World Hit Festival 49 - Alshkan, Brito-Estogium | OOC
Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:30 pm
Note: The official design for the 49th World Hit Festival will be revealed before the opening of the IC Thread. More information regarding the design will be revealed at later date.
DRAFT THREAD - IC THREAD
Welcome to Britonisea & Estogium!
For the sixth time since their debut at the 14th World Hit Festival, Britonisea will be hosting the World Hit Festival and this time, they will be hosting the Festival alongside 2nd placing nation; Estogium. Britonisea won the 48th World Hit Festival with 34 points with the song, "Let Yourself Free" by Gigi Vadeboncoeur who was also responsible for the writing of the Estogian entry also. RVC and BVC will be working together to deliver what will be a great opportunity to showcase ABEN talent to the World on such a spectacular platform such as the World Hit Festival.
With this being the penultimate Senior World Hit Festival that will have a Britonish Overseer, we would like to use this World Hit Festival as a stepping stone towards the 50th World Hit Festival which we would like to be a good one - plans for the upcoming 50th World Hit Festival are already happening but we must find our host. Britonisea, like any nation, will be fighting for the right to host the semi-centennial World Hit Festival event and we hope all nations participating will come all guns blazing. The Britonish and Estogians are most certainly ready for the fight - are you?
Good luck everyone, I can't wait to see you all in the Halvenhavlve Arena on the 11th January 2020 - 20:00 GMT.
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: 15th December 2019
Sign-Ups Close: 22nd December 2019
Draft Thread Closes, IC Thread Up: 29th December 2019, Vote Begins 31st December
Voting Deadline: 6th January 2020, 20:00 GMT
Grand Final Winner Known By: 12th January 2020
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]Your Trigramme:[/b]
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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 December 23rd - FINAL LIST
- Achaean Republic [AS1] Dalila Poncio - Mi Sol, Mi Vida, Mi Sanidad
- Artsakhestan [AHH] Mane Baghamian - Ե՞մ Ես
- Axuva [WEN] Imani Rozhdestvensky - Fortune
- Bayilan
- Besmenien [BRF 1] STEVEIAN92 - Du bist nicht so schlecht wie ich dachte
- Britonisea [BVC - HOST] Michael Turner - Unguided
- Cadyrra [CadyrraPrime] Suicidiac - Down in the Dirt
- Darkmania [DaTV] Ölyver Deütland
- Estogium [RVC - HOST] Scott Brodeur - With One Touch
- Euskirribakondara [EUSK1] Errementariak - Lairoa
- Fatiman Federation [RTVF] Angelica Magsaysay - Jamais N'Dêixar Cesterin Flané
- Fromulya [TVRF] Aylin Qipchakova - Tatapanmu
- Hinenaes [HT]
- Izmedu [RTI] Franjo Kozina - Life Passed Me By
- Kalosia [RTVK]
- Lagoa
- Llalta [LBN]
- Lons [LMW-3] Belti! - Âniâv Ôlki
- Mercedini [TeleDini] Alicia Mocha - Nothing Left To Fight For
- Natanya [NTV] Nathanaele & J.D.X - Everything You Do
- Normandy & Picardy [SRNP] Margritte and Jean-Baptiste Laffaire - Une Chanson
- Rioghachd na Strechlledh Michael Andrews - oh fàilte dhachaigh
- Thasse [NENN] Moons - Firelit
- Talvezout [TRT] Matcha - Come and Go
- Teesdexxia [TBA] Femmes Fortes - Nathanaele & J.D.X
- Tödlichebujoku Ī ASTOLES - Inside
- Vartugia A Random Homless Guy I Found On The Street - The Shitpost Song
- Wazekia [WAZTEL]
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.
- If there is a draw the countback system goes as follows: Amount of nations - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - First To Send Full Votes To Host.
- 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. Nations are expected not to reveal whether they have voted or not. Only the Host (and the Overseer if needs be) should know who has voted and who hasn't.
- 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 event of there being 35 or more complete entries, the top 5 from last edition (including the host) will qualify automatically to the Grand Final.
- 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 in 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