UK Chart Near Misses - BJSC Edition.

 

Yay that sounds good!

 

I'd like to host that yes provided that it doesn't start whilst I'm still on holiday (i get back 24 August i think)

 

Cool, I've PMed you to talk about exact dates. ^_^

The resource centre is all up to date again now following Worldvision so feel free to check out all the statistics. Please do let me know if you notice anything wrong in your "chart runs" or points totals or anything at all as when I created the statistics the other week I did 7 contests in one go, so it's very likely some mistakes will have creeped in. So if you do spot any then please point them out! :D

 

If anyone ever gets bored and fancies being creative, feel free to make some small graphics for the spin-offs that don't have graphics yet. Or if you enjoy (:o) using Excel, feel free to make some scoreboard spreadsheets for those contests that don't have them yet. :kink: I will aim to get these done over time anyway, but any contributions are very welcome!

I'd really like to have a go at hosting a spin-off before the year is out ^_^ I know I've suggested something in the past but I've come up with another idea that's a fair bit simpler :lol: Basically, have a Battle of The Bands contest where you'd send a song by a band, the genre, country etc doesn't matter at all. I guess the rules would be pretty much the same as the Near Misses ones, except it just being a song that's not charted within the top 40 of the band's home nation rather that it being between 41-50, the 12 point voting system would be used as well.

 

on another note, I think a BJSC flag rate would be a pretty cool thing to have as well, that's maybe something to save for December though and just include all the nations that were active in 2015 :D

Thanks for the suggestion Lindsey! It seems like a good idea, although we do have such a backlog of suggestions that we already have rough ideas of which couple of spin-offs themes to use before the end of this year. That said, we will definitely discuss it and add it to the list of suggestions! :D

 

The BJSC flag rate seems like a great idea though and that could happily take place in the spin-off forum like the winners rate did a few months ago. We will have a gap in our spin-off schedule for November so this could take place then, and because there will probably be a good 80-90 flags from active countries this year, you could perhaps run it over 3 weeks, with 30 new flags each week and then countdown the average scores at the end? I'm not sure exactly but just an idea! I know Bré has a lovely stash of flags so I'm sure he'd be happy to help provide the flags too!

A friend of mine also told me about a spin-off that took place on another forum (he won it, yay) where each contestant puts down one artist, and everyone gets randomly assigned one of the artists from the whole bunch and must send a song by whatever artist they get. It sounds like quite a cool idea to me and everyone from BJSC who I've talked to about it has liked it too. I'd prefer not to host though tbh :lol: Thought it was worth suggesting it here anyway if someone else would like to take over?

The BJSC flag rate seems like a great idea though and that could happily take place in the spin-off forum like the winners rate did a few months ago. We will have a gap in our spin-off schedule for November so this could take place then, and because there will probably be a good 80-90 flags from active countries this year, you could perhaps run it over 3 weeks, with 30 new flags each week and then countdown the average scores at the end? I'm not sure exactly but just an idea! I know Bré has a lovely stash of flags so I'm sure he'd be happy to help provide the flags too!

 

Okay, that could work! I could start it at the beginning of November, do the first 30 flags in week one, maybe do the results at the end of the week and then put out the next batch of flags in week two with the results following at the end of that week and so on, although I can see the issue of people voting in one set and not the next and that would mess up the averages/results, maybe it would be better just putting all the flags in one post but accept votes for two or three weeks, and then countdown the results over a couple of days? :D

A friend of mine also told me about a spin-off that took place on another forum (he won it, yay) where each contestant puts down one artist, and everyone gets randomly assigned one of the artists from the whole bunch and must send a song by whatever artist they get. It sounds like quite a cool idea to me and everyone from BJSC who I've talked to about it has liked it too. I'd prefer not to host though tbh :lol: Thought it was worth suggesting it here anyway if someone else would like to take over?

I love this idea. Make it happen please BJSC mods :funky:

Sounds like another great idea! We are already in the final stages of planning the next themed spin-off and after that there will only be one more this year which will hopefully be a Christmas special to finish the year off, so these new suggestions won't be able to happen immediately. But it'll definitely be added to the list and strongly considered as we move into next year! :D

 

Also I shall move the last few suggestions into the spin-off discussion thread soon so we can keep the spin-off suggestions within its own forum from now on as I think that makes the most sense!

Sounds like another great idea! We are already in the final stages of planning the next themed spin-off and after that there will only be one more this year which will hopefully be a Christmas special to finish the year off, so these new suggestions won't be able to happen immediately. But it'll definitely be added to the list and strongly considered as we move into next year! :D

 

Also I shall move the last few suggestions into the spin-off discussion thread soon so we can keep the spin-off suggestions within its own forum from now on as I think that makes the most sense!

 

Yay ^_^ I'm thinking it might be good to have some rules on what artists are allowed to be nominated. Otherwise I can just imagine someone getting Rihanna and someone else getting some obscure techno guy :P That would be fun too though in a way, luck of the draw, but I'd just be a little wary of that maybe... My friend did say that there were no rules like that at all in their contest, but I can imagine maybe it would be necessary here. I think they're less concerned about the whole cheap thing there :heehee:

I'd suggest banning artists who would usually be vetoed in the main contest.

I'd suggest banning artists who would usually be vetoed in the main contest.

 

You probably also shouldn't be able to vote for the artist you nominated.

Some ideas for Spin-offs me, Lotti, Mattias, and Lindsey came up with:

 

Groups - Contestants are split off into groups of 3-5 (either through random.org or by choice) and given a genre/artist/theme and they collectively decide on a song in that category to send

 

Genres - Similar to Worldvision in a sense, each person picks a number and is assigned an subgenre (e.g. Jazz Fusion, Glitch hop, Neo Prog) and must enter something from that genre

 

Out of Genre Experience - send a song in a style the artist wouldn't normally do (e.g. Lady Gaga's jazz albums)

 

Instrumentals - Self-explanatory.

 

One on One - each person is assigned another person, and you give each other a song/artist that you think they'd like to enter in the contest

 

Epics - where you send one of the three longest songs a group has put out

 

Covers

 

Disney - send songs by Disney Channel artists (Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, etc.), from Disney movies, or from Broadway adaptations of Disney movies

 

Soundtrack/Score - send songs in from film scores or soundtracks

PLEASE can we do a groups one at some point :kink:

 

The one on one would probably work best if you had chats with that person about your music tastes, just to get a better idea of the kinds of things they're into if you don't already know (I mean you can kinda tell from what they've sent before but anyway :lol:), and there would be more chance of them actually liking the song/artist you gave them. Would be fun to also just get to know that person better. I would hate for someone to be assigned something they don't like though :P :(

 

I do also like the genres idea a lot.

Edited October 13, 20159 yr by Mattias

I already bagsied instrumentals!!1

 

A covers spinoff would potentially be fun.

not sure if I've suggested this before or not but how about a series of contests where we pit all of one country's entries against each other? (starting with the really iconic countries i.e. FSR Rontvia, Ashton, Kylienips, FKA π and working down based on number of entries and if the country is active [eventually getting to countries like Danaelanda!])

 

The person behind the focus country will also be able to vote for their own songs for once! :magic:

I already bagsied instrumentals!!1

 

Let's just say we're reinforcing your idea :kink:

not sure if I've suggested this before or not but how about a series of contests where we pit all of one country's entries against each other? (starting with the really iconic countries i.e. FSR Rontvia, Ashton, Kylienips, FKA π and working down based on number of entries and if the country is active [eventually getting to countries like Danaelanda!])

 

The person behind the focus country will also be able to vote for their own songs for once! :magic:

Ooh that sounds fun :thinking: :dance:

Groups also look interesting, but the Mattias idea and this one are attracted to me!

Disney - send songs by Disney Channel artists (Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, etc.), from Disney movies, or from Broadway adaptations of Disney movies

 

Soundtrack/Score - send songs in from film scores or soundtracks

 

I very much endorse these (well the film side of Disney more so) ^_^

 

I'd like to put forward a suggestion for 80s themed, I think I suggested this on plug a while back but didn't actually put it in here.

Disney - send songs by Disney Channel artists (Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, etc.), from Disney movies, or from Broadway adaptations of Disney movies

Yes please *.* (wonder what i'll send though :kink: )

 

If the Disney one hoes ahead then I think Im'ma sit it out :kink: