Here's how it works...

I've pre-selected 30 songs which will feature in the game, the artists of which correspond to a different letter of the alphabet, except for X which will have 5 artists appearing under its umbrella because its everyone's favourite letter and this is an X-travaganza after all.

I have divided the 30 songs into 6 groups of 5 for the SHEEP part of the game:

Group 1: A, B, C, D, E

Group 2: F, G, H, I, J

Group 3: K, L, M, N, O

Group 4: P, Q, R, S, T

Group 5: U, V, W, Y, Z

Group 6: The XXXXX Factor

Once we've gone through the group stages, there'll also be two Semi-Finals and a Final later in the game.

For each round (I'll do rounds day-by-day rather than all at once) I will post the 5 songs for that group and all you have to do is try and predict which of those 5 your fellow players will enjoy the most and PM me that song... 

Everyone's individual answers will be fed into the SHEEPulator and points will be distributed among players just like with any other SHEEP.

However, the song that SHEEPs will also advance to the Semi-Final stage of the game and its the end of the road for the other four from that group, so as well as being in sync with your fellow players you're also voting for the song you'd ultimately like to see be crowned the winning song of the AlphaSHEEP.

In the event of a double or triple SHEEP at any point in the game, all points will be awarded to everyone as per usual, but I will break the tie of which song shall advance to the business end of things.

By the end of the game there'll be a winning song (the last song standing) and winning player/players (whomever has amassed the most SHEEP points).

Officially I will post the first Group of Songs (artists A-E) in the next post and if you wanna join in the game just PM me the name of the song you're backing / think will be the most popular amongst your peers. In order to gain a bit of traction and draw in as many punters as possible, I'm going to give a few days before the deadline for this first group (future groups will have a 24-hour deadline) so just drop me a PM with the song you're going for from Group 1 before 8pm on Monday. I'll then reveal the results of that round before officially launching the next category.

Unofficially, I'm going to give you links to the entire playlist if you want to listen ahead or whatever, but for the First Round deadline it's only the first 5 songs on the playlist that are actually relevant at this point.

YouTube Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5L3A...fB5yEbO54g

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ILEwB...a8e5734358