Hello everyone! Vinyl here, I hope all of our American Geniuses had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. However, now that it’s Monday, it’s time to welcome you back to the Weekly Annotation Competition! Here, you can submit dope annotations and vote for your favorites. The person whose annotation gets the highest average score on the voting poll will receive the “Tate of the Week” title and a badge to go with it! We’ve gotten off-schedule in the past few weeks, but part of why we delayed this installment is so we could get back on track.

Here are the final rankings for last week’s competition:

It was a, perhaps historically, tight competition, but this week’s winner is… @GnarlingtonTX ! Congrats! Here’s your personalized FIRST EDITION “Tate of the Week” badge:

Big shoutout to everyone who competed!

Click here view the full score breakdown.

@kingkillmonger – 7
@BigBabyGOAT_HGA – 6
@SmashBeezy – 5
@chanhmatt – 2
@Liiight – 2
@MarcelBorg – 2
@SapphireLazuli – 2
@VinylZombie_MCR – 2
@xMERLYN – 2
@APH – 1
@Beugeair – 1
@CalebMac116 – 1
@Chancelorr – 1
@DrakeIsFakeNasirScorpion – 1
@Dyazz – 1
@GnarlingtonTX – 1
@IoShady – 1
@Izeezus – 1
@jonredwood – 1
@oozymrbunbun – 1
@poeticimmunity – 1
@slightly_senile – 1
@xHem9 – 1

• Monday – Friday: Submit the best annotation that you have written in the past two weeks.

Embed it in a forum post below! Annotation submission will last from Moniday when each edition of the thread is posted until the following Friday at 2PM.

Posts containing annotations not created in the past 2 weeks will be deleted from this thread, so check your dates!

• Friday – Sunday: Cast your vote for the best annotation out of all the submissions.

On Friday, a link to a poll will be posted in the comments where you can go through each annotation submitted to the thread and give it a rating from 1 to 5.

The poll will be limited to one vote per person and will close on Sunday at 11:59PM, so make sure to cast your vote before then! It also records the date and time of your vote, so any votes submitted after Sunday night at 11:59PM will be automatically disqualified (unless there are extenuating circumstances like the thread being late).

The annotation with the highest average score will win the week! The winner will be announced at the top of next week’s thread, so you’ll know who won this week next Monday.

FAQ:

• What do I win?

Bragging rights! Plus, a “Tate of the Week” badge created by Genius’ in-house design team with your username on it.

In a year’s time, whoever has won the most total weeks will earn a custom “Weekly Annotation Competition Yearly Winner” badge, and a special secret prize! 👀

• What kinds of annotations count?

Accepted line-level annotations, song bios, album bios, and artist bios on music pages are all viable. Unreviewed annotations, verified annotations, cover art annotations, Q&A entries, and annotations on non-music pages do not count.

• What happens in the event of a tie?

The user with the most attribution percentage on the tate they submitted will be considered its primary contributor, and if that annotation wins the week, they will receive the winning badge.

In the event of a voting tie, the user with the most attribution percentage on the annotation they submitted will be the winner.

If each user involved in the tie has the same attribution percentage, there will be a follow-up vote including only the users involved in the tie.

• Is this only open to @genius-editorial-board?

Nope! Anyone can participate. As long as the annotation you submit has been reviewed and accepted, it will be added to the running.

-> VOTING COMING FRIDAY

https://genius.com/15820370

oh hello there

where’d the .1 come from?

@BigBabyGOAT_HGA u mean 0.01 lol

yeah where’d did that come from ^ seeing how me and Gnarl both had the same amount of votes…that seems like a victory for the both of us.

Oh shoot! I guess I missed last week… congrats to you two @BigBabyGOAT_HGA @GnarlingtonTX

what does theses rating represent ?

@GnarlingtonTX congratulations

https://genius.com/15828423

This tate is immaculate: https://genius.com/15838405

https://genius.com/15870221/6ix9ine-feefa/They-tried-to-say-i-wasnt-black-no-more-about-as-black-as-macklemore

@BigBabyGOAT_HGA your average was 4.666667 while @GnarlingtonTX’s was 4.714. I always round up, so your average rounds up to 4.7 clean while Gnarl’s maintains the .01 edge. so all in all this is literally the closest it’s ever come to a tie without actually being a tie! hope that makes sense.

@Empath that’s incorrect because my average came exactly to 4.714 as well. we literally had the same exact score. that’s a tie fam

there’s nothing wrong with having two people win the same competition if they have the same average. results should be a tie.

^ HILARIOUS ^ 😊

https://genius.com/15812247