^ Rich won the last contest I hosted with his back-up 'Luukered' by SADU after being one of the people who tried Sarah Kinsley's MUNA-esque 'Fleeting'! *.*

I remembered that I've been beaten to an entry once before and vetoed once, I missed out on Koven's 'Get This Right' about 11 years ago now and that came 3rd while I DNQed, then my only veto to date was Kelela's 'LMK' which was later sent by someone else in a spin-off and finished top 10, while I came 27th in that main contest instead. Here's to third time lucky with a back-up that catches on a bit more

30 minutes ago, awardinary said:

I wonder if it's worth a discussion about "have you ever done better with a backup option than your first choice..." but then if you never got to send your first choice how can you be sure.

I'm sure there's a few here that can vouch for some backup options being underrated and going on to do great things in the contest.

what if STORM wasn't vetoed?

I think I've only ever had an entry denied twice, one time where I went momentarily mad and tried to reconfirm mid-contest to TĀLĀ's 'Alchemy' which had already been confirmed by Bøtanikkä (and thank God because if I hadn't been blocked I'd never forgive myself for selling out with a self-recycle even though it did do considerably better than my actual entry that contest, which... I think was just me going back to my original pick but not sure, it was a long time ago), and the other time when Run The Jewels got inexplicably (at the time) vetoed and I decided to just commit to tanking myself and took it as a sign to finally send Yung Lean's 'Kyoto' after sitting on it for months, which unsurprisingly DNQed as BuzzJack was still not ready for it. x

Obviously since I became a mod I can see all the entries coming in so I'd almost certainly never actually be in a (losing) entry clash now, and I very rarely send anything that is even remotely a veto threat. Could still see that someone already took a song I wanted to send myself and have to change plans but I'm pretty sure that has never happened (there have been a couple of times where I've had to take songs off my potential list because other people sent them but they weren't ones I was actively planning to send to the contest where they were taken).

7 minutes ago, uhsting said:

what if STORM wasn't vetoed?

'Rasa' being a backup entry still makes no sense to me x

7 minutes ago, Bror said:

'Rasa' being a backup entry still makes no sense to me x

tbh it's not really a backup as i did plan to send ha after storm x

1 minute ago, uhsting said:

tbh it's not really a backup as i did plan to send ha after storm x

But why not before xx

2 minutes ago, Bror said:

But why not before xx

inb4 storm gets too popular and vetoed because of that sdfjlkghlksjdfghlsfdjkg (which ultimately failed to dodge btw)

Do y’all still check for Porter Robinson sounding songs 👉👈

Yeah Luukered was an emergency placeholder that I kept in there after the drama with Fleeting. Not sure I would have sent it another time tbf, so that worked out very well (yet has cursed me ever since I fear).

There’s only one song each contest you can ever send. You missed your chance Cody, prepare for another shameful top 15 and dropping to a horrible 4th place EOY - worse fate than DNQing twice in a row. :(

48 minutes ago, Cody DiLaurentis said:

Do y’all still check for Porter Robinson sounding songs 👉👈

On a real, Cody, don’t you listen to a lot of K Pop? There’s at least 5 songs in your most recent personal chart that would pass the veto, and it’s kinda what I associate with you the most but you so scarcely actually send it yourself.

We should collectively spend less time humouring Cor Lupus on their delulu and spend more time wondering ARE PAGASA BACK?

35 minutes ago, blacksquare said:

We should collectively spend less time humouring Cor Lupus on their delulu and spend more time wondering ARE PAGASA BACK?

Omg this

We demand justice for Pagasa

yes but I might be scaring the hoes (or putting them to sleep*) for a little… sorry to disappoint :~(

(*though if the whispers of “alt ballad” are correct maybe we are not so out of step with the hivemind after all)

Confirmed a pop/dance banger 😎

I'm glad my artist this time FINALLY has a good song

To everyone, I'm truly sorry for my entry. Actually no I'm not y'all will deal.

1 minute ago, Dobbo said:

To everyone, I'm truly sorry for my entry. Actually no I'm not y'all will deal.

Ok hoster's privilege that I get to see this and HYPE. A living legend.

We've had another double confirmation. Without naming the culprit, this unfortunately wouldn't have happened were it not for a previous multi-confirmation yesterday.

2 hours ago, Dobbo said:

To everyone, I'm truly sorry for my entry. Actually no I'm not y'all will deal.

My post the other day in another thread was not supposed to be a challenge!!