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Post by Marco Antonio [QUITE INACTIVE] on Mar 20, 2017 0:23:21 GMT 1
If it does turn out that people use National Selections as a safety pin (idek if that's a thing lol), you could simply not secure the spots for the countries with the NS. It is player's obligation to run and finish it in time. Might as well aim for the grand final voting deadline. And as far as the limit problem, I don't have any ideas, as I have the same problem in Retro lol. The only thing I tried to "work in" was, if you send your entry after all spots were taken, that entry is already submitted in the next edition, so the person who is out has a silver lining. Probably wouldn't work here as people might not stick with the same entry until the next edition. And it was probably used like twice in Retro  people just didn't want to submit after all spots for the current edition were taken  I would honestly prefer PQR over rotation system. Well, the National Selections used as a safety pin, as you've mentioned, wouldn't be hard to notice. I am personally convinced that our players will go fair and won't just start opening National Selections in order to secure their place. If so, I guess we will be able to notice quickly and take action.  About submitting an entry even after all 51 spots are taken, just like it happened with  Australia which missed out for like 10 minutes last time and their entry was kept for this edition, we considered this to be honest. However, there were quite a lot of cons, leading us to reject this idea. Firstly, as you've said, they might just take advantage of their secure place from before to change their entry afterwards, meaning that it isn't fair for the others. Apart from that, I guess most of those players who didn't submit in time would come and confirm already for next edition by submitting an entry for the next time. However, then they could possibly just go inactive and not turn up when it's time to vote or something. Hence, by encouraging them to vote in the final of this edition, not only are they involved in this, but they also follow the contest and get to remain active, just so that they can keep in track. What's PQR btw? Pre-Qualifying Round, a kind of Quarter-final |
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Post by mimisthesc on Mar 20, 2017 0:28:28 GMT 1
Well, the National Selections used as a safety pin, as you've mentioned, wouldn't be hard to notice. I am personally convinced that our players will go fair and won't just start opening National Selections in order to secure their place. If so, I guess we will be able to notice quickly and take action. About submitting an entry even after all 51 spots are taken, just like it happened with Australia which missed out for like 10 minutes last time and their entry was kept for this edition, we considered this to be honest. However, there were quite a lot of cons, leading us to reject this idea. Firstly, as you've said, they might just take advantage of their secure place from before to change their entry afterwards, meaning that it isn't fair for the others. Apart from that, I guess most of those players who didn't submit in time would come and confirm already for next edition by submitting an entry for the next time. However, then they could possibly just go inactive and not turn up when it's time to vote or something. Hence, by encouraging them to vote in the final of this edition, not only are they involved in this, but they also follow the contest and get to remain active, just so that they can keep in track. What's PQR btw? Pre-Qualifying Round, a kind of Quarter-final Oh, I see what you mean...We already need more than a month for a normal edition, I can't really imagine how much more time we'd have to spend on making recaps, results videos as well as on giving some days for people to vote in PQR even |
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Post by Laurinda on Mar 20, 2017 0:30:49 GMT 1
Pre-Qualification Round is normally used in contest with too many participants. Countries who end up on the bottom positions of the semi-finals are in it. In this case, countries who failed to submit in time could be there. So not always the "smaller" countries would be in PQR (which I got a feeling from the other contests). Qualifiers proceed to be allocated in the semi-finals.
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Post by mimisthesc on Mar 20, 2017 0:46:49 GMT 1
Pre-Qualification Round is normally used in contest with too many participants. Countries who end up on the bottom positions of the semi-finals are in it. In this case, countries who failed to submit in time could be there. So not always the "smaller" countries would be in PQR (which I got a feeling from the other contests). Qualifiers proceed to be allocated in the semi-finals. Well, in this case we could consider something like that. Such a new 'system' would be a quite significant change though so we should make sure it's applied in the best possible way, so that it satisfies the majority of the players and gives equal chances to everyone. |
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Post by donneylepland on Mar 20, 2017 18:42:02 GMT 1
You probably noticed that in just a bit more than 24 hours, all 51 spots for this edition were taken. This resulted in 6 countries having to withdraw, due to not having submitted an entry in time. Those were  Azerbaijan,  Brazil,  China,  FYR Macedonia,  Israel and  Suriname. Because of that, we thought of introducing a new system which will start working from now on, if you want to contribute to this edition as well as secure your place for next edition; a Rest of the World Jury!Further Information - You will be able to vote ONLY in the Grand Final of the edition (it is not compulsory). Then, all votes received will be added up and the TOP 10 of the final total score will form the jury votes (the one who got the most points in total will receive  , the runner-up will receive  etc.).- The TOP 10 will be transformed into votes right after the voting is closed. In case 2 or more countries have scored the same amount of points in total, the one with the least points will get more points from the Rest of the World jury(Example Case: If  Austria finishes 10th and  Cyprus finishes 19th and both have got the most points in total from the Rest of the World jury, the will go to Cyprus, because it's lower that Austria, which will get ). - At the same time, if you vote, you reserve your place for the next edition. Countries like  Indonesia, which decided to withdraw but will be back next time are also welcome to vote, if they want to secure their place.- As this means that already some places will have been reserved beforehand, some of you who used to submit your entries before the official thread opened will not be able to do so from now on. Submitted entries will only be accepted once the official edition thread has opened.What do you think of these changes? Let us know by commenting below! Wow... two days and already everything's full... Blah. I would like to join as part of the rest of the world. Hopefully it will at least give me the spot for next edition. |
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Post by inactivo (nq era) on Mar 21, 2017 16:39:11 GMT 1
ferrygrafAnd the winner of the  NF is ... Amaia Montero with "Palabras" 4:25 - 4:55
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Post by fabbi on Mar 21, 2017 21:15:34 GMT 1
I've also closed the voting in my NS. Thanks a lot to the 15 voters. The winning song is (a surprising one for me): So wasted - This girl's not good
We obviously wish them best of luck in  Budapest (and may it go better than my previous attempts with rock entries ). |
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Post by mimisthesc on Mar 22, 2017 13:25:59 GMT 1
With the  Swiss entry announced as well, all 51 songs are submitted. This means that the edition should begin really soon with the voting in the 3 semi finals opening, so stay tuned!You can also find the images of your own entries HERE. I hope you like them! |
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Post by ferrygraf on Mar 22, 2017 17:58:42 GMT 1
Let's start the 52nd Edition with the semi-finals!As the submissions went extremely fast and the national selections were closed earlier, we can start a bit earlier as planned too We welcome the debuting country Samoa and welcome back to Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Chile, Morocco, Turkey and United States!  Voting deadline: Friday, 31st of March
Please send your votes to ferrygraf and/or mimisthesc.
Everyone has to vote in the semi-final he/she is in.
The automatic finalists (Hungary, UK, Kazakhstan) are free to vote in all 3 semi-finals
The website unfortunately isn't updated yet, but we'll work on it soon.
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