Men v Women v Bands v Co-ops #1

[Shovkovskyi/Peter]

Merry Christmas or Happy Winter solstice to everyone (or whatever else you celebrate at this time of the year)

I've collected a bunch of songs, that I know I will never be able to use one by one, so I've decided to do a few battles. Each time there will be 1 female solo act, 1 male solo act, 1 band and 1 co-op battling for a chance to represent Latvia in upcoming edition. Usually it will be held in a bit shorter period of time, but as it's holidays and the edition won't begin right away, I'll let you vote all through Christmas and New Year with deadline at about when next edition starts. But, before we start with this, let's get one thing done right away...

PLEASE, READ! I know that not everyone of you will be willing/able to vote, so if you're one of those people, please, let me know right away, so that I don't tag you in any of the reminders! Otherwise you might get pissed off at me for tagging you, even though you don't plan on voting. I don't want to piss off anyone either, so I'm asking you this favour, so that all of us can live in peace! Though I'll greatly appreciate everyone who'll find a few minutes to vote!

Now that we've done that, we can return to why we're here.

I want you to listen to all 4 songs (recap parts are provided for those interested in them), and rank them (, , & ) the way you like them best. And send me your votes by PM! If you want to comment the songs, you can either do that in the same PM with your votes for only me to see, or you can put your comments in spoilers down below

Let's move on to the songs, that will be competing:

Representing males is:

MESA

Song: "Pēc Mums" (eng: "After Us")

Recap part: 3:12+

Representing females is:

Patrisha

Song: "Lai Tev Sāp" (eng: "Make You Hurt")

Recap part: 2:20+

Representing bands is:

Ever Rose

Song: "Losing You"

Recap part: 2:19+

Little info about the band you haven't heard of:

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Band has been created in early 2018 by 2 ladies, who've met each other while studying in Florence. They are - my secondary school ex-classmate multi-instrumentalist and her Tunisian friend. This is their first original song.

Representing co-ops is:

Triānas Parks & Intars Busulis

Song: "Kamēr" (eng: "While")

Recap part: 1:48+

Remember - vote by giving , , and and send your votes to me by PM!

I hope this won't be a complete disaster and at least some of you will find time to vote!

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  Hayastantzi92 •  ClassifiedCat  •  ferrygraf • nijat • hongarius •   mateusgr •  ᴛᴏᴍ ᴋʟᴏsᴇʀ •  Basti(án)  •  iseendale  •  Argüello  •  @antonija •  mimisthesc • Aglan  •   @eriethioesc • linux620 • Blandine • Julian  •  barovka (sometimes inactive)  •  xmultivision - Semi-Active • balint •  James UK •  superjonno  •  rashidabu  •  Dylan •  donneylepland  •  Vinx  •  Shovkovskyi/Peter • Domantas  •  malteser • Gilberto •  njegosh  •  willsong •  MaRtIn •  .  •  Dmitry • Laurinda • Fifi •  inactivo  • Anesović • fabbi • Wen-hsuan •  Kinoshita!  •  Alper • ferret  •  alexeh  •  ✨ Forrest ✨  • Jacob

[ferrygraf]

voted in the 1st round

[fabbi]

Personally not very convinced by the songs, but I voted anyway.

[Shovkovskyi/Peter]

REMINDER Maybe you have a few minutes inbetween Christmas and New Year to spare Will appreciate every vote

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  Hayastantzi92 •  ClassifiedCat   • hongarius •   mateusgr •  ᴛᴏᴍ ᴋʟᴏsᴇʀ •  Basti(án)  •  iseendale  •  Argüello  •  @antonija • Aglan  •   @eriethioesc • linux620 • Blandine • Julian  •  barovka (sometimes inactive)  •  xmultivision - Semi-Active • balint •  James UK •  superjonno  •  rashidabu  •  Dylan •  donneylepland  •  Vinx • Domantas  •  malteser • Gilberto •  njegosh  •  willsong •  MaRtIn •  .  •  Dmitry • Laurinda • Fifi •  inactivo  • Anesović • Wen-hsuan •  Kinoshita!  •  Alper • ferret  •  alexeh  •  ✨ Forrest ✨  • Jacob

[Shovkovskyi/Peter]

REMINDER Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you've had an amazing New Year celebrations, but now it's time to return to our usual everyday routines, one of which I hope for you will be voting in this NF (spare a few minutes). Will appreciate every vote! We don't know yet, when the next edition starts, so I'd like to get this done as soon as possible If you'll ever make a NF, then those, who vote in my NF's can be sure, that I'll find time to vote in yours as well

P.S. If you find my reminders annoying and don't want to be tagged - be honest with me and I'll make sure next time I tag only those, who don't mind it

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  Hayastantzi92 •  ClassifiedCat   • hongarius •   mateusgr •  ᴛᴏᴍ ᴋʟᴏsᴇʀ  •  iseendale  •  Argüello  •  @antonija • Aglan  •   @eriethioesc • linux620 • Julian  •  barovka (sometimes inactive) • balint •  James UK •  superjonno  •  rashidabu  •  Dylan •  donneylepland  •  Vinx • Domantas  •  malteser • Gilberto •  njegosh  •  willsong •  MaRtIn •  .  •  Dmitry • Laurinda • Fifi •  inactivo  • Anesović • Wen-hsuan •  Kinoshita!  •  Alper • ferret  •  alexeh  •  ✨ Forrest ✨  • Jacob

[Shovkovskyi/Peter]

LAST CHANCE TO VOTE!!! The edition starts tomorrow, and as it's not a guaranteed participation for everyone, then I'd like to submit my entry ASAP, so you have time until tomorrow - deadline to vote is an hour before the edition opens - 13:00 CET.

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  Hayastantzi92 •  ClassifiedCat   • hongarius •   mateusgr •  ᴛᴏᴍ ᴋʟᴏsᴇʀ  •  iseendale  •  Argüello  •  @antonija • Aglan  •   @eriethioesc • linux620 • Julian  •  barovka (sometimes inactive) • balint •  James UK •  superjonno  •  rashidabu  •  Dylan •  donneylepland  •  Vinx • Domantas  •  malteser • Gilberto •  njegosh  •  willsong •  MaRtIn •  .  •  Dmitry • Fifi •  inactivo  • Anesović • Wen-hsuan •  Kinoshita!  •  Alper • ferret  •  alexeh  •  ✨ Forrest ✨  • Jacob

[Shovkovskyi/Peter]

Thank's to all of you, who voted! Here are all the votes and the final results!

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 •  ferrygraf • nijat •  Basti(án) • Blandine  •  xmultivision - Semi-Active • Laurinda • Fifi • fabbi
& Fatih

[fabbi]

What would you've done if the votes from the non-participant had changed the winner?

[Shovkovskyi/Peter]

Jan 7, 2020 21:02:24 GMT 1 fabbi said:

What would you've done if the votes from the non-participant had changed the winner?

I already had a plan for that.
1. If with turkishunicorn's votes it would be a draw for the first place, the winner I would announce the one, who got less points from him AKA more points from others.
2. If his votes would've changed a clear winner (not given a draw), then I'd give his votes only 50% power, meaning that his points would be 0.5, 1, 1.5 & 2.5. Technically that should be enough to give back 1st place to the song, that got most points without his points. (This scenario wasn't very likely (at least this time))

It's actually hard to say, because you have to see, how the situation develops and from there think about possible options.

If none of the first 2 options would've worked, only then I wouldn't count his votes at all... but that's only as the last option... luckily everything sorted itself out without using any options...