OldePhart
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Season 53 of the Ukulele – Second Chance to Bring Home the Bacon
Thank you Drew!
Wherein we look back over the past year and say, “wow!” The “six seasons” challenge that Christian conceived has really gone places!
So, here's the idea – pick any season from one through fifty-two, that you did not enter, and create an entry using the theme and all the rules from that season except as (possibly) amended below:
1) The video must be a new video created for this season (season 53) and you must state that in the video (beginning, middle, end, I don't care where) along with mention of the season's theme you are using. So, for example, something like “this is for season 53 of the ukulele, my second chance to bring home the bacon for season nine.”
2) Only one official entry, please. Your first submission will be considered your entry unless you explicitly say that it's a bonus track. You can submit any number of bonus tracks but please make it clear that they are bonus tracks so we don't get them mixed into the official list and confuse the judges.
3) The prize(s) will be the prize(s) for this season, not for the original season.
4) The entry cutoff date is midnight Sunday night (February 24th) Hawaii time.
5) I don't think that we have anyone who has entered every season from one through fifty-two but if anyone has achieved that then the reward for their diligence is that they get to choose from any season without restriction.
6) Judging and prizes will be handled as described below.
A few notes...
1) Unless you had an official entry in every season, you can only choose a season where you did not have an official entry (if you had only bonus tracks for that season that's okay).
2) Except as noted above, all rules from the original season apply. So, if the season you choose happened to be one of those rare seasons where multi-tracking was allowed then feel free to multi-track, otherwise, no multi-tracking, dubbing, splicing, etc.
3) Note that many of the early seasons were thin on explicit rules, they pretty much assumed that the rules Christian set for the original “six seasons” would be followed. That convention should be followed here, as well. If you are using a season that didn't say much about rules then assume that the original rules apply.
Judging:
Y'all are going to judge this season. The way we will do this is simple, if you submit an entry, you're also a judge! After the cutoff for entries passes I'll wait up to two weeks for entrants to PM me their top three choices (in no particular order, I won't torture you by asking you to rank the top three). I'll tally them up and announce the winner(s) after the two weeks or as soon as all entrants get their picks to me, whichever comes first.
If you vote for yourself I'll assume that you are very humble and feel that your entry was so terrible that you think one point should be subtracted from your tally.
There will also be one “lucky dog” award wherein I pull a name from a hat (“Hey, Rocky...”)
Anyone who fails to PM me their top three choices within the two-week judging window will not be eligible to win anything. I won't remove their entry from the season entry list or anything drastic like that, they just won't be considered when I tally up the votes. (I'll PM anyone who hasn't gotten their results to me a couple of days before the window closes, just to make sure we don't have any incidents if the forum hiccups or something.)
I will break ties by dropping a puppy and a kitten off of a tall building and seeing which one bounces the highest off of the baby seal below... Oh...all right...be that way then, I'll do something boring like flipping a coin!
Prize(s):
There will be at least one prize...er...memento plus the one for the “lucky dog.” There may be more. It depends on what I come up with in my hunt for prizes suitable for the contest theme. I have a couple of ideas already. I can promise they won't be anything particularly valuable, but will be fun, appropriate, and easy to ship internationally should that be necessary (darn, that eliminates an ukulele made of bacon strips). I'll update the thread as I acquire “prizes.”
Update:
Okay, I was hoping to have pictures of the prizes by now but they aren't finished yet - the bits and pieces have been ordered, though. First place is a plush pig holding an ukulele (pig is on order and I'm having to make the ukulele). Second place is a baconesque ukulele - again, something I'm making. And third place is a bacon fan sticker. The lucky dog prize is on order but I'm going to keep that one secret until the great reveal.
Sorry to have been such a bad host - work is really interfering with life right now. I am now off to begin reviewing videos
I have created a playlist and bonus list so far for this week, P.M. me to Let me know If I have missed you in the lists
Season 53
Bonus Songs
Thank you Drew!
Wherein we look back over the past year and say, “wow!” The “six seasons” challenge that Christian conceived has really gone places!
So, here's the idea – pick any season from one through fifty-two, that you did not enter, and create an entry using the theme and all the rules from that season except as (possibly) amended below:
1) The video must be a new video created for this season (season 53) and you must state that in the video (beginning, middle, end, I don't care where) along with mention of the season's theme you are using. So, for example, something like “this is for season 53 of the ukulele, my second chance to bring home the bacon for season nine.”
2) Only one official entry, please. Your first submission will be considered your entry unless you explicitly say that it's a bonus track. You can submit any number of bonus tracks but please make it clear that they are bonus tracks so we don't get them mixed into the official list and confuse the judges.
3) The prize(s) will be the prize(s) for this season, not for the original season.
4) The entry cutoff date is midnight Sunday night (February 24th) Hawaii time.
5) I don't think that we have anyone who has entered every season from one through fifty-two but if anyone has achieved that then the reward for their diligence is that they get to choose from any season without restriction.
6) Judging and prizes will be handled as described below.
A few notes...
1) Unless you had an official entry in every season, you can only choose a season where you did not have an official entry (if you had only bonus tracks for that season that's okay).
2) Except as noted above, all rules from the original season apply. So, if the season you choose happened to be one of those rare seasons where multi-tracking was allowed then feel free to multi-track, otherwise, no multi-tracking, dubbing, splicing, etc.
3) Note that many of the early seasons were thin on explicit rules, they pretty much assumed that the rules Christian set for the original “six seasons” would be followed. That convention should be followed here, as well. If you are using a season that didn't say much about rules then assume that the original rules apply.
Judging:
Y'all are going to judge this season. The way we will do this is simple, if you submit an entry, you're also a judge! After the cutoff for entries passes I'll wait up to two weeks for entrants to PM me their top three choices (in no particular order, I won't torture you by asking you to rank the top three). I'll tally them up and announce the winner(s) after the two weeks or as soon as all entrants get their picks to me, whichever comes first.
If you vote for yourself I'll assume that you are very humble and feel that your entry was so terrible that you think one point should be subtracted from your tally.
There will also be one “lucky dog” award wherein I pull a name from a hat (“Hey, Rocky...”)
Anyone who fails to PM me their top three choices within the two-week judging window will not be eligible to win anything. I won't remove their entry from the season entry list or anything drastic like that, they just won't be considered when I tally up the votes. (I'll PM anyone who hasn't gotten their results to me a couple of days before the window closes, just to make sure we don't have any incidents if the forum hiccups or something.)
I will break ties by dropping a puppy and a kitten off of a tall building and seeing which one bounces the highest off of the baby seal below... Oh...all right...be that way then, I'll do something boring like flipping a coin!
Prize(s):
There will be at least one prize...er...memento plus the one for the “lucky dog.” There may be more. It depends on what I come up with in my hunt for prizes suitable for the contest theme. I have a couple of ideas already. I can promise they won't be anything particularly valuable, but will be fun, appropriate, and easy to ship internationally should that be necessary (darn, that eliminates an ukulele made of bacon strips). I'll update the thread as I acquire “prizes.”
Update:
Okay, I was hoping to have pictures of the prizes by now but they aren't finished yet - the bits and pieces have been ordered, though. First place is a plush pig holding an ukulele (pig is on order and I'm having to make the ukulele). Second place is a baconesque ukulele - again, something I'm making. And third place is a bacon fan sticker. The lucky dog prize is on order but I'm going to keep that one secret until the great reveal.
Sorry to have been such a bad host - work is really interfering with life right now. I am now off to begin reviewing videos
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