The Syndicate

Marmot wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:26 pm I will try to have subs done today. Also, will you be accepting Pinki Floyd?

Nay - forbidden!

Happy new year, everyone!! And if you've still got a sub but missed the deadline, we'll take em until the end of the weekend. Yay, walrus!

Submissions:

birdwithteeth11
Dragon D. Luffy
Epignosis
falcon45ca
G-Man
ignoramus
motobot
nutella
Queen Pink
Simon
syn
Tangrowth

Speaking of the mediocrity cat, we've amended the scoring in the description - we're scoring only for catfit, not for enjoyment (since, obviously, we can't "enjoy" a mediocre song).

For those who've already subbed, feel free to re-submit if necessary if that actually changes anything.

Gooooooo Bloopslangrus!

nutella wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 2:32 pm anyway, i'm almost ready to send my subs but first i need answers to this question because i'm legit bewildered by the first prompt

I'm terrible at checking/finding tags on Discord (I do zero desktop notifications on anything), so my apologies for not seeing this sooner!

As to the question, aim for mediocrity all around. It's a silly category that I always wanted to try and see what would happen. If we like it (or hate it) too much, you'll lose points on both ends. But really, the scoring on our end for that cat is what's gonna be hell, rather than your sub

I hope that actually answers your question in some capacity.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 7:18 pm

nijuukyugou wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:31 pm 2. Running Banger: Find a song that makes us want to keep running during that last mile of the half-marathon — and actually like it.

I have been waiting for this category since we started doing walruses.

I am legit surprised it hasn't appeared

I want to get back into running soon, and my playlist needs some srs updates

nijuukyugou wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:46 am

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:26 pm Strangers allowed to sub?

How strange?

To be more direct, yes, strangers may submit.

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:26 pm Strangers allowed to sub?

How strange?

juliets wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:51 pm whoo hoo!! @nijuukyugou Do you have a time for your reveal on Jan. 10th? If not, just ping me in the walrus discord when you know and I'll add it to the schedule!

Let's shoot for 7PM EST. Thank you!

Hello, friends! After playing many walruses as submitters, Boomslang and I want to give back and do some judging for a change. With that in mind, we invite one and all to submit to...

BLOOPSLANGRUS

You can play BloopSlangrus in three delicious ways:

1. Submit songs that appeal mostly to Blooper’s taste in music. She would describe this as a mix of chunky progressive dad rock, straight up old-style classical, and some Bollywood and electronica to groove to. Instrumentation over lyrics, bass over treble, dance club over coffeehouse.

2. Submit songs that appeal mostly to Boomslang’s taste in music. He would describe this as genre-agnostic and instrumentally focused, with a penchant for bombast over restraint, groove over progression, and harmony over melody.

3. Go for the gold and see if you can make both of us happy with the same song!

We’ll provide three scores for each song: one for Blooper, one for Boomslang, and one average between the two scores. We’ll also have three awards at the end of BloopSlangrus based on these scores, so you can play however you want.

Deadline to submit is December 31, 2021. Reveals begin on Monday, January 10 and will likely be on Mondays thereafter. Submissions should be sent via Syndicate PM to Blooper and/or Boomslang. YouTube/Soundcloud/Bandcamp links preferred over Spotify, but you do you.

Scoring

Scoring will be based on a modified Tangy scale as follows:
10 points base score: 1-5 for catfit, 1-5 for enjoyment
Up to 3 points podium bonus: 3 for first, 2 for second, 1 for third
1 point unfamiliarity bonus.

Both Blooper and Boomslang will score each song. The BloopSlang score reflects the average of the two separate scores.

Forbidden Artists:
Arctic Monkeys
The Beatles
Daft Punk
Dan Deacon
The Dear Hunter
Glenn Miller
Johann Sebastian Bach
Justice
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Pink Floyd
Queen
Vivaldi

Categories:

1. Aggressive Mediocrity: We can't love it. We can't hate it. It's aggressive mediocrity, so give us the absolute middle of that bell curve! (This cat will not be scored for enjoyment - we'll do double catfit points.)

2. Running Banger: Find a song that makes us want to keep running during that last mile of the half-marathon — and actually like it.

3. CR-R-R-R-R-UNCHY! We want to feel this song reverberating in our ribcages while dancing like wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubemen.

4. Kill the Anxiety Beast: Tell our brains to STFU with something that makes an urgent effort to relax us.

5. Organ Donor: Give us a song that features the organ in a context divorced from its roots — no classical, gospel or jazz allowed.

6. It’s Steve! Motherfucking Steve From Accounting! Everyone should have a theme song, even the humblest among us. Give us a tune that celebrates a usually under-the-radar person or profession.

7. Boss Monster. We want a song befitting the final battle of a video game that we've spent at least 40 hours plugging at, with all the high-stakes heroism that implies.