Steemit Songwriter Challenge - Win a Free Guitar - We need 2 Judges
It truly warms my heart to see how many people are interested in participating on this event. I must confess I was a little worried at first, thinking that there might not be enough interest in making it a reality, but the response has been truly fantastic.
Our amazing Open Mic host @luzcypher, has shared today some great insight into the selection process for the Open Mic competition, its is very clear to me now that the job of a judge is not an easy one. But it goes without saying that the success of the Open Mic is due to their hard work and not mere luck.
As of today we have more than 22 songwriters ready to join us in this little adventure, and I'm struggling to hide my excitement when I'm talking to someone about my experience with Steemit. In any case we currently have 3 judges for the event, but would like to get two more on board.
It's very important that all judges who decide to participate on the event read @luzcypher 's explanation on the selection process as this would be expected from the judges of the Songwriting competition.
The current judges for the Songwriter's Challenge are:
- @luzcypher
- @chiefmappster
- @meno
I wanted to make clear that even thought I would be the one who will be donating the guitar to the event's winner, I will not have more voting power than any other judge participating on the event. Not only because I would not find it fair, but because the concept of "giving back" should never be attached to conditions, or at least this is the case in my book.
The Songwriter's challenge would run for 4 weeks, and each week the judges participating would publish their own posts choosing their top picks that would advance to the next week, prior to all judges having a private conversation/voting on Steemit Chat to make the final decisions.
Each week a Theme or Topic would be chosen for the songwriter's and to ensure that everyone is writing new material and not sharing old videos, we will also take some pages from The Open Mic Book. I'm hopeful that we will find our two missing judges by the end of this weekend and announce the start date as well as the ground rules.
I'm looking forward to listening to my Steemian brothers and sisters share their songwriting talent with us. And trust that at the other side of this healthy competition we will all walk away with a beautiful experience, new friends and an even stronger community.
Musically yours
Yay, so this sounds like you're launching the event, so exciting!!! When might we look for your official introduction? Man, I'm happy to stand by as an alternate for the judging, but I imagine you'll find others who are more qualified. Mostly I plan to contribute as a songwriter and encourager of the other participants. That said, I'm here to help if you need me, brother!
It means a lot to have positive people like you supporting this little initiative... Of course I would have to talk to @luzcypher to make sure that we can do this effectively with the SteemFest coming up, but I would like to start it as soon as possible.
Since I am for sure going to SteemFest and blogging about it while continuing to host Open Mic, the next couple weeks are going to by busy as hell for me. While at SteemFest I want to mingle with everyone too so if I started this new idea right now I would be blogging round the clock. For me, it would be better if we waited until I got back from Steem Fest.
I'm happy to see such a positive response to the idea.
that settles it then, we will shoot for after the steemfest... its what makes sense to me too...
I'm glad you understand. I have to have some time to meet people there and still keep Open Mic going and post about SteeFest. When I get back I can give it my full attention which it deserves. Thanks for understanding
If I handled the English better I would run but as you may have noticed is not my forte. Success.!
Bueno amigo, you hablo algunos idiomas... en mi opinion, y creo que en la opinion de @luzcypher un tema en espaniol seria bienvenido.
Si @luzcypher y tú están de acuerdo para mí será un placer. Cuenten con mi humilde opinión.
Claro que si!
Hi sir, I would like to offer myself to be a judge. I am a musical director in my country for a musical play where I do the composition and rearrangement called P. Ramlee the Musical. P. Ramlee is a legend in our local music scene but he has passed away.
I am also offering to give a prize myself. A harmonica. Let me know if you are interested to have me on your panel. I am humbled if given this opportunity. I am a classical and flamenco guitar player by profession. I also play the violin. I have won several national guitar competition in my country and within the region.
that would be great! do stay in touch with me so we can workout the details of it all, as you might know steemfest is around the corner so we are shooting to start the week after. We should get a specific date as well to have a good chat with all the participating judges as to work out any details. but most definitely it would be great to have you
Great. I look forward to it. Tell me when so that i can prepare in advance.