Ableton Live Beat Battle #1 "and the winner is....."

[hurlingdervish]

NUMBER 4
The Winning Track:
http://www.box.net/shared/vyfuzikj7o

woooOOOOOooooo!!!!

great job everyone!

you all had great beats....we have all pushed the limit of our sampling and song writing abilities.

Here's the tally:

1-
2-I
3-I
4-IIIIIIIII
5-III
6-II
7-II
8-II

you can go back and double check, but 4 took this in a landslide victory.

heres the unveiling of the players

1.Bosonhavoc
2.Substance g(?)
3.Leisuremuffin
4.MacGuffin
5.d.cease (?)
6.Hurling Dervish
7.UK Russ
8.Skullnbones


Congrats Macguffin! You came with the fire and we all got burnt. Feel free to brag around the forum that you put us all in our place.
So whenever you get around to it you can decide what you want to do for the next battle. If you need help setting things up and arranging it just holler.
Battle #1:


SUCCESS

[MacGuffin]

yay! I won!

A big thanks to the people who voted for my beat, and a bigger thanks for the flattering comments from the people who thought my drums were so good that I must have cheated.


Thanks to Hurling Dervish for throwing this contest, I will try think up an interesting angle for the next beat battle.

[bosonHavoc]

congrats!
that was a well deserved victory

[leisuremuffin]

congrats Macguffin, that was indeed some sick sick shit.


about the competition:

i think it was a fun thing to do, but there is lots of room for improvement. There's really no point in having a competition with voting if there are only going to be 20 votes and they aren't even going to be counted correctly. So basically, i think this thing should be more formalized or do away with the voting and the idea of a winner. Post a challenge, give a very limited time to complete it, and then post tracks and .als's without any weird attempts at anon voting. Basically, i won't bother if it goes the same way this one went, not that anybody cares what i think.



.lm.

[MacGuffin]

Thanks for the kind words.

I'm open to suggestions on how to handle the next beat battle. Winning is always fun, but the real fun in this competition was the challenge and the limitations.
I was thinking maybe having a 45 seconds limit, and maybe like a fake advertisement in .mov to sync it up.
It won't be until next week at least, let people work on their own music for at least 1 week-end before having another forum battle.

[leisuremuffin]

well, at least i'm glad i wasn't the only one who thought it was normal to vote for myself, Macguffin.
Of course doing it is the fun part, but if it's a competition there is something WRONG with you if you don't want to try to win.



.lm.

[dcease]

Of course doing it is the fun part, but if it's a competition there is something WRONG with you if you don't want to try to win.



.lm.

i just feel grateful that i was nominated

[MacGuffin]

lol yes, well in elections candidates are allowed to vote for themselves, so I can't see why not.
But at the same time, it's okay to admit that others did better than you.
In this case, I honestly thought #6 was better than mine. I just gave myself a sympathy vote because I didn't realize at the time that the poll was f*cked and I found it sad I had zero votes hehehehe.

[hurlingdervish]

congrats Macguffin, that was indeed some sick sick shit.


about the competition:

i think it was a fun thing to do, but there is lots of room for improvement. There's really no point in having a competition with voting if there are only going to be 20 votes and they aren't even going to be counted correctly. So basically, i think this thing should be more formalized or do away with the voting and the idea of a winner. Post a challenge, give a very limited time to complete it, and then post tracks and .als's without any weird attempts at anon voting. Basically, i won't bother if it goes the same way this one went, not that anybody cares what i think.

.lm.

why the negativity man?

i was pulling rules from other battles that have worked quite well. if you want to blame someone for the poll failing blame cperezzzz

no reason to be a jerk about it

if you want to set the rules...win the battle

macguffin can do whatever he wants now its in his hands

[H20nly]

Nicely done. I honestly liked them all.

All things considered... ballot jacking etc. etc. I think it was cool.
I just had to dig to find this thread. I was thinkin "shit who won??" and went on the hunt. i didn't see it pop up on radar. My point is that its hard to get more votes if people don't know its happening... out of sight out of mind and all that.

didn't dom throw out the idea of a little inhouse support in one of the threads??? (new forum section perhaps???) - oh and there's another reason that it was harder to find. 3 threads that i know of... that splits the bumps, as well as views, up considerably.

I still think that it would be cool to tie them all together into one sick megamix of freakishness... Livenstein's Monster

anyway... just my .02

Congrats MacGuffin

[hurlingdervish]

i figured if i just posted it in the same thread then no one would find it

much easier to skip over it if it was in the poll thread

if it was a sticky, that might be better

well have to get Dom in on that...he never mentioned it tho, he just gave ideas for a weekend battle

[H20nly]

i just feel grateful that i was nominated

Hey you look like the guy that took our joint!!! And we were listening to...to... YOUR SONG!! whats that all about?!

[Willyum]

heres the unveiling of the players

1.Bosonhavoc
2.Substance g(?)
3.Leisuremuffin
4.MacGuffin
5.d.cease (?)
6.Hurling Dervish
7.UK Russ
8.Skullnbones

Whoa whoa whoa, We were complaining about dishonesty in the digital polling, with entry #6 getting more than twice the amount of votes than there were people visiting the thread.... and now it turns out that it was you, the controller of the poll?!?

I thought it was strange that cheating was suggested but the name never come out.
I need some explaining...

[hurlingdervish]

heres the unveiling of the players

1.Bosonhavoc
2.Substance g(?)
3.Leisuremuffin
4.MacGuffin
5.d.cease (?)
6.Hurling Dervish
7.UK Russ
8.Skullnbones

Whoa whoa whoa, We were complaining about dishonesty in the digital polling, with entry #6 getting more than twice the amount of votes than there were people visiting the thread.... and now it turns out that it was you, the controller of the poll?!?

I thought it was strange that cheating was suggested but the name never come out.
I need some explaining...

why would i rig my own poll so i would win when i dont even want to vote for myself?
it was cperezzz
dont be paranoid, don't have a reaction to it at all, thats what he wants

i made up for the poll being broken by counting the votes by hand.

[Willyum]

heres the unveiling of the players

1.Bosonhavoc
2.Substance g(?)
3.Leisuremuffin
4.MacGuffin
5.d.cease (?)
6.Hurling Dervish
7.UK Russ
8.Skullnbones

Whoa whoa whoa, We were complaining about dishonesty in the digital polling, with entry #6 getting more than twice the amount of votes than there were people visiting the thread.... and now it turns out that it was you, the controller of the poll?!?

I thought it was strange that cheating was suggested but the name never come out.
I need some explaining...

why would i rig my own poll so i would win when i dont even want to vote for myself?
it was cperezzz
dont be paranoid, don't have a reaction to it at all, thats what he wants

i made up for the poll being broken by counting the votes by hand.

So he just happen to cheat for YOU in a blind poll.... You think we're retarded or something?