Announcing... RiffMasters!

I have enjoyed trying to compete even though success is limited.
I did do every single challenge.
The thing I like most is it did get me out of my comfort zone and forced me to learn things I never tried outside of the box.

I don't mind voting for all and I did vote for all 7 but percentage as TBD said above
could cause an imbalance.


I do find myself looking forward to the next challenge after completion.
Maybe we should get Gold Stars , I know I will at least get a 9th place ribbon. Lol
 
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@Mitch Pearrow SJMP takes ten paces, turns and preludes with an unsettling series of tiny pic scrapes, mimicking the razor sharp claws of an agitated ol' Scratch digging deep into @Aynirar27 's face and wonderfully "on fleek" eyebrows! Just getting started, he transitions into a raspy staccato sort of double-stop musical battering ram thing bringing a bit of a knee-to-the-gut effect. Relentlessly, that knee keeps coming and coming, until we begin to hear some shrieky pick squeals, small exclamations of glee escaping from the twisted lips of Lucifer as Demon Mitch grinds away at the poor sinners' soul, harder and harder, turning it to a red gelatinous pulp. All performed on a suitably nasty looking black flying Vee, sending out gritty-but-still-greasy toanz. Crafty choice of clothing too, wearing white as if it might deceive voters he's the good guy in this battle.

Can @Aynirar27 pull himself up, and return blows? Or should the ref. just show mercy and start the ten count now?

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Thatbastarddon said:
Thing is, this round had the fewest entries so far(9)…making the standard “7” seem unfitting. When there were 16 entries, 7 didn’t seem as ludicrous. Whatever…perhaps it’s more of a scale perspective…keeping the vote count “one” under “half” of the entry count might keep things in a more happy place. Using this last round as an example, perhaps vote count should have been capped at “4” with a “2” vote minimum.
Just tossing it out there.
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I think it would be most fair to force 1 and up to whatever ...even all I suppose. Someone might have an eye for a clear winner to them and not want to "tie" between a forced two more (if 3 were forced).

I think I remember having to vote a forced 8 or 9 in the past. Can't remember for sure, it blew away the vote(s) I wanted by neutralizing them into a forced tie.

Honestly, the way it is we never know who the real winner is/was. Fun and games aside that's kinda weird though. Lol.
 
TVvoodoo said:
@Mitch Pearrow SJMP takes ten paces, turns and preludes with an unsettling series of tiny pic scrapes, mimicking the razor sharp claws of an agitated ol' Scratch digging deep into @Aynirar27 's face and wonderfully "on fleek" eyebrows! Just getting started, he transitions into a raspy staccato sort of double-stop musical battering ram thing bringing a bit of a knee-to-the-gut effect. Relentlessly, that knee keeps coming and coming, until we begin to hear some shrieky pick squeals, small exclamations of glee escaping from the twisted lips of Lucifer as Demon Mitch grinds away at the poor sinners' soul, harder and harder, turning it to a red gelatinous pulp. All performed on a suitably nasty looking black flying Vee, sending out gritty-but-still-greasy toanz. Crafty choice of clothing too, wearing white as if it might deceive voters he's the good guy in this battle.

Can @Aynirar27 pull himself up, and return blows? Or should the ref. just show mercy and start the ten count now?

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I’m only laying down to show off my fancy shoes
 
Session 5 said:
OOOhh that's scary! that would make an excellent sound track for a movie. Well
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Session 5 said:
OOOhh that's scary! that would make an excellent sound track for a movie. Well done!
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SICK!!! You playing live drums on there? My downfall with such things is drum kit. It's like the ONLY instrument I don't play. I've been searching and searching for a real sounding pro drum machine, ( NEEDS to be user friendly or it'll end up embedded in a wall), to no avail.
 
Yeah, I think the mass voting is kind of a "trick" which minimizes the ability for voters to vote "strategically" which arguably has plusses or minuses. In my opinion, since it's mostly "gameplayers" voting, the mass voting *feels* more fair. Rewards more players for good work rather than fewer players for great work. How many times have people commented already they wish they could vote for everyone?
So which way is better?

I think if we only specifically allowed 3 votes each in the main event votes, it could force more eager participation in the side hustles, but I think it would bruise more egos, and that is NOT something I wish RiffMasters to do.

I do welcome this discussion though! End goal is to make it more FUN and INCLUSIVE and not filter members as if it's a pure talent show
 
TVvoodoo said:
Yeah, I think the mass voting is kind of a "trick" which minimizes the ability for voters to vote "strategically" which arguably has plusses or minuses. In my opinion, since it's mostly "gameplayers" voting, the mass voting *feels* more fair. Rewards more players for good work rather than fewer players for great work. How many times have people commented already they wish they could vote for everyone?
So which way is better?

I think if we only specifically allowed 3 votes each in the main event votes, it could force more eager participation in the side hustles, but I think it would bruise more egos, and that is NOT something I wish RiffMasters to do.

I do welcome this discussion though! End goal is to make it more FUN and INCLUSIVE and not filter members as if it's a pure talent show
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I can see both sides. Vote for 7 and there's 9 entries.... makes me feel like I chose the two I like the least and vote for the other 7. Thing is.... they've all been amazing. Vote for three does make it more of a competition, which not sure Riffmaster was intended to be.

I like the line from the show Who's Line Is It Anyway...... "the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter". Maybe that's what we should keep in mind here. JMO.
 
TVvoodoo said:
Yeah, I think the mass voting is kind of a "trick" which minimizes the ability for voters to vote "strategically" which arguably has plusses or minuses. In my opinion, since it's mostly "gameplayers" voting, the mass voting *feels* more fair. Rewards more players for good work rather than fewer players for great work. How many times have people commented already they wish they could vote for everyone?
So which way is better?

I think if we only specifically allowed 3 votes each in the main event votes, it could force more eager participation in the side hustles, but I think it would bruise more egos, and that is NOT something I wish RiffMasters to do.

I do welcome this discussion though! End goal is to make it more FUN and INCLUSIVE and not filter members as if it's a pure talent show
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The first paragraph puts it out there pretty well to me. It’s a game. The participants are a broad spectrum of talented, and creative people, with a diverse spectrum of skill-sets. Some like to produce multi-instrumental multitrack audio(and/or video) performances, and do so with ease, while others don’t touch the stuff… probably don’t want to…and are happy to share their live action performances with a deserved pride(no editing, fancy effects, just them playing…uncut…to a phone camera…putting it out there). This game puts all of those varied people on the same playing field. No easy task. Same goes for judging/voting for the field of entrants.

Frankly, I’m in it for the push to expand my experience. I’m having fun doing things that I wouldn’t normally feel inspired to do. I don’t have a lot of history with working with video, short of live performance oriented stuff…I’m having a wicked good time trying to learn to do some rudimentary stuff with my limited skills.
For me, the most un-fun part is the judgement process that comes with voting. Yeah, it’s fun to get ahead in the competition…but it’s much more fun to see the variety of approaches taken to a specific challenge. @Mitch Pearrow SJMP ’s “Hellscape Soundtrack” (latest duel entry)is haunting me as I type…I get the feeling that I should fire up the studio monitors to truly appreciate @LiveeviL2000 ’s latest drop, so I’m gonna do that shortly. @Ku² ‘s “Eleanor Rigby” was amazeballs! But so was @BFT Gibson ’s creative take on “You Keep Me Hangin’On”…vastly different productions…all great to hear. Thankful for the sharing.

As to the rest of the quoted post…
I agree, in that the concept probably works best, in a crowd this diverse, if the egos don’t get bruised…a daunting task.
 
Now in the workings of setting up this round's side hustle.
It's going to be worth up to three points.

Funny How Dagger Don was just mentioning comfort zone.
This one might really mess y'alls up. Still trying to wrap my own head around it.

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Once the final results of the Guitar Duel come in I'll let you in on that one.
 
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