Mac8 - Trembling Madness Results!

[MaestroRage]

- Undisputed winner for everything.
Douche - Rig

Wins AIDS

- 1st place!
Hank's Return - John Guy

Wins $150 + Free shirt/stickers
or $75 Free NG Merchandise + $75 + Free Shirt/Stickers
or $150 free NG Merchandise + Free Shirt/Stickers

- 2nd + 3rd places!
[MAC8]Origins - MrMilkCarton

Wins $100 + Free Shirt/Stickers
or $50 Free NG Merchandise + $50 + Free Shirt/Stickers
or $100 free NG Merchandise + Free Shirt/Stickers

- 4th place!
Shitville - JohnnyFrizz

Wins $50 + Free Shirt/Stickers
or $50 free NG Merchandise + Free Shirt/Stickers

- 5th - 10th place!
{'Osc} Dementia [MAC] - oscillist
The Plague [MAC8]
Cataclysm - William
Mac8 - Writhing Fixation - SinJim
Desultory Sound - boggypete
The Madness of the World - Bosa

Wins cruel mockery

Winners please message Tom with your prize information and address and junk so they can send it to you! Congratulations to all, it was an intensely bass heavy experience. I've never wanted to kill something so badly before, so I guess that means most of you had the right idea :D!

Let this thread also be a melting pot to discuss the next MAC, which shall be decided via democratic vote. Until the 27th we shall gather ideas, and then from then hence, until the 30th, we shall vote. October 1st will launch the next Mac!

[MaestroRage]

i'm an idiot. Way too tired, should have probably noticed stuff wasn't adding up right

Shitville - JohnnyFrizz wins 3rd

{'Osc} Dementia [MAC] - oscillist wins 4th.

sorry for that.

[Rig]

Sweet! I expect my aids to be mailed to me via singing telegram.

Congratulations to those OTHER winners :D

[WritersBlock]

At 9/22/08 12:39 AM, MaestroRage wrote: i'm an idiot. Way too tired, should have probably noticed stuff wasn't adding up right

Shitville - JohnnyFrizz wins 3rd

{'Osc} Dementia [MAC] - oscillist wins 4th.

sorry for that.

Haha, now your 5th to 10th places list only goes to 9th place. Who was 10th?

[MaestroRage]

so it does =_=...

well thank GOD I saved the damn document.

SR - Lovely Tings - SineRider

once again, terribly sorry.

[Mrmilkcarton]

Do I get a choice of the t-shirt and stickers or what. I'm completely clueless but extremely happy lol.

[MaestroRage]

yes, you get to choose which shirt you want from the store, as for the stickers they have a standard system of a little bit of everything.

[WritersBlock]

At 9/22/08 12:51 AM, MaestroRage wrote: once again, terribly sorry.

I think we'll be able to forgive you just this once...

And congratuations to the winners!

[Quarl]

ddddaaaaaaaammmnnn my sub got shat on. Not even top ten :(

[Quarl]

oh well. congratz to winners :P

I'll just cry over here with spikrod.

[Spikrodd]

SON OF A FUCKING CUNT

This is not fair. :C where'd i place?

[S3C]

Yo, congratz guys!

[Spikrodd]

well then... now that i am THOUROUGHLY PISSED. What's the next mac?

[Quarl]

At 9/22/08 03:30 AM, Spikrodd wrote: well then... now that i am THOUROUGHLY PISSED. What's the next mac?

Exactly how I feel. Regardless, I'm fucking pumped now for the next mac. I don't care if the theme is candy land, I'm ripping it a new ass to shit from.

[SolusLunes]

At 9/22/08 03:54 AM, Quarl wrote:

At 9/22/08 03:30 AM, Spikrodd wrote: well then... now that i am THOUROUGHLY PISSED. What's the next mac?

Exactly how I feel. Regardless, I'm fucking pumped now for the next mac. I don't care if the theme is candy land, I'm ripping it a new ass to shit from.

Great terminology. :D

Anyways, congratulations to the winners :D

[DarKsidE555]

Congrats to da winrars!

Special congrats to Rig as well. AIDS well recieved! :D

[SolusLunes]

Also, I'd like to be the first to suggest a MAC theme. :D

Hopefully beginning a terrible trend in alliteration, I am going to suggest a theme of Epic Endings.

As in, something like movies credit music, or when the hero is riding off into the sunset (so to speak.)

I SUGGESTED IT SO I WIN PREEMPTIVELY :D

[Quarl]

Hmmm... how about Epic let downs? Everysong would be a build up with out a song. I think it would be really awesome to have a mac with a sense of humor.

[MaestroRage]

At 9/22/08 08:40 AM, Quarl wrote: Hmmm... how about Epic let downs? Everysong would be a build up with out a song. I think it would be really awesome to have a mac with a sense of humor.

that's not a bad idea actually. We really should have a humor based MAC.

[SinJim]

Congrats to the winners, great job guys.

There were some kick ass entries this time around. Hopefully when I'm perusing the flash submissions I'll hear some of these, but oh well.

~SinJim

[boggypete]

Damn, I came 9th over all. Oh well, now I know I have to work even harder for next year. Congratulations to the winners, hope you enjoy your prizes.

By the way, what was the contest judged on? It would help me improve if I knew.

[MaestroRage]

At 9/22/08 11:48 AM, boggypete wrote: Damn, I came 9th over all. Oh well, now I know I have to work even harder for next year. Congratulations to the winners, hope you enjoy your prizes.

By the way, what was the contest judged on? It would help me improve if I knew.

- Ability to stand out whilst still holding onto the core that was Madness. There were a lot of submissions that blended together like water and more water. Yes they were good, yes they were pumping, but when everything is pumping the same way, all of them become... useless per say.

- As well a song's ability to entertain was a big factor. Yes a song should be usable in flash (so doesn't jump around all the time), but a 5 minute track with repetitive loops was not going to cut it.

- Length. Songs should not exceed 3:30ish. There was one song here that was 8:00+ long. That was fail. No. It was catchy and entertaining for the first 4 minutes, then it was just overkill.

- For this MAC technical skills also came in very high up on the priority list. It's very easy to clip and distort your track with the amount of bass people were shoving into it. Hearing any kind of clipping or poorly mastered track was big no no points against the track itself. This was especially true if the song sounded generic.

- Replayability. This is more of a personal thing, I don't know if the other judges would agree, but there are some things people do to their songs which the first time you hear it, it's pretty neat, but the second and third etc times it's just annoying. This includes speech samples *mostly FL defaults* and other "intermission" sounds which disrupt the flow of the song for the sake of disrupting the flow to make the listener stop and pay attention.

Hope that helps.

[nal1200]

I was eating in our student union's courtyard today while a band of two performed. They played very relaxing, non shalant guitar with a trumpet soloist.

I'd be nice to have a MAC that presented your skills outside of the DAW.

[Rucklo]

A big CONGRATS to the winners!!! Well played! Thanks alot MaestroRage and the MAC-crew for yet another awesome contest!

[Rig]

At 9/22/08 03:01 PM, Rucklo wrote: A big CONGRATS to the winners!!! Well played! Thanks alot MaestroRage and the MAC-crew for yet another awesome contest!

Indeed! Any more epic mac ideas, though? :P

[Nav]

Kewl-eeh-oh. Congrats to teh winners!

[JohnnyFrizz]

YEAHSZ!!!!! 3rd Place! WOOHOO! Haha thanks a lot guys.

[DarKsidE555]

At 9/22/08 04:11 PM, JohnnyFrizz wrote: YEAHSZ!!!!! 3rd Place! WOOHOO! Haha thanks a lot guys.

YOU SUCK PENIS! >:U

IN HELL! D:<

lulz

[HMS-Productions]

the 1st place song is just awesome, well deserved imo.

I'm just happy I made it to the submission list :D

[S3C]

At 9/22/08 02:31 PM, nal1200 wrote:

I'd be nice to have a MAC that presented your skills outside of the DAW.

I second this idea :P