What's the deal with the contest?

cave_cricket · Unread post by **cave_cricket** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:54 am

Submissions were due a day ago and we have seen nothing done....it was going good until it fell through...just like the last one....

SO depressing....

ticohans · Unread post by **ticohans** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:59 am

I think everyone has made their submissions, so if jkanter doesn't put something together REALLY soon, I say everyone just put their songs in a single thread with a poll. in order to vote, people would have to listen to each one. do we want to say that you can't vote for your own, so as to encourage less biased voting?? maybe we could require that everyone post who they voted for so that we can make sure people are consistant...

cave_cricket · Unread post by **cave_cricket** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:03 am

ticohans wrote:I think everyone has made their submissions, so if jkanter doesn't put something together REALLY soon, I say everyone just put their songs in a single thread with a poll. in order to vote, people would have to listen to each one. do we want to say that you can't vote for your own, so as to encourage less biased voting?? maybe we could require that everyone post who they voted for so that we can make sure people are consistant...

Here's my contention with "not voting for your own"..what if you honestly felt your cover was the best? I mean...MOST of us are honest enough and humble enough to not vote for themselves but some are egotistical enough to do it, jsut because they won't let anyone be better them....so I see it as catch 22.

So I don't know...jsut vote for whatever...even if everyone votes for their own they are all on the same playing field.....

Peace,

DmbFanJason · Unread post by **DmbFanJason** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 2:24 am

I don't think the artists should vote for themselves....let it be a completely objective contest....just for the public!

billywestom · Unread post by **billywestom** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:12 am

DmbFanJason wrote:I don't think the artists should vote for themselves....let it be a completely objective contest....just for the public!

i dont care what happens , as long as something happens!!!

gravedigger · Unread post by **gravedigger** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:13 am

billywestom wrote:
DmbFanJason wrote:I don't think the artists should vote for themselves....let it be a completely objective contest....just for the public!
i dont care what happens , as long as something happens!!!

jkanter must have something up his sleeve. either that or he's so fucking busy with work that he doesn't have time yet.

billywestom · Unread post by **billywestom** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:15 am

im sure something will happen soon

ticohans · Unread post by **ticohans** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 9:22 am

ok, here's what I say. I'll take a little initiative here. If by, say, 4:00 eastern today jkanter has not gotten on top of this, I will create a thread in which everyone can post their covers. It will be entitled "Final Contest Entries." Billies covers and ONLY Billies covers can be included. Gregplaysguitar is out for the weekend, so we'll have to post his for him. After that has been done, I will post another thread called "Billies Voting." Votes for covers and ONLY votes for covers can be placed in this thread. Let's not clog either up with compliments/mindless babble/whatever. Keep them pure and easy to use. After you have listened to EVERY cover you are free to vote. But you must listen to EVERY cover. You have three votes: 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place. Say that I think that johntherevelator's is best, followed by cave cricket, followed by jasondmbfan. I would then vote like this

1st place: johntherevelator
2nd place: cave cricket
3rd place: jasondmbfan

You MUST follow that format for voting. A first place vote is worth 3 points. A second place vote is worth 2 points. A third place vote is worth 1 point. It is beneficial to vote for all three places as it helps to recognize those who might not get a lot of first place votes, but do get other votes. Voting polls will be CLOSED, DEFINITELY AND ABSOLUTELY at 10:00pm eastern time on Saturday.

Everyone is free to vote. The ballot is not restricted to people who did covers.

Finally, you CANNOT VOTE FOR YOURSELF, NOT FOR 1ST, NOT FOR 2ND, NOT FOR 3RD PLACE!!! This will help curb rampant bias and subjectivity.

If there are any complaints with this format, let me know. If not, I will post another thread so that these rules can be found easily.

Alright, let's get this thing moving!

IronMike778 · Unread post by **IronMike778** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 9:38 am

I like you're idea of 1,2,3 places......I thought it was just a vote for winner. Nice initiative Tico.

billywestom · Unread post by **billywestom** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 10:59 am

first of all, how do you know we dont vote for ourselves, and second, how do you know that we listened to all of them???

cave_cricket · Unread post by **cave_cricket** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:06 am

billywestom wrote:first of all, how do you know we dont vote for ourselves, and second, how do you know that we listened to all of them???

when you vote it will be under your name.....you have to post your vote in a thread...it will be ovious...

personally I don't care that we vote for are own or not....

Peace,

ticohans · Unread post by **ticohans** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:15 am

we'll just have to be honest about listening to all of them billy.

billywestom · Unread post by **billywestom** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:48 am

ticohans wrote:we'll just have to be honest about listening to all of them billy.

oh ok i guess that works ( :wink:

) i think most of us have listened to all the submissions by now anyway...but who better to win a tripping billies contest than billy himself? :wink:

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