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Post by Gilberto on Aug 8, 2017 7:22:46 GMT 1
I decided to post this in a separate post because the one above was going to be giant if I addded this information there too. To make some things clear about the reward for having suggested the winning theme:
- It will go to the first person who suggested it, as some of these or similar suggestions were repeated by other players later. I have a very clear registry of who suggested each one of the 7 selected themes.
- If the selected theme was suggested by an user who got disqualified last edition, then there will be an exception and they will be allowed to participate for this one edition, as I see it's unfair that the player who suggested the winner theme won't even enjoy it.
- I may have slightly changed the exact suggested idea so it suits the contest better, but the main concept was kept. So if the description or name of the theme is similar to your suggestion, it's very likely it's your idea
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Post by italix on Aug 8, 2017 9:04:07 GMT 1
Highly disappointed that my favourites themes are not in the selection, especially the "only own language" theme.
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Post by chhunter on Aug 8, 2017 9:46:07 GMT 1
Highly disappointed that my favourites themes are not in the selection, especially the "only own language" theme. Why do you always complain, it's not like @gilberto lives to please you. The themes are far more interesting than the one you suggested anyway.
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Post by fabbi on Aug 8, 2017 10:20:58 GMT 1
Omg I need that Overused songs theme. No idea if I could take part as I know only one overused song from Angola, which is the one I just sent lol.
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Post by shax on Aug 8, 2017 10:45:38 GMT 1
Oh, i thought that 'own languages' will be here. I don't like any of this 7 ideas ;/
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Post by Julian on Aug 8, 2017 10:46:17 GMT 1
Highly disappointed that my favourites themes are not in the selection, especially the "only own language" theme. Oh, i thought that 'own languages' will be here. I don't like any of this 7 ideas ;/ Well we had the own language theme twice already so it would be boring to have it again besides that I find it a bit disrespectful to complain this way as Gilberto tried his best to please the most people
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Post by CHAE WITH A C on Aug 8, 2017 10:50:40 GMT 1
I like a lot of the ideas of the theme I think they are really good
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Post by ferrygraf on Aug 8, 2017 17:15:29 GMT 1
Personally I'm glad there's no "own language" or "native language" theme as I wouldn't find it special or challenging at all, in my 22 editions here I only sent 2 songs that were not in my country's language (2 English songs back in ancient times when I had Liechtenstein), so yeah Plus we've had it before as Julian said and I feel like a big number of players regularly send non-English songs too anyway... I find most themes good/acceptable, so I'm not sure what to pick yet. But you'll of course get my choice in time
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Post by Gilberto on Aug 8, 2017 19:09:37 GMT 1
italix shax : I won't lie to you, I expected complaints about that theme not being selected, several people repeated it as a suggestion. Basically the reasons why I didn't select that theme is what Julian and Ferry said. - Most participants already send songs in their national languages almost every edition, so it wouldn't feel like a special edition. The last three editions were won by songs in national languages.
- The theme already participated two of the three times there have been special editions in FoM.
- This theme is suggested often not only in FoM, but in most of the contests of the forum, it's easily the most common type of special edition. I considered it was unfair for players who suggested an innovating idea to compete against a theme that has been seen numerous times already.
Furthermore, I tried to include 7 themes completely different to each other precisely to have variety, so most players found at least one theme they liked. It comes very surprising to me that you don't like any of the seven at least slightly. I understand everyone got a different opinion, so if it's really that bad you can also skip this edition, I'd respect that decision and you wouldn't be affected in future editions obviously.
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Post by Gilberto on Aug 11, 2017 5:28:12 GMT 1
Reminder! 48 hours are left to vote for your TWO favorite themes!
The themes are:
THEME #1: RANDOM COUNTRIES FOR ONE EDITION
Once every participant confirmed, everyone will be allocated with a random country for this one edition. The countries you could randomly get are only those already taken by the other players. It's important to say that the actions made by the player that edition won't affect its original player in the future ones. For example, if the player who randomly got Mexico doesn't vote, the player will be punished and not the original Mexican player.
THEME #2: RETRO EDITION
Opposite to the rule preventing everyone from submitting ''old'' songs, here you'd HAVE TO submit only songs released before 2005. If your country wasn't even founded before that date, then you have to send someone who was born in the geographical area where your country is nowadays.
THEME #3: ONLY MALE ARTISTS
From the past 12 winners, only 2 of them were completely male acts, this is why having an all male edition sounded like a very interesting idea. This would mean completely male acts, that is, for example, that the song ''Wild Thoughts'' by DJ Khaled couldn't compete because most of it is sang by Rihanna, a female singer.
THEME #4: OVERUSED SONGS ONLY
Here you can ONLY send songs that have participated in more than 5 contests, contrary to the very well-known ''originality'' rule in this contest. In case a country is too small to have overused songs, then that number would be reduced to, say, 3 contests. I would provide you precise instructions of what I do to find if a song is overused or not.
THEME #5: WINNER OF WINNERS
You have to send a song by the artist that gave your country their best result yet. This includes the results that country got even when you were not in charge of it. I'd provide you a full list with the best result of each country.
THEME #6: TRIBUTE EDITION
You can only send songs from deceased artists, like a way to honor their memory.
THEME #7: PAIR COUNTRIES
This theme is better explained with an example:
Let's say Italy and Slovenia get drawn together. The Italian player needs to suggest three songs to the Slovenian player and vice versa. Each one will have to send one of the suggested songs by the other user.
If this theme is selected, there would be regulations to avoid players from suggesting troll entries only or songs that they are aware will get poor results. To vote you just need to send me a PM with the themes you like the most, it shouldn't take more than 3 minutes
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