[WALRUS] BloopSlangrus
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:31 pm
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.
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.
