@Spadezer You say I'm unsportsman-like yet, not only do you lie about why my song was 20 seconds over, but you victim blame as well. One of those judges, whom I would have considered a friend before, deliberately humiliated me over this bullshit. Treated it like I was only mad about the rejection when in fact I've pointed out publically and privately that it was a mere symptom of my over all bad luck. And when I try to remotely defend myself I get blocked. So whether they intended it or not, they insulted my over all pain and stress, treated every problem I've had personal and professional as though they were little more than first world problems and despite claiming to be empathetic to anyone else that's been through Hell, pretty much acted like their own personal problems were the highest of priority and damn anyone that tries to ask for the smallest sympathy for even daring to compare. You have no idea the shit I've went through the past decades. You have no idea the mental and emotional scars I have to fight every day of my fucking life, while trying to live up to my creed of using my work to help others. I even tried to let things go by apologizing, but even that was denied. They didn't care about my work or me, they only cared about how it would look good or bad for them. If they even gave a damn about me or any of the contestants for that matter, they should have laid everything out through the get-go instead of making us all jump through hoops to please them.
With that said I no longer despair over it. Instead I choose to get confident, determined and most importantly angry. From what I've been hearing, I'm not the first person they done this to either. Maybe I died on that hill alone to you, but the fact that I was able to stick to my guns and not even support the other entries when a lesser person in my position would give up halfway and beg to be in the contest, is a win on it's own. The fact that the song that was rejected by people simply because they deemed 40 seconds to be too long and wanted it cut down to 20 seconds too long; has been loved the way it is, is another win.
You wanna talk sportsmanship? If I didn't think I was wronged in some way over this even if I was rejected fairly, which is quite clear I was wronged, I would have shown my sportsmanship by giving my honest rating and review of each entry and congratulating the winner. Like I always do when I enter the contests. I do not blame the other artists for having to do what they do to enter, but I feel as though they only do it because these people give them the impression that without them, they can't get their work across. The blame I place is on the host and the judges alone.
And if you don't like it, sorry, but you can bite me and consider yourself blocked from here on.
Spadezer
Correction to my previous response, only forum modulators can delete posts, not audio mods