threespires
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Arguably, one of the issues last time was that people nominating less well known songs were just getting battered in favour of familiar classics. This is understandable and if the goal is to see who can come up with the most popular well known song then the format is fine as it is.
If we wanted people to hear and vote on stuff they are maybe less familiar with and be encouraged to put forward lesser known artists then I think there would need to be a tweak; for instance a criteria like each song in the 5 has to come from an artist from a different continent. You'd probably still end up with a well known winner but you might have some more interesting match ups along the way.
In theory, another option to encourage the less obvious stuff would be to have a 'shield' competition for first round losers but that would involve too much extra work.
If we wanted people to hear and vote on stuff they are maybe less familiar with and be encouraged to put forward lesser known artists then I think there would need to be a tweak; for instance a criteria like each song in the 5 has to come from an artist from a different continent. You'd probably still end up with a well known winner but you might have some more interesting match ups along the way.
In theory, another option to encourage the less obvious stuff would be to have a 'shield' competition for first round losers but that would involve too much extra work.