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.

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).

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i have a big old unfinished walrus elsewhere, but this seems vastly more tractable with capped game size + only one category

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Just a reminder to everyone who's in'ing that you can also pick your categories at your leisure on a 1st come/1st served basis.

Gadarene - category TBD
PokerCrazy94 - category TBD
inDheart - category TBD
xander biscuits - category TBD
iraisetoomuch - category TBD
Priptonite - category TBD

2000 or later rock songs.
For a bit of assistance into what I like (from this category) Linkin Park, Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Audio Slave, Muse

Songs will be judged on
1) Overall quality
2) Replayability (but this will count for less)
3) Newness to me (a good song I've never heard will score better than a song of equal quality that I have heard of)
4) One other TBD category

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In with jazz. Vocals or not.

I'll go with rap

In, category is songs from 80s debut albums

In. Songs from one hit wonders that are not that one hit.

In. With covers of Beatles songs.

My category is "One man and his _____"

you have to pick a man/woman singing + an instrument they're playing. No other musicians or backing tracks.

No guidance of what genre anything should be but I will tell you that I'm a sucker for a live performance.

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Americana

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13 in so far.

Gadarene - category TBD
PokerCrazy94 - Rap
inDheart - category TBD
xander biscuits - One man & his _____ (one person & their instrument, preferably live)
iraisetoomuch - 2000 or later rock songs
Priptonite - category TBD
CrimsonFox - category TBD
Eric - Jazz (vocals or not)
True North - Songs from 80s debut albums
eyebooger - Songs from one hit wonders that are not the one hit.
bolt2112 - Covers of Beatles songs.
Bloodbird - Americana
DonkDonkDonkDonk - category TBD

Would be 1 game at this point, but entries uncapped & open for a while.

Reminder to Gad, inD, Prip, CF & DonkX4 they will need to pick categories. Reminder to everyone else that they should sign up.

put me down for synthesizers

13 in so far.

Gadarene - category TBD
PokerCrazy94 - Rap
inDheart - Synthesizers
xander biscuits - One man & his _____ (one person & their instrument, preferably live)
iraisetoomuch - 2000 or later rock songs
Priptonite - category TBD
CrimsonFox - category TBD
Eric - Jazz (vocals or not)
True North - Songs from 80s debut albums
eyebooger - Songs from one hit wonders that are not the one hit.
bolt2112 - Covers of Beatles songs.
Bloodbird - Americana
DonkDonkDonkDonk - category TBD

Reminder that we still need categories from Gad, Prip, CF & Donk.

Will probably look to get this thing started fairly soon, so will give until Friday, November 2nd at noon for any more signups/categories.

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In, Punk Rock

I'm all for the participants letting everyone know a little about what they're judging on (e.g. "best overall" song in their category, "best little known" song in their category, "best song in their category that they've likely never heard of).

For example in my category of Beatles covers, I'm not looking for "With a Little Help from my Friends" performed by Joe Cocker or "Come Together" performed by Aerosmith. I've heard them both a thousand times already.