The Country Draft 🤠 - RESULTS

The Setup

You have been given the opportunity to curate the initial lineup for a country festival The top 20 artists on each lineup will be locked into non-compete clauses preventing them from being on any of these other festival lineups. When the top 20 is complete, you can add unlimited undrafted free agents (UDFA) to your lineup. Winners will be decided by polls, google form, or a bracket system (to be determined later).

Eligible Artists:

Any living act is available to be picked. If you wish to choose an act that has deceased members, you must name a replacement.

All acts must meet what is known as the Wikipedia Rule: In the genre section of their Wikipedia page's header, at least one of the following words must be included: country, folk, western, southern, bluegrass, Americana. If there are strange exceptions that by the spirit of the game seem like they should be eligible, such as acts in subgenres of the previously listed, go ahead and draft them, but they are subject to poll.

Any attempt by a player to modify an artists Wikipedia page for eligibility purposes is strictly prohibited and will result in the forfeiture of no less than 2 picks.

1) Once an artist or member of an act is drafted they are unavailable to anyone else however side-projects and solo artists from that act would still be eligible until separately drafted as long as their typical set contains no more than six songs by a previously drafted performer.

2) A maximum of two superjams are allowed.

3) Disputes handled via poll. Upon confirming receipt of dispute request, a poll will be put up and run for twelve hours. Drafting will continue while the poll is running. If a poll is a tie, the thing being disputed stands. No act will be polled if disputed an entire round has passed since the selection.

4) Draft order will be randomly generated for the first round and will continue as a snake draft. (I.e., the person with the last pick in the first round would have the first pick in the second round.) Anyone wanting a prime draft pick must Venmo me $25 ahead of the draft order being posted.

5) In Rounds One through Ten, picks between 9AM and 9PM Eastern will have a maximum of six hours. Any turn that starts between 9PM and 3AM Eastern will expire in twelve hours. Any turn that starts between 3AM and 6AM will expire in nine hours. Any turn that starts between 6AM and 9AM will expire in seven hours.

Beginning in Round Eleven, Drafters have two hours to make picks between 9AM and 9PM Eastern. Any pick that starts after 9PM and before 8:59AM has until 11AM.

If a participant misses their pick, the draft will continue as if a pick was made and the participant can then select from any remaining acts at the time that they register their pick. If a player is still on the clock from a previous turn because their time expired without making a selection, then when their next turn comes around the twelve (or eight or three) hour wait for their turn is waived. There is no limit on the amount of outstanding picks a participant can have but a participant may be removed from the game if they are inactive.

6) When you post your selection, identify who the pick is. (Do not assume that everybody else can recognize your pick from pic or gif - formatting issues sometimes make them unreadable.) In addition, tag the next person after you and the person going after them to keep things moving.

7) Trades are allowed. All participants must verify the terms of the trade. (Note: Trades are subject to dispute. In the event that a trade is believed to be unrealistically lopsided, a participant can call for a poll on the validity of said trade.)

8) Twenty rounds of standard drafting.

9) Unlimited free agents. Revealing details to be determined later.

10) Any rule changes prior to the start of the draft will be decided by me and updated in the OP.

11) Any rule changes after the start of the draft will require 2/3rds majority vote by active participants.

12) A rule change cannot be instituted to change the process of changing rules or disputes. (E.g., no vote to assign a "ref.")

13) If an artist performs both solo and with a set band, then when one is drafted all iterations are off the table. For example, if Prince is drafted then Prince and the Revolution is off the table. However if Neil Young is drafted then Neil Young & Crazy Horse is off the table but not Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (RIP).

14) If an act has multiple lineup configurations, the one drafted should be identified when drafted. Other configurations would then be off the table. For example, if you were selecting Van Halen then you verified that you were choosing the iteration with Gary Cherone, the David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar VH's would be off the table. (This is a holdover from the infinity rules I can't figure out how to rephrase, but only lineups that have performed since 2015 are eligible.) also no dead people.

15) In the event that a participant is unable or unwilling to complete the draft, the draft runners will determine the best course of action for distribution of that lineups picks.

16) If a drafter appears to be acting to the detriment of the draft, participants are able to request that drafter's removal. Removal will require twelve votes in favor. Only participants may vote and the votes are public. That participant's drafted artists would be moved to a supplemental round.

17) If a drafter may not be able to make their pick, they may select a proxy or proxies to select on their behalf.

18) When realistic, do not name unselected draft-eligible acts.

19) In the event that a team takes an act who has been accused of any sort of assault, harassment, violence, etc. and the drafting team did not know this, they may drop that act and repick. Please use discretion in using this. If somebody selects an artist whose abuse / crimes etc are very widely known, they may not be dropped (I.E. can’t claim you didn’t know about the Bill Cosby stuff).

20) All participants must be nice to tranter at all times.