the_ditz wrote:Anyone else get the impression that they are making up the rules to this contest as they go along?
Ok, first off the "they" here is me.
Certain battles in the 2nd round have ended because they hadn't had any votes in 24 hours, and the rest of the battles have been kept open. This of course means that the songs in the other battles that are losing have more time to allow people to vote for them and for them to possibly even win.
Yes, it does. In the old system, a good file may have been ignored completely if it was in a crappy bracket, and the same thing on a very smaller scale applies here. If people didn't feel moved to vote for your file, there's nothing I can do about it.
This just smacks of unfairness and inequality in my eyes - you should apply the same rules and deadlines to all files to allow for a fair result. Wouldn't it have just been easier and fairer to just say "all voting will close by XX:XX on XX/XX/2008"?
No, because that could end up with some brackets with only 1 vote. Imagine
that outcry. I gave the exact same deadlines to everyone. If interest in a bracket continued, I was not going to close it, unless it hit 15. In hindsight, it seems 15 was too lofty of a goal, but that's what happens when you try new systems - you have to see if it works or not. Interest has died down a little, so 15 was not obtainable.
Sour grapes on my part? It's clear that people have automatically voted for the battles that their favourite files feature in first, but in doing this they've neglected the other battles.
Everything was going fine until now...
So you're saying if they voted for their favorites first, anyone who had your file as a favorite already voted for it, right?
If this is how the Best-Mix contests are going to work, I doubt I'll be entering another one...
And yes, before anyone says it, I know this is a "fun contest", but even fun contests should have the same ruleset applied to every file.
No, this is not how every future Best-mix will be. This was a
FUN, MINI-COMPETITION that was to allow you guys to have fun before summer comes, and allow me to test out rulesets that we could adopt for the summer contests.
Super_Ray wrote:I agree here. Who knows how long some of these battles will go on if the no posts in 24 hrs rule is applied arther than setting a deadline.
They will go on until 15 votes are reached or 24 hours of no post. See my reply to the_ditz above.
#Infinity wrote:And besides, does anyone think this bracket thing is also a bit unfair compared to BM1? I enjoy it enough at DDRExtreme.co.uk with its Survivor Max contest because that's really just a side competition for fun, but when it's serious as it is here, luck seems to play out more than ever.
It's not my fault you guys are making this SIDE COMPETITION FOR FUN into something serious.
I don't like it that a good simfile can be pitted against another good simfile and vice versa, it makes it possible for worse files to easily beat out better ones simply based on the luck of the bracket they end up in.
The BEST file WILL still win. There isn't a 1st place -9th place ranking this time, just a winner.
whereas Otso Otso, a file with horrendous sound quality, won this round by default and has already made it to the quarter-finals. If this were Best-Mix 1, I doubt it would've seen the light past Round 1.
And the next round is where a better song can beat it out. It's not about "how far you advance into the bracket" it's about who wins.