Hi everyone. I'm pleased that several people have said 'yes' to the plan for a new JNST, and no-one has yet said 'Oh God - not that again'. So I will prepare something and get it ready to start in a couple of weeks, if that's OK with everyone.
Mishu - yes it's voting, but instead of just picking your favourites from the whole catalogue, we pool the songs into small groups or (ideally just) pairs, and each person selects one from each group/pair. The 'winners' from each pair progressed and are drawn into new pairs, and so it goes on, until we get to a final whose structure is yet to be determined.
What did people think of the way we did the final last time? (To refresh your memory - when we got down to 6 finalists, we paired them off in each possible combination, and so operated what we'd British people would call a "league" or "group basis" over here, or Americans might know best as a "round robin"; my apologies to other nationalities for not knowing how it would be termed, but I am sure you all get the idea!)