NEWS REGARDING THE JUNIOR WORLD HIT FESTIVAL
Hello! Below, I am going to briefly discuss what is going to be happening regarding the 6th Junior World Hit Festival. As the 47th World Hit Festival approaches, five editions have passed since the most recent Junior World Hit Festival which means that it is time for a new, updated version of the contest. Like normal, we will have a bidding process to determine who will be the sixth host of the Festival. I will discuss that later on in this news bulletin. However, the first thing that I would like to speak about when this is going to happen.
DATES OF THE JUNIOR WORLD HIT FESTIVAL
The Junior World Hit Festival last edition lasted for 48 days, between the 16 September 2018 to 3rd November 2018. Unlike the last edition, we will not hold the bidding process during the sign-ups for the Junior World Hit Festival, with us picking the host of the next Junior World Hit Festival before the Sign-Up Thread goes up. The Junior World Hit Festival's next OOC thread will go up nearer the end of the 47th World Hit Festival and therefore here is the tentative schedule for the Junior World Hit Festival below;
Opening of the Junior World Hit Festival Sign-Ups: Sunday 4th August 2019
Opening of the Draft Thread: Sunday 18th August 2019
Closing of the Draft Thread: Sunday 1st September 2019
Jury Voting: Monday 2nd September 2019 - Sunday 8th September 2019
Televoting: Monday 9th September 2019 - Sunday 15th September 2019
Voting Reveal Monday 16th September 2019 - Sunday 23rd September 2019
Winner Known By: Sunday 23rd September 2019
The World Hit Festival 48 will open 29th September 2019 - the winner of WHF47 will have the month and a half to prepare to host the competition.Now, before I get into it more, the first thing that I will talk about is the bidding process because this has been omitted from the schedule. We believe that having the Host Bidding process beforehand will make it much easier for the contest to happen and will bring more attention to who is hosting rather than who
might host. We will also have the bidding process happen over a longer period of time to ensure that we gain good quality bids, not rushed jobs. As the tentative schedule has been released, we hope that potential hosts will take this into account when bidding and will be readily available. Hosting the Junior World Hit Festival will be a large task and we intend to have a host that is fully invested in hosting the competition. With that being said, below, you can find the dates to the bidding process for the Junior World Hit Festival 6.
Bidding for JWHF
Monday 24th June 2019 - Sunday 28th July 2019
34 days - 4 weeks and 6 days.
On Monday 24th June 2019, I will open the bidding process for the 6th Junior World Hit Festival. The host bidding process will happen in the WHF Network thread with more information coming on the 24th June 2019. There will then be 4 weeks and 6 days to allow nations to bid for the World Hit Festival. After the 28th of July 2019, I will put up the bidding process votes in the evening and there will be a vote for six days afterwards until Saturday 3rd August 2019. I will then announce the winner and give 24 hours for the host to provide a final version of their logos and any other information that they must have prepared beforehand. The sign-ups will then open with the name of the host being placed as the subject. We can, therefore, focus on the contest at hand. It is up to the host if they would like to have any additional events during their allocated time as Junior World Hit Festival host (such as red carpet events/Head of Delegation meetings) - with the Overseer recommending any type of RP to happen during the extended voting period which will be discussed soon.
If no bids come through in the allocated time, the Overseer will be elected as the host for the competition.
In order to bid, you must have participated at least once at the World Hit Festival or Junior World Hit Festival.
THE NEW VOTING SYSTEM AT JWHF6
The World Hit Festival is an event where you can make large changes to better the Festival and to keep it going. While the voting system that we currently have at the World Hit Festival has been in place for years with the way it has been revealed changing over the years, we would like to change things up for the upcoming Junior World Hit Festival. The new voting system that I will introduce will include a
Jury Vote and a
Televote in order to decide the winner of the 6th World Hit Festival. As a result of this, an extra week has been made to vote, with the first week of voting being normal 5-1 ranking for entries before the addition of the new televote. Below, I will quickly go through how it will work.
Jury Vote: The Jury Vote will be the normal phases that we have at the current World Hit Festival. It is up to the host whether they would like to split this up into 4-1 and 5 points. However, the Overseer will recommend that reverting to the normal World Hit Festival 5-1 voting reveal recently used at the 39th World Hit Festival. In order to make the voting segment easier for everyone, nations will no longer have to provide a full ranking. Instead, nations can simply provide their top 5. If nations would like to reveal their full rankings, they can simply send their full ranking to the host and the host will reveal the full ranking when they reveal their votes.
So there is no difference there, really. However, in the second week of voting, all nations will then be sent a link to an external voting and data collection website which will collect the televoting points. Each nation will be able to vote for four different nations on top of those that they voted for in the Jury...but there's a twist.
Televote: For the host of the 6th Junior World Hit Festival, I would personally like to see the televote of the 6th Junior World Hit Festival be just as high impact as the Televoting at the Eurovision Song Contest. I will be happy to allocate only two of the seven days that the voting reveal happens to the televoting, making it the phase which is the quickest. Depending on how many nations participate or how the host wants to make an impact, they are allowed to choose how to allocate the Televoting. They can decide to randomly dish out the televotes over the two days. They are also free to go from last place in the televote to the first place, or even go along the ranking of the jury vote (as was done at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest). Though, the system used must raise impact - not stop it from happening. Below, I will speak about how each nation will be able to vote.
Each nation (including puppets) will be allowed to vote for four nations of their choice with the twist being explained below.
I thought "how will I stop people from simply wanting to vote for their top four nations?" Well, sometimes at these international competitions (at the World Hit Festival more so than the WorldVision Song Contest), there are opportunities where nations that placed just outside the top 5 and are not properly represented in the voting. Therefore, with the four votes that each nation will be allocated;
2 votes will be allocated to two of the five nations that the nation voting has already voted for. For example, if the nation Kalosia has voted for Izmedu, Axuva, Llalta, Estogium and Skanden, Kalosia is free to choose two nations from the aforementioned nations to vote for in the Televote.
2 votes will be allocated to two nations that your nation has not yet voted for. For example, Kalosia could choose the nations Britonisea and Todlichebujoku because Kalosia has not yet voted for them in the Jury vote. Kalosia will not be allowed to vote for the nations in the top 5 that he did not vote for in the televote. Another twist is in place because I will allow you to vote for yourself. One of the two votes you could simply allocate to yourselves - do you think your own work should be rewarded or do you think its fairer to give others the credit for their work? That's up to you.
In total, the televote will be in lots of four. The more nations that participate, the more variety. The percentage of votes each nations gets will be converted into points. Using the full ranking of WHF45, I have decided to make a little showing of what it could look like when we use this system;
As you can see, the voting reveal could be rather tense with there being remarkable changes to the final standings. An example of this is through
Normandy and Picardy coming 13th to 5th. There are other changes in the scoreboard that could make the Televote reveal very exciting. At the start of the World Hit Festival 48, there will be a vote deciding whether we should incorporate this into the actual World Hit Festival or keep the full-ranking system at World Hit Festival. The World Hit Festival 48, as explained earlier, will be delayed.
The Overseer will collect these votes using the external voting system. The Host and the Overseer will create a small RP (like a Jon Ola Sand/Host interaction "Are the votes ready?") And at this point, the Overseer will send the Host the full televoting details. This can be done before the end of the 5-1 point reveal, but after the first day of voting.
CHANGES TO THE WORLD HIT FESTIVAL (AS OF WHF47)
Deadlines will be moved to Sundays in order to make it easier for nations to finish off entries. Hopefully, this will make deadlines much more memorable instead of having them on a weekday. The World Hit Festival 47 Draft Thread will open on a Thursday and will last two and a half weeks.
This means that nations have three weekends to post their entries. Hopefully, more nations will participate in the upcoming World Hit Festival.
Another reminder that there will be a large gap between WHF47 to WHF48 in order to prioritise the Junior World Hit Festival. Thank you!
Loads of new changes to the World Hit Festival and I can't wait to see how things go! If you have any questions, please just ask. The World Hit Festival 46 is about to close, so please remember to vote. The bidding for Junior World Hit Festival will open is less than a week.