Rules- There will be eight rounds.
- All rounds will be open.
- There are however seven optional bonuses available (see below).
- In the event that players are tied after eight rounds, an additional round consisting of only those tied players will commence. The winner of this additional round will win the roulette.
Rather than points, players will be awarded various stars based on their performance. There's no head-to-head anymore - this time I will rank all of the songs I receive in a round, and the stars will be awarded based on where your song ranks. The four stars from last time will return but there are a couple of new stars aswell.
- The "best" song of the round will be awarded a diamond star (
). Gold is no longer the most valuable star. - The runner-up will receive a gold star (
). - Third and Fourth place will both receive a silver star (
). - The pink or "sympathy star" (
) also returns. It may be awarded to any of the remaining players (ranked from 5th to 10th) if their song is also "excellent". - The bronze or "begrudging star" (
) serves essentially the same function as last time. In the event that there are songs I am not too fond of in the top four, they will receive the bronze star in place of the star normally awarded to that position.
There are now seven additional bonus stars, which are awarded to any song that meets their criteria. You may receive only
three of these bonuses throughout the roulette, you can net just one of them per song, and you personally can not aquire any of the bonuses twice. Since you can only be awarded three of the seven, it's up to you to decide which ones you want to go for (if any). The bonus stars are awarded along with any other stars your song qualifies for based on ranking. If you send a song that meets the requirements for multiple bonus stars, you must tell me which star you would like to be awarded for the song. To avoid any confusion,
if you intend to obtain a bonus star for your song, tell me when you send it, even if the song in question is only eligible for one bonus. If you don't do this and I receive something that fits a bonus, I may ask you if you would like a bonus star for the song...but I am more likely to just not award you any bonuses for it at all. You've been warned.
The seven bonus stars are as follows:
- The ruby star (
) is awarded to songs that prominently feature an orchestra or a symphony. - The sapphire star (
) is awarded to ballads of any kind. - The emerald star (
) is awarded to instrumentals. - The amethyst star (
) is awarded to any song released in 1979 or earlier. - The garnet star (
) is awarded to any song that is world music influenced. - The aquamarine star (
) is awarded to any song driven primarily by synths, pop music, or to any song that is electronic. - The peridot star (
) is awarded to songs featuring two or more vocalists, or songs prominently featuring a choir.
And finally, two last stars...
- The white or "pearl star" (
) will be awarded to the highest-ranking song, in each of the seven bonus categories listed above. I will rank the songs in each bonus category as the roulette progresses, and whoever sent the song ranked at the top of each list will hold a pearl star. If someone else sends a song I like more in a bonus category, they will take the pearl star for themselves. There must be at least three songs in a particular category for me to rank before the pearl star will be awarded in that category. - The black or "coal star" (
) is awarded each round to the person whose song is placed last. The star has no point value (positive or negative). However, if you receive three of these coal stars, you will be eliminated from the roulette!
VariabilityIn an attempt to make the bonus star system a little more interesting, I have decided to take a rather unusual approach to assigning their point values. Instead of having each of the stars being worth the same (that's too boring!), the seven stars will instead have a variable value. What does that mean? It means that the value of each star is determined by the number of people who have aquired it. So, all of the bonus stars will start out at the same value, but as more people collect any particular star, the number of points it is worth will begin to decrease.
In the event that people get eliminated from the roulette for receiving three coal stars, any bonus stars they collected before being booted will no longer count towards this. So if someone with some bonus stars gets eliminated, the stars they had will go back up in value for everyone still in the game.
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