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Post by Teddy Flair on Oct 5, 2022 11:22:37 GMT -5
Premise:
Your local eccentric billionaire just kicked the bucket, and left a big ol' pile of money with your name on it, earmarked to have a summer concert series at a park in your city! You have unlimited funds, but you must spend them on a series of 6 concerts, each with an opening act and a headliner.
The Draft:
This will be a twelve round blind draft, performed by sending me a PM with an act every day from October 10-21 by noon EST.
I will collate everyone's picks and post them as quickly as I can after the noon deadline. Acts can be selected by multiple drafters in the same round, but once picked are off the table for later rounds.
Picks can be sent for the next day as soon as I have posted the previous round's picks. This means Wednesday's pick can be sent Tuesday afternoon, as long as I've released the results. This should give everyone approximately 23 hours to make their picks.
Results will be completely anonymized; drafters are more than welcome to claim their picks, but not at all required to until the end. Any missed or late pick will result in the drafter getting the most popular act of that round by default.
Lineups:
Each lineup will contain exactly twelve acts, split between 6 dates. Assume an infinite production budget, so each act can put on the most baller-ass show you can imagine. Each show must end by 11, to not break curfew requirements of the city where the show is held.
Eligibility:
No dead people. In cases of bands with dead members, the drafter must select replacement members when they announce their full lineup. Other than that, go wild.
As far as acts with multiple names go, I seriously doubt both Caribou and Daphni will get drafted, so don't make it a problem unless it really needs to be. Much like the WrestleMania draft and the auction, let's aim for low sodium.
Reveals:
Upon reveal of their full lineups, each drafter must declare the city in which the concert series will take place, along with dates and a location, which must be a public park. Maybe a catchy name and slogan, just to be cute?
After the final round on Friday October 21, I will post each anonymized lineup starting the next Monday, so you have the entire weekend to make your poster and schedule.
Voting:
The first round of voting will be to determine the top 8 lineups which would bring the most interest from the general audience in their respective cities. Once the top 8 lineups are seeded, we will pick a winner for best overall set of shows.
Sign-ups:
There are two ways you can sign up for the draft. If you'd like the public to know your presence, post in this thread that you want to play, and I will start a PM thread with you for your picks. If you'd prefer to remain completely anonymous through the process, send me a PM with the thread title "SUMMER CONCERT SERIES" (all caps please).
Sign-ups can be made either publicly or privately all the way until the round 1 deadline, which is Monday October 10 at 12pm EST. There is no cap on the number of entries, and I hope a few people go for the anonymous route.
Beyonce (x2) Black Sabbath Brit Floyd Bruce Springsteen Led Zeppelin Modest Mouse My Morning Jacket Outkast (x2) Phoebe Bridgers Radiohead (x3) R.E.M. Sturgill Simpson Talking Heads Taylor Swift Turnstile
ROUND TWO RESULTS
Bad Bunny Boards of Canada Britney Spears Daft Punk Dead & Co Fiona Apple Florence + the Machine Foo Fighters Frank Ocean (2x) Lady Gaga Pattie Smith Paul McCartney Pink Floyd Rage Against The Machine Slayer Tyler Childers Weyes Blood
ROUND 3 RESULTS
Caroline Polachek Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Elton John Erykah Badu Gorillaz Harry Styles Iron Maiden Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Kendrick Lamar (2x) Lake Street Dive Missy Elliot Neutral Milk Hotel Oasis Paramore Rihanna Solange The Strokes Tool
ROUND 4 RESULTS
Allison Krauss and Union Station Arca Beach House The Chemical Brothers Dolly Parton Fleetwood Mac fka Twigs Fred again.. Goose Kacey Musgraves (x2) Kate Bush (x4) LCD Soundsystem (x2) Metallica Nine Inch Nails Spoon Tame Impala Tina Turner Willie Nelson
ROUND 5 RESULTS
Alvvays A Tribe Called Quest Blur The Carolina Chocolate Drops Cocteau Twins Depeche Mode Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard New Kids On The Block Megan Thee Stallion Mitski Paul Simon Phish Pixies Rammstein SAULT Turnpike Troubadours Vampire Weekend The White Stripes
ROUND 6 RESULTS
Alabama Shakes Beastie Boys Billy Strings BTS Ethel Cain Eurythmics Godspeed You! Black Emperor Jack White Janelle Monae Japanese Breakfast Los Tigres del Norte Magdalena Bay My Chemical Romance Neil Young and Crazy Horse Nelly Rod Stewart Rosalia Slipknot Tom Waits
Post by Teddy Flair on Oct 5, 2022 11:37:15 GMT -5
Just to clarify, your concert series should take place in a large public park, central to the population of the city. The events will be free, non-ticketed, general admission.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Do we also draft our location, or can there be multiple competing festivals in the same spot?
idk what does everyone want to do
Since it's only 6 dates, since it's a concert series not a festival, and since it's a whole-summer thing, it stands to reason that you could have multiple series taking place in the same location assuming a break to clean and let the grass recover a bit.
I feel like everyone is gonna assume Daft Punk is getting picked so nobody is gonna pick them in Round 1 and then like 6 people are gonna try in Round 2.
