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MAGFest, I love you dearly. I also love Bit Brigade and live to be in the front row of their concerts. However, I feel like this situation was not handled well at all. If a huge change was made to a policy, it should have been made public.

If a lot of discussion is happening on a post, please don't delete it and repost it with no changes. When rules are changed they should apply to everyone, not arbitrarily. "Who else but" wording is insulting to the rest of the community, which is full of creative and talented musicians.

This was a misstep, and everyone has made them. The prudent thing to do would be to write an open and clear apology.

It's kind of wild that a bunch of people were mad enough about this to risk jeopardizing their future chances of performing at Magfest, and a repost with the same typo to try to clear quoteposts was the chosen way forward

WELP. We removed the first post to fix this specific typo, and then literally posted it again accidentally and didn't notice until about a half hour ago. We're obviously not going to delete this one, due to the discussions happening in the replies. On that topic...

The page with the more firm rule about not double-booking bands was created by our previous music team, and we were not aware it was still live and accessible on our site. We DO try to avoid repeat bookings, unless there are specific cases (in this case, a new MMX performance that matches our theme)

well this brings up another point, then. the theme usually isn't announced beforehand, so what influences these decisions? performers usually don't base their entire set on one thing (excluding groups like Metroid Metal, who also played consecutive years based on MAGFest theming)

I don't think blaming this on the person before you is going to make many people happier.

However, we've since updated that page with the guidelines that are in line with our internal policies over the last few years. We're genuinely sorry about the confusion. Bit Brigade is the only exception to this rule this year, and we're extremely excited to hear their new MMX set!