At 12/6/09 09:35 AM, Box-Killa wrote: It's probably too late but...

Neon Project: " and is not allowed to sample another artist's work"

Chozz: "The pub sound samples are taken from the authors from freesound.org"

Yeah he used samples, meh i'm not saying that because I'm a bad sport or anything, just cuz lol

Anyway, congratz to all. wow i never thought i would get that close :D

Oh and can you also tell me specificly what the titles "Listener", "Contestant" and Represnation mean, on the judging board.

well thanks for all the organising Neon!

That rule means you can't use music from another person. It also applies to vocals. Chozz only used his sample which was an effect and I'm sure it was also royalty free.
Sticking in a track with a Cascada vocal would not be acceptable, neither would using a clip from an existing track not made by you.

Listeners were people who listened to the show and voted.
Contestant is the votes Contestants gave each other.
Representation is how well your track represented the country.

At 12/6/09 08:46 AM, Rucklo wrote: or maybe he's dog-sexual. couch-sexual. hisownhand-sexual.

or just have a ridiculously small penis :3

He could also be treesexual. He could be a hippy!

At 12/6/09 07:48 AM, Chozz wrote:

At 12/6/09 07:35 AM, Calamaistr wrote: Yea ill lose my virginity when im 80, i dont give a shit about it, have always been turning girls down anyway, hell i might be gay.. appart from me not being attracted to guys.

Think of the Children

That could be seen as ridiculously disgusting. D:

It's great to hear that everyone enjoyed the contest. I'm hoping to see you all return in May 2010.
I thought this contest ran really smoothly and it was nice to hear from new people.

Next contest the 'top' section will be extended to four (the actual plan is to have a top 5, but there arent enough Veterans yet) the top 4 contestants are as follows:

Top 4

Kazmo
zomgkerrie
Popraz
Chozz

Well done to everyone involved, the shows was a huge sucess, despite my awful nothern dialect.
The Top 5 are as follows:

1st - Chozz (Russia) - 59 Points
2nd - ProudAardvark (Peru) - 53 Points
3rd - Popraz (Romania) - 45 Points
4th - Box-Killa (Austalia) - 41 Points
5th -EasilyEmbarrassed (Netherlands) - 31 Points

The entire scoreboard can be seen Here.

I'm just doing a few calculations to find out who the top 3 of RAC4 will be. The next contest will be taking place May 2010, so make sure you all have a great time until then!

At 12/5/09 03:59 PM, Sealander wrote: Revealing my virginity of kissing

That's right! Never been kissed IRL!!!!!!!!!!!.

Now which one of you lovers will take away my INTERNET kissing virginity away first? <3

There are no girls on the internet!

The final starts in two hours!
I'm gonna head on over to the chat now and see if anybody has any questions or would simply enjoy the company. It'll be an interesting night for everyone and I'd also like to make it clear that all the judge had different opinions!
If your entry doesn't get points or ends up low, it doesn't mean that no one liked it, it just means the judges agreed that others were good and the points built up more.

There was a case where an act got 10 points from one judge (the highest for judges points) and other judges gave it 4's, meaning it won't do as good as a piece that got 7 across the board.

I hope everyone enjoys the show!

At 12/5/09 10:40 AM, aliaspharow wrote:

At 12/3/09 09:35 PM, aliaspharow wrote:
This was a very hard choice for me! you 5 guys all really seemed to deserve fifth! but after a while i think Ive made the right decisions.

OMFG did i really write fifth? holly crap sorry guys i meant first

Bahahahahahah.
I was wondering why you said that. :/

4 acts could easily turn things round if they have support tonight! I've never seen such a close final.

Another two acts are also in the awkward situation of ending up with 0 points on the scoreboard. Tonight it is vital that all acts bring support so that these kind of things can be changed. How close things are now, the Scoreboard could be completely flipped!

Okay, so the final four;

#16 - Kirbyfemur - Brittle Nature (Antarctica)
#17 - Popraz - Stand United (Romania)
#18 - Chozz - From Russia, with thanks (Russia)
#19 - Snak - Hall of the Frost King (Denmark)

The Full listing will be posted later tonight.
Also, we need more followers for the Rac Twitter, all artists will be supported through this after the contest, promoting your new tracks and projects, this will only work however if more people are following us. Tomorrow there will be a rehearsal which will be closely followed by the Twitter. We'd very much like artists to post pictures of themselves looking nervous too! So PM them if you can and we'll chat about your act!

I'm going to be spending tonight and tomorrow morning adding up all the scores and making them into points and then transferring them onto the Scoreboard, I'd like to thank everyone for taking part, without you guys this cannot happen, it's just time now until the next RAC Champion is crowned.

Good Luck everyone!

*Nervously runs off*

I did tell PenguinSam that this could happen, he made his decision to go through with his entry, it's completely up to the judges whether or not he broke the rules, he did all the correct things to get his entry accepted into the contest, only a small amount of the rules will get you kicked out of the contest, the majority are things that could really pull your score down to 0.

This has happened and everyone should just calm down. I will completely back the judges decisions.

As for the Contestant vote, that wasn't meant to be posted here but I never made it clear, so I apologise, it'a good thing the majority of people Pm'd me and the votes are all so different you'll find it impossible to predict the winner from what's been posted in this thread. Those votes will still count.

The top 3 weren't allowed to vote and aren't allowed to be voted for.

I totally support this. Why not give each participant a message they have to deliver through their performance?
It takes rap and Hip-Hop back to what they first intended to do and gives the guys a contest and purpose for their tracks.

You could also do a crew collab battle. People form diferent regions of the world (Europe, Asia, US etc.) join together and battle aginst the other regions.

The Scoring system has been functioned so that rule-breakers get penalised. The track will still be played and I'll leave the judges to do their responsibilities.
Penguinsam has entered his track on time and applied during the correct stages, his track does not contain anything which viewers would ind offensive, so I've chosen to go ahead and play his track.

The Next 5 in the Lineup!

#11 - Pich - Ancient Ruins (San Marino)
#12 - Assios - Euphoria (Norway)
#13 - DJ Sumara - Breeze (Poland)
#14 - Gragh - Bob Locks (Jamaica)
#15 - Kazmo - Far Side Of The Moon (Germany)

At 12/2/09 02:43 PM, Assios wrote: Finally:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 92772

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Thank You! ^^

At 12/2/09 01:05 PM, Bearserker wrote: so its my turn now! :D

Artist: Forensic Details (Bearserker)
Name of Song: Break (Intro)
Genre: Experimental Death Metal
Country: Germany

i think the song represents really good the night of the crimezones in germany, especially the city hamburg. creepy and aggressive. so, let me know what you think. :D

greetz!

Barry

The application deadline has passed. I'm afraid I cannot accept your entry.

@Assios: Okay, thank you. :3

At 12/2/09 12:05 PM, Assios wrote: Working... hard... right... now... Damn computer.

Assios, thanks for telling me you're working on it. If today is not possible for your work to be handed in I'll accept it tomorrow, but please make it as early as possible, judges need to mark them.

If anyone else is in the same situation they must tell me quickly, otherwise people who do not submit tracks by midnight will be disqualified.

At 12/1/09 10:23 PM, Pure-Metal-UTA wrote: Damn, I missed the deadline, didn't I?
Oh well, that'll give me till summer to work on my epic scottish metal song.

The deadline is today. Meaning that submissions submitted after midnight will not be accepted, also...
The next 5 for the lineup!

#6 - Popraz - Stand United (Romania)
#7 - EasilyEmbarrassed - I'm Sorry (The Netherlands)
#8 - DJ Inthedark - Forgotten Kingdom (Lebanon)
#9 - PenguinSam - Star Spangled Banner (USA)
#10 - ChungStarr - Bailar (Spain)

At 12/1/09 03:18 PM, Kirbyfemur wrote:

At 12/1/09 11:52 AM, NeonProject wrote: The Show is going to start at 5pm EST, if you don't live in that timezone you may need to check what time it will be where you live. Veiwers will have the chance to vote and instructions on how to do so will be given on the night. The running order for artists will be chosen at random and artists will only be entered for the draw if they have already submitted their track.

The Contest will take place at Radiogrounds, simply click on one of the server buttons at the side of 'Tune in Now'. Also make sure you join the chat (Click 'Chat') for show discussion and fun stuff. You will need an IRC Client to join the chat.

I just checked and the "IRC" chat thing isn't free and for people who can't buy, they will only get a 30 day trial version. This is more of a warning, unless people already know this then i don't know...

If you use firefox download the 'Chatzilla' plugin. It's the same thing.
Also, mIrc is free. Once the trail runs out you have to wait 30 seconds before the button to sign in pops up.

The Show is going to start at 5pm EST, if you don't live in that timezone you may need to check what time it will be where you live. Veiwers will have the chance to vote and instructions on how to do so will be given on the night. The running order for artists will be chosen at random and artists will only be entered for the draw if they have already submitted their track.

The Contest will take place at Radiogrounds, simply click on one of the server buttons at the side of 'Tune in Now'. Also make sure you join the chat (Click 'Chat') for show discussion and fun stuff. You will need an IRC Client to join the chat.

The running order for the contest is going to be decided by random draw. Today I have randomly drawn the first 5 acts to be played and they are;

#1 - Box-Killa - Violin Liberation (Australia)
#2 - ProudAardvark - Llama Rampage (Peru)
#3 - Airprogressive - Le Bouclier Bleu (France)
#4 - Simon Cameron - Clock (Canada)
#5 - YouriX - My Roots (Haïti)

Entries not yet submitted will not be entered into the random draw until they are submitted. Another 5 acts will be drawn tomorrow.

At 11/30/09 09:32 PM, PenguinSam wrote:

At 11/30/09 09:08 PM, Kirbyfemur wrote:

At 11/30/09 07:15 PM, djInTheDark wrote: Wow that sucks dude, I thought it was pretty good to.

Oh well always next year right? heh...

Didn't NeonProject say something about possibly holding a summertime RAC? If he was, maybe it could be like the Olympics, just without all those crazy fucking paparazzi everywhere lol

haha, yes he did!

Also, I should have my final entry posted soon, hopefuly by tomorrow.

<PS>

Awesome, it's even more awesome for you because Marius Chamberlain PPulled out. Putting you directly into a final spot.

And yes, starting 2010 there will be two contests every year (instead of this years 3). One will be in Summer, the other in Winter. I like the Olympics idea, I might work with that. :3

At 11/30/09 02:01 PM, pgstudio wrote: Hello,
it´s my first time posting here.
Do i still have time to join the contest ?

If so,
Artist: PG
Song: This Morning
Genre: Don´t know to be honest! Slow Melodic Eletronic ? :P
Country: Brazil.

PS: I don´t know how to submit the link here, so im posting the link for the MP3 directly from my site,
is that ok ??
This Morning.mp3

Thanks for your time!

The deadline for sign ups has unfortunately passed. Plus all entries had to be submitted to the audio Portal. I'm afraid I can't accept You. :(

Thanks for the entries guys... looking forward to the Big day!
Top 3 Member interviews will be up soon too!

Judging Guides have been sent off.
The Fun begins here kids!

Thank you for your entry. :)

So far we have 13 fully submitted tracks!
Yey.
I really hope everyone else submits tracks.

At 11/27/09 10:02 AM, djInTheDark wrote: May I post an update aswell? I already posted a newer version but I submitted it separately from the original so its no problem if I can't...

As long as the update is saved to the link you posted previously.

At 11/25/09 06:09 AM, Gutterfly wrote: Hi there. I'd like to enter if it's not too late.

Artist: Gutterfly
Song: Don't know yet
Genre: Don't know yet
Country: Cuba

You made it just in time!
Today is the deadline.
I'll add you to the list. :3

The deadline is a week today, so please make sure you get to work straight away.

Artist Spotlight

Name: Popraz

Joining newgrounds in 2008, Popraz specialises in making Dramatic Classical music (alongside with the odd Miscellaneous and videogame pieces). He has a special ability to create emotion which grabs the heart string of the listener. His RAC debut was in the second contest, he represented Romania with his Dystopia sounding 'Dark World Adiago'.

Dark World Adagio (Contest), by popraz Type: SongGenre: Classical

Once again, he is back to represent Romania with his chilling piece 'Stand United'.

Stand United [popraz - Rac3], by popraz Type: SongGenre: Miscellaneous

Being his second contest, Popraz is now elegible for a spot in the 'Top 3' in the next contest. His place will depend on how he performs in this contest!