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23-Jul-2021
Video Competition Caution - Europeby Harley Jones |
 Musical magazine The Strad article heading: Online competition jury ‘watched 22 seconds of my video’, claims entrant.A court case is going ahead in Munich concerning a video music competition (not exclusively accordion) where entry fees were charged to entrants (140 Euro Chamber to 110 Euro solo category) and because of Google Analytics, the entrants was able to see the amount of listening time for their entry. The two videos of the duo (accordion and violin) entry were opened only once each, for 22 and 23 seconds, just over two percent!! of the music presented. For the two solo videos, one was not listened too at all. The list of competitors going through to the 2nd round was then announced by the organiser. I have heard about instances, where some accordion video competition organisers have been let down by a small minority of jury, who have listened only a short time or not at all, to some competitors. Video competition organisers owe it to their video entrants when they accept their entry fee, to ensure each contestant receives a fair hearing from all the judges for all their performance. Accordionists around the world are renowned for being friendly, fun and great people to be around. Our many international accordion events before Covid demonstrated this all the time. We want to keep it that way with fair events for all our video competitors. These are young people who are our future. For those wanting to read the full details about this general competition and would like to receive copies of the legal documents going to the courts, please email: strok.accord@gmail.com |