Fall 2025 Competition Poll

Followers

1. What should the competition be about?
- To write background music for one of @chopin's Retry Bro's YouTube videos.
  
  13%
  
  4
- To write some kind of autobiographical piece with a paragraph describing how the music portrays the autobiographical material.
  
  20%
  
  6
- To write a Halloween-themed spooky, weird, or outlandish and strange piece.
  
  41%
  
  12
- M&M&M's - Mock-up's, Mash-up's, and Medleys
  
  24%
  
  7
2. What ensemble should the participants be free to choose to write for?
- Piano Quintet/Quartet/Trio
  
  10%
  
  3
- String Quintet/Quartet/Trio
  
  17%
  
  5
- Woodwind Quintet/Quartet/Trio
  
  10%
  
  3
- Brass Quintet/Quartet/Trio
  
  3%
  
  1
- Mixed Quintet/Quartet/Trio
  
  14%
  
  4
- Free choice of any of the options 1 through 5
  
  42%
  
  12

This poll is closed to new votes

Poll closed on 10/08/2025 at 07:00 AM

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October 1, 2025Oct 1

This post was recognized by UncleRed99!

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"Hehe Thanks for the shoutout. I am utilizing my newfound power on this comment to express my gratitude"

We'd like to welcome a new member and Reviewer to the staff: @UncleRed99! Welcome! With his help as well as with input from the rest of the staff, @chopin, @Thatguy v2.0 and @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu we've come up with a little poll for the members to answer to help determine the form of our next fun competition/challenge. There are two questions in the poll:

1) What should the competition be about?

To write background music for one of @chopin's Retry Bro's YouTube videos. Explanation: @chopin has a new YouTube channel! It's called Retry Bros. and consists of him playing Super Mario Maker levels and coming up with entertaining narration from Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, and other assorted characters. There's also a musical element. So far, Mike has come up with some clever lyrics and used AI to make realistic sounding songs that go along with the video. Now, where you would come in is that you'd be writing background music for one of @chopin's new videos!
To write some kind of autobiographical piece with a paragraph describing how the music portrays the autobiographical material. This one is @UncleRed99's suggestion. The idea is to "write a piece that simply tells a story about your life, and something meaningful within it. Utilize complex elements to express emotion, tension, or any other desired emotional or mentally relatable expression. Provide a brief summary describing the root of the story being told."
To write a Halloween-themed spooky, weird, or outlandish and strange piece. This one is self-explanatory and was proposed by @Thatguy v2.0.
My own idea is for the members to write M&M&M's - Mock-ups, Mash-ups and Medleys. The idea is for the members to take 2 or more preexisting themes from different genres of music and to make mash-ups and Medleys with them.

2) What kind of ensemble should the competitors be free to choose to write for?

The poll has closed and the competition has now begun! To sign up and read about the competition specifications/requirements go here:

To submit links to your compositions for the competition to the submissions thread:

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October 3, 2025Oct 3

how do I enter?

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October 3, 2025Oct 3

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7 minutes ago, therealAJGS said:

how do I enter?

This is a poll to first determine what the competition will be about. Once everyone votes (after a week - the poll closes October 8th) we'll make an official competition announcement and you'll be able to reply to that post to declare your intent to join the competition. Glad to hear you're onboard!

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