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ESC Rules Contest #21
This edition will have a similar structure to the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, but entries can be from any year. More details on rules below.
All 18 spots this edition are reserved for the first 18 users to vote in the winners' poll. The country draw will posted momentarily
Changes have been made for eligibility of entries which are in bold below and will highlighted again in the draw post
Rules –
1. Places in this contest are first come, first serve, with no permanent players. You cannot select your own country – the countries are assigned randomly. You will not get the same country twice in a row (unless you won last time)
2. You can select a song from any year
3. Covers are not allowed
4. Instrumentals are not allowed
5. In order to compete for a country, an artist must have…
a. been born or raised there
b. at least one parent from there (grandparents are not enough)
c. lived there for at least 3 years (if they are currently between two countries, they are considered eligible)
5.1. Borrowing -
- A song can compete for a country if at least one of the composers and lyricists are from that country (The vast majority of foreign acts in Eurovision fell under this category.)
- Monaco and Luxembourg can send any song in the French language. They can only sing in other languages if they send native acts.
- San Marino can borrow from Italy
- Andorra can borrow from Catalonia (The only permitted languages are English and Catalan)
- Ireland can borrow from Northern Ireland (they can also compete for UK but that's not considered borrowing)
- Artists from unrecognized countries (e.g. ) can compete for the country they have the closest ethnic ties with (e.g. Kosovar Albanians can compete for Albania). Ethnic minorities can compete for the country of their mother tongue, unless they come from a multi-lingual country (e.g. an Italian speaker from France can compete for Italy, but an Italian speaker from Switzerland cannot (unless they also have ties to ))
No approval is required for borrowing
6. The countries will withdraw and return based on when they withdrew/returned in the actual contest. The only exceptions are if they win or they withdrew because of poor results but they got good results in this contest.
7. You may hold a national selection in whatever format you like. Once a song competes in an NS, it cannot compete again.
8. The majority of broadcaster-specific rules are ignored (e.g. if you have Denmark after 1999, you do not have to send a song in English, even though it is required irl). One of the exceptions is Belgium’s dual broadcasters – they will alternate between a Flemish (Dutch) and Walloon (French) act each year
9. The song can be any length (there wasn’t much point in including the 3 minute rule)
10. A song cannot take part if it has competed in…
- (Junior) Eurovision
- (Junior) Northvision (unless they NQ'd before 2016/edition 18)
- Any forum contest in the last 6 months (based on confirmation date) (this is to prevent songs that aren’t overused at the time, but become overused by the results) (exceptions will be made for songs confirmed up to 3 days earlier - unless it's for Northvision or Fantasia)
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11. Songs/artist names cannot include product placement (e.g. Google Maps, Facebook)
Year specific rules –
1. For this edition, there will be 19 players.
2. You can have up to six lead singers
3. Belgium’s act must be from Flanders (The Dutch-speaking region)
4. Countries can sing in any language. Luxembourg and Monaco must sing in French unless they send native acts. If an act is singing in a language other than an official language or English, they must have no strong connection with a country where that language is an official language (e.g. Zoe can sing in French for Austria, but Amir cannot sing in French for Israel. If the language in question isn't the main language of the song, it will most likely be accepted e.g. Stella Mwangi can send a song in English that includes Swahili lyrics for )
5. Each player must give and - to their top 10 (the voting system pre 2016)
6. Singers can be of any age
7. If anyone does not vote, they will receive a strike. Replacers will vote on their behalf (if replacers cannot be found, the votes of two other players will be combined together)
8. If there is a tie,
Confirmed (18/18)