Nur Ein XIX

[Niveous]

It's time for Nur Ein #19!

The Nur Ein is an eight-round song competition. In each round, the participants are given a song title and a mandatory challenge. The participants then have one week in which to creste a song from those prompts. Then this year's judging panel will listen to the songs and rate them from best to worst. Each round whittles down the field until we are left with only 1 competitor. Creativity x Skill x Time Management = Nur Ein!

The Nur Ein begins with Round Zero. Round Zero is the way you enter the competition. The participants will have until May 12th at 11:59PM (Eastern Daylight Time) to create a song from the given prompts. When a competitor completes a song, it is to be e-mailed to nurein.sidefight which is a Gmail address. The songs will then be posted at the Nur Ein website (http://nure.in) and the next title and challenge will be announced at the same time.

The Judges will have the next few days to listen to the songs. They will rank the songs from best to worst. If there are more than 25 entries into Round zero, the judges will eliminate the lowest ranked competitors until we reach 25.

Here's the schedule:

Round 0:
May 6 - May 12
Judging May 13 - May 15
<X> bands, <X-25> eliminations

Round 1:
May 13 - May 19
Judging May 20 - May 22
25 bands, 5 eliminations
Judges favorite gets immunity

Round 2:
May 20 - May 26
Judging May 27 - May 29
20 bands, 4 eliminations
Judges favorite gets immunity

Round 3:
May 27 - June 2 (the guest round!)
Judging June 3 - June 5
16 bands, 4 eliminations
Judges favorite gets immunity

Round 4:
June 3 - June 9
Judging June 10 - June 12
12 bands, 4 eliminations

Round 5:
June 10 - June 16
Judging June 17 - June 19
8 bands, 3 eliminations

Round 6:
June 17 - June 23
Judging June 24 - June 26
5 bands, 3 eliminations

Final Round:
June 24 - June 30
Voting July 1 - July 3
2 bands, 1 elimination

The final round is a battle between the two remaining competitors with the votes of the eliminated competitors and the Nur Ein Judges choosing the winner (one vote per "act," whether you're a band or a solo competitor; if you're a duo, trio, quartet, quintet, or more, you'll need to discuss internally how to allocate that one vote).

This year's judging team will consist of:
Grumpy Mike (Nur Ein XVII champion)
Niveous
Heuristic Inc
arby
Mysteria

The game is on. Nur Ein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Round Zero begins now.

Title: For Your Consideration

Challenge: Song must include the acoustic and electric version of the same instrument.

Create a new original song from the prompt by May 12 at 11:59 PM Eastern. Email your song to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com