Song of the Week - Chocobo's Happy Christmas precedent debate

Just some random thoughts as they come to me before I vote.

While I agree there is the potential for abuse if the precedent stays, the pendulum might swing the other way if it were to be overturned. That is to say, I could imagine that the Metal Gear 'Sneaking Mission' track from some weeks back would be turned away in a post-precedent world (snice everyone nowadays knows Metal Gear), which would be a shame as I rather liked it, and wouldn't have heard it at all had it been refused.

Furthermore, I would argue that even if the hypothetical One-Winged arrange were let in, at this point in SotW's life there are enough dedicated to the obscure that there would be little danger of said arrange placing in the top three, so anyone nominating such a piece in the interest of snagging a medal would be wasting the nomination. On the other hand, if the nomination is made out of interest of sharing a piece of music they genuinely like, I personally don't see the harm.

As far as the OCR/doujin thing is concerned, I'd say that if one is out, so should be the other. A blanket statement that doujin is OK because it's 'more professional' essentially makes the issue more about production qualities than arranging skill, and the only leg that the 'it's OK because it's more obscure than OCR' argument has to stand on is that some of us (myself, for one) cannot browse Japanese sites at all well. Perhaps a good compromise on the matter would be to let both in, but only on theme weeks occuring once or twice a year. Hmm...I guess that makes this an 'Other' vote.

Jam it back in, in the dark.