tournament Holiday Hit 2023 ❄️ Congrats to Cinnamon FairyToes... er, I mean, Hey Dude! ☃️

[Aurora]

❄️ Holiday Hit 2023 ☃️

 

Ho Ho Ho, Hitmakers! Welcome to Golden Hit’s second annual holiday writing contest.
‘Tis the season of giving, and this year Holiday Hit aims to truly embody that sentiment.

 

The concept of Holiday Hit is simple: players write a song inspired by the festive season,

which will be reviewed, scored, and ranked by a panel of your fellow songwriter judges.

Ultimately, like Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” most years without fail,

one song will be presented with the gift of being named the Holiday Hit of the season.

 

This year, however, Holiday Hit plans to enlist an all-new panel of judges: Santa’s Helpers!

Yet per tradition, the only writers they’ll allow to participate in the contest are other Elves.

 

 

❄️ Special Overview ❄️
Writers will submit their seasonal songs anonymously, instead adopting an “Elf Name”.

This may be something you’ve created yourself, or acquired using an Elf Name Generator.

Elves have five days to submit songs via Google Forms before the judging phase begins.

Please do not announce your Elf Name publicly! Your submissions are anonymous.

 

During the judging phase, Elves will be provided with a Google Doc containing all songs.

Elves will also be provided with a judging Google Form, in which they reveal their identity.
Following three days to submit scores, results will be tallied, and a winner will be named.

 

☃️ Rules & Reminders ☃️
Writers who participate understand they will be expected to read and score others’ songs.
Failure to do so will result in their song being ineligible to receive a final score and rank.
Writers’ scores for their own songs will not be taken into consideration. Writers who are

believed to be assigning very low scores to inflate their own ranking will be penalized.
Reviewing each writers’ submission is not required, however it is certainly encouraged.

Holiday Hit aims to be a fun “Secret Santa” style contest, embracing the season of giving!

 

Songs due via Google Form submission by Tue. Dec 19, 11:59PM EST

 

As all submissions will be entirely anonymous until the conclusion of the judging phase,

yours truly will also be joining in on the festivities. All I want for Christmas is your songs!

 

Spoiler

@8thPrince@Achilles.@Alldeezy@Antikythera@Arrows@Augmented@beatinglikeadrum@Better Mistakes@blackoutbaby@Blue.@camfuckingrockwell@CountryBritney@DatChickDoe@Devon Robot@Element@EnigmaticAndroid@EpicSongFan@Euterpe@FCKNAmbrosia@fountain@Gavin.@GentleDance@Hey Dude@Hooker Barbie@Hug@Insanity@Invisibility@Jackson@Jessie@Jack!@JoeAg@JonginBey@Julia Fox@Julianna Calm Down@Kayseri Mantisi@Kunst@Kylie Jenner@Legend E@lex@Lorenzo22@luckystrike@mxtthewdelrey@Navy4Life@Obsession@OreGuy@Overprotected@Prisoner@punisher@Remmy@réveuse@RobDeWittBukater@Seiko Oomori@Speezy@stupidjock@Temporal@Tropical@TruGemini@Tylerbv@ughgabriel@ultraviolence.xx@worldwide angel@xBoySelenatorx@XO_Life

[Julia Fox]

1. Starlight Magicfeet

[Aurora]

5 minutes ago, Julia Fox said:

1. Starlight Magicfeet

Will be lovely to see you participate hon, but please pick a new elf name! Don't reveal your elf name in the thread, as they're intended to be anonymous submissions. 

[khalyan]

2. Little RainbowPot

[Aurora]

To clarify: if you are interested in participating, feel free to declare so in the thread! Just don't reveal the name you will be submitting under... that part will be done during the judging process. 

[Hug]

The elves are scrambling around the workshop, unsure of what Santa is telling them to do exactly

[Aurora]

Just now, Hug said:

The elves are scrambling around the workshop, unsure of what Santa is telling them to do exactly

I've added a clearer disclaimer to the OP, sorry for any confusion @Julia Fox@khalyan! Would love to see you... er, your elves still submit. 

[poki]

The site let's us create an avi, let's use that too lmao 

[Aurora]

3 minutes ago, Hey Dude said:

The site let's us create an avi, let's use that too lmao 

Ooh, that sounds like fun! The top three writers of this event will also earn themselves a Frost Blue Hit Token, like mine!

[Legend E]

This is such a cute twist omg

[Aurora]

2 minutes ago, Legend E said:

This is such a cute twist omg

I've always liked the idea of an anonymous songwriting tournament, or even just a round, but never knew how to best go about it. This "Secret Santa" format seems perfect for the holiday season, and if it goes well maybe we can do it again next year! I guess we'll just have to wait and see. 

[Legend E]

9 minutes ago, Aurora said:

I've always liked the idea of an anonymous songwriting tournament, or even just a round, but never knew how to best go about it. This "Secret Santa" format seems perfect for the holiday season, and if it goes well maybe we can do it again next year! I guess we'll just have to wait and see. 

Do it for every holiday

[Jackson]

Ahhh so excited for this! Absolutely planning to submit something for this. My first time submitting since last year’s Christmas round

[Aurora]

9 minutes ago, Jackson said:

Ahhh so excited for this! Absolutely planning to submit something for this. My first time submitting since last year’s Christmas round

Topping "Peppermint World" is certainly going to be a challenge! I'm still undecided if I will be writing something in a similar vein to "Gingerbread Man", or switching it up entirely again... hmm. 

[fountain]

Oh wow this concept sounds really fun 

 

Spoiler

If only I didn’t hate Christmas 

 

[worldwide angel]

allegedly at the north pole 

[poki]

Maybe I have an idea

[poki]

I couldn't hide my identity even if I tried haha

[Aurora]

4 hours ago, worldwide angel said:

allegedly at the north pole 

1 hour ago, Hey Dude said:

Maybe I have an idea

I'm en route from a remote Samoan island to the North Pole as we speak, I fear! 

[Aurora]

Well, the deadline is up! I will compile the songs and post them here in the thread in less than 12 hours time. Now's your final chance to get those last minute entries in if you want. Santa's elves are nary late!

[Aurora]

Holiday Hitmakers! Here is a link to a Google Doc with the submissions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h_NZbvZXC2iyZV_jH2w0ApwbAUoASFfBFPOw5qxwKx8/edit?usp=sharing

 

I will make a proper judging post later tonight as I unfortunately fell quite busy at this time of year, but please read the songs and rank/score them as per usual. Thanks to everyone who submitted!

 

The official judging Google Form will be posted later on for you to send in scores and reveal your identity. Please don't reveal your identity until then!

[fountain]

They’re all lovely, well done to you secret writers! 

[Jackson]

I really wanted to participate but it was not in the cards for me sadly  I had family in town, in the midst of some home remodeling, and have been working late every night this past week. Good luck to all the other elves! I will be perched 

[Aurora]

 

Hey, Holiday Hitmakers! The time has come to share the love and read, rank, and rate each other's entries!

All up we received four wonderful holiday hits, which is perhaps fewer than expected, but such is life. 

 

❄️ Google Doc of Submissions ❄️

☃️ Google Form for Judging ☃️

 

If you submitted, please read all of the songs in the submission document and assign a score between 1-10.

For your own song: assign whatever score you like, as it will be excluded from your song's final average. 

Once all four sets of scores are in, I will tally the results, and reveal the ranking and identities in the thread!

 

Scores (and reviews) are due by Sat. Dec 23, 11:59PM EST

 

Of course, if all four sets of scores are in beforehand we can announce results earlier, so try to do this ASAP!

Thank you for participating in this fun bonus event, and we look forward to seeing you next year for GH6. 

 

[Aurora]

Still awaiting a couple of judging submissions! Obviously this is a busy time of year but please try and get them in ASAP.