Post by тнєяσиттi95 on Oct 28, 2015 18:05:57 GMT 1
Official Rules of FoIM!
I decided to make this thread so these rules are more easier to find and more easier to understand. Any questions about these? Feel free to ask on this thread! The most important rules are included here!
Keep in mind that i'm also a human being so i may make mistakes sometimes please don't hate me because of that
Rules:
** = Currently possible this rule may change in the near future (Poll voting about it, etc.)
NEW!/UPDATED! = New rule / Update
- The maximum recap time allowed is 30 seconds and the recap part needs to be atleast 20 seconds long! I am also able to do something between 20-30 too.
- Your song does not need to have a music video as i know not all songs have one!
- Warning system is in effect! (3 warnings = 1 edition ban) If a person fails to vote in time without any notification to me that he/she is unable to vote, will mean that he/she is going to receive a warning! I look for replacers when announced that you are unable to vote, if a user has not been online for 5 days or more or if the number of non-voters seem too high!
- Cheating is NEVER TOLERATED! If you are caught at cheating or attempting to do so, you will be banned permanently or temporarily depending on how serious your offense has been! So remember, having multiple accounts and taking part with them is NOT allowed in this contest and never will be!
- Completely new users on the forums are not allowed to take part, until they have atleast participated in other contests or have been active on the forums for atleast half a year! This is to prevent stuff like cheating, etc.! Does not apply to users/accounts who are already taking part!
- Countries can be reserved for you, but only for one edition!
- The country you choose will be yours for as long as you like until you decide to either withdraw or switch!
- If you decide to take a break for an edition or so, remember that the nation you chose will not be bound to you and therefore is free to be taken by anyone the following edition as this could be counted the same as withdrawing!
- The deadlines are usually in CET timezone!
- Overused songs that have participated in more than 5 contests before will not be allowed anymore! You can use any song you want from any decade that is not overused!
- Covers are allowed! (If the original one hasn't taken part previously. This is limited to only 1 cover of the same song, which means once 1 cover of that song has taken part, you cannot send another one or the original one anymore! Also if the original song has already taken part, you cannot send a cover of it)
- ESC/JESC covers are not allowed!
- The singer must be alive to participate!
- Singer must have good legit roots connected to it! Growing up in your country, been born there or at the very least have roots/origins there, etc.! Only having one parent from your nation will not be allowed anymore starting from FoIM #43! Living in your nation is also questionable, but may be accepted, if it seems they have been living in the nation for long enough!
- If you send a group, then the singer or atleast one of the singers (if the group has multiple singers) has to be from your used country in order to participate for them! If this is not the case, then atleast half of the other members must be from there!
- One artist/group can only participate for one country per edition!
- This contest was previously held on my YouTube channel TheRontti95! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxJGKDgMmzfv0N3A7Nz9pFQ), but after i got annoyed of all the copyright issues, etc., the contest moved to Google Drive and all recaps are sent through that these days!
- (J)ESC songs are not allowed!
- Voting in ESC style! (12, 10, 8-1)
- Participating artist has to be atleast 16 years old (As in ESC) to be able to participate in FoIM!
- Kosovo and Faroe Islands can participate, but they cannot borrow from any country at the moment!
- Autonome regions are not able to participate anymore!
- United Kingdom is split into England, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales, but they cannot borrow from anyone anymore!
- You need to send your votes to contest manager TheRontti95 through PM! Do not publish your votes!
UPDATED! - Songs from ESC national selections are no longer allowed!
- You can host a national selection to select your entry, but it is not required!
- If you win the edition, you get to choose an entry for next edition, which will automatically be in the final, but you have to use the same country in that edition too!
- Previously used songs from national selections of FoIM are allowed to be used again, as long as they have not taken part in the contest or its spin-offs yet!
- There is a pre-selected player limit of 50! This is because i run this contest alone and i don't have time or the resources alone to host a contest bigger than this, so this has been set in place! IF there someday will be a co-host(s), this may change!
- Borrowing is allowed for small industries! Countries that can borrow from each other are (When borrowing, an artist has to be fully from that country they are borrowing from (And preferably an internationally unknown artist. However, this is also judged by the host, since my knowledge on internationally known acts are quite limited in a way)):
Andorra > Spain
Hong Kong > China
Liechtenstein > Austria & Switzerland
Luxembourg > Belgium & Netherlands
Monaco > France
San Marino > Italy
Borrowing nations will need to send their entries for approval to me before publishing them!
Upcoming Changes
-
If you have any new rule ideas to be added here, please let me know! Any ideas help me a lot!
I decided to make this thread so these rules are more easier to find and more easier to understand. Any questions about these? Feel free to ask on this thread! The most important rules are included here!
Keep in mind that i'm also a human being so i may make mistakes sometimes please don't hate me because of that
Rules:
** = Currently possible this rule may change in the near future (Poll voting about it, etc.)
NEW!/UPDATED! = New rule / Update
- The maximum recap time allowed is 30 seconds and the recap part needs to be atleast 20 seconds long! I am also able to do something between 20-30 too.
- Your song does not need to have a music video as i know not all songs have one!
- Warning system is in effect! (3 warnings = 1 edition ban) If a person fails to vote in time without any notification to me that he/she is unable to vote, will mean that he/she is going to receive a warning! I look for replacers when announced that you are unable to vote, if a user has not been online for 5 days or more or if the number of non-voters seem too high!
- Cheating is NEVER TOLERATED! If you are caught at cheating or attempting to do so, you will be banned permanently or temporarily depending on how serious your offense has been! So remember, having multiple accounts and taking part with them is NOT allowed in this contest and never will be!
- Completely new users on the forums are not allowed to take part, until they have atleast participated in other contests or have been active on the forums for atleast half a year! This is to prevent stuff like cheating, etc.! Does not apply to users/accounts who are already taking part!
- Countries can be reserved for you, but only for one edition!
- The country you choose will be yours for as long as you like until you decide to either withdraw or switch!
- If you decide to take a break for an edition or so, remember that the nation you chose will not be bound to you and therefore is free to be taken by anyone the following edition as this could be counted the same as withdrawing!
- The deadlines are usually in CET timezone!
- Overused songs that have participated in more than 5 contests before will not be allowed anymore! You can use any song you want from any decade that is not overused!
- Covers are allowed! (If the original one hasn't taken part previously. This is limited to only 1 cover of the same song, which means once 1 cover of that song has taken part, you cannot send another one or the original one anymore! Also if the original song has already taken part, you cannot send a cover of it)
- ESC/JESC covers are not allowed!
- The singer must be alive to participate!
- Singer must have good legit roots connected to it! Growing up in your country, been born there or at the very least have roots/origins there, etc.! Only having one parent from your nation will not be allowed anymore starting from FoIM #43! Living in your nation is also questionable, but may be accepted, if it seems they have been living in the nation for long enough!
- If you send a group, then the singer or atleast one of the singers (if the group has multiple singers) has to be from your used country in order to participate for them! If this is not the case, then atleast half of the other members must be from there!
- One artist/group can only participate for one country per edition!
- This contest was previously held on my YouTube channel TheRontti95! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxJGKDgMmzfv0N3A7Nz9pFQ), but after i got annoyed of all the copyright issues, etc., the contest moved to Google Drive and all recaps are sent through that these days!
- (J)ESC songs are not allowed!
- Voting in ESC style! (12, 10, 8-1)
- Participating artist has to be atleast 16 years old (As in ESC) to be able to participate in FoIM!
- Kosovo and Faroe Islands can participate, but they cannot borrow from any country at the moment!
- Autonome regions are not able to participate anymore!
- United Kingdom is split into England, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales, but they cannot borrow from anyone anymore!
- You need to send your votes to contest manager TheRontti95 through PM! Do not publish your votes!
UPDATED! - Songs from ESC national selections are no longer allowed!
- You can host a national selection to select your entry, but it is not required!
- If you win the edition, you get to choose an entry for next edition, which will automatically be in the final, but you have to use the same country in that edition too!
- Previously used songs from national selections of FoIM are allowed to be used again, as long as they have not taken part in the contest or its spin-offs yet!
- There is a pre-selected player limit of 50! This is because i run this contest alone and i don't have time or the resources alone to host a contest bigger than this, so this has been set in place! IF there someday will be a co-host(s), this may change!
- Borrowing is allowed for small industries! Countries that can borrow from each other are (When borrowing, an artist has to be fully from that country they are borrowing from (And preferably an internationally unknown artist. However, this is also judged by the host, since my knowledge on internationally known acts are quite limited in a way)):
Andorra > Spain
Hong Kong > China
Liechtenstein > Austria & Switzerland
Luxembourg > Belgium & Netherlands
Monaco > France
San Marino > Italy
Borrowing nations will need to send their entries for approval to me before publishing them!
Upcoming Changes
-
If you have any new rule ideas to be added here, please let me know! Any ideas help me a lot!