Good Luck Guys!

[Tracy]

Good luck guys on the TSO contest ending tonight!

David, you got a raw deal with 'sour grape' pricks trying to pull your rating down and spewing venom in the comments. But take that as a compliment because they were just jelous of your talent (first off) and equipment, and Production/presentation.

I have nothing to do with EMP other than I'm MarkE's sister and have been enjoying and admiring what you all have been doing together musically. Ok, call me a groupie LOL

I think you all posted fantastic entries and I wish you all the best of luck tonight! I've been voting 5 stars every day for all of you. I'm glad to have gotten to voyure on this contest and am anxiously awaiting the results.

Good luck guys!

[Tarkus]

thanks, tracy - but it ain't over quite yet.

tso/atlantic posted a rules change a little while ago - they're now extending it to 1/15/07, and at that time they'll select a final THREE in each category that is not dependent on youtube rating (vs an original final five that was).

my guess is twofold: (1) they're disappointed with only 142 entries (i'm not counting emp's collaborative effort in that number) and hope that an extra thirty days will make them look a little better; and (2) they realize that shenanigans (sp?) like what's happening to me are happening to others (besides, it's been discussed for several weeks now that it's not fair - somebody like me puts-up a vid early-on and people can take pot-shots at the rating, whereas you could put one up 30min prior to contest end and have a half dozen of your friends all rate it a five).

i'm not at all happy - we pretty much dropped the other stuff we were doing to make this mid-december deadline, and now they change it in the 12th hour. plus, i seem to have this child-molester music "expert" with a hard-on for me. gotta say that this thing is not NEARLY as fun as it was a couple of weeks ago.

no worries - while i've been checking it several times a day i will likely cut back to no more than once in the upcoming month - mainly so i can remove new profiles and bad comments posted by god's gift to music.

hey, i figure if nothing else, emp has picked-up a few new fans in the process... what will interest me is if a few of those fans include members of tso.

:)

[Tracy]

Well, that just sucks.

I suspect that they didn't expect so many good entries and didn't expect the problem with the ratings.

Oh well, we'll see what happens. I'm so dissappointed. I was really looking forward to tonight for weeks.