Welcome to the 31st SOTF Song Contest!
The Apocalypse
Also known as Armageddon, Ragnarok, The End Times, etc. I figured this would be an interesting theme on account of the many ways it could be interpreted. As well, it's a pretty prolific cultural touchstone and there are a lot of works of television, film, literature, and music written about it.
Songs submitted can be about the end of the world, or the kind of things that would go well as background music to the curtain closing on modern civilization. Anything post-apocalyptic or inspired by that genre of fiction will fit as well.
Generally going to leave this one pretty open, as I think there are a lot of ways this could be interpreted. If you're not sure about a song, just send it to me via discord and I'll let you know if it fits the theme.
- [+] Rules
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No Eurovision Songs
No reality show/competition covers.
Given the nature of the contest's subject matter, it might be tempting to have an extended discussion about potential and future apocalyptic scenarios. While it might seem like interesting speculation, I'd advise dropping the subject if anyone expresses discomfort in chat.
Please don't use anything we've used in a prior songtest (Master Songtest Sheet here).
There's no need to relentlessly slag songs in chat. This is for fun and we all have different tastes, which is part of the experience of participating in these.
Songs will be randomly divided into 2 or 3 semifinals depending on turnout. if you're going to be away at some point in the next couple of weeks, let me know and I can try to put your song in a round when you'll be here.
Listen to every song and give points to your top 10 favorites: 12 to your favorite, 10 to your second, 8 to your third, 7 to your fourth, and so on down to 1 point for your tenth favorite.
If your song is in a given round, you must vote that round or you'll be eliminated. if your song isn't in that round (or you aren't in the contest at all), your vote will be counted as a public vote, which counts for half points. If you're doing a public vote in chat, tag me in Discord with @Shiola so that I can find them.
Public votes will all count as half-votes.
The top songs will move on to the final; the number of top songs depends on the number of contestants. Repeat the process for the finals and we get a winner.
The winner gets to hold the next contest, or they can pass the job along to 2nd place if they don't want to. 2nd place can pass down to third, etc, until someone wants to host.
Each semifinal and the final will last for three days.
If you know at the start of your semifinal that you wont be available to vote for those four days, let me know and I can move you to another semifinal, if we aren't on the final one already.
Contest will begin two days from now, signups will be open until then. You can send songs to me either by board PM or through Discord.
Dancing like it's the last night on Earth:
1. Shiola
2. MK Kilmarnock
3. Murderweasel
4. Zee
5. TheLordofAwesome
6. Fenris
7. Spindarene
8. Buko
9. Cactus
10. Jilly
11. Boogie
12. Yugikun
13. Deamon
14. RedAstaire
15. CrossBowPig
16. Laurels
17. Kami
18. Maraoone
19. Emprexx Plush
20. Ruggahissy
21. Ohm
22. Brackie
23. Ares
24. KamiKaze
25. Skraal
(Adopted from Dannyrulx)
