OK, so I’m opening discussion on adding a rule to limit entries from participants to one official track, namely, that participants are free to make as many tracks as they like for a particular BB, but that they must choose only one to be voted upon, and to be included in the voting phase, unless expressly permitted by the host.
Below is the discussion so far from the BB118 thread:
Official entries should be limited to one, in order to avoid flooding the entry pool with one person’s tracks. It’s ok to make more than one, but only one can be your official entry that you’ll be judged on, that way someone doesn’t win by making spaghetti-entries (throw everything on the wall to see what sticks). There should be one, definitive track for entry. Others may be posted, but you must declare which you’d like to be judged on. That’s what I think.
I just think back to some Battles prior where mfxxx would make like 3-4 tracks whereas we’d only get two entries from other artists, and we’re mainly voting for who gets to be host, so submitting more than one track is kinda stacking the odds. If you do three different tracks in three different styles, and there’s three people, one of each who digs one of those tracks but hates the others, then suddenly you’ve got three votes, whereas they may have considered another artist’s track if that participant had only submitted one the one.
I agree with that and the next reply but currently they are not limited to one sub.@7asid is technically right.@Faintbrush can rule on us anything he wants.
My opinion about sub number: ( to explain myself why not to feel morally bad by it)
Not limiting subs number encourages making more music.
If the author would make for example 5 profiles on IDMF and post the tracks under different names, would that be unfair? Why?
Is there any money involved in this? Did mfxxx get 2.34 billion atoms of oxygen more to breath because he made many subs and won with them?
In the case of mfxxx, did he won because he provided multiple musical opinions and would he lost if he would pick out a single track? So did he win unfairly?
I think it was nice that he made many tracks and i hope that the voters voted morally right, according to the fact that many subs mean more input from the same person.
I think people are able to see one person 'flooded the entry pool and adjust their voting so that is fair…