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Hello everyone, and welcome to the new TA DJ Challenge Series!

Challenges
Original threads
March 2009 - Genre Challenge Round 1
May 2009 - Genre Challenge Round 2
July 2009 - Genre Challenge Round 3
July 2010 - Genre Challenge Round 4
February 2011 - Genre Challenge Round 5
April 2012 - Genre Challenge Round 6

New Challenge series
January 2014 - Theme challenge
September 2014 - Genre challenge ?
January 2015 - 3 random tracks ?
September 2015 - Genre challenge ?

The Rules

The Theme Challenge will consist of a 45 minute to 120 minute mix, left to your own interpretation of the suggested theme, which will be posted after sign-ups are over. There are no prizes. All entries should be uploaded to your favorite file hosting site and posted after the sign-up date and before the due date. All participants should make an effort to listen to and review each mix that has been posted.

IF YOU SIGN UP AND DO NOT DO YOUR MIX, YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE REST OF THE COMPETITIONS!!!

Sign-ups will last a little over a month, starting today and lasting through JANUARY 6th, @ 12 AM GMT. Simply enter your name and the theme you suggest. I will choose a theme at the end of the sign-up period and the mixing will begin. This challenge ends FEBRUARY 10th @ 12 AM GMT.

You may choose to drop out before the sign-up dates end, but once the challenge begins you cannot drop out.

Theme Mix schedule
Sign-ups begin: December 4th
Competition begins: January 6th
Competition ends: February 10th

Chosen Theme

Science Fiction

The Participants

Mr. Game+Watch (aka Luke Drelick) - Neo-Tokyo Outrun
Psyshell - Dancing is Active Meditation
Sand Leaper - Erutufon
Mitztronic - Fluctuations
Bierheld - Science Dysfunction
Ziptnf - Encrypted Universe
PivotTechno (aka Westside Wax) - Last Night Marty McFly Showed Up At My Place In A Hazmat Suit
Jack Moss - Human Revolution
Dave King - Hypersleep Dreams
Lews - Journey Through the Wormhole

Good luck and happy mixing!

I propose "Bot Invasion" as the theme.

Not signing up, btw.

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Originally posted by Meat187 I propose "Bot Invasion" as the theme.

lol

I'm in and my themes are:
-Nostalgia
-New York City
-Video Games

I figured this would draw a little more attention, especially from the people who suggested the theme mix in the original thread. Keeping this bumped to see if more people sign up.

I'm in. My theme suggestion is science fiction.

We've still got a month to sign-up, Nick

I'm in, just trying to think of what theme to suggest.

I'll go with hacking/cybersecrecy.

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Originally posted by Lews We've still got a month to sign-up, Nick I'm in, just trying to think of what theme to suggest.

this

I am paranoid, okay? Like everyone saw it and was like pffft fuck that

in

theme suggestions:
dark
space

If Stu, or someone, could sticky this to the top, though, that would be great.

Nick, you want it stickied? Sometimes threads can get ignored up there...

Putting a link to this thread in your signature would probably help as well.

Completely overlooked this apparently.
In any case. Considering how the last thread went it's unlikely enough for us to reach a consensus on this as is so I'll refrain from submitting a theme for now.

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Originally posted by Bierheld Considering how the last thread went it's unlikely enough for us to reach a consensus on this as is so I'll refrain from submitting a theme for now.

Yeah, I also struggle to see how exactly we are supposed to reach some sort of consensus on what theme to use. Some people are going to be dissatisfied with the theme that will be used for the challenge no matter what, so we might as well choose one at random or let the guy in charge of the challenge have the privilege of choosing it. Saves time.

Stickying it would be fine if you think it gets more visibility. I just know sometimes people don't pay as much attention to those as they do the ones that are floating around on the front page.

I honestly just wanted to offer the ability for everyone to choose what the theme was going to be, but yeah if history serves, we are not good at making collective decisions. However, there was already backlash for me choosing what challenges we were going to do in the first place so it's almost a lose-lose for me

If anyone doesn't want me to choose the theme, speak now.

One suggestion: we all propose one theme; once all the themes are in (set some date for a deadline), we are all given one veto. I can't imagine one person would veto every theme, so ideally we should knock a few of them off, leaving a smaller quantity. Then do some random number generator to choose one of the remaining ones.

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Originally posted by Lews One suggestion: we all propose one theme; once all the themes are in (set some date for a deadline), we are all given one veto. I can't imagine one person would veto every theme, so ideally we should knock a few of them off, leaving a smaller quantity. Then do some random number generator to choose one of the remaining ones.

I think the vetoing thing only worked in the past because it only affected your own mix for the challenge. It's not really fair that one person gets to entirely remove the possibility of one theme to be chosen for everyone, simply because that one person doesn't like it.

I say just pick a theme at random when all the themes are in. If you sign up for this challenge, be prepared to deal with the fact that the theme chosen might not be exactly what you hoped for.

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Originally posted by Sand Leaper I think the vetoing thing only worked in the past because it only affected your own mix for the challenge. It's not really fair that one person gets to entirely remove the possibility of one theme to be chosen for everyone, simply because that one person doesn't like it. I say just pick a theme at random when all the themes are in. If you sign up for this challenge, be prepared to deal with the fact that the theme chosen might not be exactly what you hoped for.

I was trying to preclude a situation where one person suggests a theme that a large majority dislike, but then somehow that theme is the one that is randomly chosen.

What if it took some percentage of vetos to knock one off - say, 20 or 30 percent? Though, of course, this all depends on how many people end up signing up. For some reason, I'm kind of assuming we'll have 7-12 people in the end.

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Originally posted by Lews I was trying to preclude a situation where one person suggests a theme that a large majority dislike, but then somehow that theme is the one that is randomly chosen.

This can be avoided if ziptnf simply asks the participants about which theme they really don't want. If there is a large consensus on such a theme, it'll get taken out. I don't think you can really define a fixed % of people that are required for a theme to be knocked out when the final amount of participants is so ambivalent, so ziptnf will just have to use some common sense. I don't have a problem with giving that privilege to the person who actually can be bothered to organise this whole ordeal.

I haven't been behind the decks in a while - this'll be a good kickstart for me. And I'll submit FUBAR as a theme.

Here's what I'll do, I'll personally veto any absurd themes or themes that suck, then I will either choose the one that looks best or use a random number generator. I've updated the main post with the suggested themes.

How about everyone gets 2 vetoes (technically pseudo vetoes)... and it takes 2 vetoes to knock off a theme. That way no single person gets to have a major effect. After that, I don't think it really matters, either ziptnf should choose or use a rng or maybe a poll. That way at least part of it is at least partially democratic and a rough opinion on various themes can be established from people's veto voting patterns.

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Originally posted by Lews What if it took some percentage of vetos to knock one off - say, 20 or 30 percent? Though, of course, this all depends on how many people end up signing up. For some reason, I'm kind of assuming we'll have 7-12 people in the end.

Something like that is similar obviously.

How about we only veto one. I'll chose the one that gets the most votes I suppose.

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