Alright, the survey is closed. I've read all your answers and considered them carefully. Still, since the answers were so divisive, I know I can't please everyone. I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but if for some reason you dislike the way I decided to run it, you're free to complain and in the end, you can even abandon this thing and not vote at all. That said, I tried to count all the votes and, while of course there is also my personal interest, I tried to find a solution that will make everyone happy. Here's how we're going to roll with it:
1. The first three Kamelot albums - Eternity, Dominion and Siege Perilous won't be included in the actual survivor.Only two people are in favour of including these, and while I guess the actual amount of voters can be higher, I highly doubt it because these albums aren't that well-known. Kade and MirrorMask, I'm sorry, and while I see your points those are still Kamelot albums, they would make for a very dull survivor with only a few votes each round and should the tracks from these records make the Finals, I don't think they will last long. But despite they're not being included in the actual survivor, we may still do the voting part. Read the #3.
2. Two songs from each album will make the Consolations.I mean, most people voted for two, and making an additional poll about fan-favourite albums is too much of a pain in the ass. I was tempted to make it one and add an additional slot for
Karma,
Epica,
The Black Halo and
Silverthorn, but I know Kade doesn't like Karevik-era albums, Chad prefers Haven, so yeah, two Consolations slots for everyone.
3. The rounds will last two day with one album running at a time.You know, this was the question I thought about a lot, and in the end I decided to run this old-fashioned way. I may not be able to create the threads each and every day regularly, I want this survivor to cover a whole year, and we can do some other neat things in the meantime so we won't get bored. Some people here wanted the survivors for the first three Kamelot albums - we can do them on the odd days between the actual rounds - and maybe some people will check those albums out too and join us; we can do a Kamelot Album League similar to what DoC runs with DT and what I did with Nightwish Survivor, we can also make some obscure small survivors like your favourite Kamelot ballad or your favourite Kamelot album cover art or whatever.
With eight main albums to run through, I roughly predict we'll take more or less a month to deal with each album, and I'm adding half a month just to cover all the tiebreakers and whatnot, so make it eight and a half months maximum from now (middle of October), we'll enter Consolations. Now, since we will have a lot of songs in Consolations, the Consolations rounds will last one day; then we'll make it to the Finals in the middle of November at worst and with luck we'll end this right before Christmas, just as we did with Nightwish Survivor.
I know some of you wanted this to be more active, but I also know most of you preferred two-days-long rounds and I can't guarantee I will be there every day to get the regular threads up with my schedule.
4. The ties in the tiebreakers will be decided by counting the total votes each song received in the Survivor it's competing now.Pretty much everyone voted for that.
5. The bonus tracks will be featured in their respective Album Survivor.I'll add the album track lists in a couple of minutes to the second post. If I missed any bonus track, you can correct me and I'll add what I missed.
6. Interludes from Epica and The Black Halo will be included as the separate tracks.I expected everyone to say we should screw it, but we got three people who wanted to have them as a separate tracks, so, well, we will find out which interlude is a fan-favourite.
I'll add this information in the first post.
The Fourth Legacy Survivor will start tomorrow. Get ready to vote and maybe listen to it to refresh some songs in your memory!
Topic: Kamelot Survivor - Results and Discussion (Read 3830 times)
