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Nur Ein XIV

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Welcome to Nur Ein XIV!

The Nur Ein is an eight round song competition. In each round, the participants are given a song title and a mandatory challenge and are given a week in which to finish that song. Then this year's group of Nur Ein Judges (TBA) will listen to the songs and rate them from best to worst. Each round whittles down the field until we are left with only 1 competitor. Creativity x Skill x Time Management = Nur Ein!

Nur Ein XIV will begin on Monday, April 22nd with Round Zero. Round Zero is the way you enter the competition. The participants will have until April 29th at 12:01AM (Eastern Daylight Time) to create a song from the title and complete the challenge. When a competitor completes a song, it is to be e-mailed to nurein.sidefight which is a gmail address. The songs will then be posted at the Nur Ein website (http://nurein.songlander.com) and the next title and challenge will be announced at the same time.
The Judges will have the next two days to listen to the songs. They will rank the songs from best to worst. If there are more than 25 entries into Round zero, the judges will eliminate the lowest ranked competitors until we reach 25.

Here's the schedule:

Round 0:
April 22-April 29
Judging April 29 & 30
<X> bands, <X-25> eliminations

Round 1:
April 29-May 6
Judging May 6 & 7
25 bands, 5 eliminations
Judges favorite gets immunity

Round 2:
May 6-May 13
Judging May 13 & 14
20 bands, 4 eliminations
Judges favorite gets immunity

Round 3:
May 13-May 20 (the guest round!)
Judging May 20 & 21
16 bands, 4 eliminations
Judges favorite gets immunity

Round 4:
May 20-May 27
Judging May 27 & 28
12 bands, 4 eliminations

Round 5:
May 27-June 3
Judging June 3 & 4
8 bands, 3 eliminations

Round 6:
June 3-June 10
Judging June 10 & 11
5 bands, 3 eliminations

Final Round:
June 10-June 17
Voting June 17 & 18
2 bands, 1 elimination

The final round is a battle between the two remaining competitors with the votes of the eliminated competitors and the Nur Ein Judges choosing the winner (one vote per "act," whether you're a band or a solo competitor; if you're a duo, trio, quartet, quintet, or more, you'll need to discuss internally how to allocate that one vote).

The game is on. Nur Ein!!!!!!!!!!!

Now is the time for people to start getting prepared. The website logistics need to get figured out. And the judges need to get chosen.

Nur Ein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey, I have seemingly lost my ability to stick and unstick posts. Would someone do the honors?
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Done. I'll investigate the access issue.
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Try unsetting/setting the sticky state again if you have a chance please and let me know how that goes.
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The LP link has been set.
Monday April 29 - 9PM EST

Preshow should be up for a hour or two ahead of that to test the feed.

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Nice. :)

Sticky issue resolved.

Good to see the LPs ready.

Still need a few folks to take on the role of judges.

Don't know if I'll be a judge or not as LWRG may be competing.
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Nur Ein is approaching and I still need some judges.
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Hey, if you really need someone message me on Facebook Niv. I'm not that great with reviews, but I'm pretty reliable. Either way, looking forward to hearing the songs again this year.
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A reminder: if you’re entering a song for Nur Ein, remember to do an ID fir the listening party and send me a link. It can be as simple as your band name and ‘You’re listening to Nur Ein’, or something more complex, as Paco del Stinko and others have done over the years.

I’m working on elements for the shows, so sooner is better than later. Thanks!
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New Ugly is also coming back for Nur Ein this year! We have a quick intro episode to warm back up and will start in on Round 0 when it drops. Looking forward to hearing y'all again this year!

http://podcast.songlander.com/?name=201 ... -intro.mp3
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Who are the judges?

Chumpy looks like he's a judge. (we should do fast power pop and pay attention meter)
Spintown? Did he end up a judge? (we should focus heavily on lyrics and odd instruments: banjo, mandolin, fiddle, etc)
Roymond?
j$- I assume j$ is a judge

Man Glut- is not a judge according to New Ugly
Ben - is not a judge. (why isn't he a judge, he listens and reviews anyway?)

I hope there are 5 judges and tie-breakers are established.
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This year's judges are a mix of Jerkatorium (Chumpy & Ryan) and Lucky Witch (Niveous & Brookes) with some Spintown for flavor.
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Hmmm, dang I was already prepared to get roasted by j$ on this one.
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It's 12:30 AM PDT
Where is the Round Two challenge and title?
This is precious writing time slipping away.

Anybody still up?
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I'm sure it'll be posted... when the organisers get a "round 2" it!!! Haha!

Seriously though where's my title
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I just wanted to say much earlier than usual, thank you to the judges for all their work. The bulk of that work is happening up front in these early rounds with >20 songs. It's a thankless job slogging through everything and trying to come up with a meaningful ranking of so many entries, plus trying to write reviews. It was really great to read/hear reviews from all five judges for round zero. I feel like (and I haven't gone back to look so this could be inaccurate) it's been quite a while since we had reviews from all the judges for any round, so thanks in particular for that.
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I think rounds 0 and 1 are the most important rounds for judge reviews. I don't know you. [Tho the podcasts help]. This year I thought I wouldn't look at any of the reviews during the challenge, or listen to the podcasts, but I realized, "If I'm doing something wrong, this may be my best chance for feedback."
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So the are all in one thread, here's the links to the Listening party for Round 1



https://youtu.be/KrEu308im-o
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Here's the link for Monday's LP for Round 2 - 'Pump the Brakes'



https://youtu.be/KTqPmkLpNjA
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Archive for Round 3



https://youtu.be/yqPpIdgBLDg
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Round 4 Listening Party Link



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dfsMemOkU
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Round 5 LP this Monday at 9pm EST


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