re: SmileyLand - WLSC 55 --- Epica --- "Storm The Sorrow"
I couldn't disagree more and I don't get your attitude either, so we're even... But like I said each to their own. So, you've 'cheated' last edition too? A try of winning the contest, maybe? So what? Who am I to criticize you for your options and for what you like and/ or believe in any contest? Anyway, I won't go further in this discussion. You should name this contest ORIGINAL SONG CONTEST (OSC) and make rules according to it before using harsh words like 'cheating'. Criticizing others for their options over and over again is really upsetting. (Even worse when you end up doing what you criticize for your own benefit, when your original choices don't seem 'to work', mind you).
Why I cheated last edition? I sent one of the least known WT songs (as far as I know), and I checked its chart success, it achieved #1 only in one country (Poland) and in other countries it didn't even enter top 40. You wouldn't call this overplayed at all. And it was only one out of many songs I sent.
As you saw, overplayed or not doesn't affect my ranking of the songs. I always gave you points, and sometimes even very high points, and I did the same thing with songs sent by other nations too. I don't mind someone sending an overplayed song every now and then, but you send them one after the other. And I said this because I know you very well and I thought you are a person that I can freely express my opinion without getting it wrong, but what you said is that you are going to leave WLSC because of that. :?
About that "cheating" thing I was talking
generally, not only for you, and not only for WLSC but for other contests of this forum.
This sums up what I wanted to say: Since I know you well, and we shared with each other songs etc, I think the choices you make to send only songs that everyone knows underestimates yourself. You see that it's not only me who thinks so, during the results show last time others "joked" about it too, and tried to guess what you're gonna send etc. And I think this image people got from you is not the right one.
And I'm sorry if I made you upset with this, I didn't intend to do it...