Damnit, I wanted to be the blue judge. I don't think I can work under this circumstances, so sorry, I'm out....
Just kidding
Don't really care what my color is
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Also, since a few players probably don't know me all that well (with me only having about 300 posts and such), I'd like to address a few points concerning my music tastes and how I will be scoring to start with.
Music Tastes: Many of you whose Roulette's I've played in know that I tend to send more songs outside of this forums comfort zone than is usual (dubstep, ahem). That doesn't mean I only listen to non-rock/prog music, I enjoy a good classic rock song just as much as a good Hip-Hop, Prog, Electronica or Classical song. That's actually why I applied to be a judge for this, there is no such thing as a genre I really dislike, there's stuff that I like in every genre I know of (and that ranges from Jazz to traditional Latin American Music to Pop to Metal to Electronica to Prog and everything in between.
Grading: Since we're apparently given the choice what to do with songs that we know I'm gonna use the following rules: If an artist sent in a round where I'm a Sec' is on my banned list, I will deduct 2 points from your score. If I know the song but the artist is not on my banned list, I will deduct 1 point from the score.
Why do I do this? Well, since we have three different banned lists, I think it will get hard for people to send stuff since a lot of bands will be banned over the three different lists. So now you can send stuff from my banned list without completely screwing over my score. Also, I tried to only include bands in my list where I actually know a fair share of the band's output. There are however also a lot of bands where I only know a few songs and thus I didn't put them on my list. I will deduct one point in this case because you get a kind of "starting bonus" from me being familiar with the song, with gives a bit of an advantage over other submissions. So I'm punishing you a bit, but you can still get a 4/5 if I really like the song.
SO now that that's settled, let's all have a lot of fun in this! And I hope to get some awesome music
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