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Qualification Battle - Introduction

After several talks about the up-coming seventeenth edition, the IBU is ready to present their new solution.
Qualification Battles!


What does that mean?

As having too many participants to give equal chances to the semi-finalists to qualify to the final, the IBU decided to introduce the Qualification Battles. Normally, 12 countries participate at the qualifcation battles. That means the bottom 6 from each semi-final has to join the qualification battles. If there are withdrawing countries, no country will replace their spot. 
The last of SF1 will play against the last of SF 2; the pre-last of SF 1 against the pre-last of SF2 etc. The 6 winners of each duel will be in the semi-finals. The 6 non-winners will not be able to join the semi-finals. They are able to vote in the final though (if that will be forced is unsure yet). They will automatically start in the semi-finals in the up-coming edition. 

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[αndreas]

Reminds me of my NS:) Good Idea

[Dylan]

Great idea and I really love this Luxembourg won't be there

[Tom]

What a stupid idea.

It's like the unfair PQR in the North Vision Song Contest; if someone sends an entry which doesn't do well in edition A, it doesn't mean directly his entry is also too bad to participate in edition B.

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Aug 22, 2014 13:08:11 GMT 1 Tom said:

What a stupid idea.

It's like the unfair PQR in the North Vision Song Contest; if someone sends an entry which doesn't do well in edition A, it doesn't mean directly his entry is also too bad to participate in edition B.

That's why there are duels where the better song qualifies

[Dylan]

Aug 22, 2014 13:08:11 GMT 1 Tom said:

What a stupid idea.

It's like the unfair PQR in the North Vision Song Contest; if someone sends an entry which doesn't do well in edition A, it doesn't mean directly his entry is also too bad to participate in edition B.

I don't like the PQR either very much, but if I'm not there it doesn't matter but at least Florian did not copy the PQR of NVSC and used differently. I'll probably be at the future ones but hopefully u won't be for #17

[Tom]

Aug 22, 2014 13:09:17 GMT 1 @eurovisiongermany said:

Aug 22, 2014 13:08:11 GMT 1 Tom said:

What a stupid idea.

It's like the unfair PQR in the North Vision Song Contest; if someone sends an entry which doesn't do well in edition A, it doesn't mean directly his entry is also too bad to participate in edition B.

That's why there are duels where the better song qualifies

The better song? Everyone has his own opinion about which song is better. I think the participants like me who have mostly another music taste then others will be faster out of this concept then the others who send songs which would surely do well.

[Tom]

Aug 22, 2014 13:11:52 GMT 1 Dylan said:

Aug 22, 2014 13:08:11 GMT 1 Tom said:

What a stupid idea.

It's like the unfair PQR in the North Vision Song Contest; if someone sends an entry which doesn't do well in edition A, it doesn't mean directly his entry is also too bad to participate in edition B.

I don't like the PQR either very much, but if I'm not there it doesn't matter but at least Florian did not copy the PQR of NVSC and used differently. I'll probably be at the future ones but hopefully u won't be for #17

Yes I don't mind it very much if I'm not there either but like I would've needed to participate there in the 10th edition of the North Vision Song Contest then it's less nice.

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Aug 22, 2014 13:12:47 GMT 1 Tom said:

Aug 22, 2014 13:09:17 GMT 1 @eurovisiongermany said:

That's why there are duels where the better song qualifies

The better song? Everyone has his own opinion about which song is better. I think the participants like me who have mostly another music taste then others will be faster out of this concept then the others who send songs which would surely do well.

Of course people's tastes are different, but as I said, the song which the majority liked will get through. And it's the point that I don't like big semi-finals. And in that point I also won't change my opinion

[Anesović]

Shiet