Summer Orgafun!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What's been good about the League Of Pop:

- Terrific vehicle for hearing new music
- Enjoyable as a game but also challenging/infuriating/shocking in places
- Orgafun structure works fine (a few tweaks for Season 2 I'm sure)

Problems with the League Of Pop:

- Hasn't involved or engaged non-players much (correct me if I'm wrong, spectators)
- Requires significant time commitment to enter
- Requires less work on my part than I thought it might but still quite a lot

None of these problems are so serious that I want not to do it again - but I will wait a while before the next 'season'. All of the problems are resolvable by a simple format tweak. So the next Poptimists event will be...

The Pop Open - a Summer tournament of taste. I haven't finalised the instructions but it will go a little something like this:

- Players submit tracks, which are anonymised and posted by me and voted on by the community as a whole, in groups or pairs.
- To give a loose structure to things, each round will be themed (eg "love", "fear", "politics") to give baffled spectators some sort of point of comparison.
- Depending on how many people enter, this will be a straight knockout, or a short round-robin leading to final knockout stages. So the commitment will be much smaller, even for winning players. And because each match only involves a couple of players we can be way more flexible as to holidays, and it's much less work for me.
- The fun for spectators is hearing and voting on new tracks (as ever). The fun for players is either pleasing the crowd or finding out what people really think of their beloved favourite tunes.

Want to play? Nothing will happen until after the LoP ends but I'm interested to know who's up for it. Your only commitment will be to send in tracks (between 1 to 3 depending on format). That's all!

Comments

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I've downloaded all the LoP tracks – I'm guessing home broadband and a part-working from home schedule probably make this more likely. I've then listened to them on a twenty seconds then "next!" basis, which usually leaves me with two to five tracks to listen to again, and most of those I have kept and listened to (including a few old favourites rediscovered, and a few real finds). The low tolerance approach did mean that I didn't get as far as identifying the Band Of Susans, who I listened to a fair bit and had tried hard to like at the time (they only had one decent song)...
Summer idea sounds fun.

[lisa-go-blind.livejournal.com]

I'd like to! LoP's been lots of fun, this looks to be good as well.

[mcatzilut.livejournal.com]

I wanna play!

[mcatzilut.livejournal.com]

What's the rule about a cover of a song where you've heard the original but never heard the cover?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In the LoP this has counted as 'not heard', like 'I can guess what this is but haven't heard it'.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I'm always up for orgafun!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Yes please!

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll play.

[credoimprobus]

I'll gladly participate. This one's low-maintenance enough to overcome even my lazy, after all.

[kill-yr-idols.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I'd love to play!

& as a bystander/lurker, League Of Pop's been great reading - the whole "seeing how different tastes intersect with each other" is grebt (go jel_bugle!) ... have cherrypicked stuff based on people's comments, but haven't downloaded everything.

Please! would love to join the Pop Open

[(Anonymous)]

:)



Thank you.

mackro (http://mackro.blogspot.com)