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It's totally fair actually. It represents which genres are more popular and just as in real life, those categories are going to be more competitive. Rock music also gets a lot of the commercial business out there for music and concert sales, so it attracts more people in the first place to do it. If you want less competition, make music in a less popular genre. If it were me, I'd test my abilities in some of the other genres just to see how it would go.

I think the judging is pretty fair, even though I often vote differently than the majority. Keep in mind if most people vote a tie, and you vote one over the other, it's possible for you to be in the minority even though the song you picked may be ahead of the other. (i.e. one song could have 20%, the other 35% and a tie could get the other 45% of the vote. So your vote for the 35% song may look like a minority when it's really not. I can see how a few songs might get more positive attention because they have recruited a bunch of people to vote for them (like JPF for that matter) but I think you should get a pretty fair idea of where people rank your music in more general terms as the bottom third, middle third or top third. If you're in the top third, then you know your materially is appealing to the mainstream. If not, then you have work to do if you want to reach that level. I can't imagine a more fair tool to gauge where your music is. Not friends or foes opinions, but a lot of people who don't know you and have no agenda for or against you. It can't get much more fair than that.

You also can't get too worked up early or even in the middle of things. The month has just gotten going. Give it a chance.. by the end of the month you should have a fair unbiased assessment on where your music ranks against that collection of music.

Brian