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Sounds of Sandbox - Singing Contest

JohnMiller

over 5 years

Round 4: Rock

Accepting votes and critiques.

Theme schedule:

ROUND 1, Feb 17-27: Musicals and Theme Songs
ROUND 2, Mar 4-13: Pop
ROUND 3, Mar 18-27: Songs with Names/Places in the Title
ROUND 4, April 1-10: Rock
ROUND 5, April 15-24: Meme Songs

Did you enjoy Time to Shine and EM Idol? Well, here's a brand new singing competition with a twist: this time, YOU are on our panel of judges.

In this contest, players will sing their way through five themed rounds, earning points for performing well and for giving feedback to their fellow competitors. At the end of the season, 12 outstanding tracks from throughout the season will be selected for inclusion on the "Soundtrack of Sandbox” compilation mixtape showcasing the absolute best of our community.

The comp will be five rounds long. Each round will take approximately two weeks.

Anyone Can Enter; Anyone Can Win

Missed the pregame? No big deal. Players in Sounds of Sandbox can jump into the competition in any of the five rounds of competition. Don't normally hang in Sandbox? Now's your chance to make an impression.

Wildcards

Feel like a theme isn't letting you show your stuff? Submit a wildcard entry! Twice in a game, a player may submit a second entry in any genre of the player's choice. Perfect for those trickier rounds, or for when you want to REALLY show off.

A Brand-new Judging and Feedback System

In Sounds of Sandbox, YOU are the judge. YOU are giving that sweet, glorious feedback that your co-competitors so crave. And YOU help determine the winners.

Players earn points not only for submitting entries and winning rounds--they also earn points for giving each other feedback.

At the end of the game the three players with the most points win the right to curate the SOUNDTRACK OF SANDBOX.

The Soundtrack of Sandbox

At the end of the game, 12 entries from throughout the season will be selected. These 12 tracks will be immortalized in Sandbox history with praise and eternal glory. Will YOUR track make the cut?

Complete rules can be seen HERE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QTD3KAUXBzMcC1m6rFud8lMj6BPKOTgZMujF4wA51QU/edit?usp=sharing

Jobe

over 5 years

thanx you everyone.

tricksterer

over 5 years

thank u guys love u

muki

over 5 years

thanks for setting this up and to everyone who voted - this was really fun!! would love to join next time :)

beastman2764

over 5 years

S2 when

luis4rod

over 5 years

Thank you so much everyone!!!

Thank you to all the contestants who shared their wonderful talent with us. It was great to hear new voices as well as familiar ones. Thanks to the participants who voted and critiqued entries and whose feedback is greatly appreciated. And to those just spectating, thank you very much for joining us.

Special shout out to Shwartz who agreed to help feature the round winners on the lobby.

SteelixMega who helped create this contest.

And last but not least JohnMiller who has be an extraordinary host and really fleshed this out and brought it to fruition.

Of course this isn't the end, we'll still have to curate the entries this season and create the sounds of sandbox! Stay...tuned :^)

JohnMiller

over 5 years

And now, after five rounds, it’s time to announce the top three point scorers.

In first place… the one, the only… luis4rod!!!!

(note—as a fellow host I’ve been abstaining from voting to keep things impartial. Luis has 100% earned this fair and square.)

Second, the indomitable, unforgettable… GYROGEARLOOSE!

Finally, the unstoppable, force of nature… JOBE!

All three players were in it to win it. Not only did they put hard work into their entries, but all three also took advantage of both wildcard entries—and most impressively, all three players critiqued all players every round. Much of the feedback you’ve been reading is indebted to these three users.

As a result of their placement, luis, Gyro, and Jobe have won the right to have a special role in curating the soundtrack of soundbox.

Luis:
• Kansas City (won R3)
• Blame it On Me (2nd place R4)
• Luis song of his own choice

GyroGearloose
• Lollipop (3rd place R2)
• Gyro song of her choice

Jobe
• Thnks fr th mmrs (3rd place R2)

That leaves six other songs that need to be placed. Give the other wildcards a listen. Time to pare down all this material to the 12 best songs of Sandbox.

We’ll let Luis and Gyro decide which of their tracks they want to add to the sandbox, and once they've done that we’ll open it up for a vote among all remaining tracks.

Winners get their votes weighted x4, contestants get their votes weighted x2, and audience members get their votes weighted x1.

The six songs with the most votes will be added to the soundtrack. And then we can start debuting... the MUSIC VIDEOS!

JohnMiller

over 5 years

Sorry for the delay. I’ve been out of town. But it’s finally time to announce the round five results!

First the votes…

Rookie takes the win, and it’s not close—Muki wins with a landslide! Trick takes 2nd and shounen comes in 3rd.

Critiques can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17g-e69Mmi7wuNUQqo6GQob3ojpve1r2NyuUPfjS3m2I/edit?usp=sharing

luis4rod

over 5 years

Hey guys! Sorry for the delay here, I wanna organize releasing the results and finale with John but it's been a little hard to coordinate with our schedules. We'll let you know when but for sure results will be released this week!

Thanks to all those who voted. Critiques are still up, we could always use more!

Stay tuned!

GyroGearloose

over 5 years

sounds difficult, but fun!

so long as no one is forcing me to sing lukas graham

SteelixMega

over 5 years

hey guys, i have an idea for the next game:

a challenge of songs.

6 rounds, 6 genres (which are voted on before)

for each round, i list 5 or 6 popular songs for each genre, the people vote it down to 3, and then you have to do one of the three.

you can only judge if you give an entry.

judging will be listing all of the other entries from top to bottom, top being the best in your opinion, bottom being the worst in your opinion. then points are given out for 1.) the number of players and 2.) for how high ranked your entry is.

So if you have the second highest overall standing in a round of 6 people, you get 5 points.

coolkidrox123

over 5 years

sorry this round i coudlnt find the time ti critique :/ i have too much uni workload rn

luis4rod

over 5 years

Oh, i forgot to assign critiques OTL. If you submitted 3 critiques i'll count it :^ ) Sorry guys! John is obviously the one carrying this relationship :doge: