A rundown of how this will work:
- Each participant hosts and reveals a category of their selection.
So that means if you enter you will have to choose a category for everyone else to submit a song to. More details on categories below.
Please make sure you can meet your commitment to doing a reveal before entering. It will take hours of your time to listen to all the entries, likely multiple times, then do a writeup for the reveal.
- I think we need to cap this at around 16 entrants maximum . That means 16 total reveals, and everyone will have to submit 15 entries.
- We will set a timeframe by which everyone needs to do their reveals. This will depend on how many entrants there are.
- Since there will be quite a few songs for everyone to think of, it will be best to not get too specific with your category. For this format it is better to have a broad category where people can easily recall songs they like that will fit, rather than defining a really specific category where people feel like they are just searching for something they don’t care much about to meet the category. For example:
- “A song in any language other than english” is probably ok. “A song in French” is too specific.
- “A song from the 90’s” is ok. “A song from 1991” is too specific.
If you are unsure about your category just ask for feedback in this thread. People will be happy to help.
Here is a template to use for posting your category :
Category host name: I would put seities here. Because my name is seities.
Category: Words to explain your category
Musical tastes: Optional, but I like to give a very general idea of stuff I like or don’t like.
Any other judging notes: For example, some hosts penalize for overly familiar songs, some don’t. Let us know if you have preferences.
New Scoring Rules:
Walrus always stays one step ahead, so there’s some new scoring rules:
- Your 2 lowest scores will be discarded for the final total, to allow you to go for some some high risk / high reward submissions (e.g. Melt Banana)
- If there’s fewer than ten contestants we’ll probably only discard one score, but I trust that won’t be the case.
- You will pick one of your submissions to be your ‘joker’, and it means you’ll actually score 1.5x your points for that category in the final reckoning. We won’t reveal when the jokers were played until after the last round for MAXIMUM EXCITEMENT!
(Note anyone who says this is just so @LouisCyphre doesn’t walk it again will be told to be quiet.)
Next steps:
- Signups. Just post here. For now I’ll say open until Thursday Morning euro time. (18th of Mar or until the limit is reached.)
- Your category should be submitted in this thread by end of day Friday (19th of Mar), but the sooner the better.
- After all categories are submitted I’ll follow up with a time frame for us all to send our entries, and who to send them to. Generally I am going to recommend sending a youtube link for your submissions if you can since it’s more accessible to everyone, but many of us also appreciate a spotify link.
Last, despite the mundane, rule-laden post that this is, Walrus is meant to be fun. Try not to take any results seriously, and do yourself a favour and don’t take the reveal for your category too seriously either. The fun in this game should be found in the fact that musical tastes vary wildly. Whether your submission gets roasted or toasted take pleasure in the fact that you made them listen to it!