🌊#thealliance 🎤Karaoke Contest🎤 Updates🌊

Hello again Steemit! We will be doing a contest soon. Specifically, a karaoke contest. We have not chosen a specific starting date - though two more Mondays seem perfect, and we are pretty set on Mondays for being submission time, and Saturdays being the cutoff for entries. So, Monday at 12:00 a.m. through Friday at 11:59 p.m. CST would be optimal and we'll try to get it close as we can. Obviously, we don't expect this to be huge from the onset, so the prize pool will be dictated by any sponsorships and/or revenue from the initial submission thread and those thereafter until it is established.

What we have come up thus far, is a cross-posting on the Open Mic Submission threads, where Hive account@luzcypher has graciously agreed to promote us and likewise, we will promote their contest. Many thanks for that! We have also redefined the rules and Judging a little bit. They will be as follows:

RULES

1. 1st tag for your submission post must be #karaokecontest.
2. Submission thread must be upvoted and curated (resteemed).
3. Video of entrant singing must be in comments of submission thread (so you can get the popularity vote), or at least a link to their post.
4. Must choose one of our selected songs to sing along to.

JUDGING CATEGORIES

1. Popular vote: This will carry 40% of the overall score. Whoever has the most upvotes (not reward amount for the post), will win the popular vote. You may only vote for yourself ONCE, purchased bot votes for yourself will not count.
2. Timing: 20% weight - how close you are to the timing of the original lyrics.
3. Pitch: 20% weight - how close you are to staying on key to the original lyrics.
4. Likeness: 20% weight - how much you actually sound like and embody the singer of the original lyrics.

PRIZES
We will award prizes for 1st, second and third places. Prize pools will be announced upon submission closure for the week, which still gives them all of Saturday to attain more popularity votes. I'm sure that in the beginning, prize pools will vary. Any sponsorship and/or SBD revenue will be the contributors to the contest purse. Steem Power generated will be used to maintain Hive account@killerwhale's voracious appetite. Winners will be announced Mondays, ideally with the posting of the new submission thread.

We already have our first week's judge, Hive account@hardikv, who was the winner of Open Mic 39 (2nd position) and won Hive account@fyrstikken's 50k SP for a week contest! Excited to have him aboard. He also is co-founder of a music academy, Hive account@muziclub, and the keyboardist in a band called Alif. Hive account@enginewitty will also be one of the judges and Hive account@michaeldavid will be doing the tallying up of scores. (He's the one you need to bribe LMAO j/k) Both have been integral in forming this contest. We would like one more judge to come out of the woodworks and are hoping for some more interaction with promotional type assistance. So go team go! Resteem away!
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