As stated prior to this thread, VOTING is worth points.  If you vote and did not enter this contest, you will get 3 points towards the overall 5 year standings in the Artistry contest.  When you vote as an entrant in this round, you receive 5 points for voting. . .that means no one who votes ends with no points. . . .

Anyway, the rules are pretty similar to other contests.  This is round 115 so please know that ALL rounds will count EQUALLY toward the final standings, and NO rounds will be omitted from the final total.

1. All participants must comment on all entrants and vote by the deadline.  Failure to vote will forfeit all points from this round, and if that is less than 20 points, the difference will be forfeited in the following round (No Disqualifications)

2. Voting will take place by replying to this thread

3. If a person withdraws from an Artistry Round prior to the end of a round, all entrants who voted for that person's entry will be permitted to pick one new song to earn a bonus point, all other songs will be realigned accordingly.  There will be no penalty on those who don't change their vote.

4. Once a vote is posted, it cannot be changed UNLESS rule 3 applies OR there was a double-vote by accident.

5. Late entries will be accepted until the 1st vote has been posted.

6. The deadline is a strict deadline, the moment the date has reached the day after the deadline, no votes will count, this is to reduce last minute voting, or sympathy/favoritism towards different entrants.

7. We ask that any entrant who posts a link to his/her original song (source of parody) not be DKTOS for the contest.

8. All other basic competition rules as applied in other competitions are generally followed.  The rules may not be changed or altered unless two/thirds of those voting in a round where a rule change is requested agrees.  Rules may be added by host (Below Average Dave) if it was a rule in the ABC or SOTM contest that was thought to be common knowledge, but not known by a particular entrant.

Deadline:
EST (New York) June 18th at 11:59:59.9999999
Central (St. Louis): June 18th at 11pm
Mountain (Denver): June 18th at 10pm
Pacific (Los Angeles): June 18th at 9pm
Sydney, AUS: June 19th at 4pm
The UK: June 19th 5am

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1. Virtual Profanity by Agrimorfee
    Virtual Insanity

2. I'm Sure It's Nothin' by the_conqueror_of_parodies
    You Give Me Something

3. Magical Zoology by Matthias
    Virtual Insanity

4. Eye Rhymes by Rex Ungericht
    High Times

5. White Truffle Buy by Blaydeman
    White Knuckle Ride

Seems like everybody brought their A-Game for the final round.... Here are my votes!

5 Points: Angrimor-bleeped-
4 Points: Rex's (Clever Cleaver) eye rhymes
3 Points: Conqueror of... What was that?!
2 Points: Blaydeman's Truffle Shuffle

The final round huh? It's been fun. :)

I feel out-clevered in this round, but it's been a great competition (even the short amount of time I've been in it in comparison to others). Great way to end it everyone. See you in Artistry 2: ARTISTRY HARDER, where you can count on me being in every round and giving you all a run for your money.

1. Matty's Magic Animal Kingdom (5pts)
2. Aggy's Profane Wordplay (4pts)
3. Rex's Rhyme Look-a-likes (3pts)
4. TCOP, I'm sure it's nothing (2pts)

This has been real. I am proud to have been a part of this, in spite of/because of life changes we have all been involved with over the past six years (holy jeesus!), with all of us coming out of this with an incredible body of work and a sense of cameraderie. 
8)
WHEW...
:-[ ANYWAY...

5pts=Rex
4pts=Blaydeman
3pts=Tcop
2pts=Matthias

5 points to Agri
4 points to Matt
3 points to Conq
2 points to Blayde

2 points to B-Man On Shrooms
3 points to Matthias' Magical Biology Tour
4 points to Agrimorf***
5 points to Rarely-Rhymin' Rex

5 pts - Sexy Rexy's eye spy something that rhymes (Yeah that old Grossman reference, but it can't be helped because it rhymed...yelp!)

4 pts - Blay starts huffing the expensive mushrooms

3 pts - COP picking off inept guards, making them Wilhelm scream to their deaths because of their carelessness

2 pts - Agri offers you some shiitake...they tasted kind of *gets punched by the FCC*

1 pts - Matty hangs out with Hagrid and gets eaten by a weird animal

1st Rex with 27 points

2nd Agrimorfee with 25 points

3rd Matthias with 20 points

4th Blaydeman with 19 points (2 2nd place votes)

5th the_conqueror_of_parodies with 19 points (0 2nd place votes)

And 3 points to Max Power for voting

Congrats to everyone who participated in this first Artistry challenge. Five years is a long time, so big kudos to those who stuck with it this whole time.

I have all the numbers added up, aaannnnddd the winnnnneeerr iiisss:

1st Place- (3056 pts) REX UNGERICHT

2nd Place- (3008 pts) MATTHIAS
3rd Place- (2828 pts) AGRIMORFEE
4th Place- (2735 pts) BELOW AVERAGE DAVE
5th Place- (2289 pts) THE_CONQUEROR_OF_PARODIES
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6th Place- (739 pts) Blaydeman
7th Place- (454 pts) Red Ant
8th Place- (417 pts) Porfle Popnecker
9th Place- (410 pts) Jeff Reuben
10th Place- (401 pts) Syncronos
11th Place- (313 pts) Invisable Boy
12th Place- (171 pts) Stu McArthur
13th Place- (167 pts) Arwen
14th Place- (165 pts) Mark Scotti
15th Place- (151 pts) Christie Marie M
16th Place- (129 pts) Guy Dirito
17th Place- (126 pts) Max Power
18th Place- (117 pts) 2nz
19th Place- (110 pts) Abbott Skelding
20th Place- (98 pts) Kristof Robertson
21st Place- (95 pts) Medemia
22nd Place- (93 pts) Ethan Mawyer
23rd Place- (83 pts) Mikey Squirrel
24th Place- (80 pts) Wolverine
25th Place- (67 pts) Merry & Pippin
26th Place- (63 pts) Jack Wilson
27th Place- (52 pts) DJ Blaze
28th Place- (51 pts) Cat
29th Place- (38 pts) Peter Andersson
30th Place- (27 pts) Kevin Wrightly
31st Place- (26 pts) Silver Power
32nd Place- (25 pts) Fiddlegirl & Tommy Turtle
33rd Place- (19 pts) Bilopooh
34th Place- (15 pts) Andria
35th Place- (14 pts) Tomario
36th Place- (13 pts) Adagio
37th Place - (5 pts) Poomaster
38th Place- (0 pts) Josh2

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Congrats again to everyone, hope to see you all in the second round of Artistry!

Wow! Six years of parodies, and 48 points is the separation between 1st and second.  Makes me wonder what would have happened if Matty had been in every round.  Thank you everyone for all my votes!

That's insane! 48 is my favorite number!

Congrats Rex and Aggy for finishing with me on the podium!!!

What a long strange trip its been. I am proud of this podium, and the fact I accurately predicted Rex and Matty would be here on the top. And another thought...what in the woorld happened to the Bottom 10 contestants? Who ARE these people? :)

What a long strange trip its been. I am proud of this podium, and the fact I accurately predicted Rex and Matty would be here on the top. And another thought...what in the woorld happened to the Bottom 10 contestants? Who ARE these people? :)


Yeah, Peter Andersson... Who ever heard of that guy  ;)

And I'm thankful that we no longer have Poomaster around here.

Major congrats to Rex, Matt and Agri! Holy balls, can't believe this is finally over. I'm so amazed that I'm not going to be angry at the typo in my name!

Major congrats to Rex, Matt and Agri! Holy balls, can't believe this is finally over. I'm so amazed that I'm not going to be angry at the typo in my name!

Oops...didn't even notice. Fixed.
Again, congrats to everyone who participated...especially the top five for competing in so many rounds!

;)

I love how poomaster had few points before his banishment, good enough to smear the chart, lol.

So we start Artistry 2 this Tuesday?

So we start Artistry 2 this Tuesday?


That is the plan, sir. I hope your YouTube playlist is up-to-date with the last of the artist change-arounds, as that's what I'm using to select the artists.

The only change I have to make still is The Monkees to the Spice Girls.

The only change I have to make still is The Monkees to the Spice Girls.


Wait, wasn't it removing Spice Girls and adding The Monkees? Or is that what you said and I suck at reading things?

Wait, wasn't it removing Spice Girls and adding The Monkees? Or is that what you said and I suck at reading things?


Yeah.

It's The Monkees.

Yeah.

It's The Monkees.


Oh, okay. BTW, three of the vids in the playlist have been deleted due to copyright bullcrap: Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and another one that didn't have the courtesy to have a title. Might wanna look into that.

Oh, okay. BTW, three of the vids in the playlist have been deleted due to copyright bullcrap: Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and another one that didn't have the courtesy to have a title. Might wanna look into that.


Yeah... That's the problem with doing it through Youtube.

I have all the songs downloaded. I can put it into iTunes and have it chosen at random and I'll tell you what the artist my iTunes has chosen because I really don't want to have to deal with this Youtube list again and again and again when they delete videos and whatnot... It's just a pain in the arse.

Yeah... That's the problem with doing it through Youtube.

I have all the songs downloaded. I can put it into iTunes and have it chosen at random and I'll tell you what the artist my iTunes has chosen because I really don't want to have to deal with this Youtube list again and again and again when they delete videos and whatnot... It's just a pain in the arse.


That's just fine with me. I'm all for minimising any possible pains in anyone's arses.

Today is Tuesday! Who is first!?
Let's get this show on the road!

I made a nice little "advertisement" in the Parody Writing forum to promote this little shindig.