ROUND ONE....
Pictured: Your surroundings.
After a few days spent fearfully huddled around a fire with your competitors, you hear the distinctive sound of rattling teeth emanating from the ground. You know what this means, and you don't like it. Suddenly, the frog you saw when you first arrived slowly rises from the ground, Christopher in hand. You are afraid. Another frog appears, this one
robot-esque, next to you.

(An illustration of Kermit as he appeared while emerging from the ground)
"Hello, all!" the not-robot frog says. "It is time for the first round! If I call your name, please accompany me to the song pit. Oh, and as you may have seen, I too will be participating. Do not worry about my safety, though. The other frog is an avatar controlled by my robots so that if I lose, Christopher will absorb the robot frog and not me."
"i have see the pregame see the good to death the tere the can the memes of the been of the read the memes memes and the pland the see she was the weep the completed the mone the read in a see the see conter but the see the secretional the set the seen in the see were the see first see she was the people in the see were the was the been the see in the see were the teed to the tere the see." the robot frog says.
The 'regular' frog continues. "As you can see, the robots are still learning, but that's okay. Ahem, with no further ado, as chosen by Christopher
((OOC: Random.org)), the participants in the first round will be…"
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Officer Vicky…"
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CarpBarpParp…"
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The Elder Dodd…"
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Aura…"
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Boobie…"
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Blizzard..."
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The Younger Dodd…"
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Slam..."
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Brackie…"
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Skraal…"
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Ricky not Callahan…"
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Paris Persphone…"
"...and
Jilly."
"If I have just called your name, please, come with me. The rest of you, please prepare yourselves for the trials ahead."
And with a loud and unearthly screaming noise, the magic frog and those whose names he called disappear into a plume of smoke. For some of those chosen, this will be the last you ever see of them…
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hi hi alright our songs, as ordered by Christopher
((OOC: Random.org again)) are…
(1).
Dead Girls - Voltaire - [CONTENT WARNING: SAM SORENSON!?!?! NOT YOU AGAIN!]
(2).
Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden
(3).
The Highway Man - Loreena McKennitt
(4).
Where Will You Go - Evanescence
(5).
Skeletons on Parade - Ludo
(6).
Dragula - Rob Zombie
(7).
Lullaby - The Cure
(8).
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
(9).
The Last Mistake - Assemblage 23
(11).
BRAINS! - Voltaire
(12).
Wood and Wire - Thrice
(13).
010-Ghost Fight - Toby Fox
(14).
Micolash - Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitoh, Michael Wandmacher, Yuka Kitamura, Cris Velasco, Nobuyoshi Suzuki
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FOUR songs and their submitters will be fed to Christopher. Nine will continue on to the next challenge.
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VOTING STUFF STOLEN FROM YUGI HEHEHE PLAGIARISM IS COOL
Everyone who is part of this group of semi-finalists must vote on their Top 10 songs of this round, by sending me your votes via Board PM or Discord PM. You cannot vote for your own song. If you are not in this group of finalists, or even part of this contest, you can still vote, and your vote will count as one half of a regular vote, decimal places and all.
If you are sending in your vote for a semi-final round, or a public vote, all I ask is you send me the vote via board PM or Discord.
hehehe yikes zoinks look at this scary countdown give me ur votes by the time it hits 0 pls:

If you are part of this group of semi-finalists and you do not get your votes in by the above time, your song will be disqualified from the contest regardless of where you placed. If we get really stuck, I'll extend it by a day, but do not expect this to happen. Please, as much as possible, send in your votes by the deadline.
On Discord, I will ping anyone who has not submitted their song by 48 hours before the deadline, and again by 24 hours before the deadline. I may also ping any time within the last 24 hours (say, within the last 12 hours). If, for whatever reason, you do not wish to be pinged, please let me know via Discord or board PM.
If you are unfamiliar with how the Eurovision voting process works, you simply need to message me your Top 10 songs from this round. It would be preferred if you do so in this format:
12 - Song Name
10 - Song Name
8 - ...
7 - ...
6 - ...
5 - ...
4 - ...
3 - ...
2 - ...
1 - ...
12 points to your absolute favourite, 10 points to your next favourite, and so forth.