As remixer of the Beyoncè’s competition END OF TIME I’ve finally read about the winner, a producer named Jimek from Poland working in Los Angeles.
This is just a consideration about how the competition has been managed, I have nothing to critic to Jimek’s remix which is absolutely a well done production with no doubts.
Competition’s terms and conditions were saying the winner would have been choosen from the most voted top 50 remixes through soundcloud, so any competitor started to promote his remix to get votes, plays and comments as much as possible. Who finished and published the remix earlier had statistically more advantage to get higher amount of votes through the active time of the competition before the submission deadline. Personally I’ve submitted mine a month before the deadline and I appeared few times in the top 3 tracks on the Beyoncè website highlighting the top 3 most voted remixes.
My doubts are about these 2 things:

1- the competition was ended due to its normal deadline date to be reopened immediately the day after for one weeks more, strange thing.

2- Jimek’s remix has been submitted just the last day before the 2nd deadline closing date,his track was the No. 2936 and the last uploaded track was the No. 2948,this means less than an hour from the competition’s closing time. So I cannot believe he had votes enough to be in the top 50. Moreover his soundcloud account was made just for this competition featuring that track only with a small amont of followers, even the plays of this track have been generated just after his winning, now he got 240,000 plays but it’s normal after he appeared as the winner in several articles out there plus the official beyoncè’s website, before that he had few plays only against some thousand from the other competitors submitting remixes earlier and with more fans and followers who voted them.

It’s easy to understand that competitions are made just to generate buzz on the song which is gonna be remixed but to use competitors to promote their remixes trying to be in the top 50 to be selected from the judges of the competition and discovered the winner is a good producer which theorically had no chance to be in these top 50 cause it was a last minute suspicious submission is frustrating! Morover this top 50 chart has been not published anywere, which is not transparent at all, not to mention all the competitors who have the right to know if they were in this selection or not after all them efforts to be included and played by the a&rs and judges from the Beyoncè’s staff.

Best wishes to Jimek and his music, I hope similar future competitions from major artists and record companies will be more clear, honest and transaparents respecting fans, remixers and competitors as they rally deserve.

For the love of music.