Hey, so I'm proposing a new variation for FE Music polls, and want to check to see if anyone is interested in participating. It would be sort of a combination of FE Play List and FE Listens, and to get crazy, we could finish it off with a bracket competition.

Ideally, I'd like 8 people to commit to doing this, although we could do more if needed. Here is how I see this playing out.

1. Each person puts together a playlist of 8 total songs. These could be your all-time favorites, something you like right now, something you want to torture others by making them listen to it, etc. Only rule being no more than one song from any one artist.
2. Next, we open up each playlist for voting by the rest of FE. People listen to the playlists and pick their 3 favorites. At the end of the voting period, all songs from each person are then ranked from 1-8 based on those votes (ties broken by random draw).
3. Then, those songs get placed into a full bracket based upon their individual person rankings. With 8 people and 8 songs, this is a perfect 64-song bracket. With different numbers of participants, byes would be introduced (TBD if this happens) to make the bracket work. Voting would once again open up to anyone on FE to pick their favorite from each head-to-head matchup.
4. Winners of each match-up advance until an overall winner is selected.

I will both volunteer to organize this version, as well as throw my hat in as one of the participants. If you are interested, signup below, and once we get enough interest, I'll request playlists from each of you.

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Participants -- List received
1. Spin
2. Lamps
3. Christian
4. Herm
5. Vern
6. Boc
7. Mal
8. Zersch
9. Ahoda
10. Havo

Christian @ 22/9/2020 14:50

sure. We sort of did something similar with the Christmas songs playlist, but I like this idea of putting together our own playlist.

Yeah, for the Christmas one people were voting on the entire playlist as a whole. In this, it would all be about the individual song.

Now that I'm thinking through the logistics of this a bit more, if we have more than 8 people who want to participate, then we'll just take fewer songs from each person into the final 64-song bracket. So, say 10 people wanted to submit lists, we'd take the top 6 songs from each person, and four songs would randomly get a bye in the first round.

Christian @ 22/9/2020 14:54

Spin @ 22/9/2020 15:51 Christian @ 22/9/2020 14:50 sure. We sort of did something similar with the Christmas songs playlist, but I like this idea of putting together our own playlist. Yeah, for the Christmas one people were voting on the entire playlist as a whole. In this, it would all be about the individual song. But the playlist has to win first before moving onto the individual songs? Or it's all about the individual songs from the beginning?

Each person makes their own playlist. So, you would pick 8 songs for your list. Then people would listen to your 8 songs and pick their 3 favorites from that list. Then those rankings serve to seed the songs into the final bracket.

Christian @ 22/9/2020 16:37

Spin @ 22/9/2020 15:56 Christian @ 22/9/2020 14:54 Spin @ 22/9/2020 15:51 Christian @ 22/9/2020 14:50 sure. We sort of did something similar with the Christmas songs playlist, but I like this idea of putting together our own playlist. Yeah, for the Christmas one people were voting on the entire playlist as a whole. In this, it would all be about the individual song. But the playlist has to win first before moving onto the individual songs? Or it's all about the individual songs from the beginning? Each person makes their own playlist. So, you would pick 8 songs for your list. Then people would listen to your 8 songs and pick their 3 favorites from that list. Then those rankings serve to seed the songs into the final bracket. but what if all 8 of your songs are bops, bangers and jams? :P

Then you'll probably pull some upsets in the bracket!

Camp Counselor Malion @ 22/9/2020 18:08

Oh god could you imagine if I did this? Just 8 mal how could yous in a row

You in?

The 8 songs you pick couldn't be despised any more than the ones I'll probably pick. I'm apparently the Anti-FE when it comes to musical preferences.

That gives us 8. Do people want to start now with these 8, or wait a bit and have a couple more people potentially join up?

Christian @ 22/9/2020 21:00

See if Havo wants in. And Maddie. And maybe Ahoda.

I'd also add Merc to that list.

Fine by me if we wait another day or so. If people want to start putting their playlists together, you can send me your 8 songs via PM, and I'll work on putting together the seeding rounds.

Lamps @ 23/9/2020 0:31

I need some time for this lol. And be at home so i can go through my cd’s. When would you like to kick this off?

Let's shoot for starting late weekend/early next week. I figure each round will last a week or two, to allow people enough time to listen to the submissions and then vote.

Sherlock Hermes @ 23/9/2020 1:01

We only to send you Artist - Song, and not any music videos to accompany the playlist?

Yeah. I'll just be posting a list of the songs for each person (and maybe a spotify link?) for the first seeding round. I may try to do videos for the head-to-head matchups, that way people don't have to leave the site to listen.

Spin @ 23/9/2020 9:14

Lamps @ 23/9/2020 0:31 I need some time for this lol. And be at home so i can go through my cd’s. When would you like to kick this off? Let's shoot for starting late weekend/early next week. I figure each round will last a week or two, to allow people enough time to listen to the submissions and then vote.

I'm going to close signups on Saturday, so if you are interested in participating, let me know by then. I'd also like all submissions by Sunday afternoon (US Time), so I can try to put together the initial lists and get them posted Sunday night.

You can send me your lists at any point now. I've already received Vern's, and it's a doozy.

Not that many ppl liked ur post its just me Vern @ 23/9/2020 10:27

What do you mean DOOZY!? I picked songs that I generally really like and/or mean something to me in a moment in my life across the last decade or so. I tried my best to pick different genres. Spin you like it?

I mean doozy. Do they not teach the english language in schools anymore?

Havo @ 23/9/2020 18:46

Is the point to pick songs you think everyone will like?

I'm going to pick 8 of my favorite songs, and I'm just assuming they'll all lose in the first round of the bracket!

I just started working on putting my list together, and it's currently 17 songs long, and I haven't even looked deep yet...lol

Only 8? Who made these crazy rules?!?