SideFights have a long and varied history as part of Song Fight! Several types of sidefights, organized through the Song Fight! message boards, have occurred over the years, as explained below: sonofgearfight: A SideFight started by Mo in 2021 in tribute to early community member Blue Lang. Check out the sonofgearfight archive for all the details! "Official" Cover Fights: After much board discussion, the guidelines were established for the first side fights in 2001, which started with songfighters covering each other. For a time, these alternated back and forth between "other" coverfights and the "original formula". Initially hosted by Stubs of Octothorpe, these have been more recently organized by JB. June, 2001 First Cover Fight September, 2001 JBB Cover Fight October, 2001 80s Cover Fight November, 2001 50s Cover Fight December, 2001 XMAS Cover Fight January, 2002 George Harrison Cover Fight February, 2002 Regular Cover Fight April, 2002 Archive Cover Fight May, 2002 Regular Cover Fight July, 2002 Summer Cover Fight November, 2002 Children's Songs Cover Fight January, 2003 Regular Cover Fight May, 2003 Neil Diamond/Video Games September, 2003 Swapping Cover Fight March, 2004 Country/Devo Cover Fight September, 2004 Fightmaster's Choice July, 2005 Cover Yourself November, 2006 Total Request Cover Fight The Gift of Music: Niveous thought that it would be fun for songfighters to get their favorite songs covered by other songfighters and the Gift of Music was born. January, 2004 The Gift of Music 2003 January, 2005 The Gift of Music 2004 January, 2006 The Gift of Music 2005 Hxaro!: Organized by the secret Hxaro! Santa and his helper Mr. McHxaro, these side fights pay tribute to a selected member of the Song Fight! community. October, 2004 King Arthur December, 2004 15-16 Puzzle April, 2005 Jack Shite July, 2005 Johnny Cashpoint and Ken November, 2005 Glenn Case SongSkirmishes: These take the form of short (one hour) fights with a special challenge. March, 2004 SongSkirmish II June, 2004 SongSkirmish III September, 2004 SongSkirmish IV February, 2006 SongSkirmish V Board Fights: Numerous additional challenges and fights have been organized by individual songfighters. More often than not, unlike the "official" coverfights, these have sprung up more or less spontaneously and autocratically rather than by concensus. July, 2004 The One October, 2004 JB's Mom's Childrens Songs Charity Compilation November, 2004 Barenaked Sidefight December, 2004 Guitar Symphony February, 2005 SongWar: the extra long fight February, 2005 LostFight! March, 2005 Rolf is a Nazi: A SongFight Tribute April, 2005 OctoFest '05 April, 2005 ToddlerFight! July, 2005 Residents of the USA August, 2005 Themesongfight! 2005 November, 2005 The Eagles December, 2005 John Lennon Tribute February, 2006 ABBA Coverfight March, 2006 Nur Ein Stage One March, 2006 Nur Ein Stage Two March, 2006 Nur Ein Stage Three April, 2006 Nur Ein Stage Four April, 2006 Nur Ein Stage Five April, 2006 Nur Ein Stage Six April, 2006 Nur Ein Stage Seven Caveat: Most of these side fights are self-hosted, so song links may be broken, as individual songfighters websites may have changed over time, etc. Please do not email or post to report a broken link unless you have access to a better (working) one. These may be sent to songnews@songfight.org. If you know of other sidefights that should be included, be sure to let us know.