Dominic. Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Anon made it fairer and way more fun No muse would be stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted September 14, 2012 Author Share Posted September 14, 2012 I think I didn't say it properly. I meant no Muse ONLY rounds. I think flexible rounds are best. I guess we could work out a better system for anonymous entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I liked the format in this summer one, maybe only 2 or 3 rounds though The anonymous worked fine, it's just that only larry knows the results and who is who and he doesn't post much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexical_Whale Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I think the anon entries was definitely a good idea, it was only really the communication that let things down a bit (i.e not knowing how everyone did now and not being able to just post in the thread if one gets missed off the list etc). To be honest I probably wouldn't have entered if it hadn't been anon for the sort of reasons other people have addressed. I'd definitely agree that slimming the rounds down to 3 would be a good idea as this one seemed to suddenly drop off at round 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I reckon the winter one should be two rounds Round 1: Muse (any song? Preferably ones you haven't done before) Round 2: any band, any song, like round 2 from this summers one Anon thing will be fine, just not Neil cos he doesn't wanna do it, and larry did one apart from he needs to let us know the results! Unless the winter one is videos again, in which case anon will obv be impossible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexical_Whale Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I don't mind admitting that whilst it was really great getting lots of votes at the start, and I'm very grateful to anyone that did vote for my entries, it did start to get a bit dull when the contest started to get a bit one-sided. With that in mind, providing I've got the spare time, I don't mind volunteering to handle some of the admin type aspects of the contest and not entering anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Oh yeah, that's another thing, multiple voting. Gives a much better view of what are the most popular covers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Oh yeah, that's another thing, multiple voting. Gives a much better view of what are the most popular covers This is the biggest point, I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord MFC Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I think that Dom should organise it, sorry longan, maybe you should step down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I think that Dom should organise it, sorry longan, maybe you should step down. Harshers on both of them, Dom does have a life and Uni remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord MFC Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Harshers on both of them, Dom does have a life and Uni remember True, buuut, not many people seem to be agreeing with longan's organisational ideas/skills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 :srsb33f: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 I think that Dom should organise it, sorry longan, maybe you should step down. How about no. Just because everyone doesn't always agree with me doesn't mean I should "step down". I give ideas and some of them people like and some of them people don't, that's human nature. Dom and I have been organising these from the start and generally people seem to like how we organise things. Most of the time the reason things don't work out how we plan them is because of external factors. I like organising these contests and I will continue to do so with Dom and with the advice of everyone on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 How about no. Just because everyone doesn't always agree with me doesn't mean I should "step down". I give ideas and some of them people like and some of them people don't, that's human nature. Dom and I have been organising these from the start and generally people seem to like how we organise things. Most of the time the reason things don't work out how we plan them is because of external factors. I like organising these contests and I will continue to do so with Dom and with the advice of everyone on here. :srsb33f: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 True, buuut, not many people seem to be agreeing with longan's organisational ideas/skills Trufax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthijs Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 If anything I would prefer something less individual, if possible a group vs group contest. Might be a bit more motivating and might make for more creativity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 If anything I would prefer something less individual, if possible a group vs group contest. Might be a bit more motivating and might make for more creativity. That would be interesting, how would it work though? Like, do you get a few musicians to come together and make a cover together (which would be difficult since we have millions of guitarists and few others) or just like, split into teams, whichever team gets the most votes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthijs Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 You make a few teams which will more or less stay the same for all rounds (depending on who can join in what round). Then they record a cover which will be joined over the internet (Like the K&T collaborations in the past). Missing instruments can be done by MIDI (we don't have many drummers), vocals can be done by another guitar for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don'tPostThePear Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 You make a few teams which will more or less stay the same for all rounds (depending on who can join in what round). Then they record a cover which will be joined over the internet (Like the K&T collaborations in the past). Missing instruments can be done by MIDI (we don't have many drummers), vocals can be done by another guitar for example. wouldn't that limit the originality? (like someone from the team wanna do an acoustic cover, the other guy a straight cover version, the third one a bleepy bloop version etc. and then they would have to agree on some middle of the road unoriginal version) also there were huge differences between recording methods and sound quality, tracks consisting of iphone mic recordings for vocals and proper recordings for guitars (or any other combination of instruments and quality) would sound weird edit: yeah and fuck other people also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthijs Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 It would mean that you have to set a bit more strict assignments in the competition, perhaps involving one acoustic or something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Speaking of bleep bloops, november new Crystal Castles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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