This is going to be awesome, another level of music production is on the corner of steemit. Anyone who thinks can do a good piece should participate and everyone who wants to learn must join in!
The idea of decentralization is amazing, it gives the people the power to decide who they want to be the beat champion! With that being said, it is not going to be a popularity contest, we must find a way to avoid biased vote inducing strategies and avoid that fellow producers worry about not having a lot of support in a follower base stance. That right there is where I think judging comes into the picture.
I adress this issue because we have all seen that DM with "Vote for X person please" and this is about the best producer, not the most popular one :D
I know exactly what you mean @anomadsoul and that's one thing I was thinking about, is how to avoid producers going around asking for upvotes. I was thinking that maybe that can be part of the rules & guide lines, if you're asking for upvotes, the producer should automatically get disqualified because that's cheating. What do you think because that's an issue that definitely needs to be address?
It is going to be hard because we dont want to censor votes or control them, but maybe we can make a small process for being able to vote. Like, not everyone can vote, you have to know and like music. Otherwise we could have a ton of, example, photo bloggers coming here voting for their mate who just started in the music business.
I am not a music or beat expert but I am objective about judging. Problem is, we need to discord this subject and drop ideas to avoid the issue stated above.
You have a good point @anomadsoul, that's an issue that really needs to get solved. We would need a much stronger & dedicated steem music community of musicians to come together to create such an upvoting system that supports because I think this can run huge for the steem music community.
This beat battle bracket leauge, just the idea of a music league within the steem community in general can even go as far as into the steem music artists having their own type of song battle bracket leauge. That's something that I would support and I would want the artists of the steem music community to do the same for the producer's beat battles when it comes to upvoting in the rounds.
A lot of brainstorming needs to be done...