June 14, 201411 yr I'll be at work when the finals are being hosted, eek! (also this is clashing with the PJSC final as well BUT I shall be inspecting both at the same time ^_^)
June 15, 201411 yr Voting is closed! Juranabaijan and Nork failed to vote and will therefore not be allowed to participate in BJSC 66. But the good news is that the final will have no deductions! That includes FARC, as I've had it confirmed that they will not be subject to deduction in the final. well it's all good and well to not get a deduction but my track has suffered the greatest ANTI-HYPE i think possible. just look at the odds projection over time. do ppl think it makes a difference psychologically when listening/voting for a song if they believe it will suffer a deduction. how much ppl vote on pure principles of listening to music and how much does hype/sweeping forces better and worse come in to play? i find it interesting that the perspective ppl held on whether i should garner a deduction seemed to be influenced inherently by what they think of me as a poster elsewhere too. this is going to be my last competition for the foreseeable future. this whole sorry situation has left a bad taste in my mouth and it makes me sad. im sorry rich for damaging your contest in any way and thought it best to get this post out now so as not to spoil anything tomorrow.
June 15, 201411 yr Ooh hoping Rich isn't bluffing! Would love there to be a complete surprise as a winner (especially Zechonia, Zechonia winning BJSC would be like Portugal winning Eurovision!).
June 15, 201411 yr Author well it's all good and well to not get a deduction but my track has suffered the greatest ANTI-HYPE i think possible. just look at the odds projection over time. do ppl think it makes a difference psychologically when listening/voting for a song if they believe it will suffer a deduction. how much ppl vote on pure principles of listening to music and how much does hype/sweeping forces better and worse come in to play? i find it interesting that the perspective ppl held on whether i should garner a deduction seemed to be influenced inherently by what they think of me as a poster elsewhere too. this is going to be my last competition for the foreseeable future. this whole sorry situation has left a bad taste in my mouth and it makes me sad. im sorry rich for damaging your contest in any way and thought it best to get this post out now so as not to spoil anything tomorrow. I can see your point and I'm sorry if your enjoyment was marred by the whole situation Jake, certainly I still accept some of the blame myself for not informing you personally that you were AQ'ing. Hopefully nobody thought like that when voting, but it's hard to say. I think AQ tracks always have a harder time doing well in the final unless it's something really outstanding because people have already got their favourites from the semis and the AQ's are completely untested at the final stage with no existing support backup. Hence AQ's usually attract quite poor odds once the final swings around and everyone has their favourites/has seen the hype oozing out of the semis for those qualifiers, neither FSR Rontvia or FARC are exactly excelling in the predictions/odds at the moment. I hope you'll participate again in the future as you have sent some great tracks this year but I can understand everything you've said. But you certainly haven't damaged the contest, I think it's the smoothest I've hosted so far, despite all the little pockets of controversy! I've never hosted one of such a vast scale before so it's been a big learning curve for me!
June 15, 201411 yr well it's all good and well to not get a deduction but my track has suffered the greatest ANTI-HYPE i think possible. just look at the odds projection over time. do ppl think it makes a difference psychologically when listening/voting for a song if they believe it will suffer a deduction. how much ppl vote on pure principles of listening to music and how much does hype/sweeping forces better and worse come in to play? i find it interesting that the perspective ppl held on whether i should garner a deduction seemed to be influenced inherently by what they think of me as a poster elsewhere too. this is going to be my last competition for the foreseeable future. this whole sorry situation has left a bad taste in my mouth and it makes me sad. im sorry rich for damaging your contest in any way and thought it best to get this post out now so as not to spoil anything tomorrow. I hope you change your mind. I judge every song fairly and squarely, even when I'd like to give marks to individual posters, but I think Rich is right that AQ's have a disadvantage in a final as folk may not be as familiar with them. Hype has an effect inasmuch as I may not have noticed a track especially, but it doesn't affect how I vote at the end of the day, I vote for those I like the best in the order I like them. I think, though, over a period of time it becomes noticeable that certain countries regularly enter songs that are more to my taste in music than others so they tend to get repeat votes from me where others may be less frequent (or in some cases a few countries are still to get any at all)
June 15, 201411 yr Author One of the ties is split by most 5's *.* How bizarre for two songs to get exactly the same number of voters AND then the same number of 12's, 10's, 8's, 7's and 6's!
June 15, 201411 yr Think I'll miss most of the results as were going out for dinner tonight. Will try and keep an eye on proceedings though, especially if it's gonna be a close one!
June 15, 201411 yr Author I've just finished prepping, the RTVN have checked, counted and verified the votes a number of times to ensure 100% accuracy and I'm now off to spend part of my weekend away from BJSC related tasks for a few hours but do join me at 7! Votes will be presented in order of receipt up to the last few where I've switched the order up a little to add to the drama! You definitely don't want to miss it though!
June 15, 201411 yr How different is the actual results compared to the odds and predictions? :o We are due a shock winner soon so could this be the contest?
June 15, 201411 yr Author How different is the actual results compared to the odds and predictions? :o We are due a shock winner soon so could this be the contest? I couldn't say :o A few countries are definitely going to be surprised lets just say, but I can't say in what way!
June 15, 201411 yr How different is the actual results compared to the odds and predictions? :o We are due a shock winner soon so could this be the contest? an upset winner *would* be nice (although we could always just wait until July for that, since that's the month of the 'upset winner' atm (Trentemoller/Ghost Loft *.*))
June 15, 201411 yr ugh this all sounds so exciting!!!! really wish howling could be a part of all this as i dont' know when i'll be able to experience all the benefits of a rich hosted contest :o good luck to everyone!!!!
June 15, 201411 yr So wish I'd qualified for the final! Although I guess that means I won't be stuck to my screen as much tonight :lol: Excited to see who comes out on top (Zechonia for the lolz plz)
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