Survival Of The Fittest

In the spirit of the new year, it's time for some high hopes and fresh starts. I'm not going to be super specific about this, any song that you'd consider to have a positive outlook on either the present or the future would be acceptable. Here's to 2022 being better than 2021!

[+] Obligatory Rules Spoiler

- Send in your songs via board PM or Discord

- Songs will be divided into 1-3 semifinals, probably 2, if you can't be here for the first semifinal please contact me and I will put your song in the next round!

- Listen to every song in your round and give them votes, 12 for your favourite, 10 for your next favourite, then 8 for the third, 7 for the fourth, and so until you give 1 point to your tenth favourite. Not voting will result in your song getting DQ'd! Rounds last for 3 or more days.

- You can still vote if you're not in a round, as a public vote, which counts for half the points.

- The top songs move onto the finals, with the number depending on the number of songs in a round.

- Repeat the voting process with the finals, and that's how we'll determine the ultimate winner of the tournament arc.

- Submit your songs before the first round starts, not gonna let people jump in after the first round starts, etc.

- Whoever gets the most points will get to host the next contest. If they pass, it goes to second place, then third, and so on.

- General songtest rules:
- Nothing that has been submitted before. If your song is over ten minutes people only have to listen to the first ten minutes.
- Please be nice in chat.

I'll be doing my own votes before the round starts. I'll be giving reminders about every day whenever I remember. Extensions are probably not a thing unless you suffer severe RL stuff, like health issues, or being swamped with work and only getting a chance to listen an hour or so before deadline. Or being taken away into the forest by the fair folk. Any of the above.

I reserve the right to add anything blazingly obvious that I forgot.

Signups should run for a little over three days, ending on Thursday, January 6th at 11:59 PM EST. You can send me your submissions through board pm or on discord (my discord name is Krokodil). I'm looking forward to see what you all come up with!

*= yet to submit

1. Skraal
2. Laurels
3. backslash
4. AnimeNerd
5. Mara
6. Buko
7. TheLordOfAwesome
8. MurderWeasel
9. Cicada
10. Dancakes
11. Slam
12. dmboogie
13. midnight_twelve

SMILE DAMMIT

I'm in for some good vibes.

I got an idea so I might as well go for optimism.

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I like optimism! I don't have it for songtest given my history, but I'd love to hear what others think it sounds like :0

Here we are with our 13 happy contestants:

Buko
Laurels
Dancakes
Zee
Mara
Cicada
AnimeNerd
Skraal
TheLordOfAwesome
MurderWeasel
Slam
midnight_twelve
dmboogie

and their songs:

Sweet Time - Porter Robinson
Finale - We Are The Tigers
This is the Life - Two Door Cinema Club
The Disaster of Passion - AISHA
Broken People - Almost Monday
Bright Side of the Road - Van Morrison
I Like Myself - K.Flay
Five O'Clock World - The Vogues
She's So High - Tal Bachman
Love Is All I Got - Feed Me & Crystal Fighters
The Void - Andy Black
Mushaboom - Feist
Hello - Allie X

The songtest will run for about three days, ending on Sunday, January 9th at 11:59 PM EST. Good luck everyone!

EDIT: The songtest length has been extended by 24 hours, the new deadline is Monday, January 10th at 11:59 PM EST.

That's the deadline for the finals, folks. Will be totalling up the scores, results will be posted shortly.

13th place to 10th place:

[+] 13

Five O'Clock World - The Vogues, submitted by MurderWeasel, which received 26 points, including one 8.

[+] 12

The Disaster of Passion - AISHA, submitted by Skraal, which received 41 points, including two 8s.

[+] 11

Finale - We Are The Tigers, submitted by AnimeNerd, which received 41 points, including one 10 and one 8. The tie between 12th and 11th place was broken by the number of 10s received, as neither received any 12s.

[+] 10

Mushaboom - Feist, submitted by Slam, which received 44 points, including one 10.

9th place to 6th place:

[+] 9

Bright Side of the Road - Van Morrison, submitted by midnight_twelve, which received 45 points, including one 10 and one 8.

[+] 8

Love Is All I Got - Feed Me & Crystal Fighters, submitted by dmboogie, which received 49 points, including one 12 and one 10.

[+] 7

She's So High - Tal Bachman, submitted by Dancakes, which received 62 points, including one 12, two 10s and one 8.

[+] 6

I Like Myself - K.Flay, submitted by Buko, which received 65 points, including three 12s.

5th place to 3rd place:

[+] 5

Sweet Time - Porter Robinson, submitted by Cicada, which received 66 points, including one 12 and three 10s.

[+] 4

Broken People - Almost Monday, submitted by TheLordOfAwesome, which received 67 points, including three 12s and one 8.

[+] 3

Hello - Allie X, submitted by Laurels, which received 79 points, including one 12, one 10 and two 8s.

[+] the final two

The Void - Andy Black
This is the Life - Two Door Cinema Club