Thank you, Max for being gentle in calling us non-completers out. Your inquiry is well taken, and it gives me the perfect opportunity to confess and bare my soul for something I've felt guilty about for about a year now, the incompletion of Season 69, Songs to Teach By, the one and only season I've hosted. Not been mentioned by the others in the list on incomplete seasons, but I certainly feel it was.
See, I got too ambitious and complicated in my judging criteria. I picked 6 semi-finalists that I liked and then planned on using those songs as material at my job teaching English at a Bangkok high school. The students would vote for their favorites. Unfortunately, my bosses didn't like the idea of me using valuable class time to pursue a personal project, whatever the education value. Furthermore, half my classrooms didn't have working A/V systems with which I could play the vids for my students. I managed to show one vid (Xommen's) to a class and made a worksheet for it, but that was it. I gave up on my judging criteria and let the 6 co-winners just sit.
Never sent any prizes out either.
My bad. I apologize to my fellow Seasonistas. My failure is kinda why I've never asked to be a host since, and now in Myanmar, I can't be a host because I can't watch videos. I can upload. Usually what I do is set my video to upload before I go to bed, and by morning, it's done. It takes 4-6 hours to upload a 4 minute video. It takes about an hour to watch or download a 4 minute video. So, I can't host.
This does give me the chance to just name a winner though. My favorite video from Season 69, and the NOW OFFICIAL WINNER... is...
is...
wait for it...
ONLY UKE THAT MATTERS' Friday, I'm in Love!!
Big round of applause for a long overdue recognition of a very well done performance!!!
Again, I've sorry I kind of left people hanging in the playoff round, but let this be a lesson to future hosts: don't be too complicated in your judging stage. Hosting is hard work, and at the end of it, you don't want to have a whole new set of challenges. Keep it simple.