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I'm gonna give it my best shot, would be something more pleasant to deal with in the coming 2 months or so

Well let's say I'm among one of the few that's unhappy with the changed system. People are only going to vote for 3 entries, aren't they? Then that means out of a choice of 12 they're obviously going to leave behind many of the great tracks that will be heavily cut aside by the system. See, this was one of many reasons why there'd be sometimes several year-long gaps in my appearances in the Dwelling of Duels... :\

There's the writeups for a reason, even though they may state things that we may disagree with. So even if the current system stays, if you want feedback for ways to improve then look there; no matter what situation is taken, voting systems are not entirely reliable. Seriously, everyone here needs to sit down with a nice cup of tea and watch (lol shameless plug)

Well let's just say I'm still against it. Jason's proposed idea smells like the old DoD system, where people just vote on what they have with the limitations they've got, and the ones that are the worst hit are the ones that they purposely didn't want to care about. And that was a system that I was extremely annoyed with back in the day, so much to the point that some of the best mixes I saw coming out of the DoD were left in the bottom half percentile. (Their new system with the sliders is a lot more fairer though, no disrespect to the DoD as a community.) And yes, I know this system is upsetting a lot of people, but let's just STOP getting upset about it and move on. I swear everyone's going to get headaches in the morning if this keeps getting debated >_>

It's not just the top mixes that are being benefitted. You stated before that lower ranks will struggle in a Popular Vote system, which would really crush things apart. To take a more obvious example, let's look at the Hard Men. Benjamin Briggs scored really well last week even if he didn't break the top 3. Emunator's work on the other hand seems to be an underdog from what I'm seeing of the votes so far, so under that sitation, the Hard Men's performance is actually being hindered by the initial reception for Emu's track. Going under Darke's system, it may be true that Ben's work may have a slight handicap due to being just outside the top three, but because Emu took part then the Hard Men won't be considered a handicapped team in regards to point totals. Do you understand where I'm coming from?

Honestly, this is why I didn't want to see any change. People can be too subjective to what they find enjoyable, and I honestly think that Darke's system has done something that would make everyone happy with the result no matter where they place. So just stop complaining and make music, and stop using new systems as a chance to put others down >_> And I know there was an edit above, but let's say for example WillRock makes something that didn't grab peoples' attention next round, and that only gets 2 votes. Added on top of the BRB points, that would actually hurt the team as a whole. Under Darke's system, just having him submit would count as a 4th place vote regardless, so that didn't hurt the outcome all that much in comparison.

See, the way you guys are COMPLETELY MISJUDGING my own track is the very reason why I REFUSE to see a change in the voting system. I spent over £500 on new samples after the whole long-SDB-project-evaluation thing, as a way to SIGNIFICANTLY up my game. But now you guys have a wrongful accusation to go for it. I asked so many people for balance and production criticisms (including two REALLY TOUGH production critics) throughout the whole process and they said they were fine with it, so what the hell is going wrong? Answering Ectogemia's question, the percussion used was Addictive's drumsets and the Latin American percussion patches from Garritan World Instruments. As for the whole Plant-Wily argument, there was MORE PLANT THAN WILY. It may not be obvious, but let me break it down for you: First 16 bars - Piano part plays melody D for Plant all the way through, and in the last 8 bars of this the Wily melody Next 16 - Chord structure for the riff of Wily 1 over the melody for Plant Next 16 - Reverse roles Next 16 - Piano part plays the D section of the Plant melody over the E section of Wily [section *] Next 16 - Guitarron and glockenspiel reference to Plant melody B, last 8 bars refer to Wily on the synth Next 16 - Wily riff with added melody, last 2 bars have a reference to Plant melody A Next 16 - Chord structure for Plant A and hint of Plant C was noted in the first four bars of the synth line. No Wily here. Next 16 - See Section * Next 16 - Synth solo, first 8 bars uses chord structure for the B/D section of Wily Next 8 - Plant C noted on glockenspiel Next 16 - Section *, with key change Next 16 - Accompaniment of Section * remains, and a hint of Plant A is noted in the last synth solo Ending - Answer and call between Wily and Plant So all in all, you can see that Plant has MORE PRESENCE THAN WILY. I am actually very annoyed by the wrongful accusations, and I really hope my analysis of the whole thing can clear things up to you. Please, spare me a vote. I'm having the worst week ever due to wrongful accusations at work, and I odn't want this on top of it

I don't know, I actually seem to like it this way. If there were point distributions going further down the list too, then that would mean way too much pressure being built just to try and fight for one of them. With this system, we can just relax and have fun with what we do, knowing that if you take part you're practically guaranteed 4th place no matter what you do. And that to me is a much more uplifting take on the whole thing than seeing laments over low finishing positions

Well, seeing that the big point send-offs are being sent to the top 3 in each round, I can be safe in the knowledge that if I face a crushing defeat in this round (which is more than likely ) then it won't damage the team too much. But nevertheless, was a good start for Round 1

I say it depends by team. The cases for Skull Men/Energy Tank are a-given, and I have to say that I preferred PH's track for the Mega Ballers and Amphibious's for the Gentlemaster's Club a lot more than their teammates' tracks last week. But it does seem that way to some degree. It won't change the fact though that this will be one tough vote, though I will assure you I will have mine done before I head down south on Thursday.

I guess that means laptops are the way to go should you need to replace your computer. Power surges = just relying on the battery during the downtime, so should be more convenient, but don't quote me on that o_O

Addressing Cold Steel and their troubles in getting in contact with Nekofrog - I've seen him in IRC a few times over the past couple of days, so if you got a moment swing by #ocremix and see what's going on. Alternatively, if you're on Youtube you can find him there too (same name and everything). I know you guys can pull together

Remove the http:// from the end of the link and you're golden. I'm sure Darke would notice and edit the link appropriately. And yes, like Brandon before me

Ben, if you need any help for anything this week, let me know. Though, after Wednesday I'll be unavailable music-wise due to me attending my brother's graduation, so bear that in mind. And onto round 2's works. Last place, here I come! *_*

This is gonna own! I'll be sure to get to work on a wip over the coming weeks

Being in England myself, the GMT time would be 17:00. Hope that helps [EDIT: Bah, I've just realised I messed up the file naming specifications by one word. Re-submitted.]

Damn, less than 12 hours to go and there's only 2 entries including my own? Where the hell is everyone? o_O

Will vote later today. I'm finally getting my picks set in stone

Guys, please. There's only one person around here that's supposed to lecture little Neblix and that's big brother Darke. Understood?

Done and will submit in the morning. >:] My name is R, comma, ex-ay I likes to play the keyboard all sweet-lay I'm in Bad Guy Robots and we take no shizz, But I ain't even know whose round this is! o_O

So in regards to the mixer assignment, we still need to know who's playing for the Blue Bomber Brotherhood this week. Does anyone know who's stepping up for them?

Haha, I even had that kind of thought when listening to the track's progress during Brandon's last day of working on it. IRC quotation time: Anyway, will check the tracks out throughout the day. May even be a good distraction from my own progress this week too

Hahaha, very common choice. And nicely played too. x) As stated earlier, I shall be playing for the Bad Guy Robots this week. Bring it on!

Not a very tactful response though; it's meant to put many of those so-called 'top watched Youtubers' to shame. But at least we now understand exactly where it ended up being leaked. So, what are the likelihoods of staffing around guitarbackingtrack.com being any saner than Youtube's (and their lack thereof)?