rostfreyh: Liebe GOG-Forum-Musikfreunde, mit dem Eingang sämtlicher Punkte haben wir nun auch schon ein Endergebnis. Es war wieder bis zur letzten Wertung spannend und zum Schluss haben wir hinten und vorne wieder einmal extrem knappe Abstände:

* * * * * * * * * * *

01. Platz mit 79 Punkten: Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen eingereicht von Leroux
02. Platz mit 78 Punkten: Pink Floyd - Time eingereicht von Tatsuja_Shiba
03. Platz mit 68 Punkten: Weltraumstaunen - Wizard vs. Time eingereicht von russellskanne

Leroux: Hi king_kunat, thanks a lot for showing your support!

That's a very generous offer! But seeing as this contest is a community effort started by PaterAlf and kept alive by many others, without any other incentive than just for the fun of it, and with many deserved winners before me, I feel it wouldn't be fair for me to profit of this singular opportunity. We've considered prizes as rewards before but feared it might ruin the carefreeness of it all, so we decided against it. I very much appreciate the thought behind it though, thank you!

Maybe you'd like to take part in the next round? There's still one week left to join and send me your favorite song with food or drinks in the title (in any language I can google). ;)

PaterAlf: Hello king_kunat. Nice surprise to see you here and thank you for your kind words and for showing support for our little game and (after more than two years) beloved community tradition.

I think what would make us even more happy, is someone from GOG taking part in the next round. Or even someone else in each round? I'm sure there are some music lovers at GOG and we always need new participants. :-)

@Leroux
Nimm ruhig an. Hast es dir als Langzeit-Teilnehmer verdient. Ich habe in der Vergangenheit auch schon öfter Überraschungsgeschenke von GOG bekommen und mich immer darüber gefreut. Ist ja auch ein Zeichen von Wertschätzung, das sie der Community zeigen.

Leroux: With the help of DeepL I produced a quick translation of the current contest's OP containing the rules. Take it with a grain of salt, it might be a bit overwhelming at first, but most of it is tongue-in-cheek, with a few puns that might not translate that well. The short version with the important bits is just:

1. You announce that you would like to participate (as you've already done here).
2. You send me a link to a song of your choice that you'd like to nominate, via PM (I should have it by Sunday, if possible, because that's our current deadline). In this round the theme is food (or drinks), and the idea is that I would be able to list all songs in the form of a menu. So ideally, your song should contain something to eat or drink in the title.

But the main condition is that I could fit it on a menu, so, to give some silly examples, if your song does not contain something like "Pizza" or "Pear" or "Beer" etc., but it has "Pockets" in it or "Gluten", you might still be able to convince me that I could list it as "(Hot) Pockets" or under "Allergens". ;) So there is some wiggle room (even though you should be able to find plenty of songs with actual food in the title.)

Then, once the voting phase starts, next week, I'll post a list of all nominated songs and you'll have three weeks to listen to them and post your votes, Eurovision Song Contest style, like this (example from the last round with the theme of "Time"):

12 Points: Pink Floyd - Time
10 Points: Weltraumstaunen - Wizard vs. Time
08 Points: The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism live
07 Points: Bob Dylan - The times they are a changin
06 Points: Gentleman - Time Out
05 Points: Barenaked Ladies - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
04 Points: Staind - It's Been Awhile
03 Points: Oka Over - Auf alte Tage
02 Points: Linda Ronstadt - Long Long Time
01 Point.: The Gathering - Strange Machines

You can't vote for your own song, of course. And that's about it. The song with the most votes wins and whoever nominated it gets to decide the theme of the following round. Whoever ends up in last place, gets to nominate two songs in the following round (if they decide to participate again).