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Africa Festival | Rules and Strikes Aug 2, 2018 11:53:14 GMT 1 Aless, ClassifiedCat, and 4 more like this

Post by Luiri on Aug 2, 2018 11:53:14 GMT 1

RULES OF THE AFRICA FESTIVAL
last update: 02/08/18

Firstly, before starting, here are the council members that I’ll most likely keep talking about on this thread.

Luiri @luiri

William @classifiedcat

Alper @alper

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Due to EoF & AiF being similar contests, on the rules that are exclusive to AiF will be written.
For the rest, you'll be informed when the EoF rules applies here.

♫ HOW TO JOIN THE CONTEST ♫

In order to join the contest, you firstly need a forum account (duh)

Then, to be able to join AiF, you must respect two conditions:
- you must have at least 100 Posts, to prove your activity on the forums.
- you must have joined the forums at least a month before.

If you respect these two conditions, you need to wait for a new confirmation thread, to be able to confirm.
You can also sign to the waiting list if you want to get tagged when a new edition will start.

If you don't respect them, then you can just wait.

Note that you don't need to be in EoF for joining AiF.

♫ HOW THE CONTEST WORK ♫

There is a total of 54 available countries in the contest.
However, unlike EoF, an AiF edition is limited to one Grand Final of 27 Countries max.

Depending of the case, a Semi-Final could be able to be added, but we'll see that later.

♫ AND THE COUNTRIES THAT CAN PARTICIPATE ? ♫

As said above, there is a total of 54 Available Countries, all of them being from Africa.
However, Africa is a very diverse continent, culturally but also musically different.
But unlike Europe, it's music industry is quite small for a bunch of countries.

Therefore, we've decided that it will be able to borrow from the rest of the world following two
different situations:

1. Your singer is from Europe.
For this, since there is the Europa Festival running at the same time, you will need
the approval of the player, then of the council for sending the singer.

Example,

Maimuna is from Belarus, but has Malian roots
You will have to ask the Belarussian player, then the council for sending her.

An European singer born in Africa but living in Europe will not need any approval.

2. Your singer is from Asia/America/Oceania
Well there is no subcontests for these continents (and there will never be)
Therefore, for these, you will only need the council approval for these singer.

Again, a singer that is born in Africa but living there will not need an approval.

♫ AND MY ENTRY, DOES IT HAD RULES TO RESPECT ? ♫

Including what was said above, overall, this part is respecting the same rules as
the Europa Festival, so check the EoF rules here:

forum.songcontests.eu/thread/23913/europa-festival-rules-strikes

The only difference is that there is no approval needed for AiF, except in a case of borrowing.

♫ AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I RESPECT THE RULES ? ♫

Both confirming your participation and posting the entry is mandatory in the confirmation thread of the edition. With that, you must provide a 25-seconds timeslot and the name of your entry in the Latin Alphabet.

Please take note that after posting your entry, you won’t be allowed to change it.

The Africa Festival Council

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