Meb is ready for a hate reveal and Im all in for it, so lets do this!
Looking forward to a nodium after being told I might finish in first
Given the amount I put in, I deserve it
I 100% expect to finish last here
Haven’t listened to any of my stuff yet, but I’ll be revealing sometime between the 26th and 28th. Probably mid-morning on the North American eastern coast.
@seities @Pauwl @CanadaMatt3004 @Yuv @eyebooger @superuberbob @suzzer99 @Tilted @skydiver8
Reveal incoming! I think most of you are already posting in these threads so hopefully everyone sees this.
Probably only around for a little while longer, so might as well nodium me.
Welcome all to the kickoff of the Walrus Grab Bag 6 Reveal!
Our first category is modern bubblegum pop brought to you by the GOAT in this category, Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit Call Me Maybe
I love female vocalists and catchy upbeat pop, so I thought this would be a fun category. Unfortunately, as is appropriate for it being Festivus, I’ve got a lot of problems with your submissions, and now you’re gonna hear about them!
Don’t take any of this personally, as I blame myself for not giving you more examples of my musical tastes in this category so you would better know what I was looking for. So instead, I will sprinkle some examples into the reveal.
In 9th place & 8th place earning 1.5 points each (yep we’re starting with a tie) - Kero Kero Bonito - Trampoline
I’ve alway thought it should be a slight negative to submit the same song as another participant in walrus, but not enough to disqualify it. Unfortunately for whoever submitted this song, it was a clear last place for me when it was added to the fact that I didn’t really enjoy this song.
Turns out I’m also not a huge fan of songs with random non-English lyrics….
Quick copy and paste of some guidelines, though I think everyone playing has done this before:
The essentials are you do a post per song, giving the score, the YT link and some words summarising your thoughts about it. Reveals are traditionally done in reverse order.
Best to @ everyone a little while before you start.
Scoring
10th and last place = 1 point, 1st place = 10 points, fill in the gaps.
Exciting additional scorung 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.
Etiquette
- It’s more fun if people rail during a reveal. Having said that, try and show a bit of tact and remember it’s a game. Playfully telling someone their opinion is wrong is fun, trying to argue with someone about how they ranked your submission really isn’t.
- If you find songs in other peoples reveal you like, call it out! I get a kick out of submitting a song that is new to someone and they really like, even if its on the nodium.
- I can’t guarantee I will be timely with scores. Regardless, it helps if you call out which one was yours after it was revealed.
- Try not to call out your joker until after it was revealed.
Not last!
Nothing about this post bodes well for me…
Me too!
Also, how the hell did THAT get submitted twice?
In 7th place earning 3 points - KDA - I’ll Show You
Did I mention I hate K-Pop? It feels like I probably should have mentioned that I hate K-Pop…
Given how big foreign language music is becoming (especially K-Pop), mentioning this might have staved off a little frustration for you.
Good to not nodium this one though!
While we’re in this brief post-nodium intermission, it’s time for another example of what I was looking for in this category. Here’s an under the radar classic for you all to enjoy.
Next up is the middle-um? Since there’s 9 submissions for each category, feels like we need a name for the middle 3.
Medium? Or modium if it has to rhyme.
It is customary for the area betwixt either end of notoriety to be known as “The Pauwl Zone”.
I’ve noticed that it’s where most of my selections fall
I like modium.