Welcome everyone, into the arena. I can say I've been looking forward to doing this!
A month of trial awaits those who have applied for this test. The goal of this test is to score as many points as you can before the game is over. In order to successfully fulfill your task, you will take a total of 10 missions from me, consisting of a main task for everybody and side-missions only one participant will be able to complete. Before I will lay down the rules before you, let me introduce you to your fellow combatants;
- Scorpion
- Nekov
- Ravenheart
- kári
- Xanthul
- MoraWintersoul
- ReaperKK
- ZanteraAll of you have received a PM and I would like you to reply in this thread with a confirmation that you will be playing. You will play against, but also with each other on some missions. In order to properly distribute you among teams, I have divided you into two groups, those with the letter 'T' in the username are on
Team Tea, those without the letter 'T' in the username are on
Team Coffee.
Here is how it will go; I have set up ten rounds of games, to which a certain theme or restriction has been coupled. Your goal, individually is to submit to me a song that is relevant to the theme or that fits the criteria. A song that does not fit the criteria will be awarded with 0 points. The rest of the scoring will be divide as follows. After each round, I will award a grand total of
24 points between the 8 competitors. This will go as follows;
Scoring:- The best scoring song of the round will be awarded
5 points.
- The worst scoring song of the round will be awarded
1 point.
- The rest of the participants will either gain
2, 3 or 4 points.
- Note that 5 points and 1 point will be given to one participant only, but the scores in between will be dealt out to two different participants, adding up to a total of 24 points each round.
In order to avoid chaos, a simple set of rules must be applied for this test;
Rules:- The length of the song you will send me must be under 15:00 minutes.
- Only once during the total duration of the game may you send a song with a length more than than 10:00 minutes.
- Any band that has been sent before in this roulette may not be used again, except if it got the score 1 in a round.
- A side-mission, should there be one always applies to the same song you will send for the main goal
- You may only send one song per round.
All of the above rules, including those for scoring apply for every single round, except where specifically noted they do not.
In addition, the following bands may not be used in this roulette under any circumstance Since I don't use last.fm or anything like it, since I mainly play music straight from the records, I have compiled a list of bands in alphabetic order.
Forbidden Bands:Adagio
Affector
Agalloch
Al di Meola
Alcest
Alestorm
Alice Cooper
Alice in CHains
Alter Bridge
Amorphis
Anathema
Animals as Leaders
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Ark
At the Gates
Avantasia
Ayreon
Baroness
Beardfish
The Beatles
Ben Folds (Five)
Between the Buried and Me
Beyond the Bridge
Bigelf
Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian
Blood Stain Child
Burning Point
Children of Bodom
Circus Maximus
Cloudkicker
Coheed and Cambria
Cynic
Dagoba
The Dandy Warhols
Dark Tranquility
Darkwater
David Bowie
The Dear Hunter
Devin Townsend (including Band and Project)
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Dire Straits
Dream Theater
dredg
Eisley
Enochian Theory
Epica
Eumeria
Explosions in the Sky
The Faceless
The Fall of Troy
Firewind
Flying Colors
Frost*
Genesis
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Gojira
Green Carnation
Haken
Headspace
Iced Earth
In Flames
Iron Maiden
James LaBrie
Jeff Buckley
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Satriani
John Petrucci
Kalisia
Kalmah
Karnivool
Katatonia
King Crimson
Led Zeppelin
Leprous
Liquid Tension Experiment
Long Distance Calling
Lykathea Aflama
Machine Head
Magic Pie
The Mars Volta
Mastodon
maudlin of the Well
Megadeth
Meshuggah
Metallica
Mr. Bungle
Muse
My Bloody Valentine
Myrath
Neal Morse
Nevermore
Nirvana
Opeth
OSI
Pain of Salvation
Pantera
Pearl Jam
Periphery
Persona Non Grata
Pink Floyd
Planet X
Porcupine Tree
Queen
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Red hot CHili Peppers
Redemption
Riverside
Rush
Sacrum
Savatage
Scale the Summit
Sepultura
Seventh Wonder
Shadow Gallery
Sky
Sky Architect
Slash
Snow Patrol
Sonata Arctice
Spock's Beard
Star One
Steven Wilson
Storm Corrosion
Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius
Sublime
Symphony X
Tenacious D
TesseracT
Textures
Threshold
Thrice
Tool
Touchstone
Toxic
Transatlantic
Unexpect
Wintersun
Wishbone Ash
Within Temptation
Yes
Zero Hour
Of course, it is hard to pinpoint exactly what song one knows and doesn't know. The above artists are those I know well enough to be sure I don't want to have them sent in my roulette. Therefore, if you happen to send a song I know well enough beforehand I will let you know and I will give you the chance to send something else.
Extra rule:- In addition to the above list, I have a list of bands I've been meaning to check out. If you happen to send me a song by one of those bands on my list, I will award you with
an extra point.
Deadlines:Due to a large amount of rounds, I have set a couple of deadlines for both myself and the participants. From the moment a round starts, a participant will have 48 hours to send me his or her submission. From the moment I receive the last submission for the round, or after 36 hours are over, I have 48 hours to post the results for the round and set up a new one. Please keep in mind here that I'm in Europe and I will likely post results around the same time I'm posting this thread (in the evening).
Side Missions and Team-Scoring:As for the side-missions; every round except for the first and the last one will have at least one side-mission. These side-missions can be team efforts, or they can be completed individually. More info on side-missions by the time you will see the first. From the first round onwards I will also keep track of Team scoring. This is mainly relevant for later rounds, when being on the winning team could give you an advantage over the losing team.
Practical stuff:I prefer to have the song sent to me by e-mail in a format I can play on my computer (preferably mp3). A Youtube link is possible as well. I'm thinking of setting up a Spotify account in the near future, so this might be a possibility for some later rounds. A PM with my preferred e-mail address will be given once you have confirmed that you're playing.
Round 1:This round will be open. A round without a theme, or without specific restrictions, apart from he general rules. This round serves mainly for showing me what you have got and for giving everyone a nice and easy start, before the more difficult stuff comes around.
The game will begin once all the players have confirmed their participation. I will then open the game.
I say, have fun everybody and break a leg. Let the game commence!
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