Song Contest - BOTB 5! (Results are in!)

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there is ~not~ actually space on the entry form for backup submissions, btw
and as i do every time i'm submitting someone else's artist so i really need to fill the backup spot out

I've removed that line from the guidelines, I meant to do so earlier and spaced.

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OK I uploaded it to my Google Docs. How to use this:

-The columns go: song contest number, submitter, country, country, artist, song, points scored
-All first place winners in regular contests are listed in a row, then all second place, then all third place. Everything else has been scrubbed from the list. There are no BOTB winners in this list.
-Any artist that won a top three in a previous best of the best contest has been scrubbed from the list (I couldn't find Doves or Tunng so if I somehow missed them and they're on there, they can't be entered either).
-So any artist on the list should be eligible to be entered into this BOTB.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxnN5o ... sp=sharing

Thanks to toolenduso for doing this and letting me get a bit clever with it. I'm adding it to the OP now, and a couple of changes have made:

1) it's sortable by column (I assume you can sort with view only access, if not let me know) so you can look at it organized by artist
2) there's a new column on the far right that's just representative of the pre-sorted order, so if you sort by that column it will put it back to what it looked like originally

use this new link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1929170826 (this is what's linked in the OP)

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so how do we submit backup entries then

don't

I'm going to be checking the entries near-daily this time around and letting people know if someone's already submitted their artist

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Entries for this are due in 2 days!

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Deadline for entries is 6 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, December 2nd.

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in short you all suck

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Will try to get this up today

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Oh, shit. Let me fix that one, hang on.

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The entry formerly listed as Random is actually Qatar. The entry post now reflects this.

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^ what inte said

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It does make me happy that Melanie Martinez is the most commercially successful artist - she's somebody that Adam really went out on a limb for because she was Different (and Christina hated her fucking guts for some reason). I really think she would have gotten farther, but she was really off-key when she did Crazy and it screwed her. But her album is SO GOOD. Just, so good. Ugh.

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Iceland – Mew: this is very meh the whole way through (B-)
USA - Patent Pending: ugh yes, this is awesome (A)
Fiji – Venetian Snares: decent, but too disorganized for my tastes (B-)
Wales – San Cisco: Pretty sweet! (A-)
Spain – Algiers: Pretty good, but not spectacular (B)

Italy – The National: Same as Spain (B)
Uruguay – Woodkid: Fairly decent, may get points (B+)
Madagascar – Tom Waits: sure is tom waits (B)
Hungary – Esti Kornel: Fine, nothing special (B)
Ecuador – Biffy Clyro: see hungary (B)

Cote d'Ivoire – The Vincent Black Shadow: This was pretty cool (A-)
Qatar – XYLO: interesting but not awesome (B)
Mali – Arthur Beatrice: just didn't hold my interest at all (B-)
Scotland – Florence and the Machine: This was pretty good. I dig it. (A-)
Burkina Faso – Aimee Mann: Ehh. (B-)

Chad – Childish Gambino: Oh my god the lyrics in this are so good holy shit (A)
Belarus – Matthew Good: EHHH (B-)
Greece – Rasputina: This was interesting. Might see points. (B+)
The Gambia – RX Bandits: Interesting. (B+)
India – Estradasphere: This is kind of excellent, not gonna lie (A-)

Taiwan – Hop Along: this is pretty decent (B+)
France – Metric: Pretty okay, not great (B)
Gabon – Of Monsters and Men: Pretty decent! (B+)
Singapore – Kimbra: Okay, but not as good as I'd hoped (B)
Republic of Kugelmugel – Mick Jenkins: Pretty excellent, I dig it (A-)

Slovenia – Rishloo: Pretty solid (B+)
Western Sahara – Broken Social Scene: dull and repetitive (B-)
Netherlands – Bright Eyes: I get the appeal of Bright Eyes, but he's generally not for me (B)
Chile – Patrick Wolf: This is okay, but not spectacular? Maybe points (B+)
Portugal – Lana Del Ray: Ehhh I wanted to like it more than I did (B)

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okay so

I don't really have the fire /desire to run this as consistently as it ought to be run.

If you're interested in taking over, shoot me a PM, and I'll pick someone and we can talk through how to transition.

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I am talking to someone now about potentially taking over.

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What toolenduso said

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sorry was busy and also sick last week

will try to play something with Toolenduso for this week.

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Toolenduso and I are planning on getting this up on Saturday.