Well, I was attempting to explain a very simple way, and I'm not used to doing that. If we make this too easy for the participants then all idea of competition (and therefore motivation) will be taken away. The point of making the participants work outside of their comfort zone is the not only get them interested in the competition, but to have them experience songwriting in a different style. Different genres require different writing styles. We're not going to put strict musical restrictions. The theme or style or genre will be picked in a poll, so it's not like effingawesome or I are going to be picking everything ourselves. The only criteria (as I've said before) is most likely going to be length, number of parts and amount of time the participant is allowed to work on the song. The only standard that each participant must meet is the theme or style or genre for that particular challenge, but we will be sure to pick and choose carefully which genre (if we use genres(?)) to be a broad sweeping genre, so the participant does not have to step too far out of their comfort zone, but enough that they will be challenged. If that is too difficult for some, they don't have to participate and can simply wait until the next time to be more interested in the exercise.

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Tee hee, rawfull, twenty-three posts.