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Music is up for round 4

New voting procedure starting this round!
 
Voters, post your top three remixes in this thread as follows.
Your name First place choice remix name Second place choice remix name Third place choice remix name Your Team Name (if you have one) Team name on the fifth line is new. If you don't have a team, don't include a fifth line.
 
Copy your team name from the first post in the voting thread so that capitalization is consistent.
 
I'm working on getting scores for round 2 and 3 into my tracking sheet. Once that's done, I'll publicize scores and keep the sheet updated week to week.

Music is up for round 4

Timaeus, please do OCR00061 - OCR00100
Tables, please do OCR00101 - OCR00140
 
SystemsReady and Olarin, check your PMs for assignments and links.

ladyWildfire, I strongly urge you to get someone to spit some rhymes over Tribal Hunter if you decide to sub to OCR. The beat is too good and is practically begging for someone to rap over it.

Never enough OverClockeds.

Music will go up later tonight folks. Sorry, got caught up with some other things last night.
 
Also, remember guys, if you're having trouble coming up with an idea for your remix this week, you have team members you can bounce ideas off of. Get on Skype or something and start brainstorming. There's nothing wrong with having your team members come up with the seed of your arrangement, so long as you're the one expanding it out into a full piece.

ladyWildfire, I strongly urge you to get someone to spit some rhymes over Tribal Hunter if you decide to sub to OCR. The beat is too good and is practically begging for someone to rap over it.

ladyWildfire, I strongly urge you to get someone to spit some rhymes over Tribal Hunter if you decide to sub to OCR. The beat is too good and is practically begging for someone to rap over it.

ladyWildfire, I strongly urge you to get someone to spit some rhymes over Tribal Hunter if you decide to sub to OCR. The beat is too good and is practically begging for someone to rap over it.

ladyWildfire, I strongly urge you to get someone to spit some rhymes over Tribal Hunter if you decide to sub to OCR. The beat is too good and is practically begging for someone to rap over it.

The Sigma Fortress Remix Gauntlet (Main Competition Thread)

Voting for round 3 is now open, and will end on Saturday, August 22, at 6PM EDT.

Download Round 3 remixes: Sigma Fortress Remix Gauntlet - Round 3 (X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2])

Sources
Gauntlet Theme: Mega Man X2 - X-Hunter Stage 1 Maverick Themes: SFRG 2015 Competitor Playlist (Compiled by NovaReaper) Remix Titles:
IT'S NOT URSUS (Crescent Grizzly in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) VAAM (Blast Hornet in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) (Don't Wanna) Hurt You (Gravity Beetle in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) Tribal Hunter (Splash Warfly in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) Caffeine Shoveling Hunter Turtloids (Rainy Turtloid in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) Cloud Hopping (Spiral Pegacion in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) Soaked Tapes (Tidal Makoeen in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) Laser Power (Shield Sheldon in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) A Centipede's Burden (Magna Centipede in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) A Blaze in the Northern Fortress (Blaze Heatnix in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) X's Demise (Spark Mandrill in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) Voters, post your top three remixes in this thread as follows.
Your name First place choice remix name Second place choice remix name Third place choice remix name Please use the forum's bulleted list feature, as shown above, and please do not "creatively misspell" remix names; copy the remix titles from the list above to avoid any mistakes. Do not include NUMBERS in your list, i.e. your first choice should be "Remix Title," not "1) Remix Title."

This is really important, because it'll help me plug your votes into my tallying spreadsheet without a lot of hassle. Voting in the proper format will help expedite the tallies being done. Thank you!

Things to keep in mind when voting:
The most important thing to consider when voting is how well the remix incorporates and arranges both themes. Production and enjoyability should also be considered, but this is primarily an arrangement competition. The sources have been linked above for your reference. Everyone is allowed (and encouraged) to vote, including competitors. Competitors should not place their own team's remix in their rankings, regardless of whether they are the remixers for that round or not. However, by voting, they will earn a first place vote for their team's remix. If you are on a team, you must post what team you are on in your vote so I can make sure your team gets your voting bonus. If you do not specify your team, I cannot guarantee that your team will receive a voting bonus. You are required to make an actual decision for each choice, meaning, you cannot declare a draws or a ties for different places. This will be counted as not voting and your vote will not be counted. Do not post reviews in the voting thread. Compile your reviews for each round into a single post in the main competition thread. Post only once in each voting thread. Everyone must adhere to the Competitions Code of Conduct.

I agree. I think it would be worth exploring putting some artist links on remix pages.

Music will go up later tonight folks. Sorry, got caught up with some other things last night.
 
Also, remember guys, if you're having trouble coming up with an idea for your remix this week, you have team members you can bounce ideas off of. Get on Skype or something and start brainstorming. There's nothing wrong with having your team members come up with the seed of your arrangement, so long as you're the one expanding it out into a full piece.

Music will go up later tonight folks. Sorry, got caught up with some other things last night.
 
Also, remember guys, if you're having trouble coming up with an idea for your remix this week, you have team members you can bounce ideas off of. Get on Skype or something and start brainstorming. There's nothing wrong with having your team members come up with the seed of your arrangement, so long as you're the one expanding it out into a full piece.

Music will go up later tonight folks. Sorry, got caught up with some other things last night.
 
Also, remember guys, if you're having trouble coming up with an idea for your remix this week, you have team members you can bounce ideas off of. Get on Skype or something and start brainstorming. There's nothing wrong with having your team members come up with the seed of your arrangement, so long as you're the one expanding it out into a full piece.

Yeah, I'm a little tied up
 

 
see you in two weeks, hopefully!

Round 4's song is Mega Max X4 - Final Weapon

Great graphics and music. Awesome character progression with Zero. Really love the story with Repliforce. Tragic love between Iris and Zero is sad. Bad VA is charming and also excusable. Revelations about Zero's past are interesting. Game has great control, very fun.

WE FINALLY DOIN’ IT!
We need your help to add genre, mood, instrumentation and other tags to the OCR database.
The full list of terms.
The minimum of what we need for every ReMix is:
Primary Genre (e.g. funk, metal, rap, EDM, jazz) Secondary Genres (when applicable) 1+ Mood (e.g. aggressive, goofy, romantic, sad) 2+ Instrumentation (e.g. acoustic-guitar, chiptune, piano, singing) Additional tag types we want to apply whenever possible:
Specific Arrangement aspects (e.g. # of instruments, minimalist, extended soloing) Effects (e.g. distortion, glitching, lo-fi, vocoder) Origin (e.g. collaboration, created for a compo) Live production aspects (e.g. live ensemble, live recording, use of live instruments) Regional influence (e.g. Celtic, Japanese, world) Time (e.g. tempo, long or short duration, time signature) Usage (e.g. workout, winter/holiday, Halloween, meditation) This is a serious project, so you need to have a good understanding of what the tags mean and also have a good ear for labeling genres and identifying instruments and moods. We want to build an accurate library of tags for the remixes on the site.
If you’re interested and you think you have what it takes, let us know right here in this thread and we’ll assign you a block of ReMixes to work on and PM you our tagging submission form where you can enter the data.
THANKS!
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Can we add more tags to the list?
No! We don't plan on adding many other tags, but if a good case is made for something we've overlooked, we may add more.
Note on genres:
We're not trying to add tags for every subgenre under the sun. We're going for pretty broad descriptions. We don't need "tribal Moombahcore chillwave"; EDM works just fine in most of those cases.
Note on using "epic" for mood:
We're not using "epic" as a synonym for awesome/amazing/yoooooooooooooo. We're using it to describe ReMixes that are grand, heroic, or anthemic in scope/tone, which isn't limited to orchestral and rock pieces.
Note on lyrics and duration:
Larry has already handled lyric-specific tags (original, existing, explicit) for all lyrical ReMixes, and duration tags for long and short mixes.
 
Problems?!
If you’re working on tagging your batch of ReMixes and run into an issue where something isn’t clear, then post here and let us know and we can help you.

Anything from For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man can't be used. MM25 isn't covered under OC ReMix's Content Policy; as a licensed, for-profit album, there's different set of rules. You can't post the tracks on YouTube and you can't use them as background music in your videos.

Round 2 music is up. Let me know if there are any issues.

It's on my tumblr. I didn't post it here at OCR because I didn't want people to misconstrue what I said as anything more than a personal rant.

Round 1 music is available in the first post.
Alright, please pardon my language for this post.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU GUYS THIS MUSIC IS AMAZING
Okay now that that's out of the way: voting for round 1 is open. For everyone participating as a voter, PLEASE read the entire first post of the voting thread before posting your vote! Some things have changed, especially with regards to how you should format your votes. Following the updated instructions and format will help me to put out tallies and results in a much more timely manner!
Thank you!

Now that the first round is complete and voting is underway, I'd like to remind everyone to review and adhere to the Competitions Code of Conduct. Keep the CCC in mind when you're discussing, reviewing, and voting on this week's remixes.
 
To answer a question that was posted earlier, yes, Google Drive is fine for providing me with your mix.
 
I apologize for not posting what to put for the gauntlet theme this week. I'll do that earlier this week.
 
I also want to thank everyone for adhering to submission and voting standards thusfar. There have been no bad file names, no 48kHz 24 bit WAV files, everyone is using the right format in the voting threads, etc. So far so good; let's keep things rolling smoothly for the rest of the competition!