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At 1/1/11 01:21 PM, Darkmaster603 wrote: Ah okay I feel better than.

Looking forward to the next one

The next one will be HUGE, I'll make it so. Plus starting next year we have one a year, so I need to make up for the contest we will be missing. ;)
I can't believe we're in the 3rd year of RAC, where is all this time going?

I think that out of everyone, Haiti and Norway should be the most upset at their rankings. I thought both of those pieces were excellent, and am surprised they didn't end up scoring more. I'm also surprised that the orchestral pieces as a whole didn't do a lot better.

I'm actually glad I didn't win -- the contestants really stepped up the authenticity this year with stunningly accurate songs. I didn't pay as much attention to country representation as I should have, and with a cop-out country like the United States I felt like I could get away with the "American music is a blend of other music so I can make whatever I want" excuse.

I'm participating next round. And I'm choosing a country to represent that'll put hair on your chest. (Even if you're female.)

At 1/1/11 03:06 PM, Kirbyfemur wrote: Woo! 7th!!! Next time, i'm shooting for 6th!

But a good sign to se is i got some high marks in places, just gotta work on the rest of the elements. Congrats to the winners!

Woot! Tied for 7th *HighFive*

Congrats everyone!

At 1/1/11 05:15 PM, Stupor wrote: I'm participating next round. And I'm choosing a country to represent that'll put hair on your chest. (Even if you're female.)

I cannot wait for that day! :D
(Seriously.)

At 1/1/11 05:06 PM, jkap1 wrote: I think that out of everyone, Haiti and Norway should be the most upset at their rankings. I thought both of those pieces were excellent, and am surprised they didn't end up scoring more. I'm also surprised that the orchestral pieces as a whole didn't do a lot better.

ha, i'm not upset. I really don't belong on this website, but I'm just glad to get people to hear my songs. I'm glad somebody understands my pain though, lol

Yeah, I'm to surprised at my score. I didn't do nearly as good a job as I could have, but I procrastinated, so its apparent what the real problem with my song was: lack of effort.

Oh well, there's always next year!

Oops

*** I'm NOT to surprised at my score - is what I meant to say.

8th place? I laugh at my position! I can get that people don't like my tunes because I'm very artistic in my sounds and don't give two shits about theory, but I think it's strange that my representation points are low as well as the entertainment points (which I know for a fact were all about how the opening is so 'lame' sounding but that's how that Thai music sounds: alot of jumping back to open notes), plus the evidence points. Most of that stuff came straight out of my head from world musical study and so you wanted me to site books and websites that I've read over years? I find that strange but I digress.

I see that you didn't incorporate my corrected voting slot in the contest there, Neon. Quite confused as to why. I didn't understand your wording in the PM at all until I pondered it for a while (damn Asperger's Syndrome).

My love goes out to North pole, who didn't get an "8" next to their country because of me and Romania for being my favorite submission, you rock!

Also, I congratulate jkap1 for winning the First place spot (although I think you could've done a whole two shitloads better my man ;]) and China for second place despite my notoriously horrid opinion of your song, lol (you gotta have me hear that other piece you were talking about, just send a link via PM) but most importantly, to everyone who participated in making the contest happen, including the participants. I'll be attending the contest for sure the next time it comes around and hope to get a country more suited to myself like Japan or a middle eastern country (like Turkey :P) but then again, where's the fun in getting a country you know everything about?

I thought this contest was really cool because I got exposed to several new artists who I think will be good allies in the future. Honestly, I loved how you only had to make one song for this (unlike RUNGADM) because I don't just pump songs out like a machine! It takes real inspiration to get me to make a full song and even though I didn't do everything to the song that I wanted to because the inspiration came late I still think it's a real cool song. I hope that y'all will maybe keep an eye on this experimental musician from Pennsylvania, U.S. and wish y'all the best of luck!

At 1/2/11 05:05 AM, Rahmemhotep wrote:

Also, I congratulate jkap1 for winning the First place spot (although I think you could've done a whole two shitloads better my man ;])

Thanks. Full disclosure: my hard drive actually crashed at in mid-December, and I had to sloppily try to recreate my entry from scratch in about two weeks. The previous version was this awesome hybrid piece that started out as a highlife tune, but then flipped in the middle with all kinds of electro-garbage.

In the end, when I made it over, I couldn't redo what I'd done before, so I decided that I'd play it more straight & just make a "real" sounding highlife tune. Apparently that was the right strategy because it netted me the trophy, but TBH my previous attempt - which is now lost forever - was a lot better & more innovative. (Which means I probably wouldn't have even placed if I'd been able to submit it ;)

Wait, quick question about the results - why does the USA only have two numbers factoring into the score? Did I get a zero in everything besides two block votes?

At 1/1/11 05:43 PM, matvei wrote:

At 1/1/11 03:06 PM, Kirbyfemur wrote: Woo! 7th!!! Next time, i'm shooting for 6th!

But a good sign to se is i got some high marks in places, just gotta work on the rest of the elements. Congrats to the winners!

Woot! Tied for 7th *HighFive*

Congrats everyone!

*Dramatic jumping freeze frame high-five with cheesy 80's music playing*

At 1/3/11 06:17 PM, Stupor wrote: Wait, quick question about the results - why does the USA only have two numbers factoring into the score? Did I get a zero in everything besides two block votes?

Not exactly, the points in that chart only go to the top 10 marks in each category.
Just because you didn't get points there doesn't mean you got a 0 from the judges marks.

At 1/1/11 03:41 PM, cowdog2 wrote: nice, 15th

better than last year. I wasn't even on the result board lol.....my life sucks

lol, I got 13th :). Guess it's not to bad for my first time. Wish I could've done better though, but I went for accuracy and kinda scrapped entertainment value for that.

Hate to double post, but could you guys give me some pointers? Pretty much did it all in Fruity Loops. Didn't even figure out automation till yesterday. Some of what you guys use seem pretty complicated. I don't have much recording equipment, so I usually work with virtual instruments and adjust velocity for sound levels. I'm pretty much a total noob in FL. The tutorials are mostly down, so I'd love for some pointers in FL, or suggestions for other software to try.

Haiti didnt even make it in the TOP10?!?!?
Last year Haiti won first place! D:
But it doesnt matter next year i am going to fix that >:)

Well done to everyone who entered! And congratulations to Jkap1!!! Until next time :)