I have just spent a mammoth session judging. I looked at the various categories and it seems there are huge discrepancies in the totals in each category. Some only have a couple of hundred or so entries whilst others have over 1300. Is this fair? I have an entry in rock and have judged over 400 battles IMHO fairly as I wanted to see the competition. I take into consideration a variety of things including originality, quality of musicianship and recording quality. I try to put my own preferences to one side as there are distinct styles within the genre and one man's meat is anothers poison. I try to rate two songs side by side without being influenced by sub genre styles. Currently my song is lying at the bottom of the pile near the 1300 mark with only a dozen or so songs rated worse. This is embarrassing and frustrating and has made me quite angry as I would honestly rate this song on what I have heard so far from the competition as at least in the top 50% of the several hundred songs I have heard. I am sometimes surprised by the amount of people who apparently vote differently. On several occasions I have seen very very poor pieces in every way against relatively good pieces and most people disagreed with my preferance. There is no accounting for taste. I feel for a few of the guys rated worse than ours whose stuff is not all that bad because some of the real rubbish is holding its own mid table several hundred places above us. I hope that by the end of the month things get sorted out.

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