Dave. Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 Yeah it's just that everyone wanted a totally unbiased/uninvolved person handling the entries that time, then the guy who's never on here gets chosen to do it. You'd be fine handling it IMO... 2 rounds: Non-Muse Muse Everyone must get their entries to Kueller before a set deadline of whenever he says mp3 entries sent to Kueller Kueller uploads entries anonymously to a KF/his own soundcloud in sets Kueller creates a thread with the embedded soundcloud files and an anonymous poll Everyone is allowed 2 votes, if they vote more than twice all votes get discounted (don't know if the person who starts a thread can see who voted if it's anonymous? If not then public poll, no big difference) Poll open for one week, and as it closes next round starts, again for one week After it ends, Kueller gathers the % share of votes from each round (so it doesn't matter about the actual number of people voting, just collectively which was best) and adds the totals for the two rounds Posts a list from best to shit I agree with everything there except the 2 rounds thing. My only concern with 2 rounds is if one person wins with 15 votes in round 1 and another person wins by 15 votes in the second round there is nothing to separate them. With three round if it came down to equal number of votes the winner could be the person who won more rounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I agree with everything there except the 2 rounds thing. My only concern with 2 rounds is if one person wins with 15 votes in round 1 and another person wins by 15 votes in the second round there is nothing to separate them. With three round if it came down to equal number of votes the winner could be the person who won more rounds. Well they could be separate. % share of votes enit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 Well they could be separate. % share of votes enit I can't really be arsed arguing. If everyone else is happy with rounds then I don't see why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I can't really be arsed arguing. If everyone else is happy with rounds then I don't see why not. That's the spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Oh yeah I know you wouldn't, but it's just pointless enit. Why spend ages sending over a huge file when people will only hear a heavily compressed version? A transcoded lossless file will sound better than a transcoded lossy file. It's only a cover contest so yeah kinda pointless but I can see why some people would want higher quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 OR fuck polls do it like album of the year. Everyone lists their favourites from best to worst, then Kueller takes the envious task of reading through all the posts and calculating the winner. Then we don't get decent covers which aren't quite best but still good tying with the shite ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I'm with 3 too. Dunno about what the extra round could be though. What have they been before? Everything else sounds cool though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 have we had one since T2L came out? I think we had a T2L round last time but can't remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 There was kind of a T2L round last time but only for songs released at the time. Still think there should probably be something more special though since the album's been out for over a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 I still stand by the idea I posted earlier. Copy Cat Muse round Non Muse Original Version of Muse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexical_Whale Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I still stand by the idea I posted earlier. Copy Cat Muse round Non Muse Original Version of Muse Like this idea. Think I mentioned it last time round but my main problem with assigning specific albums to certain rounds means people might feel like their choice is limited entirely to shitty songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 If by copy cat you mean recording the whole cover and instruments from scratch I just think there'll be a lot of people who will pass on that round, iuno, lurkers should post now whether they can or not so we don't have a round of like 3 people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexical_Whale Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 If by copy cat you mean recording the whole cover and instruments from scratch I just think there'll be a lot of people who will pass on that round, iuno, lurkers should post now whether they can or not so we don't have a round of like 3 people By copycat I took it more to mean straight covers trying to match the studio/live versions as close as possible (basically what most people normally do). I guess though that you'd potentially run into problems with doing creative covers as you'd either have to do it really quite stripped back or make your own backing from scratch as I doubt there are many Ska/Klezmer fusion backing tracks for Plug In Baby floating about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I do like the as original as you can get idea but iuno... I'm guessing a lot of people (including me) are gonna be really busy and that kind of thing would require a fair bit of effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I do like the as original as you can get idea but iuno... I'm guessing a lot of people (including me) are gonna be really busy and that kind of thing would require a fair bit of effort Yeeeeeah. And it just seems unnecessary to me. Since we didn't have a proper T2L round last time I'd rather that. Although I imagine most people will do Animals. Anyone doing Supremacy again can fuck off unless it's Jamie with the fart tone again. Anyone who wins doing Unsustainable with my file automatically hands their title to me cos fabri is a nob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Someone doing a full on proper IS cover would be cool though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Anyone doing Supremacy again can fuck off unless it's Jamie with the fart tone again. :LOL: But yeah, I like the idea and all but... well, it's not summer anymore.. No idea what I'd do for a T2L round though. Did Animals last time, Survival already done so fuk dat, I guess Liquid State.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 :LOL: But yeah, I like the idea and all but... well, it's not summer anymore.. No idea what I'd do for a T2L round though. Did Animals last time, Survival already done so fuk dat, I guess Liquid State.. Madness would be quite dull for just guitar can imagine Olly doing a ridiculous Panic Station cover Survival would be cool, if people did it good Someone should get a sick fat toan for Follow Me and do a guitar version Animals yeah Explorers meeeeeeeeh Save Me goodbye Liquid State nice Big Freeze would be cool if they pull off the solo really well Unsustainable weeeoooo IS would be cool with a full cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil. Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 How about this: Round 1: Low lels Round 2: Medium lels Round 3: Top lels fixed. What about an original idea for this, like take a shit mewze song (so anything from the resistance and most of T2L) and re-do it, originally, to make it less shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 fixed. What about an original idea for this, like take a shit mewze song (so anything from the resistance and most of T2L) and re-do it, originally, to make it less shit. That would, in my opinion, fall under the original idea. Take a Muse song and change it for the better. I don't like the idea of a T2L round. It seems very restrictive and unnecessarily selective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomrulez Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I think 3 rounds of: Muse Non-Muse Muse Would be best. Then a final score is worked out using the mean votes over all three is worked out for the winner (this stops people who only enter one having a disadvantage). The problem with uploading to soundcloud is they can block recordings if they infringe copyright (like my Survival cover from last year which was so accurate it was blocked ). If people want to do their own version of a song then that's fine but it's not compulsory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 I think 3 rounds of: Muse Non-Muse Muse Would be best. Then a final score is worked out using the mean votes over all three is worked out for the winner (this stops people who only enter one having a disadvantage). The problem with uploading to soundcloud is they can block recordings if they infringe copyright (like my Survival cover from last year which was so accurate it was blocked ). If people want to do their own version of a song then that's fine but it's not compulsory. Perhaps to combat that we could de-tune all enteries from 440A to 430A (ala Falling Down and No Surprises) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Yep I'm in for that. Would be for making it original but time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentley Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Yep I'm in for that. Would be for making it original but time Seconded. Plus I'm crap at making stuff up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 Well it wouldn't be on until December so theres loads of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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