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Well, here's the logic... if they randomly pick, you're actually increasing the odds they don't choose your best. So you may have your weakest submission chosen which might get a less positive review and result in zero interest from someone, whereas if they chose your best effort (or at least one of your very best) they might be impressed and something good might happen...

What is someone enters thousands of submissions? Do you think that would be fair? I have a gut feeling they'll protect all the others from abusers such as that... I think that would be fair and reasonable. What he cut off between abuse and okay would be I have no idea (in fact, I wish I had asked that question). Perhaps they'll put all the names in a hat from each person who entered something and then if your name is drawn they will again randomly draw from your entries... otherwise someone could unfairly enter a ridiculous number and abuse the program likely resulting in them not allowing this type of open entry program again... but I could be totally wrong, so you have to go with your gut feeling. I sure hope they don't allow abuse of the entry process. We allow unlimited entries and have only had 2 people abuse it in all the years we've done the awards. One person entered over 250 CD's of music last time and once before someone entered app. 175. In one case the music was so terrible that none of it got past initial screening anyway and they wasted the money on all those CD's. In the other case, the person had talent, but the CD's we so similar in nature (not going to share the genre, but it was a repetitive one) and so screeners got weary no matter how hard they all tried to get through it all. So i got to the point where we had to go with less screener feedback and choose based on less feedback than we normally use and due to that, we chose what the person later got upset about because he claimed those were among the weakest material he sent. Maybe they were.. they didn't make it much further (and the person, as you can imagine was a major pain in the butt and was the reason we no longer tell people how they did in earlier rounds because of his abuse). But the reason we don't put a limit is because occassionally we're GLAD people enter a lot of entries. A particular artist sent a rather large quantity but in the end had a large number of CD's get very far in multiple categories. In one, they received multiple nominations in the same album category even after all the rounds of screening with thousands of judges involved. They were projects with many different co-artists and co-composers and all were top notch. We even expanded into some new genres due to the depth of quality they brought to the process. So in their case, though the number was much smaller than the 2 super abusers, everyone benefited from the large number of entries. So we don't like to set a limit.

But this is such a limited process where probably only a handfull of songs will get played and I strongly doubt more than 1 from any 1 entrant will get played, it seems better to send your very best stuff and unless all your material is equally good, I'd skip the weaker material if for no other reason than to avoid having it chosen over my better stuff.

But again, I have no inside info on their process, so perhaps your strategy will work better. I hope at least one of our JPF members get chosen out of the many likely entries they will receive.

Brian