I'm going to make another delay, actually. Once again, it's because I had a plan and it fell through, and it also involves my nasty work schedule.
As of right now, the submissions are due in 4 hours. This is a silly time, I'd have to stay up all night just to wait for the entries to expire so that I could spend more hours posting them to the judges and boom no sleep before an 8 hour shift. I'm going way too hard on myself, I need to be well-rested to do this job. No, I could not have planned my schedule very much earlier in advance, for my work schedule goes by the week. I thought I could handle it, but like I said, some stuff fell through.
The judges are indeed going to need more time, looking at all of the entries. I wasn't planning on delaying the album release, but I think pushing the release date to
June 7th would help ensure that the judges get the time they need.
Furthermore, for my sake of being rested, the submissions once more will get a final delay. The submissions are 100% finally due at
midnight, tomorrow night. Meaning I have time to properly prepare myself for Rainbow & Rooted after coming home from work. I'm not going to change this schedule. This is the time I personally need and I can work with this kind of time.
I'm also going to ask for more judges. One of my failures is that I rang up as many judges as I could find. I need to carefully pick my judges and more clearly define the album's direction to the current ones (being a bit too harsh at the moment!) and also correct the current approach to how judging is being handled. This would also require time I will now use to set up properly. The judges are currently not diverse enough and are holding to a professional grade standard, which is not best for an album of fan music.
Judges I need:
- General-purpose judge
- Audience judges (non-musician judges that just add bonus points to a score)
- Judge for EDM (triple-check that)
- Judge for Rock/Punk Rock/Etc
- Judge for Orchestra / Composition