Survival Of The Fittest

Good morning / afternoon / evening SOTFers! I am going to give a thumbs up to hosting this time around so hoping to see lots of you join in and submit some summery songs!


Song of the Summer

The theme for this week is Song of the Summer. It's a theme fairly open to interpretation however whether you submit a sunny feel-good anthem, a dance pop banger, or rain noises (shoutout to the Brits) the idea is that the songs will be your personal song of the summer. That could be a hot new release that you've had on repeat non-stop, a song you heard out and about that reminds you of a nice summer day, a song from the archives that has had a more recent resurgence to you, or even just your personal favourite song at the moment - it is entirely up to you.

[+] RULES

- submit your song via PM or discord, whichever's easier for you

- songs will be randomly divided into 1, 2 or 3 semifinals depending on turnout. if there are less than 20 submissions within 5 days, then there will only be one final round. 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 there are less than 10 songs to vote for in a round, then simply cut off the bottom portion of the ballot (i.e. no 1 point songs, no 2 point songs, and so on)

- 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.
- the top [x] songs will move on to the final. that number depends on the number of contestants.
- repeat the process for the finals and we get a winner.

- 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.

general song rules:
- no eurovision songs
- no reality show/competition covers
- no songs already submitted in a songtest - thank you to Dancake for the list here
- there is no penalty for length in this contest. however, if a song goes over 7 minutes, listeners aren't obligated to listen to more than the first 7 minutes of the song. so choose a long song at your own risk!

each semifinal and the final will last for three days. some rules about activity:
- if you know at the start of your semifinal that you wont be available to vote for those three days, let me know asap and I can move you to another semi, if we aren't on the final one already.
- I'll be pinging everyone who hasn't voted on discord 48 and 24 hours before the round ends.

Submissions shall be due SUNDAY AUGUST 27th, 11:00pm BST (6:00pm EST)

Happy song searching!

hell yeah I'm in

In.

Thanks to everybody who has sent their songs in - we're up to 11 entries.

I'm going to extend the deadline to Tuesday 29th August at 12pm UK time (7pm EST) to get some more entries in.

in!!

Thanks to all who have already voted!

I'm going to extend the deadline by a day (and do results tomorrow) because there's some football draft stuff going on tonight.

Everybody has voted and we have a result! The votes have been counted and verified, and in the words of the almighty Jon Ola Sand I shall now take it away!

I'll reveal the results in reverse order starting with 14th and last place and then working our way down to the Top 2 where the winner will be crowned.

Good luck to all participants!

[+] 14th

14th. Beach Boys - All Summer Long
25 points

Submitted by Dr. Adjective

[+] 13th

13th. Interpol - Take You On A Cruise
32 points

Submitted by Ahab9

[+] 12th

12th. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
37 points

Submitted by Grand Hoff Missa

[+] 11th

11th. yama - a.m.3:21
41 points

Submitted by Zetsu

[+] 10th

10th. Postgirobygget - En Solskinnsdag
44 points

Submitted by Ohm

[+] 9th

9th. Alice Cooper - School's Out
46 points

Submitted by Fiori

[+] 8th

8th. Charli XCX - Speed Drive
53 points

Submitted by Maraoone

[+] 7th

7th. Anri - Last Summer Whisper
55 points

Submitted by Pancapples

[+] 6th

6th. Jukebox The Ghost - Fred Astaire
66 points

Submitted by burnitup

[+] 5th

5th. Galactikraken & Jonathan Young - Starship Velociraptor
75 points

Submitted by DerArknight

[+] 4th

4th. Dua Lipa - Dance The Night
80 points

Submitted by Laurels

[+] 3rd

3rd. Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam
83 points

Submitted by Carlisle

So we have our top two!

EYEAMKI vs Bananarama

But only one can win...


The winner is...

[+] Winner Reveal

1st. Bananarama - Cruel Summer
88 points

Submitted by KamiKaze

[+] Runner Up

2nd. EYEAMKI - Great! Big! Party!
87 points

Submitted by BlizzardeyeWonder

Congratulations to KamiKaze for the win with Bananarama - Cruel Summer and thank you to all who participated.



Annoyingly, when I upload it to OneDrive to share the excel link it ruins the formatting a bit so I'm going to take a screenshot and post the link - screenshot under the spoiler tag.

[+] Full Results

Link to full results: Here