Songwriting Contest

Just wanted to post an update on the Songwriting Contest:
WOW!!!!

We received exactly 50 entries!
They came in from all over the world: US, UK, Brazil, France, Germany, Norway, Columbia, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Japan and even Syria!

The response is totally overwhelming and the fan's enthusiasm to rise to this challenge is totally inspiring. It is going to be close to impossible to fairly and justly pick a single winner!

The biggest hurdle right now is finding the time to gather in order to listen to all of the entries. (50 entries at roughly 11 minutes each = 10 HOURS of music!!!)
Everybody put so much time and effort into their entries that we want to make sure every single one gets a complete listen and fair judgement....

So with that in mind, and the fact that all of us are on very different schedules at the moment (John Myung is currently in Japan, I will be in Europe throughout most of next month, etc.), we just want everybody to be aware that the winner will not likely be announced right away.

We can however guarantee that the winner will indeed be announced before the DT World Tour kicks off in January in order to honor the grand prize.

Congratulations to all of the contestants and we are looking foward to hearing all of the creative results!

MP & DT

OK...it's October 15th!
Thank you to everybody that submitted entries into the contest!
Rest assured that as long as your song is received by the end of this week, it will be submitted....

It is going to be several weeks before we (DT) get to sit down, listen to, judge and pick a winner as we are all on different personal schedules and timetables at the moment.
As soon as we can get together to pick a winner, we will do it and announce it to you all ASAP.

So sit tight and in the meantime, prepare for the ride of your life on the TRAIN OF THOUGHT.....
All aboard!

MP