This will be played exactly the same way as JMurder's Pogcathlon Walrus, which is now coming to an end.
Here's JMurder's intro, stolen word-for-word (except for the part near the end, which I'll mark in blue/red...)
As you may know, I am running a "Pogcathlon" where players can play as many different competitions as they want & earn points for their success in each one.
Walrus is a game wherein you select music, & other people judge your music. Standard Walrus usually has 1 host who selects all the categories, & a bunch of people submit songs & the host judges all the songs in each category.
This is going to be a different format wherein each player judges 1 category, & there is no main host. This is mostly inspired by Nick Royale's 2016 Walrus (& I was also reminded of this by the Grab Bag Draft format).
Here is the Sign-up Thread for Nick's draft, & the Reveal Thread.
All songs will be submitted to me, then I will reformat & send them out anonymously to the category judges. The category judges will rank the songs form best to worst (doing as much or as little of a write-up as they feel like), & I will reveal them in a reveal thread.
Bolt's Edit: I'll need one volunteer to receive the songs from my own category, so that I can play as well. I'll handle the rest of the categories.
This means each entrant will need to send two different PM's with their song choices. One PM will be to me, listing their song choices for everyone's category except for mine. And another PM to the volunteer with their song choice for my category. Yeah, it's a little more complicated, but I want to play!!!
So yeah, if you want to play, in here, & select a category. Depending on interest, this will be 1 or more parallel games (don't want to make people submit/judge too many songs).
Sign up will end in 1 week or whenever we get to 20 entrants. Whichever comes first.
yeah I am in; here is the category I am going with I think:
songs by an artist I have never heard of
How it will work: if I have heard of the artist, it will automatically rank below any of the artists I have not heard regardless of how good it is/how bad the other songs are.
Some helpful hints: I am 25 years old.
Genres I like/know: Electronic (EDM, Chill, House, etc), Rap (mostly newer aged rap tbh), Indie Rock, Alt Rock, Post-hardcore rock
Genres I don't like/know: Country, Classical, Latin, and pretty much anything that would be classified as "oldies" by a 25 year old.
So looking for people to break out some of their lesser known music here. No real way for you to know for sure that I haven't heard of an artist, but you can use the suggestions above to help.
Obviously a trade off. Go with a genre I like = more likely the song does better but more likely I've heard the artist. And vice-versa.
yeah I am in; here is the category I am going with I think:
songs by an artist I have never heard of
How it will work: if I have heard of the artist, it will automatically rank below any of the artists I have not heard regardless of how good it is/how bad the other songs are.
Some helpful hints: I am 25 years old.
Genres I like/know: Electronic (EDM, Chill, House, etc), Rap (mostly newer aged rap tbh), Indie Rock, Alt Rock, Post-hardcore rock
Genres I don't like/know: Country, Classical, Latin, and pretty much anything that would be classified as "oldies" by a 25 year old.
So looking for people to break out some of their lesser known music here. No real way for you to know for sure that I haven't heard of an artist, but you can use the suggestions above to help.
Obviously a trade off. Go with a genre I like = more likely the song does better but more likely I've heard the artist. And vice-versa.