Welcome to Britonisea!
Britonisea has won their fourth World Hit Festival last edition with the song "Dangerously in Love" which was sung by Doportedas-born Vhe Qi who won with 28 points, just one ahead of the hosts of the competition, Izmedu. For the fifth time, Britonisea will be hosting the World Hit Festival and this time we will be returning to Kyvivre for the first time in 20 editions to celebrate Britonish culture once again but also to celebrate the cultures of all participating nations and find our next World Hit Festival winner!
As we said in WHF43, we are excited to bring to you a truly Britonish World Hit Festival with exceptionally high production and ease to make sure that it is a great show for both the delegations and fans of the World Hit Festival.
Fabio McAlpine
World Hit Festival Overseer
What is the World Hit Festival?
The World Hit Festival (WHF) is a multiversal song competition. Each nation shall enter 1 song and 1 artist, and it shall be 'performed' via roleplay. Most nations tend to use a real-life tune as a musical backing, but every entry submitted to the World Hit Festival is required to have original lyrics (ie. if you submit a tune, you must re-write the lyrics), so this does mean that instrumental entries are blocked from entering the contest.
WHF operates with three threads, the OOC, Draft, and IC threads. The one you are seeing now is the OOC/Sign-ups thread, the main place for you to discuss the contest, reveal your entrant, etc. All OOC chatter goes here. The Draft Thread, opened by the host, is the second thread opened up during a WHF contest, and this draft thread is where nations will post and work on their entries until a deadline determined by the host. The IC thread, also opened by the host is the third and final thread attached to a WHF, and it is where the host will transfer your entries.
The World Hit Festival has had a very long history in NationStates, and a thread by the second overseer (Euskirribakondara) has been created to compile this long history. Click here for a thread with links to every OOC and IC thread of all World Hit Festivals so far. Click this for a statistical database of all WHF participants. For winners, click here to see a full list of all WHF winners with links to their entries.
Schedule
Draft Thread Opens: 14th July 2019
Sign-Ups Close: 28th July 2019
Draft Thread Closes, IC Thread Up: 29th July 2019
Voting Deadline: 4th August 2019
Grand Final Winner Known By: 11th August 2019
Participating
If you would like to participate at the World Hit Festival, please complete the form below.
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[box][b]Nation:[/b]
[b]Broadcaster:[/b]
[b]Song Title:[/b]
[b]Artist:[/b]
[b]Language(s):[/b]
[b]Title Transcription (if required):[/b]
[b]Title Translation (if required):[/b]
[b]Tune:[/b]
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[i]Host Requirement[/i]
[b]Pick a number that's available [url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=britonisea/detail=factbook/id=1230517]HERE[/url]:[/b]
[b]Your Trigramme:[/b]
[b]Interesting Fact about Act:[/b] [i](Optional)[/i]
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[b]Head of Delegation (if not already provided):[/b]
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For WHF veterans, this sign-up form will look very familiar as it is the same sign-up form for the past 15 editions. However, for debutantes, I have provided a sample application using WHF32's winning entry in a spoiler, with explanations in brackets.
Participating Nations: As of July 12th
- Besen [BSB] Sandcastles - He'll Come Home
- Britonisea [BVC]
- Darkmania
- Elam [TBH] Serikat - Kurban
- Estogium [RVC]
- Izmedu [RTI] Ruza Parlov & Ivosev - Mi smo sve
- Kalosia [RTVK]
- Lagoa [MTL] Roc Madeira // Fios de Àjuolas
- Llalta [LBN] Chiara Albanthia - Timeless
- Natanya [NTL] Ester Nihil - Namelessly
- Loulan [S-TMT] Cipher & Shiyana Gurjaradesh - Dewâr Ke Sâxtim
- Normandy & Picardy [SRNP] Antoine Beauregard - Même Tes Rêves Les Plus Fous
- Samudera Darussalam [TVR] Berlian & Arya - Merantau
- Teesdexxia [TBA] Lena De La Reina - Haunting
- The Eight Republics [TST] The Wolftones - Sunej ji Bikejaba
- Tödlichebujoku [Estegoa100] Outoya Avaimia
Rules and Procedures
ContestHosting
- A nation is allowed to submit 2 puppets maximum to the contest, meaning that a user can be controlling at most 3 nations in the contest.
- Nations must send a full ranking of all nations on the IC Thread to the host of the competition when the voting opens.
- The nation ranked first will receive 5 points, the nation ranked second will receive 4 points etc. Nations ranked 6th or below will not receive any points.
- Users are allowed to receive 8 points maximum from their puppets. Meaning, a user with three nations can use Nation B and C (with B and C giving 4 points each) to give Nation A 8 points total, but nothing more.
- A nation is also expected to vote, but there is no penalty for not voting. The host will make up your votes in the event that they do not have your votes.
- All or at least most of the written lyrics must be original. Should any user spot any concerns, don't hesitate to let the overseer or current host know.
- In order for Semi Finals to be initiated, there must be enough nations for there to be 14 nations per Semi Final. The number of participants before Semi Finals are initiated will be dependent on circumstances.
- In the unlikely event of there being 40 or more complete entries, the top 5 from last edition (including the host) will qualify automatically to the Grand Final.
- The maximum amount of nations that can participate at any World Hit Festival is 47 (including the host).
- The winner of the competition will automatically be given the right to host the competition. The winner will have 72 hours (maximum) to announce their interest in hosting the Festival to the Overseer.
- The host must not reveal their acceptance of hosting until the Overseer has announced it on the WHF Network.
- If within the first 72 hours, the host either doesn't announce their interest of hosting the proceeding contest or declines hosting rights, the nation who came 2nd will be asked. If declined five times, the World Hit Overseer has to host the World Hit Festival.
- If the host abandons their host duties, the World Hit Overseer will be responsible for what left needs to be done.
- We would like to ensure all World Hit Festival hosts can host the competition to the best of their ability. If you have any concerns about hosting if given the opportunity to, don't hesitate to speak to the World Hit Overseer.
For those wanting a look at the immediate past, here are a collection of links to the most recent WHF: OOC Thread - Draft Thread - IC Thread