Provincial Festival • Announcements

[suyana]

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcements made by the board of the Provincial Festival will be posted here.

CURRENT BOARD OF PROVINCIAL:
Suyana (contest host)
 Carlos
 Chante

[suyana]

RULE CHANGES

before the third edition, the board of the council responsible for holding this contest has decided on some rule changes, outined in this post. this post also serves as a reminder of rules that we'd like to remind you of upon the expansion of the contest. rule reminders will be in regular black font. rule changes will be in italicized blue font.

REGARDING HEADS OF DELEGATION

heads of delegation will now be able to confirm for a permanent hold of a city at the beginning of their third editions. if this head of delegation confirms their permanent position with their city, no other user can confirm as hod of that city until the original hod permanently withdraws, just as any other competition on the forums. otherwise, the cities are confirmed on a first-come, first serve basis, much like the olympiad song contest or the resolute song festival. any user can confirm for any city that has not been confirmed for that edition or is not reserved by a permanent head of delegation.

REGARDING ARTIST ELIGIBILITY

artists can be either from within the official limits of the city being represented, or from the surrounding areas, hence the referral to cities as "agglomerations" on official documentation regarding the contest. the definition of the city limits will always be whatever is most agreed upon by the government of the corresponding nation. artists representing these agglomerations must satisfy one of these three criteria:

1. artists must have been born in this agglomeration.
2. artists must have grown up in this agglomeration. for this criterion, an h.o.d. may need to provide evidence that this artist has a significant enough connection to the agglomeration.
3. artists must be based out of this agglomeration or signed with a label headquartered in this agglomeration. the artist must currently be living in this agglomeration for this criterion to apply.

if groups or collaborations are sent for an agglomeration, the group must collectively satisfy a criterion, or more than 50% of its members must individually satisfy a criterion. this means that if a duo is sent for an agglomeration, BOTH of its members must be from that agglomeration.

REGARDING SONG ELIGIBILITY

songs that have participated in the nortvision pre-qualifying round or song contest, or songs that have WON the fantasia contest cannot participate in this contest. songs that have unsuccessfully participated in the fantasia contest or in national selections for the northvision song contest are permitted at the board’s discretion.

REGARDING AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION

it is very possible that the third edition will allow us to break into semi-finals for the first time in the history of this contest. the automatic qualification process in this contest is a bit dissimilar to others on the forum. it's been implemented so that we avoid the "top 6 aq next edition and flop" trope, but by also avoiding allowing the same 5/6 cities to qualify the next edition, like in eurovision. the automatic qualification process is as follows:

two groups of cities are created after every edition. the first group consists of the five most populous agglomerations according to this site (currently guangzhou, tokyo, shanghai, jakarta, and delhi), as well as what the board have deemed as the ten most important cities to music ( new york, los angeles, miami, london, paris, stockholm, moscow, seoul, lagos, and são paulo). this is known as group a. the other group is made up of the ten best-performing cities across all editions (currently santiago, valletta, vancouver, kyiv, warsaw, leeds, dallas, dubai, gwangju, and sydney). this known as group b. the automatic qualifiers consist of the three best performing agglomerations in each of the two groups in that edition. let's use this edition as an example.

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santiago - first
kyiv - second
paris - third
gwangju - fourth
vancouver - fifth
dallas - sixth
warsaw - seventh
dubai - eighth
london - ninth
sydney - tenth
los angeles - fifteenth
jakarta - seventeenth
tokyo - twenty fifth
new york - twenty sixth
seoul - twenty seventh


using the rules for automatic qualification, the automatic qualifiers for the third edition would be los angeles, london, paris, santiago, kyiv, and gwangju. should our winner and/or host not be among either group, they become an additional qualifier.

thank you so much for your continued support !! it means so much to me. confirmations for the third edition will open tomorrow so keep an eye out for that !! if you have any questions regarding the rules, don't be afraid to pm me (suyana ) and i'll try my best to help.

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grand final:
new york suyana ,  seoul Chante™ , london Carlos (host) , kyiv martinantidormi , paris SBINNALA , gwangju EtCetera , saint petersburg panchin , brisbane Þórir , toronto Tufkai , athens Qual , jakarta asean wear facemask , warsaw 𝖱𝖠𝖣𝖤𝖰𝖰 , vienna zaqra , katowice konrαd , johannesburg kacper , oslo Fatih , dubai Ari , dallas ♫ diamanti ♫ , vancouver jacob , hamburg niko , tokyo Ｂ３ＳＴＢＥＡＴＳ , sydney karolz06 , montréal hayashi 🇺🇦🇵🇸 , barcelona ferret , los angeles italix , perth Francisco , santiago Fat Nepal , zagreb @antonija

[suyana]

CITIVISION IS MOVING TO DISCORD

hello everyone !!! i've been taking some time to assess cvsf and why it hasn't been working these past couple editions, and i've come to what i hope will be a solution. i will be moving the contest to discord.

WHY DISCORD?

i've been struggling to make the recaps and results videos these past couple editions, and while i would still love for the contest to continue in this setting, i physically can't. i suffer from attention deficit and the contest in its current setting requires hours worth of attention. discord allows me to still host the contest, but from a much more informal setting, not requiring the elaborate videos to be made.

WILL I STILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE?

i'm going to restart edition 3, held in santiago de chile. all heads of delegation are welcome to compete, but will need a discord account to participate. heads of delegation, upon entry to the server, will get to keep their city if they wish to. otherwise, a city selection process will be held, which will also include new users !! new songs are highly encouraged, but old edition 3 songs won't be denied.

WHAT'S GONNA CHANGE?

due to the limitations of discord, voting and entry presentation will occur via a google form. i don't want to open a google form with 26 youtube links to songs, so i'll be changing the format of the contest a bit. the contest will now be formatted closer to melodifestivalen, to allow for multiple smaller semi-finals. semi-finals will be held one at a time, and a second chance round will be introduced.

i wanted to thank you all so much for bearing with me while i work out the future of this contest. i know i've been all over the place with this contest, but i am really committed to making this format a successful one !! i'll soon be building a wiki for this newer version of the contest, so if you have expertise that you'd like to share, pm me here (suyana ) or on discord.

JOIN THE DISCORD SERVER HERE.

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santiago Fat Nepal , new york suyana , cleveland Batman Beyond , stockholm Tufkai , hamburg Ari , taipei Kinoshita! , los angeles italix , london Carlos , buenos aires Jmain , seoul Chante™ , barcelona ferret , warsaw 𝖱𝖠𝖣𝖤𝖰𝖰 , brisbane Þórir , katowice konrαd , jakarta asean wear facemask , moscow panchin , brussels Holland , athens Qual , vienna zaqra , gwangju EtCetera , sydney karolz06 , kyiv martinantidormi , berlin Apostolis , bucharest kamila , paris SBINNALA , adelaide niko , dallas ♫ diamanti ♫ , houston ClassifiedCat  , rome Euu , busan fuerte (inactive)