Only just caught up with this... that's 3 out of the last 5 song contests where I've finished 7th! Consistency if nothing else. Thanks to anyone who gave me points and congrats to Dr Blind!

Definitely not surprised with the result, as I already expected it to flop like my techno entry. Had I known all these entries were this obscure, I would've already gone for Ushio's Chainsaw Man/Dandadan OSTs (or just sent my current BJSC entry), but yeah, I completely had zero idea what to send.

Either way, thanks to @hlavkus @dandy* @Doctor Blind @Cody Piastri (props for bringing rawphoric stuff to this contest!) @Scene @danG and also @gooddelta for the medal pointer!

Congratulations to Doctor Blind for the victory! It unfortunately was 11th on my ranking, so it was a close one x

Thanks to leww (can't tag u) for the hosting!

thanks leww for a wonderfully weird contest and hosting job and to those who pointed 'a sea change' after me having done quite a lot of digging to find the best suited entry to this! which keeps my 50% top-five finish rate up yay.

congrats doctor blind on a first time win and do let us know if and when you would like to host the 33rd edition and what theme you would like, no rush of course but we are due one more contest before the year is out.

now as ever here is the quarterly stats dump...

Entrant history:

!!!: 20

Addy: 20-06-13-19-07-06-11-09-03-02-16-16-01-19-15-11-08-02-04-03-07-06-16-18-07-18-13-14-13-19-07-30

All★bySmashMouth: 20-14-11-24-14-18-23-18-22-22-24

Ansel: 09-11-12-22-18-21-18-18-14-09-01-21-20-xx-07-17-21

awardinary: 11-04-08-15-xx-17-24-03-10-25-11-16-17-22-23-07-14-05-10-22-05-06-11-12-11-18-20-23

Bré: 19-09-16-20-13-10-15-05-06-10-15-08-07-13-04-18-23-18-08-10-09-12-06-16-20-28-02-18-03-16-23-09

Chez Wombat: 10-11-14-02-04-05-12-10-04-19-23-05-13-01-12-01-19-03-13-14-02-08-21-06-13-04-16-03-04-08-16-31

Cody: 09-12-04-03-12-07-04-07-07-13-07-04-19-23-08-07-13-07-02-09-06-14-08-12-03-08-04-02-02-13-04-17

Colm: 06-xx-17-xx-23-xx-15-xx-08

Cow Cow: 25-20-17-08-12-11-12-13-22-03-08-09-09-14-08-26

Dan: 03-02-17-05-05-03-16-14-01-06-03-14-02-12-13-05-15-04-09-15-05-17-05-02-15-10-03-11-12-01-13-05

dandy*: 15-18-xx-15-18-xx-05-13-01-12-xx-02-14-xx-17-07-09-08-08-27-19-16-xx-09-02-12

Dobbo: 01-01-11-04-20-01-02-12-17-04-14-18-05-09-03-02-18-01-16-05-01-15-01-17-04-11-05-05-17-12-09-10

Doctor Blind: 18-xx-07-10-xx-06-08-02-xx-10-23-13-xx-08-xx-02-xx-01

gooddelta: 17-xx-06-xx-01-13-10-19-15-19-01-22-06-13-08-04-11-15

Herbs: 11-10-22

hlavkus: 21-xx-18

Iz: 07-xx-18-06-02-08-08-21-09-03-27-19-xx-06-21-11-04-13-02-21-21-02-20-22-xx-28

J00p: 17-21-09-08-08-05-16-11-09-02-15-21-14-18-19-04-17-03-22-20-xx-23-xx-12-29-22-xx-16-xx-05-02

Jade: 04-14-09-12-10-21-20-04-09-01-11-17-20-03-07-21-16-15-07-01-03-04-13-04-19-23-09-17-06-06-15-13

Jimwatts: 13-xx-07-24-16-07-xx-21-19-03-12-25

Julian: 06

Kath: 18-16-xx-03-05-06-04-16-10-03-07-14-25-12-04-01-20-xx-11

King Rollo: 16-xx-13-23-13-15-03-04-12-14-24-01-10-12-13-14-23-11-03-11-01-17-05-14-07-05-17-06-03

Klumzee: 14

lewistgreen: 07-18-02-17-11-16-09-01-12-07-09-02-08-05-14-12-06-09-19-24-19-09-xx-15-02-24-xx-10-10-21-21-29

Leww: 08-20-05-08-02-12-08-19-02-11-05-06-06-10-10-13-14-08-05-12-xx-16-17-09-11-16-15-06-07-15-01-16

Mangø: 12-xx-25-xx-09-xx-15-xx-14-07

p a v: 23-xx-32

SevenSeize: 18-xx-04

Scene: 14-05-19-27

uhsting: 16-20-08-21-19-18-20-15-01-22-05-10-17-07-19-20-10-03-19

 

All-Time Points Leaderboard

position this quarter/position last quarter/points total/poster/number of times participated

 

01 01 2318 Dobbo 32

02 02 2203 Dan 32

03 03 2103 Cody 32

04 04 2065 Chez Wombat 32

05 05 1955 Jade 32

06 06 1908 Addy! 32

07 07 1816 Leww 31

08 09 1793 King Rollo 28

09 10 1762 Bré 32

10 08 1716 lewistgreen 30

11 11 1391 awardinary 27

12 12 1339 Iz 23

13 13 1311 J00p 27

14 14 1213 dandy* 21

15 15 1072 Kath 17

16 18 953 gooddelta 16

17 17 945 uhsting 19

18 16 941 TheSnake 19

19 19 833 Cow Cow 16

20 22 808 Doctor Blind 12

21 20 805 Ansel 16

22 21 683 callmeDim 14

23 23 661 Juan Carlos 13

24 24 644 PeteFromLeeds 16

25 25 595 Mattias 8

26 26 513 WhoOdyssey 10

27 27 512 BridgeCow 8

28 29 474 jimwatts 10

29 28 472 FrankLuck 11

30 30 437 Roba 6

31 31 434 HarryEzra 10

32 32 397 Y'all Starlight 6

33 33 353 RabbitFurCoat 7

34 36 332 All★bySmashMouth 11

35 34 304 Dexton 6

36 35 297 NocheLuna 4

37 40 296 Mango 6

38 42 266 Colm 5

39 37 251 Haus 5

40 38 251 Michael 5

41 39 232 JackJones 3

42 41 218 Rush 4

43 43 198 Scene 4

44 46 156 Herbs 3

45 44 142 travis 4

46 52 133 SevenSeize 2

47 45 128 Thom K 3

48 47 97 Ho-Lee Smokes 1

49 48 88 BillyH 1

50 N 79 Julian_ 1

51 49 79 Math 3

52 50 76 Nick F1 2

53 N 61 Klumzee 1

54 61 57 hlavkus 2

55 51 50 Spun 1

56 N 45 !!! 1

57 53 44 Harve 1

58 54 43 Euphorique 1

59 55 36 wobbleflop539 1

60 56 35 dhwe 1

61 59 29 p a v 2

62 57 22 Jacob 1

63 58 19 Cameron 1

64 60 12 jszmiles 1

YTD Leaderboard

position this quarter/position last quarter/points total/poster/number of times participated

01 01 242 Dan 3

02 17 229 Doctor Blind 2

03 13 218 King Rollo 3

04 02 216 dandy* 3

05 06 201 gooddelta 3

06 03 193 Leww 3

07 12 191 Dobbo 3

08 04 188 uhsting 3

09 08 186 Jade 3

10 18 180 J00p 2

11 07 177 Cody 3

12 05 177 jimwatts 3

13 10 156 Herbs 3

14 15 150 Ansel 3

15 09 150 Scene 3

16 11 147 Cow Cow 3

17 20 145 Bré 3

18 14 131 Chez Wombat 3

19 21 127 Mango 2

20 16 124 Addy! 3

21 19 112 awardinary 3

22 25 110 Kath 2

23 N 88 SevenSeize 1

24 23 83 All★bySmashMouth 3

25 N 79 Julian_ 1

26 N 77 Colm 1

27 22 72 lewistgreen 3

28 N 61 Klumzee 1

29 N 49 hlavkus 1

30 N 45 !!! 1

31 24 41 TheSnake 1

32 26 29 p a v 2

33 N 28 Iz 1

34 27 5 RabbitFurCoat 1

 

Rolling Year Leaderboard

position this quarter/position last quarter/points total/poster/number of times participated

 

01 04 298 King Rollo 4

02 05 295 Dan 4

03 01 273 Cody 4

04 06 266 gooddelta 4

05 02 266 Leww 4

06 08 263 Jade 4

07 13 235 Bré 4

08 19 229 Doctor Blind 2

09 22 220 J00p 3

10 09 218 Dobbo 4

11 14 216 dandy* 3

12 03 212 Chez Wombat 4

13 10 210 Kath 3

14 07 207 Cow Cow 4

15 12 206 uhsting 4

16 15 198 jimwatts 4

17 18 198 Scene 4

18 11 175 Addy! 4

19 24 169 Mango 3

20 16 166 awardinary 4

21 21 156 Herbs 3

22 20 150 Ansel 3

23 17 131 lewistgreen 4

24 25 108 All★bySmashMouth 4

25 N 88 SevenSeize 1

26 N 79 Julian_ 1

27 N 77 Colm 1

28 N 61 Klumzee 1

29 N 49 hlavkus 1

30 N 45 !!! 1

31 26 41 TheSnake 1

32 29 29 p a v 2

33 27 28 Iz 1

34 30 5 RabbitFurCoat 1

Average Points Leaderboard

position this quarter/position last quarter/poster/average points per contest/number of times participated

 

01 01 Mattias 74.38 8

02 02 NocheLuna 74.25 4

03 03 Roba 72.83 6

04 04 Dobbo 72.44 32

05 05 Dan 68.84 32

06 12 Doctor Blind 67.33 12

07 07 Y'all Starlight 66.17 6

08 06 Cody 65.71 32

09 08 Chez Wombat 64.52 32

10 10 King Rollo 64.04 28

11 09 BridgeCow 64.00 8

12 11 Kath 63.06 17

13 13 Jade 61.09 32

14 14 Addy! 59.63 32

15 16 gooddelta 59.56 16

16 17 Leww 58.57 31

17 15 Iz 58.22 23

18 19 dandy* 57.76 21

19 18 lewistgreen 57.20 30

20 21 Bré 55.06 32

21 20 Rush 54.50 4

22 35 Colm 53.20 5

23 22 Cow Cow 52.06 16

24 23 awardinary 51.52 27

25 24 WhoOdyssey 51.30 10

26 26 Juan Carlos 50.85 13

27 27 Dexton 50.67 6

28 28 RabbitFurCoat 50.43 7

29 25 Ansel 50.31 16

30 29 Haus 50.20 5

31 30 Michael 50.13 5

32 31 uhsting 49.74 19

33 32 TheSnake 49.53 19

34 N Scene 49.50 4

35 37 Mango 49.33 6

36 33 callmeDim 48.79 14

37 36 J00p 48.56 27

38 34 jimwatts 47.40 10

39 38 HarryEzra 43.40 10

40 39 FrankLuck 42.91 11

41 40 PeteFromLeeds 40.25 16

42 41 travis 35.50 4

43 42 All★bySmashMouth 30.18 11

*posters with fewer than 4 entries are excluded

Thank you so much everyone- for the votes to Caterina but especially also for the kind comments. It's been a long and busy day at work so this has been a tonic. Great to see Summer Of Haze in the silver position, in a way I'm glad that there was a large margin because I would have felt immense guilt had it narrowly missed when it was very close between my 12 and 10 pointer. All in all though I really enjoyed my listens through this playlist so thanks all for participating, it was tough to cut it down to a Top 10. Ref the winning song, I love Caterina Barbieri's music, she's another very talented electronic composer who I wish was more widely known/appreciated, but her music is very healing for me and I love losing myself in Ecstastic Computation (of which “Fantas” is its centrepiece). Glad to have shared something that was enjoyed by this community.

On 02/10/2025 at 20:53, awardinary said:

Imagine viewing these live comments while I sit there and watch others dissect my weirdness!

Oh my , sorry you got done dirty there- I enjoyed your track a lot. Although loving the bitchy/shady chat, where can I join? x

22 hours ago, Brer said:

+ thanks Leww for the hosting and everyone for a high quality and memorable batch of songs, we did well to manage such high turnout in both entries and votes from this theme, perhaps Doctor B will show some mercy to the more pop hoe inclined participants with a more palatable theme next time hehe

I have a few potential themes in mind, but am open to bribes ofc

Thanks especially to Leww for hosting and coming up with such a compelling theme and I'm sorry that I had to tap out and miss the live reveal to get an early night.

6 minutes ago, Doctor Blind said:

Oh my , sorry you got done dirty there- I enjoyed your track a lot. Although loving the bitchy/shady chat, where can I join? x

It's from the SyncTube listenthroughs, we always do one for every song contest on the site (the link just gets posted in the thread) so please do feel free to join if you're ever around for one x

(sorry Wardy I did like your song a little bit more on second listen for what it's worth but I am curious what you thought was weird about it!)

4 minutes ago, Brer said:

(sorry Wardy I did like your song a little bit more on second listen for what it's worth but I am curious what you thought was weird about it!)

So for context I was the first to confirm for this theme, having had this track stored away as a potential for use someday. I knew the video was weird and the sirens in the song seemed well placed to make it stand out with some weird production. I guess I was still thinking along the lines of finding a commercially sounding entry and one with some vocals throughout too.

After doing all the veto research I heard what the rest of you were offering and it did make me question my choice, I considered sending early dubstep from Knife Party to the contest but it felt a little cheap so I avoided altering it in the hope I could garner some fans and thankfully that seemed to have worked!

If the theme does repeat one day (hopefully not) then I would seriously look into much less commercial dance music, even if it means less enjoyable by my own tastes!