A further breakdown of the results from Sunday, we only publish the Top Three because nothing positive comes from finding out you came last.
RESULTS
PUBLIC VOTE OVERALL (Positions in each of the three audience votes in brackets):
1) In The North Wood (1st, Joint 1st, 4th)
2) Tom Wardle (5th, Joint 1st, 2nd)
3) The Afterdark Movement (2nd, 4th, 3rd)
JUDGES VOTE:
1) The Afterdark Movement
2) Joe Danks
3) Tom Wardle
OVERALL:
1) The Afterdark Movement
2) Tom Wardle
3) Joe Danks
The Afterdark Movement will get to play WIRELESS FESTIVAL (Thanks to DHP and Tuborg) and the SPLENDOUR FESTIVAL main stage.
LESSONS LEARNED
Every year we get some grief about the competition, normally from two ironically contrasting perspectives:
P1) “It’s a stitch up having ‘experts’ choosing a winner everyone could see our mate/ lover/ cousin was the best, let the pubclic decide.”
VS
P2) “FSN is nothing more than a glorified battle of the bands popularity contest, get rid of your naff cheer-o-meter and let the experts decide.”
Which is why we try and compromise and have an element of expertise and democracy, a full breakdown of the rules and the reasoning behind them is online HERE.
So are we going to make any changes or are we just here to pontificate about how we know best and the comp is amazing? Nope we are going to make changes for next year (as we have done every year) or at least one change.
We have never had an artist win Round One with the expert judges so clearly as Indiana did this year, she was a stand out discovery and for her not to get through the public vote really made us question the current system, we want it to be fair, just AND ‘accurate’. Now in it’s defense we ended up with a consistently worthy winner. The Afterdark Movement finished second to Indiana in Round One, then won Round Two before winning the final overall with a victory in the Judges category and a third in the public vote. But Indiana didn’t so what are we going to do about it?
NEW RULE FOR 2012 – The winner of the Round One ‘expert vote’ will get an automatic pass to the Final.
The other change we are considering we’re really keen to hear your thoughts on. We are wondering whether we should tweak the 50% judges/ 50% public vote of the FINAL? Email us on nusic@leftlion.co.uk if you want to share your thoughts.
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