Survival Of The Fittest

This song contest features country and western music! That category can be anything from the most egregious "my wife cheated on me with my pickup truck and now my dog won't start" type of thing to any kind of music that might be described as "western." I'm not going to disallow folk songs per se, but I'd prefer if they were vaguely aligned with the theme. If you submit a gunfighter ballad kind of thing, or something that tows the line between country and southern gothic, you're good.

Similarly I'd be totally fine with indigenous music that pulls from country/western genres, as that stuff's pretty awesome.

Ultimately I'll be the judge of what fits that category, with an eye to the theme. Don't be afraid to experiment.

[+] Rules

No Eurovision Songs

No reality show/competition covers.

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 or send them to me like regular votes. If you don't do this, I can't guarantee I'll 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.

About to yee their last haw (will add as I go):

1. Shiola
2. Cactus
3. Fenris
4. dmboogie
5. Jace
6. MethodicalSlacker
7. Spindarene
8. Ohm
9. Jilly
10. Laurels
11. MK Cockbite
12. Buko
13. Polybius
14. Brackie
15. TheLordofAwesome
16. Pancapples
17. Zee
18. Emprexx Plush
19. Slam
20. Murderweasel
21. Ruggahissy
22. Maraoone
23. Frozen Smoke
24.

Yes

In please.

PUT ME ON THE LIST YOU COCKBITE I ALREADY SUBMITTED MY SHIT WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I mean

Howdy y'all

I'll join!

*Twangs a guitar*

hell yeah

Okay you know what I'm in.

Can you hear that, in the distance? It's coming from the west. It sounds like... oh god, what is that? It's -


Please send in your top songs in the following format:

12- Song Name
10- ...
8- ...
7- ...
6- ...
5- ...
4- ...
3- ...
2- ...
1- ...

With 12 being your favorite song, 10 being your second favorite, and so on. The top 10 songs will continue into the finals. Public votes count for half.

Remember to tag me in Discord for public votes, or post in this thread.

Votes by board PM or Discord are both perfectly acceptable. If you're in this round and you do not vote, you will be disqualified.

The deadline for this round is October 29th at 6pm EST.

Please send in your top songs in the following format:

12- Song Name
10- ...
8- ...
7- ...
6- ...
5- ...
4- ...
3- ...
2- ...
1- ...

With 12 being your favorite song, 10 being your second favorite, and so on. The top 10 songs will continue into the finals. Public votes count for half.

Remember to tag me in Discord for public votes, or post in this thread.

Votes by board PM or Discord are both perfectly acceptable. If you're in this round and you do not vote, you will be disqualified.

Please send in your top songs in the following format:

12- Song Name
10- ...
8- ...
7- ...
6- ...
5- ...
4- ...
3- ...
2- ...
1- ...

With 12 being your favorite song, 10 being your second favorite, and so on. The top 10 songs will continue into the finals. Public votes count for half.

Remember to tag me in Discord for public votes, or post in this thread.

Votes by board PM or Discord are both perfectly acceptable. If you're in this round and you do not vote, you will be disqualified.

Contest voting ends Sunday, November 3rd at Midnight.

Good luck!