Thanks for the shout out, and yeah, I agree the whole thing sounds interesting. Definitely looking forward to seeing it in action.
Electronic/ambient artist. I started making music more than random scribblings in the fall of 2010, around the end of November. I think I've come a long way since then!
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I'm excited!!!
The only thing I want is voting with more resolution. In the case where there's a clear standout (which is usually what happens, if you look back at the last NGMT), it doesn't make sense to have all the votes be equal weight, and in fact it could lead to incorrect results (imagine if 10 people have song A first and B second, and then 1 person only votes for B. Clearly A should win, but B would win in this scheme). Better is 3 for first, 2 for second, 1 for third, which solves this problem.
We've talked about this already but I wanted to write out clearly why I think 3-2-1 is better ;-)
Main reason for that is: With three equally-weighted votes, people don't have to decide which is the "best" song. If there's a close match, which there could easily be, actually - it would be nice for people to not have to decide which is 'better'.
Also, it would be /somewhat/ more a pain in the arse to tally the votes, and then balance the "if you use all three votes" thing.
There's a wonderful acronym which states this perfectly: K.I.S.S. = Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Things are complicated enough already. <3
Yeah but in all 3 past rounds of the NGMT there was a clear standout, so history is on my side ;-) ;-)
I could tally the votes for you <3
I understand where you're coming from with "simple is better" but I'm coming from the perspective of having participated in many compos with 3-2-1 (OHC) and many with 1-1-1 (toastbeard), so I've had the basis to compare - and I've seen time and time again that 3-2-1 is superior.
Plus all the musicians who participate are pretty smart guys. I'm sure they could understand something as simple as "choose your top 3 in order" :)
Just to clarify, I think the rest of it is perfect and awesome. Though I do miss the time constraint round ;.;
The simplicity for the 3-2-1 thing isn't for the people making the music, actually. That's kinda for me, trying to tally everything and balance the reward for voting. I'm going to be tallying, sir. :P I think I said something about that too.
And. Time constraint is for another year, good sir.
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challenge two is interesting