African Song Festival #1 - Confirm! (CLOSED)
Nov 30, 2016 9:46:52 GMT 1
fabbi, ✨💃, and 3 more like this
Post by Gregory (inactive) on Nov 30, 2016 9:46:52 GMT 1
Welcome to the African Song Festival!
Theme: "Return To Glory"
Theme: "Return To Glory"
This is a song contest that is exclusive to African countries - this is the first edition, and I welcome everyone to join! It will be taking place in Cairo, Egypt, and the theme is "Return to Glory." It is a fitting theme, because I would like to bring the idea of an Africa song contest back to glory 
So, if you are interested in participating, read the Rules, and claim your country / post an entry.
My friends, it is time... Time that we bring back an African song contest to this forum!
Alongside my 50 States of Song contest (which is only an annual contest) I would like to manage something else that is a regular, on-going contest. So here I am. I'm so eager to host a contest, and I have plenty of video editing experience (tbh my job title is "Web Content Editor" guys...) so we'll see how it goes!
Algeria
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cabo Verde
Ceuta
Chad
Comoros
Congo
D.R. Congo
Djibouti
Equat. Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Cote d'Ivoire
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Madeira
Mali
Mauritania
Mayotte
Melilla
Mozambique
Niger
Reunion
Rwanda
Saint Helena
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Somaliland
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Countries Confirmed (15):
Angola - fabbi - Edmilson Laguetta, "Ta Me Doer"
Canary Is. - Llemian - Xriz feat. Buxxi, "Mi Corazón" (1:35+)
Central Afr. Rep. - Jmain - Tenny, "Le temps"
Egypt - Gregory (inactive) - Hossam Habib, "Faraa' Keteer" (2:18+)
Ghana - Dominykas - MzVee, "Hold Me Now"
Kenya - Patrick Adores - Stella Mwangi, "Koolio"
Malawi - @theflyingshrek - Charlotte OC, "If My House Was Burning"
Mauritius - shax - Willy William, "Tes Mots" (2:49+)
Morocco - Aleks - Saad Lamjarred, "Ghaltana" (3:20+)
Namibia - Hayastantzi92 - Freeda, "Mutjaka" (0:37+)
Nigeria - @escowen - Asa, "Dead Again"
Senegal - Tufkai - Constance, "I'll Be Yours" (0:51+)
South Africa - ESC Justas - Troye Sivan, "Youth"
Tunisia - 💎👑greg2001😘💎 - Nathalie, "Anima di vento" (1:54+)
Uganda - @austria2002 - Sabina Ddumba, "Time"
So, if you are interested in participating, read the Rules, and claim your country / post an entry.My friends, it is time... Time that we bring back an African song contest to this forum!
I wanted to give ~vaneedas some time to return with AfricaVision, but given that he hasn't even logged on once since 4 October, I'm going to go ahead and fill the void. If his contest comes back, I'll let you decide what you want to do / where you want to go.
Alongside my 50 States of Song contest (which is only an annual contest) I would like to manage something else that is a regular, on-going contest. So here I am. I'm so eager to host a contest, and I have plenty of video editing experience (tbh my job title is "Web Content Editor" guys...) so we'll see how it goes!
Countries Available:
Algeria Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cabo Verde Ceuta Chad Comoros Congo D.R. Congo Djibouti Equat. Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Cote d'Ivoire Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Madeira Mali Mauritania Mayotte Melilla Mozambique Niger Reunion Rwanda Saint Helena Sao Tome & Principe Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia Somaliland South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Western Sahara Zambia ZimbabweCountries Confirmed (15):
Angola - fabbi - Edmilson Laguetta, "Ta Me Doer" Canary Is. - Llemian - Xriz feat. Buxxi, "Mi Corazón" (1:35+) Central Afr. Rep. - Jmain - Tenny, "Le temps" Egypt - Gregory (inactive) - Hossam Habib, "Faraa' Keteer" (2:18+) Ghana - Dominykas - MzVee, "Hold Me Now" Kenya - Patrick Adores - Stella Mwangi, "Koolio" Malawi - @theflyingshrek - Charlotte OC, "If My House Was Burning" Mauritius - shax - Willy William, "Tes Mots" (2:49+) Morocco - Aleks - Saad Lamjarred, "Ghaltana" (3:20+) Namibia - Hayastantzi92 - Freeda, "Mutjaka" (0:37+) Nigeria - @escowen - Asa, "Dead Again" Senegal - Tufkai - Constance, "I'll Be Yours" (0:51+) South Africa - ESC Justas - Troye Sivan, "Youth" Tunisia - 💎👑greg2001😘💎 - Nathalie, "Anima di vento" (1:54+) Uganda - @austria2002 - Sabina Ddumba, "Time" RULES (Yes, we have rules!):
General entry rules:
- Submit one song entry prior to the deadline. The deadline is determined by the Contest Manager (Gregory (inactive) ).
- The song must have been published (or uploaded to Youtube) within the last three years.
- The song must be over 2:00 and under 8:00 (minutes) long.
- The song can be sung in any language, or an instrumental.
- No covers or remixes!
- ESC and JESC entries are not allowed (although this shouldn’t be an issue.)
- The musician/artist (or artist’s parents) must have been born in the country. If you can’t prove this fact, the entry won’t be accepted. No more random magical semi-African family tree relationship grandfather I-lived-there-once nonsense. There’s plenty of musicians and songs from every country; find them.
- No borrowing from other countries – even if the population is too low.
- The countries that are accepted for entry are the 54 fully recognized United Nations states and any dependent, non-sovereign territories of Africa (as listed here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Africa )
- If a user claims a country, they have first-come, first-serve basis to that country in the following contest. If the Confirmation deadline passes and the user does not confirm, that country will become available in the next contest.
- I won't hold the country you had in Africavision for you. First come, first serve.
- One user per one country. No teaming up/sharing a country.
- Unlike Africavision, you are able to withdraw at any time. Even if you got a Top 10 result... <_<
- If you withdraw from one country to claim another, you must keep that country for at least two editions. No country-jumping. This prevents a situation where a host country does not have an entry when they host the contest.
Voting:
- Once the submission deadline has passed, a recap video and song playlist will be posted. Use these to prepare your votes.
- Vote Eurovision-style (12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1) for your favorite entries, prior to the voting deadline. One set of votes only, please.
- Send your votes via PM to the Contest Manager (Gregory (inactive) ).
- You cannot vote on your own country! Sweden tries this every year... ((1996 reference ftw))
- You must have an OVSC Forums account to participate in this contest.
- Failure to vote in time results in one strike. Three strikes, you’re out for 1 edition. You will also have to use a different country in future contests if you get to 3 strikes (You won’t be allowed to get that country back – so don’t mess up!)
- If you need a replacement, make it known publicly. You cannot receive a strike if you ask for a replacement, even if none is found.
Other:
- The Contest Manager has the right to ban a member from participation (for 1 edition) if they receive complaints from at least three users. Continued problems will be reported to the forum administrators.
- The Contest Manager has the right to change or add rules. I may be doing this a lot if the contest grows!
- If there's a rule that you think should be added, go ahead and propose it. I won't ignore your critiques
- If we make it to a tenth edition, we will do a “Special” song-battle tournament edition
Interested?
fabbi Llemian El Catracho @aalto myskin willsong Wysteria тнєяσиттi95 ESCIliasMANL (Inactive) ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋ Hayastantzi92 Jean-Pascal shax Tufkai Aleks Christian AT Alexxx33 Josh's Tattoo (Inactive) MrLeo1357 INACTIVE Boyan08 jackprice1 Kenajabam Francisco MaRtIn SUNGPIN Laurinda meowthed CHAE WITH A C Jen Dominykas Ｂ３ＳＴＢＥＡＴＳ ʀօʏ you Gilberto MG
DEADLINE for Entries: 15th December 2016 (9:00:00 AM CET)
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