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Originally posted by ChrstnMchl Thats not to say that talent isn't involved - I just don't see it as a DJ contest. Its a remix/ edit contest. Certainly, the bar would have to be higher because you can do sooooo much of it before the actual show. There would be no excuse for miscues or simply not having a flawless set. Where is the difficulty in mixing if you have everything pre-taylored to work together?

You see normally I'd bring out my usual line about "why make life hard for yourself?", with the comparison with getting the computer to beatmatch for you and why if that technology had existed in the 70s we'd think anyone who tried to beatmatch live was insane...

But this IS a DJ competition and it's a very different concept from a club set.

In a club you're there to give the crowd a good time - they don't want to hear you trainwrecking, they don't want to hear key clashes, they want it to sound as good as possible. Most of them wouldn't really care if you played a pre-planned set full of pre-made edits, although the main reason for not doing that is you lose the ability to react to the crowd.

In a DJ competition you're there to show off to the judges (and possibly impress some of the crowd). IMO there are 3 aspects to DJing: finding good tunes, technical skill and reading the crowd... all 3 of these should come across in a DJ competition, although I appreciate a lot of DJ comps make it pretty hard to demonstrate the last one.

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