The $35 2009 SoOn Compo

[uncloned]

SoOn is sponsoring a competition in the spirit of the Scene compo tradition and to make it a bit more interesting we'll buy you a beer (or two) if you end up in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place.

1st place prize is $20
2nd place prize is $10
3rd place prize is $5

Here are the rules:

1. You must use at least 10 seconds of one or more of the 10 samples provided. This sample must be identified (via text). But.... You can time shift, reverse, transpose – do anything you'd like in any software and throw it all together in any style with any additional sounds you desire. Do something glorious – make a mockery of the contest – it doesn't matter – whatever is best wins!

There are samples at this profile

http://www.traxinspace.com/profile/2009sooncontest

Or at this URL

http://2009contest.soonlabel.com

2. Prize payment will be made via paypal – that is where I have the money for this event stored. If you can't get a free account then I can't help you.

3. A minimum of five (5) entries are needed to trigger payment of the prizes.

4. Entries are open until 23:59:59 October 31st 2009 GMT

5. Voting starts 00:00:00 November 1st 2009 GMT and ends November 7th 2009 GMT

6. Voting will be tallied by Tricky on TiS. Send him a TiS PM or submit your vote by emailing 2009vote at soonlabel.com which will be forwarded to him. His decision of the winners is final.

7. Entry URLs will be posted to this thread by the entrant or Tricky or myself. Email 2009vote at soonlabel.com with your URL if you do not have or want a TiS account.

8. SoOn members are eligible to compete – only I can't since it's my money and that would make little sense.... Wouldn't it?

9. I'd like to thank all of the SoOn members who contributed samples for the contest

I think that covers it.


OR

here is the sample pack plus instructions

http://2009contest.soonlabel.com/2009contest-all-samples.zip

[bvanoudtshoorn]

1. You must use at least 10 seconds of one or more of the 10 samples provided. This sample must be identified (via test). But.... You can time shift, reverse, transpose – do anything you'd like in any software and throw it all together in any style with any additional sounds you desire. Do something glorious – make a mockery of the contest – it doesn't matter – whatever is best wins!

What about the samples that are less than 10s long?


Sounds interesting! I might start on it a go when I get back from my holiday.

[uncloned]

you got me on that one - I guess you have to use more than one - or... repeat it!

and... I had a typo - just need to ID the sample by text - I used... A or B or whatever.

[Nahkranoth]

It would be interesting, clones, but here in this stupid country we can create PayPal accounts just to make payments, not to receive. Still I may enter just for lulz, for I have something in my sleeve

[uncloned]

Nahkranoth,

Yes I knew some people would be unable to receive the prize. At one point LV said he had the same problem.

I truly apologize for that. The only other solution would be for me to snail mail something and I didn't want to promise exposing my real street address to strangers. For an acquaintance I might work out something but I can't promise that.

It would be great if you would still participate!

[Nahkranoth]

I'd recommend to stay away from snail mail. I guess people enter such contests just for fun, not for the money (at least if considerable amount is not involved). Oh man! I just made a big mistake promising to participate, it should end with an epic fail for me now LOL

[uncloned]

Judging from the collaboration you posted I'm betting an entry from would be formidable!

[Nahkranoth]

Thank you, clones, but remembering my previous promises to enter the compo I've got a little scared I hope this time my mouse and motherboard will behave themselves :lol: In this case it will surely be ready for October!

[uncloned]

Since this has been asked a couple times at other forums:


you can use anything else with the sample(s) in any style you'd like using any combination of addition samples, performance, VSTi, buzz machines, etc. Maximum creativity is the goal and the SoOn samples are used to wrap around the compo.

if you do not post your entry on the traxinspace you must email the link to 2009vote at soonlabel.com in order to have either Tricky or me post it at Traxinspace for you.

If you need hosting for your song I can provide that.

Of course - you can post your tune where ever you'd  like and drum up as many votes as you'd like.

ANYONE can vote  - just PM tricky at traxinspace or use 2009vote at soonlabel.com

[Louigi Verona]

Announced the compo at louigiverona.com

It would be good if the rules of the compo were written somewhere on the page of SoOn, so that it would be more clear to people. When they see rules on a forum post, they are less likely to get interested. At the moment the organization in my opinion is a bit vague - go here, write to this email, go to this site to submit... too many resources for one compo if you know what I mean and many people from outside might not want to register at modplug, then TiS to just take part in a compo.

[uncloned]

Thanks for the announcement LV.

And whoops.... I did forget to post it at SoOn - heh!

It is on the front page now.

http://www.soonlabel.com

or without the splash page

http://center.soonlabel.com


Again - thanks!!!!

[uncloned]

SoOn Contest Potential Participants


Since it is hard to tell if anyone is entering I thought it would be interesting to publish the traffic data from the offcial contest download site.



The following is for 2009contest.soonlabel.com in September of 2009


Reported period   Month Sep 2009
First visit    25 Sep 2009 - 00:21
Last visit    30 Sep 2009 - 11:42

Unique visitors 63

Number of visits 69

Hits 310

bandwidth (viewed) 721.54 MB

bandwith (not viewed) 228.09 MB

Day         visits   Pages   Hits   Bandwidth
25 Sep 2009   29   164   164   234.38 MB
26 Sep 2009   14   37   37   174.82 MB
27 Sep 2009   12   80   80   242.36 MB
28 Sep 2009   5   9   9   1.24 MB
29 Sep 2009   6   16   16   39.18 MB
30 Sep 2009   3   4   4   29.56 MB
Average   2.30   10.33   10.33   24.05 MB
Total   69   310   310   721.54 MB



Traffic Detail




/2009contest-all-samples.zip   30   14.78 MB


/bongos.mp3   24   897.90 KB   


/a_2sample.mp3   23   2.33 MB      


/nonsense.mp3   19   391.10 KB   


/low.mp3   19   45.79 KB


/funky_slap_base_with_drum_stick_ouch__.mp3   19   626.21 KB      


/contest-in-a-minor.mp3   18   1.99 MB           


/+++the-35-dollar-2009-soon-song-contest.html   18   6.09 KB


/congas.mp3   18   897.90 KB           


/mindrones_2.mp3   18   1.66 MB           


/sound_effects.mp3   17   3.67 MB           


/x.mp3   17   2.33 MB       9   


/~~~the-35-dollar-soon-song-contest.html   1   31.06 KB           


/+++the-35-dollar-soon-song-contest.html   1   39.64 KB   



And who are potential competitors


   Countries   Pages   Hits   Bandwidth
   
us   United States   us   125   125   259.24 MB   

gb   Great Britain   gb   49   49   92.51 MB   

fr   France   fr   26   26   53.11 MB   

ch   Switzerland   ch   24   24   42.01 MB   

nl   Netherlands   nl   14   14   42.85 MB   

au   Australia   au   13   13   44.34 MB   

ee   Estonia   ee   12   12   14.78 MB   

ua   Ukraine   ua   11   11   14.78 MB   

fi   Finland   fi   8   8   29.61 MB   

no   Norway   no   6   6   17.12 MB   

lv   Latvia   lv   5   5   44.34 MB   

ca   Canada   ca   5   5   7.71 MB   

lk   Sri Lanka   lk   3   3   14.79 MB   

bg   Bulgaria   bg   2   2   7.17 KB   

lt   Lithuania   lt   2   2   7.09 KB   

jp   Japan   jp   1   1   14.78 MB   

ru   Russian Federation   ru   1   1   1.08 KB   

it   Italy   it   1   1   911 Bytes   

de   Germany   de   1   1   14.78 MB   

be   Belgium   be   1   1   14.78 MB


And which forum links brought them in


Direct address / Bookmark / Link in email...   110   62.5 %   110   62.5 %
Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list
- Yahoo!   2   2
   2   1.1 %   2   1.1 %
Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines) - Full list
- http://www.traxinspace.com/profile/2009sooncontest   21   21
- http://www.macjams.com/forum/viewtopic.php   12   12
- http://www.traxinspace.com/discussions/news/view/1772   8   8
- http://lpchip.com/modplug/viewtopic.php   8   8
- http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php   7   7
- http://modarchive.org/forums/index.php   5   5
- http://www.traxinspace.com/discussions/news/edit/27723   1   1
- http://www.buzzchurch.com/viewtopic.php   1   1
- http://www.united-trackers.org/forum/index.php   1   1

[uncloned]

The following is for 2009contest.soonlabel.com in October of 2009 up to Oct 3 2009 am in my timezone


Reported period   Month Oct 2009
First visit    01 Oct 2009 - 07:51
Last visit    03 Oct 2009 - 00:28

Unique visitors 10

Number of visits 10

Hits 25

bandwidth (viewed) 80.95 MB

bandwith (not viewed) 25.57 MB

Day         visits   Pages   Hits   Bandwidth
01 Oct 2009   3   3   3   14.78 MB
02 Oct 2009   6   20   20   66.17 MB
03 Oct 2009   1   2   2   7.17 KB
Average   3.33   8.33   8.33   26.98 MB
Total   10   25   25   80.95 MB



Traffic Detail



/2009contest-all-samples.zip   4   14.78 MB


/nonsense.mp3   2   391.10 KB           


/contest-in-a-minor.mp3   2   1.99 MB           


/a_2sample.mp3   2   2.33 MB       


/mindrones_2.mp3   2   1.66 MB           


/+++the-35-dollar-2009-soon-song-contest.html   2   6.09 KB       


/bongos.mp3   2   897.90 KB           


/sound_effects.mp3   2   3.67 MB   



And who are potential competitors


   Countries   Pages   Hits   Bandwidth   
kr   South Korea   kr   13   13   21.82 MB   

us   United States   us   8   8   29.57 MB   

de   Germany   de   1   1   14.78 MB   

gb   Great Britain   gb   1   1   1.08 KB   

ru   Russian Federation   ru   1   1   1.08 KB   

no   Norway   no   1   1   14.78 MB


And which forum links brought them in

Direct address / Bookmark / Link in email...   9   56.2 %   9   56.2 %
Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list
               
Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines) - Full list
- http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php   3   3
- http://www.traxinspace.com/profile/2009sooncontest   2   2
- http://modarchive.org/forums/index.php   1   1
- http://www.united-trackers.org/forum/index.php/topic,599.0.html   1   1

[Louigi Verona]

Yeah, I have to change the link from pointing to this forum to the SoOn page - otherwise even if someone from my site does come it won't register.

[Louigi Verona]

Done that )