UKmix Songwriter Idol 2010 (FINISHED)

[pollei]

I love Ryan's comments You give Khia a run for her money

[king_oxymoron]

Yeah Soph it probably helped I already knew the contestants full name

[AyumiH]

^ Thanks for fixing that for me, thank goodness you are a moderator...!

All comments are now up Last chance to get public votes in overnight, results will be tomorrow, about 17 hours from now if you must count down.

[JoshuaBuzz]

Ayumi_H there is a comment of yours missing...

[Tom92]

The other judges comments are great, but Jark, yours are outstanding. Incredibly detailed, on point, constructive praise and criticism

[AyumiH]

Ayumi_H there is a comment of yours missing...

Check now

[AyumiH]

The other judges comments are great, but Jark, yours are outstanding. Incredibly detailed, on point, constructive praise and criticism

Well, there IS a reason he won the last competition! But yeah I am so glad to have him judge for us

[Hype]

some excellent entries

[AyumiH]

Voting is closed btw, I am working on the results this moment

[AyumiH]

Welcome welcome welcome to the results show for round 1! I made the scoring very simple:
1st place = 10 points
2nd place = 9 points
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11th place = 0 points

I averaged together the public's votes and combined them into one ranking. So the public counts as one judge essentially.

Now onto RESULTS

This round there was a clear winner. 1st place goes to...
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Contestant 9: Messin' Round With PETA (Mr Kittybeater)
37 points
Public: 1st
Jark: 1st
Ryan: 3rd
Ayumi: 2nd

CONGRATULATIONS KHIA! UKmix thinks you are a very talented songwriter.

Next, onto second place. It goes to...
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Contestant 11: This Temptation
28 points
Public: 9th
Jark: 2nd
Ryan: 2nd
Ayumi: 3rd

And then 3rd place which was only one point away goes to...
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Contestant 3: Dual Intentions
27 points
Public: 8th
Jark: 4th
Ryan: 4th
Ayumi: 1st

Next, 4th place which was only two points behind goes to...
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Contestant 6: Bullet
25 points
Public: 3rd
Jark: 5th
Ryan: 5th
Ayumi: 6th

And now onto 5th place. That goes to...
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Contestant 1: Baptism Of Fire
23 points
Public: 2nd
Jark: 7th
Ryan: 8th
Ayumi: 4th

And onto sixth place. We have a tie! Sixth place goes to these two contestants...
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Contestant 10: World
17 points
Public: 6th
Jark: 6th
Ryan: 10th
AYumi: 5th


Contestant 5: The End Of Time
17 points
Public: 7th
Jark: 3rd
Ryan: 9th
Ayumi: 8th

And now 8th place, just one point behind joint 6th place is...
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Contestant 2: Homicide
16 points
Public: 4th
Jark: 9th
Ryan: 6th
Ayumi: 9th

And now the bottom three. All entries are close to being eliminated, so step up the game next time if you don't want to fear for your life! Your life in this game anyways...10th place goes to...
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Contestant 8: Child Prodigy
12 points
Public: 10th
Jark: 8th
Ryan: 7th
Ayumi: 7th

And now for the bottom two. I had trouble deciding which method to use, the one where the entry with the most last places gets voted out or just average the rankings. Despite this going against what I want, I decided averaging is the fairest. And so the contestant who lives to see another day is...
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Contestant 7: Alpha-Q
10 points
Public: 11th
Jark: 11th
Ryan: 1st
Ayumi: 11th


Contestant 4: I May Be So Young
8 points
Public: 5th
Jark: 10th
Ryan: 11th
Ayumi: 10th

Thank you insertacoin for taking part! I thought you did a good job with your entry and was hoping to see you survive first round. Grr Ryan.

[Tom92]

Well, clearly, I'm happy to be through to the next stage, but 'I May Be So Young', was one of my favourites and thought that, with some tuning and a tidy up, it would've been a good song.

I wish I could steal the general idea behind it, and use it for my own. Anyway, I look forward to seeing you in this competition next year, with a more mature mind, and more life experience, to use as inspiration in your future songwriting

Btw, cant wait to hear next weeks theme, I want to step on it and get writing!

[JoshuaBuzz]

Shame I May Be So Young got voted out, as I quite liked it. Hopefully Interacoin will be back for more next time around!

Can't wait for the theme I already have some ideas, hopefully I'll be able to tie them in with whatever the theme of the week is.

[AyumiH]

Okay, here is the theme for this week. You are to write either a serious, critical song or a parody that centers around a certain issue or topic in the real world. A good example of a serious one would be Not Ready to Make Nice by The Dixie Chicks. You can write about Lindsay Lohan if you want. Do it however you like as long as it essentially centers around a certain real world topic/issue. You have until next week, the Wednesday, the 14th, to get your entries in!

Feel free to ask any questions if you are confused.

[JoshuaBuzz]

OMG YES!

[theberen]

Not a bad result for me, I guess. Commiserations, insertacoin, but hopefully you'll come back fierce next time

So how do the public votes work, then? And the points system? Do the judge's votes take precedence over the public's?

[xtofer]

Yeah, insertacoin's entry is okay. Quite surprised he was eliminated.

Love the theme.. but I don't have any particular topic in mind. Hmmm.

[sambo9]

I absolutely LOVE #9's entry. I think I have quite a good idea of who wrote it as well. But I will keep my mouth shut.

I remember doing this in 2008 I think. I won the first round and then ended up out by the fourth.

[AyumiH]

So how do the public votes work, then? And the points system? Do the judge's votes take precedence over the public's?

Pretty simple. I find the public's votes by adding up the point totals of all the people who vote. For example...
Voter 1 puts contestant #2 in 1st place, Voter 2 puts contestant #2 in 2nd place, and Voter 3 puts contestant #2 in 4th place. So I add together the point values of each place (for this round: 10 + 9 + 7) to get the total of 26 points for that contestant. I find the sum for all the contestants and rank them from biggest to lowest. So basically I am averaging the rankings.

The public counts as one judge, so basically we have four judges, each accounting for 25% of the votes. Everyone has equal say in those terms. Again I add together the four rankings to give a total score and rank them from highest to lowest. If it ever comes down to a tie, the contestant with the most last placings will be eliminated.

[Tom92]

I stayed up until 3AM writing my song, and am now really tired today

I was thinking, no, if I stop writing now, i'll lose my trail of thought by next time I start writing again!

[king_oxymoron]

Pretty happy with my results, shame insertacoin is gone as they were really keen to take part right from the last year!

Not sure about the new theme, am better with serious stuff but the parodies WILL be better recieved (if written well), they always are. Thinking time...

[JoshuaBuzz]

In all honesty I didn't see any parodies in the first batch of entries, maybe the Alpha-Q song was a bit Kesha-y but otherwise...

I've got a rough sketch of my song done but I'm not at peace with it, I dunno.

[skapunk]

I absolutely LOVE #9's entry. I think I have quite a good idea of who wrote it as well. But I will keep my mouth shut.

Who doesn't? It is the most obvious thing ever!

But this cracks me up so baaad...!

CONGRATULATIONS KHIA! UKmix thinks you are a very talented songwriter.

The real Khia would shit bricks reading this out of amazement!

[king_oxymoron]

I am not sure I totally understand the theme and the Dixie Chicks example made it no clearer to me Could you explain again?

[JoshuaBuzz]

Like the Dixie Chicks wrote about the war in Iraq, which they were against. So you pick a subject - ie, war in Iraq, Aids in Africa, rape, abortion, divorce rates, something like that from the real world and have that as the topic of your song

I love how much promotion Khia gets on Ukmix

[king_oxymoron]

I didn't know it was about that

Thankyou!