Cinerama Cup: Introduction/Home Page
After spending nine months forensically evaluating the back catalogue of The Wedding Present , it's time to do something similar with Cinerama... The panel of judges is very similar to the TWP one: Mandy and Ali are bowing out, but we welcome Dave, Marc, Derek, Chris, Jona and Phil aboard. Format The process will largely follow the same structure as the TWP Cup, but we are going to have a prelimary stage this time. There are 86 songs (as covered in my And Guess What I Found blog), 25 of which are either cover versions or early versions of what became TWP songs (e.g. 'Always The Quiet One' and 'Edinburgh'). These 25 will go into two preliminary groups of 12/13, which will be voted on 'Eurovision' style (12 / 10 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 points). The two winners, plus the highest scoring runner-up, will join the remaining 61 tracks in eight groups of eight. The voting in this stage will be similar to stage 2 of the TWP Cup : The panel must award a to...