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Should Weatherstock IX Summit schedule be adjusted 30-minutes earlier, or not?
YES (Competition from 12:00-4:45pm; end at 5:45pm)
93%
 93%  [ 15 ]
NO (Competition from 12:30-5:15pm; end at 6:15pm)
6%
 6%  [ 1 ]
Total Votes : 16

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re: Bandleader Vote: Proposed Summit Schedule Change

After internal review, we've decided to hold a VOTE for whether to change the Summit schedule for Weatherstock IX. This is not an open debate; there are less than 3-weeks remaining before the event, and advertising has already begun. We will not be revisiting whether to include 19 bands; that decision is final. We also will not be building in slack-time for a possible server crash; Turbine/StandingStone made changes after last year, which we hope will prevent such disruption; everyone is affected equally by a server crash, and agreeing to participate in the first place acknowledges that this could happen. We will not be changing the parameters of the summit vote either; there is no perfect method (we have debated this at-length over the years) and we will not experiment at this late date.

This forum vote is only for whether to adjust the announced summit schedule, to account for the addition of 3 slots to the summit schedule. Only bandleaders will be allowed to vote. The vote will only be open for 4-days, and will require a significant majority of bandleaders (13 of the 19 bandleaders) to vote in favor of the change (non-votes will be counted as ‘no change’); otherwise we will continue with the already-announced schedule.


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Original plan (for reference ONLY):

11:00 am - 12:30 pm: LMB Mega-Band opening set (summit), includes PSAs/Intro
12:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Summit Competition (16 bands, 15-minutes each)
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm: Voting; LMB Mega-Band closing set
5:15 pm – 5:30 pm : Announcement of vote; encore set by winning band
5:30 pm: Mounted Procession


Note: As in years past, the encore set by the winning band is optional. If the winning band is not present, or declines to play, then there will be no encore set – regardless of which schedule we choose.


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Current Announced Schedule:

11:00 am - 12:30 pm: LMB Mega-Band opening set (summit), includes PSAs/Intro
12:30 pm - 5:15 pm: Summit Competition (19 bands, 15-minutes each)
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm: Voting; LMB Mega-Band closing set
6:00 pm – 6:15 pm : Announcement of vote; encore set by winning band
6:15 pm: Mounted Procession


The announced schedule runs 45-minutes later than the original schedule proposed in the application.

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Possible Revised Schedule:

10:30 am - 12:00 pm: LMB Mega-Band opening set (summit), includes PSAs/Intro
12:00 pm - 4:45 pm: Summit Competition (19 bands, 15-minutes each)
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm: Voting; LMB Mega-Band closing set
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm : Announcement of vote; encore set by winning band
5:45 pm: Mounted Procession


The revised schedule would extend the original schedule by 15-minutes (instead of 45-minutes as already announced), but also moves everything up by 30-minutes (competition would start at noon EDT /servertime). Landroval is a North American server; moving the event any earlier would also affect players on the west coast. Saturday is the best day for anyone needing to adjust their schedule.


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