so Paulino finished?

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Originally posted by Rockabye so Paulino finished?

Thats right all finished, scores have been sent.

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Originally posted by JohnPaullino Thats right all finished, scores have been sent.

great work dude!!!



huge THANK YOU to the judges. we really appreciate your time and work you put into this. I hope you enjoyed most of the mixes and the judging was more fun than work



so let's wait for Sphere putting all those numbers together.


a competition with only 4 days of delay? damn, I can't believe my eyes

much respect to all of the judges, thank you for your time.

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Originally posted by Rockabye I hope you enjoyed most of the mixes and the judging was more fun than work

listening to them was (mostly) enjoyable but parts of the scoring weren't... i didn't like the system.

firstly... a 30:70 creative:technical ratio seemed way out to me. you could give a set absolutely no thought whatsoever and throw together a random bunch of tunes with no flow/originality at all but so long as it was mixed properly you'd get 70%? i really don't dig that. i think good flow & originality are true arts.. that are far harder to learn than beatmatching/harmonic mixing or whatever.

and as for the melodics? seems pointless. some mixes made more of an effort to mix melodically than others, but if i'd marked them high for that then it would have been unfair on those who used less melodic styles. the only way i found i could judge it fairly was by taking points off for each transition where the bassline keys clashed (this was the best way i could work out going by the rule description sphere wrote).. but then if someone has an 11 track mix, then just 3 keyclashes would cost them 8 points (this was actually the case for one of the mixes). 8 might not seem like alot out of 100, but if you consider the difference 8 points under the originality section makes, it doesn't balance out. a mix with no clashes & 2/10 originality vs a mix with 3 clashes & 10/10 originality... to rate them the same seems silly

and as for phrasematching.. i think anyone considering entering a comp like this should be competent enough to know how to phrasematch anyway... it's not exactly the most challenging thing to master (esp on software where you don't have to worry about slow torque times ).. and 15 whole points just for getting it right seems a bit generous to me


anyhow.. yeah i'm prob the first one to complain about it but whatever . i'll happily judge the next comp too (if there is one), but only if the system is changed; melodics section removed & the phrasematching section combined with beatmatching (so mark out of 20 for overall beat/phrase matching).. then have it all out of 60

waiting for sphere

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Originally posted by JohnPaullino Thats right all finished, scores have been sent.

you forgot about dmdj

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Originally posted by djsphere you forgot about dmdj

Sent

Last edited by JohnPaullino on May-05-2006 at 19:05

here are the results:

1.Rockabye 93.7
2.TimTrip 90.3
3.Spirit Fingers 86
4.Last Sequence 82.7
5.Matt 80.3
6.Boban 80
7.MR2GTi 79.3
8.Sabi 79.3
9.DJ D-Flux 78.7
10.Evelon 77.7
11.Insertion 74.3
12.Ian 72.7
13.Andreas Zwerg 71
14.Psylo 67
15.Silent Raver 66.7
16.DMDJ 50.7


Congrats to everybody who entered.

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thanks and very big respect for all the judges for listening and rating our sets
I'm pretty surprised. My mix was recorded 2 hours before the beginning of the contest beacuse i forgot about it. Had some problems with beatmatching my new tracks, so i thought i'll be the last one. When i saw my place i was like WTF :O
when is the next contest starting?

Last edited by Boban on May-06-2006 at 17:36

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Originally posted by Boban when is the next contest starting?

u'll have to keep an eye on the forums for that.

anyway i wanted to say that it's been a really nice journey listening to all those mixes. i'm sorry i wasn't able to write comments also but i don't have that much free time left now with uni work and full time job.

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Last edited by djsphere on May-06-2006 at 09:19