As from 1st October 2023 the Challenge Board is changing, so a lot of what is below will no longer apply.
Please read this post:
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http://www.tierce-de-picardie.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=408&t=12263
A few thoughts about the 'New' Challenge Board
The original Challenge Board was set up for Members to play something new on their keyboards in response to a 'theme' that had been set. There were no restrictions on how a piece was played, or the number of pieces that a Member could enter for a Challenge. So long as the pieces submitted were 'new' and had not been recorded previously. There was no voting or analysis of the pieces submitted, and there were no ‘winners’. So best described as an encouragement to practice playing a keyboard rather than using one’s skills to produce an amazing piece of music.
It was difficult to keep track of the entries, and virtually impossible to make comments on an entry as a ‘Challenge’ was set up as a Topic. Both comments and new entries were put up as ‘Replies’ on a ‘timeline’ and once the topic had moved on it was difficult to get back and discuss something that had been posted earlier.
The ‘New Challenges’ have been set up to allow each entry to have it’s own space, and make it possible to put ‘Replies’ to any entry at any time. If anyone has a suggestion for a Challenge please contact Den (dentyr) or myself (Hugh-AR). We can be contacted by finding us in the Members list (you can do this alphabetically) and clicking on Email, or Send private message. Only an Administrator can set up a New Challenge as it is a Board (not a Topic) that has to be set up.
Voting
In other Forums the ‘management’ (who are the experts?) analyse and judge the entries between them and decide on a ‘Winner’. We are not going down that road. We would prefer the Members just to vote for ‘three of the entries they liked the best’. No analysis of ‘technique’ or how expertly the piece has been put together. Just which three you liked the best. Why three? Two reasons. How can you possibly choose just one when entries are so varied and played so differently? And secondly, the more votes cast the more will be allocated to individual entries. With one vote each, with such few Members voting I don’t reckon a ‘winner’ will get more than two or three votes. And that does not make a conclusive ‘winner’.
This ‘New’ Challenge is to post something that fits the criteria, with any skills you may have to make your entry interesting for other Members to listen to, and maybe inspire them to try playing something in a way they might not have thought of doing before. A bit of fun. It is not meant to be a ‘Competition’ for you to enter with the objective of winning. The only reason for having a ‘winner’ is because one of our Members, Ian Wolstenholme (who runs Oldham Community Radio) has offered to include our winner(s) in his Radio Broadcast. Brilliant! And I thank him for doing that.
Can you vote for your own entry? Well yes, and how would we know who you voted for anyway? But be objective, if you can. If you genuinely think your entry is better than all the others you have listened to then vote for it. Otherwise, go for something that you genuinely liked.