Hello everyone!
As Blizzard has ceded the rights to host the next songtest, I will gladly take the reins for this contest. Even though we are halfway through Women's History Month, celebrating women is a year-round event, so for that, we're bringing back an old theme.
Theme: Girl's Night 2
For those who weren't in the previous contest (from 5 years ago!), this is a songtest where all songs must be performed by female musicians. The specific details for this contest from the previous one:
1. Your song must be performed by a female artist. This does include any trans/non-binary women.
2. If you are selecting a song by a band, the song itself must be sung by a woman. There can be men in the band, but the vocals must be primarily performed by a woman. There can be male backup vocals, but the heavy lifting has to be a woman (ex. CHVRCHES is composed of two men and one woman, but to use any of their songs, you must pick a song primarily sung by Lauren Mayberry and not Martin Doherty. If there's a song that's primarily sung by Lauren and Martin does some background vocals, it will count).
Otherwise, I will not be too strict on entrants and the subject of the songs submitted.
- [+] and the other rules, I guess
- - submit your song via PM or discord, whichever's easier for you
- songs will be randomly divided into 1, 2 or 3 semifinals depending on turnout. if there are less than 20 submissions within 5 days, then there will only be one final round. if you're going to be away at some point in the next couple of weeks, let me know and I can try to put your song in a round when you'll be here.
- listen to every song and give points to your top 10 favorites: 12 to your favorite, 10 to your second, 8 to your third, 7 to your fourth, and so on down to 1 point for your tenth favorite. if there are less than 10 songs to vote for in a round, then simply cut off the bottom portion of the ballot (i.e. no 1 point songs, no 2 point songs, and so on)
- if your song is in a given round, you must vote that round or you'll be eliminated. if your song isn't in that round (or you aren't in the contest at all), your vote will be counted as a public vote, which counts for half points.
- the top [x] songs will move on to the final. that number depends on the number of contestants.
- repeat the process for the finals and we get a winner.
- winner gets to hold the next contest, or they can pass the job along to 2nd place if they don't want to. 2nd place can pass down to third, etc, until someone wants to host.
general song rules:
- no eurovision songs
- no reality show/competition covers
- no songs already submitted in a songtest - thank you to Dancake for the list here
- there is no penalty for length in this contest. however, if a song goes over 7 minutes, listeners aren't obligated to listen to more than the first 7 minutes of the song. so choose a long song at your own risk!
each semifinal and the final will last for three days. some rules about activity:
- if you know at the start of your semifinal that you wont be available to vote for those three days, let me know asap and I can move you to another semi, if we aren't on the final one already.
- I'll be pinging everyone who hasn't voted on discord 48 and 24 hours before the round ends.
I will be accepting submissions until
8 pm EST on Friday, March 22nd, with the voting opening that evening. Likewise, because I will be on reduced activity from March 23-27, I will run voting until
6 pm EST on Friday, March 29th.
Let's go girls!
Entrants:
1. Me!
2. Fiori
3. Zimikyu
4. Slam
5. AnimeNerd
6. Professor Fether
7. Jilly
8. Buko
9. Carlisle
10. Pancapples
11. Dr. Adjective
12. Maraoone
13. DerArknight
14. Lord of Awesome
15. dmboogie
16. Krabbs
17. Ruggahissy
18. f1inch3z
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