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I don't think size matters - of the Genre competition categories that is. They already have Indie Pop and Pop, Indie Rock and Rock, and other categories that could easily include crossovers from these genres. One difference "Indie" is supposed to make is that the songs are supposed to be "less Mainstream". The actual result is that the songs in the aforementioned categories do sound alike. They certainly could cross-over to the other and there would(or should) be no problem. There is always going to be disparities in the competitions if they go by genres. The more currently popular genres of music are just going to have more competitors than the more eclectic genres. The mistake would be to combine genres to match the number of competitors. That would bring unfair apples to oranges comparisons and be a headache for OurStage as to rearranging genre combinations in order to hit a target number of competitors. Yes there is the Finals - where out of necessity there is the apples to oranges comparison. But at some point it always comes to that anyway when judging music.