Be Excellent To Each Other

Song wars will consist of 8 weekly rounds running Wednesday to Tuesday, players will be split into groups and will score points within those groups according to how well their songs do in the week's voting. At the end of the eight weeks, the top two players from each group will go into a series of knockout rounds to determine an eventual winner

Weeks 1 and 2 will have no theme
Week 3 will have a theme chosen by me
Following that, the themes will be chosen for each group by the person in that group who chose the lowest scoring song in the earlier rounds (lowest scorer in round 1 chooses week 4's theme, etc).
Submissions must be made by PM to me by 2PM on the Tuesday preceding the start of each round. Either send me a link to a Youtube video or use Grim...'s MP3 Uploader and send me the link. Anyone who doesn't nominate a song by the deadline will get one chosen by me.

Week one will start Wednesday 10th August

Voting will be a simple poll for each group, and the songs will be anonymised so you don't know who you're voting for. You can vote for your own song if you wish.

Big thanks to MarkX for the fact that I've lifted these rules virtually wholesale from the original Song Wars.

Wednesday 5th August?

oops! Fixed.

I trust you'll be adding the rule that as I'm playing, I have to win?

Only if we're voting for the worst songs.

No, it doesn't matter this time what you vote for. I automatically win.

Is this where we sign up or is there a special button to press somewhere?

Sign up in the thread in the main forum.

Overly complex, but I shall comply.

This thread didn't exist when the signup thread was posted.

I'm trying to decide if I can work in another one somewhere.

If we have 6 groups, then should we have the two 'best runners up' go into the knock-out stages, so we have 8 quarter finalists, or do you have some other marvellous scheme in the works?

Also, I have been wrestling with my consicence about how to play this. Go for the win by picking well-known, popular songs, or playing in the spirit of the thing and just picking lesser known songs I like.

I'm gonna go with the spirit.

Huzzah!

The spirit of the competition it to win by any means necessary, isn't it...

Bah, i refuse to vote for anything i've heard of, unless it fits the theme particularly well..

I'm going to do top two from all groups - because otherwise it's unfair on the larger groups because there would be likely to be more sharing out of points.

So we'll have 12 through to the knockout. We'll do 6 2-man quarters, 3 2-man semis, then a 3-man grand finale.

So the girls aren't allowed to qualify?

Harsh.

Hey, I don't make the rules.

Wait.

It seems he's right, he doesn't make the rules...

And he forgot the original rule that for the first knockout round onwards, all players have to post a YouTube video of them dancing to the song they chose. Though I did just make that up.

My group is full of cunts and mongs - I'm a shoo-in!

no eurovision style voting?

Malc

Fellow Group D members - this is Myp. PH34R H1M!!!1!1!!eleventy!!!1

Sure we allocated 3,2 and 1 points in each group last time.

Fucking heck - had he been smoking salvia?

Yeah, I thought we had Eurovision style voting.

Also, are we playing via an honour system not to vote for our own songs, or is that encouraged?

We'll see how the numbers stack up. Exciting eurovision voting might be added in Round 2!

Funny how you can change your vote in some groups, but not others.

Er. I meant for people to be able to, but possibly forgot.

Just to let you know, I can't listen to the sings uploaded to the MP3'er and can't view/see the polls, so I can't actually vote.

I'll watch as many of the YouTube videos as I can, but if I don't get so 'engaged' in the sing discussion, that is why - not because I'm being a spoilsport, etc

Why not view the threads in Safari instead?

What? Shush now...

The MP3 player still wouldn't work, anywAy, so I'd be making an uninformed unfair vote.

What do you think we're all doing?

This is awesome Craster, thanks for taking the time to put it all together.

Most fun I've had dicking about on the internet for quite a while

Mrs AE is chucking her 2p's worth in for all my votes

Excellent!

Doh, missed the email demading the entry, I hate to think which one you have chosen for me

I'm gonna take a wild guess that it was Jedward.

Round One, but Week 2! What kind of fresh hell is this?

There's some proper shit being submitted this time around

Can't all be no -shows.

The no-shows are pretty obvious. There were 3.

Poison, Mr Big and...

?

I'll just keep this £55, I feel.

You're not paying £55 to be insulted.

The fact that one of them is doing better than my choice is rather disheartening

Shouldn't have submitted something shitter than the Wurzels then.

Quite surprised that Dirge is doing fairly well. I'd have thought a fairly miserable sounding monotonous churning track could be that popular.

However Hocus Pocus being the group leader baffles me even more. I'd rather listen to a mashup of the worzels, jedward and rebecca black. It truly sounds like one of the worst things ever to my ears. But still, that's just subjective taste I guess.

I just can't help being utterly perplexed by it, what am I missing?

I'm vaguely 'nnoyed about missing this now, some of the tracks are brilliant and I'd like to put my 2p worth in.

well I can't believe that Suede are doing well. Fucking Suede!

I absolutely detest suede.

Ummm... AFAIK, you can still comment and vote!