Would you consider participating in spin-off contests?

 

Yes.

 

Would you rather see them run parallel with or in place of regular BJSC contests?

 

I would ONLY want them running parallel. =/ I'd actually be slightly pissed if they took the place of an actual contest.

 

If they were to be in place of regular BJSC contests, would you prefer a spin-off to be after XIII, after XIV or later than this?

 

After XIV.

 

How often do you feel that spin-off contests should happen?

 

Once in a while. I can see them being a lot of fun if they're lowkey. Lowkey ftw imo, and then we can have them more ofen and in between the ACTUAL contests.

 

If you are willing to participate in spin-off contests, can you suggest any interesting themes?

 

NOT ESC SONGS. That would limit me to a ton of $h!t songs, sorry. =/ I like the male idea. Maybe an 80s / 90s contest? Letter idea could be fun. I actually like a lot of these ideas, just it would be great if these contests weren't HUGE things and such. BJSC is tiring enough in its own right, we don't need big side contests as well.

 

Any further comments/suggestions?

 

Only do this if they run parallel / inbetween.

 

I know people are saying that we sohuld do one spinoff instead of a BJSC but I think that's a terrible idea tbh. =/ I have a bunch of enries I'd like to send to the real thing and the side contests are not even close to as fun or exciting as the actual thing (they're fun but seriously? the best of was so blah for me. I didn't care at all). I think having them parallel, no matter how big, would work just fine and create even more excitement.

Gawd...why are people making such a big deal out of when this is :lol:

 

Like the good ole' RobotKing once said, BJSC is just some 'contest on a computer' :lol:

The fact is that this could never be a 'spin-off' as most people would take part (including myself) even if they weren't too keen on the idea which is why I don't think it could be run parallel.

 

Would it not make sense to hold it after BJSC 15?

Gawd...why are people making such a big deal out of when this is :lol:

 

Like the good ole' RobotKing once said, BJSC is just some 'contest on a computer' :lol:

 

:lol: That was supposed to be the slogan :P

So many conflicting opinions :o I'd be happy with either way but obviously it would not be a popular decision in general to have it impacting on any normal contests so parallel is looking like the most sensible choice, I just don't think it could ever be as low key as some would want it to be...

 

I quite enjoyed the Best Of but it must have been quite boring for people with no entries in the final, at least everyone could compete equally in these spin-offs

So many conflicting opinions :o I'd be happy with either way but obviously it would not be a popular decision in general to have it impacting on any normal contests so parallel is looking like the most sensible choice, I just don't think it could ever be as low key as some would want it to be...

 

I quite enjoyed the Best Of but it must have been quite boring for people with no entries in the final, at least everyone could compete equally in these spin-offs

 

which is why it can't run parallel - sorted ^_^

which is why it can't run parallel - sorted ^_^

 

I don't think we'll all come to the same agreement so the forum mods can decide the way forward, I suggest a poll with the most popular decision going forward

The reason I suggest a trial one to replace a contest is for two reasons: for one, to keep the amount of contests in a year to ten so we have a regular date for the Best of each year in November, which seemed to work well as a time last year just as new songs were drawing to a trickle (although some may argue January is a better time - we would need to find a way to accomodate 12 contests in one edition to do that, which would be fairly tough and it isn't something I'm keen on doing tbh...); and secondly most people seem to think of the Best of as representative of what a spin-off would be like - it isn't, so this would be a sample for you all. As I said, if it doesn't work it won't become a regular occurrence as a replacement for a contest and we'll have to find another way or *gasp* have a month without the contest (although it won't work quite like that - it'll just be a month with a longer gap and the contest in the early part of the next month). As it is, the spin-off won't as such replace a contest, rather fill a slightly longer gap between two contests...I think it was a bad idea for whomever did so to label it as 'replacing' the contest *touches wood in event of it having been me :ph34r:*

I don't think we'll all come to the same agreement so the forum mods can decide the way forward, I suggest a poll with the most popular decision going forward

I would do, but as I've said I think far too many people are going under the assumption that spin-offs will be just like the Best of, and will see a spin-off as 'robbing' them of a contest so to speak when all it'll be doing is adjusting the BJSC calendar so it doesn't end up conflicting with the ESC in May...

Would you consider participating in spin-off contests?

 

Of course

 

Would you rather see them run parallel with or in place of regular BJSC contests?

 

NA

 

If they were to be in place of regular BJSC contests, would you prefer a spin-off to be after XIII, after XIV or later than this?

 

After XIII

 

How often do you feel that spin-off contests should happen?

 

3 times in a year

 

If you are willing to participate in spin-off contests, can you suggest any interesting themes?

 

hmmm non-english song contest (example...french, german, italian, spanish, romanian etcetc...maximum 3 songs for a language).

 

90's Eurodance songs(I would so love this...Snap,Dr.Alban,Ace Of Base, 2 Unlimited, Culture Beat, Maxx, Capella, Mark'Oh, Captain Hollywood, La Bouche etc etc.)

 

Any further comments/suggestions?

 

yeah lets give it a try.

Edited January 22, 200916 yr by Addy Bass

If these would run parallel to the actual contest, I would not be in support of spin-offs whatsoever. =/ I don't mind them being in between whatsoever, but I don't want any sort of delay or impact to the actual contests which are far more interesting than a spinoff could ever be.

If these would run parallel to the actual contest, I would not be in support of spin-offs whatsoever. =/ I don't mind them being in between whatsoever, but I don't want any sort of delay or impact to the actual contests which are far more interesting than a spinoff could ever be.

 

And so this arguement would then defeat Trash's purpose of having a spin off in order to limit it to 10 BJSCs in a year

 

I think we need someone in charge to just force this thing upon us as we're blatently never gonna be able to all agree. Atcherly do we have some sort of Mr. BJSC? :unsure:

Atcherly do we have some sort of Mr. BJSC? :unsure:

That would be Trashlexis I guess as he's the mod, alongside Boyan but he hasn't taken part this month so maybe he's lost interest. :unsure:

 

This is just all too much. The idea of the spin-offs was to limit us to 10 a year so parallel wont work? If we have the Best Of in November we only need one or two spin-offs this year and then once we get in the routine it will only be one a year which isn't a BIG DEAL. :/

 

Jan - XIII

Feb - Spin Off

Mar - XIV

Apr - XV

May - XVI

Jun - XVII

Jul - Spin Off?

Aug- XVIII

Sep - XIX

Oct - XX

Nov - Best Of

Dec - XXI

 

So by next January it would be XXII which means we can get rid of one of the spin offs as it fixed the mistake we had by having XI before the first Best Of. Oh and, yes, I've not left a gap for May. I kinda figured that this isn't really linked to Eurovision any more so we don't really need to take a gap for it. If anyone really wants to spend time on Eurovision they can sit that contest out.

I didn't realize we were limiting it to 10 a year? :/ Any specific reason...?

How about having a one week spin-off?

 

No reservation thread. No confirmation thread. Simply a posting of the start date and then first come first served sending your artist/song to the host over 3 days with no-one allowed to reveal which song they're thinking of submitting or confirming they've sent until voting is open. Then a 4 day voting period.

 

Sing submission starts 12:01am Sunday closes 11.59pm Tuesday. Voting starts 12:01am Wednesday closes 6:00pm Sunday. Quick and easy, relatively painless, won't effect the current schedule.

 

I'd be happy to host it.

I didn't realize we were limiting it to 10 a year? :/ Any specific reason...?

 

Because Tyron thinks that we will actually manage to keep the BJSC to an exact schedule for years to come.

I think Aaron's dates look quite feasible, if we were to have them in between as opposed to parallel

 

I also agree that we don't need time off for ESC, all of the songs for that will be known by March anyway

Would you consider participating in spin-off contests?

If its BJSC releated count Ashton in

 

Would you rather see them run parallel with or in place of regular BJSC contests?

 

i think one a year in place of a regular contest isn't too bad.

 

If they were to be in place of regular BJSC contests, would you prefer a spin-off to be after XIII, after XIV or later than this?

 

give us a couple of months, i say April for the spin off.

 

How often do you feel that spin-off contests should happen?

 

Just once a year, like the best of

 

If you are willing to participate in spin-off contests, can you suggest any interesting themes?

 

Ballads only

Songs by a particular producer eg xenomania

 

Any further comments/suggestions?

 

These can't detract from the main contest. Too much emphasis on spin offs and you risk pushing people away

If you are willing to participate in spin-off contests, can you suggest any interesting themes?

 

Ballads only

Songs by a particular producer eg xenomania

No, 30+ ballads :/

Bigger NO. Whjo the F he is? :o

The producer behind Girls Aloud, Gabriella Cilmi and few Sugababes tracks.(Round Round, Hole In The Head, Ace Reject, My Love Is Pink, In The Middle....)