hate them, but pretty much everyone has an opinion about them.

And if there's one place that's absolutely perfect for thrashing out never-ending arguments, it's Twitter.

On Thursday, British TV presenter Richard Osman kicked off the latest in his ongoing series of poll-based Twitter competitions: The "World Cup of Christmas Songs 2017". Basically it's a knockout game in which a bunch of songs are arranged into groups, people vote for their favourite, and then the lowest-voted tracks are gradually whittled down until a winner is crowned.

Here's how the first round panned out:

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After some definitive victories from "Last Christmas" and "Fairytale of New York", it was on to Round 2.

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Entering the quarter-finals, the tension was mounting.

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By this point, the competition had massively heated up. It was Mariah Carey vs. Wham!, and The Pogues vs. Wizzard. The semi-finals were set to be super tense...