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This post will quickly explain our judges voting process. First of all I want to say that we are humbled by the response from the Hive community and the wider music community. The competition is growing at a pace we are very satisfied with. We have a collaboration set up with another music group that I will share in the near future and make a Call to Action for. Stay tuned for that.

For week 1 we have decided against going with the community voters acting as a third judge until we have a decent footing and people are accustomed to the competition itself. For week 2 community will vote for their favorites to win and **will be able to receive upvotes and rewards in the form of Musican NFTs that are traded on OpenSea just for voting their favorites via #dpoll.**

### For week 1 we have 2 judges: 

- @lordbutterfly as the competition organizer. 

- @silentscreamer (Marica\_eth) who is a concert master violinist in the Croatian National Theatre and a singer. 

We will look to expand the judges panel as we go along. I will most likely give up my spot and focus on organization and marketing efforts once we find fitting people to take over for my spot. 

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Both judges together will choose a shortlist of 10 entries and assign values to them from 1-10 in the categories of 
- **Talent (1x)**
- **Uniqueness (o.8x)**
- **Effort (0.6x)**
- **Audio quality (0.4x)** 

- **New Hive users (0.2x)**

Listed in order of magnitude. No single category guarantees winning. Some are more important than others.

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_Most of this is based on subjective opinions of the judges and you should not feel discouraged if you do not make the shortlist for this week._ 


**Talent**- pretty straight forward. 
**Uniqueness** - how good we feel your act stands out. 
**Effort** - did you go the extra mile?
**Audio quality** - Straight forward
**New Hive users** - As the reason for the existence of this competition is to onboard new users and without growth Vibes loses one of its main reasons for existence, we added this category to encourage new musicians coming in. This ofc will not affect the final score greatly.

**Max value per judge: 30
Max total: 60**

Values will be summed up and the the entry with highest value will be the WINNER. 
The first 6 places for week 1 will receive cash prizes as seen in the promo. 

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EXAMPLE: 

_Harry Hiverson received 20 points from judge 1 and 10 points from judge 2. His total is 30 points._

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For week 2 once we add community voting (there will be another update) the top voted entry from the shortlist of 10, will receive a max of 30 points. For each place below first place, points received will be 2.-29, 3.-28... 10.-21.  
**This means that the third judge (community) will potentially have a disproportionally higher effect on the final outcome than any of the judges alone.** 
This is to encourage musicians to find their fan bases, network and hopefully bring in their fans from web2 to Hive.

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This ofc is only here to clarify our process and you should mostly just look to do your best and present yourself in the best light. 

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_Disclaimer: All of this is subject to change as we go along. Updates will be provided if the voting process is updated._