SPRÅKFESTIVALEN
Alrighty, that's enough gratuitious Norwegian. Welcome. It is I, the silver medallist from last time! Slam's handed over hosting responsibilities, and it seems like everyone was into my proposal to do non-English songs as the theme this time around.
So, the house rules are pretty simple, your submission must not have English vocals. If your song contains a line or two of gratuitous English that's fine, as long as the great majority of the lines are in one or more other languages. I thought for a while about what should count for instrumentals, and eventually came down on... just don't submit an instrumental, it's kind of against the spirit of the thing. Songs with non-English vocals, that's the vibe. If you're not sure if your choice is valid, ask?
- [+] Also the default rules
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- submit your song via PM or Discord, whichever's easier for you (I would very much prefer Discord though)
- 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 accept entries until noon, UK time, next Saturday -
11:00 UTC, Saturday 11th May and then run voting until 12 hours later than that at
23:00 UTC on
Saturday 18th May, barring any strong reasons to offer anyone an extension. Hit me up as far in advance as you can if you think you're going to run late.
Entrants:
- Me!
- Fiori
- Laurels
- f1nch3z
- DerArknight
- Ahab
- Professor Fether
- Slam
- Pan
- Maraoone
