OK boys, it seems we have consensus. Ha. To be honest, I'm not sure what your vote is for Stu (you're a madman and I've come to accept that) - do you mean you'd like to have Rock as your category? OR you'd chose to eliminate Rock if we needed to eliminate one?

Mark I like your idea, and we did have a discussion along those lines the other night. The reason we proposed a competition at the higher level (versus subcategories) is that (a) I quite like the idea - the goofiness if you will - of pitting Jazz or Folk against Pop or Classical and declaring one the winner (yes! finally we know! lol) (b) it gives the "player" tons of leeway and will make for some interesting choices and (c) not everyone is all that interested in the major genres, so to have an entire night of folk or classical or electronica might be less appealing to some. Happy to continue to consider this if others feel different. Majority rules.

In terms of categories, we spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out what to do with Rock/Pop (likely too big and dominant on its own), and came up with the idea of Soft Rock / Pop and Hard Rock as two categories. Thoughts?

Another question wrt categories was that there could be a challenge by a competitor against the other competitor if he didn't believe that selection belonged in the category (ie he played Led Zeppelin as Soft Rock/Pop), and if the majority of the non-players in that round agreed, he would have to skip the track.

Mike - any chance of you coming down for the Saturday night of that weekend?