I'm gonna keep this short.
People pissed because the winner, David Kudell, had the gut size of the Himalaya to do things differently. Kudell used chiptune with orchestral and slightly edited the SFX sounds into 8bit.
He didn't win because his shit sound good, he won because Kudell dared to think outside the box. Including editing the original sounds.
Always do what you love, not what you want.
Fun fact, I almost entered with orchestral jazz breakcore but timing was too short. If I did, I'd now be the hater's attention and not Kudell
LD-W
The cue that alot of people missed was the "I think he's switching genre's" in the video. Too many people trying to do cookie-cutter AAA stuff in the end and suddenly wondering why they didn't win or even make it to runners up haha
I didn't enter in the end as I had other stuff going on, but I wouldn't mind jumping onto the next big competition to see what happens
zybor
You nailed it well. I'm surprised that so many butthurting people looking for conspiracy excuse to discredit the winner. lol they claimed JJ Abrams favored the dude because he used to work for his production. Which is really interesting because people expected it was to be trad and boring filmscore work, so they kept submitting compositions that had no value to them.
Though, out of all the cookie-cutter stuff, I find Peter Satera submission to be the cleanest one out of all those.
:) Hopefully we both can hop on the next big competition. Stay well and stay safe, my friend. :)