stappard wrote:A lot of stuff needs to be cleaned up in these competitions, big up to HAACK for running it but there are obviously some ****** that need ironing out...
Heh. Understatement for sure. Go ahead and go back to DSF10 and back even before that - there's been debate forever about how this thing should/shouldn't be run and although we've collectively displayed some initiative and
are trying out this new format doesn't mean there isn't room for further improvement. I still like the idea of a "tune playoff" format; some folks don't, and that's fine too. I think there's room for more than one competition too though - there's absolutely nothing stopping any of you from coming up with something different and starting a new thing here.
re: "mysterious hidden voting panel" -
we're not hidden. The judges' names are known, and I'm gonna post up some notes on the tunes like I always do. Nobody's bribing me (although I'm not saying I'm above that...)

Ultimately though this thing belongs to all of us; if for some reason the judging panel idea winds up not working out and we go back to straight voting, that's fine too. I'm wondering if having more stability in the voting body isn't a good thing though - after all, there are cats who used to be regulars in these things who're no longer contributing to these contests, and there are lots and lots of people who got into the contests later on in the double digits. At least having a fixed panel means nobody can PM all their friends here to say "oi, vote fer me choon over inna Production forum!"
re: time limit - The three minute mark was set up because people would make a 6 minute track and 3 fuckin' minutes of it was just ambient "
whhhhhoooosshhhhh" or the same beat with no variations or some wanky shit like that - when you multiply that by, say, 12 contestants it turns into a total time waste. Three minutes should be enough for you to drop some ill sounds on the listening public and show what you got. As much as we all wanna be cool and all that stuff, if we allow for an extra 30 seconds (effectively making the time limit 3:30) then someone's gonna make a 4 minute track and so on, and we'll wind up right back where we started from.
...and I'd just like to take a second to say that I'm honored to be in such good company. I mean, how lucky are we to have Macc on the panel?! Dude's contributed A LOT to this production forum.
On that note I'm off to listen to the submissions.
