Welcome to Tödlichebujoku!
Firstly, I would like to say thank you for the warm welcome at the World Hit Festival! I cannot wait to start this journey as your World Hit Festival Overseer, bringing out the best of the World Hit Festival in the upcoming months. I am looking forward to seeing where this contest will go and excited seeing which nations will join our ever-growing family of nations.
I would like to send my congratulations to my home country of Britonisea for winning the 50th World Hit Festival with a record-breaking total of 51 points with the song, "Waiting For You" which was sung by Meghan Jorgensen. I am proud of my country and happy to see that such history being created. I would also like to thank the wonderful Izmedu and RTI for once again being home to the World Hit Festival. The amount of times that you've hosted is amazing and the quality in which you've hosted each edition is impeccable. With that being said, it's time to move onto the future - the 51st World Hit Festival.
For the first time in a long time, the winning nation - Britonisea - decided not to host the upcoming edition of the World Hit Festival. In the past, this has meant that the right of hosting World Hit Festival moves onto the runner-up of the competition and in this case, it's Tödlichebujoku. The nation scored 50 points with their song "Bulletproof" by VELUNA and are definitely worthy of being the host of the upcoming edition. Tödlichebujoku has not hosted the World Hit Festival in a very long time and so, especially for newer nations, it will be refreshing seeing Tödlichebujoku hosting the competition in Sinnlichšukai.
The 51st World Hit Festival brings new changes as we see the establishment of the World Hit Festival Reference Group to help drive the success of the World Hit Festival. Changes will happen to the Festival that we are excited about and hope that you all appreciate.
We, at WHF HQ in Junterapten, cannot wait for the 51st World Hit Festival in Sinnlichšukai, Tödlichebujoku - see you there!
Guy Autriche
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.
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 35 or so editions. However, for debutantes, I have provided a sample application using WHF32's winning entry in a spoiler, with explanations in brackets.
Provisional Sign-Ups (2)
Updated 26th April 2020, 15:46
- Achaean Republic
- Antalanga
- Beepee
- Besen
- Britonisea
- Darkmania
- Ertzei Kishim
- Estogium
- Fromulya
- Indo States
- Izmedu
- Kalosia
- Kamap
- Llalta
- Mercedini
- Nekoni
- Normandy & Picardy
- Not Fatiman Federation
- Petroslovania
- Polkopia
- Proluvia
- Scotatrova
- Skanden
- Talvezout
- Tödlichebujoku [HOST]
- Togonistan
- Waisnor
- Vartugia
Rules and Procedures - Change to come for '51
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 -