Congratz all wie... errr, I mean winners!
Just wanted to say a few words about my feelings on this battle.
What I really liked this year:
- High overall quality of works, and fewer joke tracks than last year.
- Growing popularity of coding experiments. I really hope this will continue in the future. I'd still even advocate having a "code" category in the future, to encourage people to write new music drivers. Especially tools for the underdog chips like VIC20 and TIA are far from having reached their full potential.
What I wasn't so happy about:
- No channelf.
- Missing 3rd place in VIC by 0.1 points. And that was even my own fault, since I gave nearly all 7s to the first 3 places ;)
- On a more serious note - the massive amount of wildchip entries. Seems I'm not the only one bothered by this, because the average number of votes on wildchip entries is noticably lower than in other categories. I think one possible solution would be to tighten the rules on what qualifies as wildchip. Imo wildchip should be actual chip, ie. entries made with actual 8 and 16 bit hw/tools that are not represented in the other categories. Whereas "fake"chip entries should go into a new category, "DAW" or something. That category should be excluded from Winter Chip - much better to have it at Spring Trax, for instance. Why? Simply because with ~300 tracks, it's nearly impossible to fairly vote on everything, unless you got truckloads of free time. If that number were to go down a bit, I think more people would be inclined to vote. (Or, to speak more realisticly, at least then we don't get 500 tracks next year.)
Well, that's just my 2c. Feel free to disagree :)
Peace,
-utz