i'm rereading it now and
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43715.msg1987417#msg1987417
is this the first instance of hangman in a roulette thread? is this beast something i unknowingly unleashed in my arrogance?
It might well be. I know the hangman craze didn't start until after my v1. I also believe, though I am not certain, that I came up with the EP round idea. The fact that I refer to it as "make me an EP" and go to great lengths to describe what I mean certainly indicates that it is a new thing.
Tim, way to show confidence.
In 425's last roulette, I sent stuff I really like. In this one, I'm planning on sending stuff I don't like. See how that works!
It's strange that things didn't line up so well last time, considering that we both probably have Dream Theater and Iron Maiden in our top 5 bands. I guess our tastes diverge pretty markedly from there. Maybe this time will be different.
Wow this roulette filled up quickly. I checked for your thread before I left for work, but didn't see it up yet. Finally just got home from work. I'll join if you don't mind having a ton of people. I have lots of stuff to send with such a small banned list. How will I ever choose.....
Glad to take you and Aefenwelg as well. I think, however, that at this point I'm going to close the roulette to additional entrants except for people who played in my first roulette (because I promised a spot if they want one). We're now, if I'm counting correctly, at
17 (edit: 18!), and while on one hand I love the idea of getting sent a ton of new music, on the other hand I don't want to get to the place where I'm trying to work with 20-some-odd songs at once.
I'm also going to think about how to retool the stages of elimination. The idea of cutting down to 10 after two rounds was based on an anticipation that I would get, like, 12 or 13 people at most. What I might do is reconfigure it to cut a certain number (like 3 or 4) after Round 2 and then get down to 10 after Round 3—just so I'm not cutting 7 or 8 people at once. I'll have to see how the first round goes and think about how best to do it going forward. What I will promise is that nobody is getting cut after only playing a single round, and that I will let you know how elimination is going to work by the time I provide Round 1 results.