November 2, 200816 yr I do think this semi-final thing sounds like a good idea actually, forget Headhunted I can't believe that Secrets and If This Is Love never made the final, especially the latter! Plus I never had a chance to vote for Sophie Ellis-Bextor because she wasn't in my semi, so it would be a good chance for people who to vote for songs they never had the chance to before!
November 2, 200816 yr Author I can believe If This Is Love not qualifying - it's c**p compared to Up! :lol:
November 2, 200816 yr it's not as good granted, but with all of the hype surrounding The Saturdays on this forum, you'd think they would qualify with anything!
November 2, 200816 yr Alright I'll iron out the small details and I'll get a thread going soon. Maybe nominations during the semi and final votes during the final or something? Don't worry, it won't be nearly as big a scale as the main Best Of competition.
November 2, 200816 yr Author Alright I'll iron out the small details and I'll get a thread going soon. Maybe nominations during the semi and final votes during the final or something? Don't worry, it won't be nearly as big a scale as the main Best Of competition. Sounds fine to me! :D Nominations during the semi voting, with nominations announced at the same time as the semi-final results, and then having voting at the same time as final voting. Sounds perfect! :D
November 2, 200816 yr Can I make a suggestion? Since non-qualifiers aren't allowed to be nominated, maybe we could have a little minor contest going on at the same time to find the best non-qualifier? Just a small consolation prize! Maybe from now people could nominate a song or two who they think deserved to qualify, and then in the final week we could post the final 10 or so and people could vote for their favourite 3 or so and then we can announce the winner on results night! Just a thought...I'd be happy to organise that one if people think it's a go-er. I know there are alot of songs (one in particular) that people think were very short changed in not reaching the final, and it would be nice to recognise that :) Metro Station and CSS (my two non-quyalifiers) both came sooo close to qualifying so *should* do well :)
November 2, 200816 yr Author Oh, and I'm wondering...can anybody think of a good way to balance out nominations and total points scored? Because we have a few non-qualifiers at this point in time that have quite high pointage - indeed, higher than some qualifiers, who make it in on the basis of quite a few 1 votes. I was thinking maybe averages, but then a country with just one 5 nomination just tosses the whole thing out of kilter...perhaps having an average with inputs of '0' for all non-votes? Does that sound good to anyone who understands what I'm on about? :heehee:
November 2, 200816 yr Metro Station and CSS (my two non-quyalifiers) both came sooo close to qualifying so *should* do well :) Gavin Mikhail was 2 Points away :lol: So I hope he does well :dance:
November 2, 200816 yr Oh, and I'm wondering...can anybody think of a good way to balance out nominations and total points scored? Because we have a few non-qualifiers at this point in time that have quite high pointage - indeed, higher than some qualifiers, who make it in on the basis of quite a few 1 votes. I was thinking maybe averages, but then a country with just one 5 nomination just tosses the whole thing out of kilter...perhaps having an average with inputs of '0' for all non-votes? Does that sound good to anyone who understands what I'm on about? :heehee: Well personally I think you should either go for adding up the points people have given, or just one point per nomination. The two fairest ways. Use your own judgement but personally I would suggest you stick to your guns and the system you announced at the beginning.
November 2, 200816 yr Oh, and I'm wondering...can anybody think of a good way to balance out nominations and total points scored? Because we have a few non-qualifiers at this point in time that have quite high pointage - indeed, higher than some qualifiers, who make it in on the basis of quite a few 1 votes. I was thinking maybe averages, but then a country with just one 5 nomination just tosses the whole thing out of kilter...perhaps having an average with inputs of '0' for all non-votes? Does that sound good to anyone who understands what I'm on about? :heehee: I'm not sure I understand properly but am I assuming there could be a song with 5 nominations that are rated as the best being stopped by a song with 6 nominations all rated 1 point? If that's the case, well I'm not sure. You did say that nominations will be the most important factor but I can see why you might want to do something differently. It's a bit like the current rules for things like the semi final. A song could have one 12 pointer and nothing else, while another has twelve 1 pointers and nothing else. The song with all the 1 pointers would qualify for the final (not that the amount needed would ever be that low :heehee:) but you could argue that the song with the 12 pointer is probably headed for 6-12 points in the final while the people who voted for the other song would probably find other songs to give their small points and it could get a 0 in the final. If you did averages what would that change? The songs with the highest averages would still have less nominations. :unsure: Which leads me to believe I might not be understanding you.
November 3, 200816 yr After thinking about it I think this should be based on nominations actually. This isn't the voting process. It is just nominating 5 songs you think should be there. The rankings were always going to be a tie-breaker so for consistancy if nothing else I think it should be kept that way.
November 3, 200816 yr After thinking about it I think this should be based on nominations actually. This isn't the voting process. It is just nominating 5 songs you think should be there. The rankings were always going to be a tie-breaker so for consistancy if nothing else I think it should be kept that way. seeing as it's only a mini-contest I'd just pick the highest scoring or whatever otherwise it's gonna get pretty big and we'll have two contests going on at the same time
November 3, 200816 yr seeing as it's only a mini-contest I'd just pick the highest scoring or whatever otherwise it's gonna get pretty big and we'll have two contests going on at the same time No no I'm talking about Tyron's dilemma about the scoring system. The semi-finalists contest won't even merit a scoring system other than one vote = one point.
November 4, 200816 yr No no I'm talking about Tyron's dilemma about the scoring system. The semi-finalists contest won't even merit a scoring system other than one vote = one point. :blink: ah well I got lost in that conversation so I'll keep my mouth shut :lol: :o :mellow:
November 4, 200816 yr The competition to find the best semi-final reject is up and running. The full list of songs and instructions on how to vote are here.
November 5, 200816 yr Tapatilandia is sending nominations for all of the contests! It was quite easy to choose btw :o Who should I send my votes to now? ^_^
November 6, 200816 yr Author You send your contest nominations to me, and your semi-final reject nominations to Peter30 :P Oh, and Boyan, you can send in your illegitimate votes to Peter30 now...and resend your nominations for those contests to me! :heehee:
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