Ok... so for those of you with your eye's on the Final Three (or Four... still TBD), here's how shit's gonna work.
Each finalist will submit a maximum of 30 minutes of music from as many or as few artists as you want. Doesn't matter to me - send 1 song, send multiple songs, multiple artists... this is listeners choice. 30 minutes is the max. No leeway... I don't actually want 30 minutes, so you go 1 second over, I'm dropping one song from your submission.
Scoring:
I can't exactly stack rank, as it will be unlikely everyone submits the same number of songs. I also wanted to do something to take into account performance from the main seven rounds, but put more emphasis on the finals. So, this is going to be like going to back to school - we've all been there, so I think everyone will get the concept. Although I'm stack ranking to produce scores currently, I've also been assigning a "grade" to each song. Consider this like a test score... so everyone will have 7 test scores at the end of this, and you'll have an 'average' grade. In the finals, consider it to be your final exam. Each song will also get a test score, and a resulting average. Your final mark will be 1/3 weighted to the 7-round competition, and 2/3 weighted to the final round.
Capiche? If not, I'll clarify again once we get to the finals... giving everyone their current "grades".