I like the random order idea Marc. Derek and I discussed the same thing last night. So let's consider that a "go".

D and I also thought of a wrinkle (beers at Betty's yet again) to the original proposal worth considering. We both had a concern that the "rolling vote" - i.e., after each play there's another vote - may bias towards the current song as it will be the only fresh song each time. So a possible change to mitigate this is that after we draw the order for the round, that we pair up the picks so that 1 battles 2, 3 battles 4, and 5 battles 6. A win in a round is counted as one point, and a tie as a 1/2 point (there will be six voters so ties will occur). What do you think? We aim for ten-twelve rounds.

We also discussed a maximum song length of 5:00, which each guy can exceed only once (or twice?) in the night.