A couple of ideas have been running through my head, ever since I accidentally hit my alias button in IRC for the old board2 !radio command. Emuz lightly touched on the idea of starting up a Kafuka Radio, which, to me, sounds like a grand idea.

From that idea spawned another, and here's where it can get fun real fast: a Video Game Music competition. There was an old thread on board2 (which I can't link to right now since it's dead) where users would nominate songs they liked in the VG Music world. There were a few rules though; it had to be original, and one person could only nominate n songs. In the end, 128 songs were nominated, and two brackets of 64 were created. Each song had the song title, game it was from, a screenshot of the game boxart, and who nominated it. There was also a "best loser" bracket of 64. Users would make votes on their favorite songs of the round, which would be held daily, two to four songs per round depending on how far into the bracket we are. Tied songs would carry over to the next round where the next person to vote breaks the tie.

I'm not sure what the medium was that the thread author used to keep track of the brackets, it was some site you could go to and plug in info. But perhaps we could integrate some kind of bracket system into the board? It already seems like we could use it, because of the Kafuka Pokemon League thread.

These two ideas can be compounded to generate a nice chunk of activity and content for Kafuka. We need it. Perhaps the last 8 songs from each bracket could be the start of a Kafuka Radio playlist. Those songs would generally be liked by the community since those songs came out on top by popular vote.

What say ye?

Posted by Scrydan

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I wouldn't know too much about its setup as I haven't messed much in that area. Of course, I can see to working on what I can later on.

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Cool. I don't know much about the setup either, all I know is how it all went down, which is pretty much all explained in my prior post. We pretty much have to fill in the blanks.

What about going public with this idea? Would it do any good? Would we be unwise to do so due to the possibility of deflating its impact if we had otherwise chose to keep it secret until it was finished?