Hey Guys!

As I am back at steemit after my paternity leave, I am starting blogging again. And as usual I wanted to take part in the openmic contest again, also.
Unfortunately it seems, that for the first time in history that great contest hosted by @luzcypher broke down for some reason and I really hope that @luzcypher is doing fine and feeling well and no bad circumstances led to this breakdown, all the best for you, @luzcypher!

For there is no contest at the moment however, I will temporarily start an exclusive contest version of myself for the time luz is afk.

I am asking everyone of you to join and enter my exclusive contest, so that this fun can go on until openmic is back again! I am providing at least a 45 Steem Prizepool, 30 Steem for the winner and 15 Steem for the second winner. If there's anyone who is interested in temporarily sponsoring this contest, I will directly enlarge the prizepool at that amount and pay out more steem and more placings.

I am going to set up some rules of course that you will have to follow in order to take part, most of them are very similar to the openmic rules, so it won't be hard for you to participate:

EXCLUSIVE STEEMIT OPEN MUSIC CONTEST - RULES

1. Make a post of you or your band performing a song, a classical music composition, a hiphop track or whatever genre you like. You won't have to sing, but there must be no doubt that what you do is done live. Of course you can use a sampler live or do multitrack/multiscreen things as long as they are recorded live.

2. You must say the words "FIRST EXCLUSIVE STEEMIT OPEN MUSIC CONTEST" and your "USERNAME" in the beginning of your video.

3. Only one entry per person or band per week is allowed

4. Your Post's title should start with the words: "1ST EXCLUSIVE OPEN MUSIC CONTEST"

5. You must 100% upvote this post and reply in the comment section with a link to your entry.

6. Use "openmusic" as your first tag

7. Only embedded videos in your post are allowed as I won't klick on any third party link. Consider that platforms like dtube are not always working properly and my attempt to review your awesome performance won't fail due to a bad content hoster.

8. Valid Posts for the 1ST EXCLUSIVE STEEMIT OPEN MUSIC CONTEST must be submitted from Monday, August 19th, 2019 until Friday, August 23th, 2019 (just as it was at openmic).

Reviewing and Judging

You most likely know the process of judging an openmic entry if you were participating in the past. My way is no different. However there are some things that I will consider when judging like:

Degree of Entertainment, Skills both technical and musical, theEffort you put in your performance (here also the effort to write a song on your own f.ex), authenticity, charme, etc.

As for my references, I am a studied musician (piano, cello, composition, music science) and music teacher, I also took part in openmic several times.
There are no other judges involved and I am going to review all valid posts manually so far.
I don't want to take away anything of @luzcypher 's contest, so my exclusive Music Contest lasts only as long as openmic is not present. However I'd love to see you all join and of course it would be very nice to see @curie, @helpie, the other judges like @verbal-d, @soundlegion, @krystle and @passion-ground climbing in!

Good Luck to everyone of you and thanks for participating!

Yours, @senzenfrenz