Welcome to the Draft Thread of the 54nd World Hit Festival! This will be the place where nations will work and post on their entry that I (the host) will then eventually transfer to the IC thread once it opens. The final deadline for posting entries will be Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 6:00 PM EST/11:00 PM BST, with the Live Allocation Draw being held shortly thereafter, at 6:30 PM EST/11:30 PM BST and the IC thread up 24 hours later. However, nations are free to make minor edits to their entries as I transfer them to the IC thread. There will be a 24-hour grace period after the entry posting deadline for nations to ask for edits as I complete the IC thread. After September 28, 2020 and the completion of the IC thread, all entries are considered final and unchangeable.
For this thread, you can use any format that you wish when posting your entry. The only things that will change as it is transferred to the IC thread will be the header (which will act as a link to your postcard and will be located at the top of your entry) as well as the text being aligned to the center for uniformity's sake. Otherwise, the host nation will not alter the RP aspect in any major form, but minor additions are liable to be made that will only come at the very end of your entries. That said, a few requests would facilitate the transfer process:
- Please leave translations at the end of your post under a single spoiler.
- If you are currently working on an entry, please put Work-in-Progress or WIP on the top of the entry or on a spoiler. This makes it easier to track which countries have completed their entries based on WHF standards.
As written by Kalosia for WHF26: The host (Achaean Republic) reserves the right to make alterations to your RP when copying it over to the IC thread. However, these alterations will be limited to cleaning up the formatting as well as adding (not deleting) RP regarding the situation in the arena (i.e. how the audience reacted). Substantial/major alterations will not be made without written permission, and any further changes to an entry within the IC thread will only be done upon written request by the user behind it, and with host discretion.
WHF Schedule: Unless altered otherwise, please review the below schedule for the upcoming World Hit Festival below:
What is a Complete Entry?: A complete entry, by technical definition, is an entry on the draft thread with a usable tune and a complete set of lyrics (all stanzas, verses, and etc. covered). Which means, I can transfer a post with just pure lyrics onto the IC thread and mark it as a complete entry. However, I encourage all nations to put in RP to your entries. It makes the entry look far more complete than just lyrics on the page, and while it won't guarantee higher points, it will signal to the WHF community that you are putting in effort than just beyond lyrics. However, since time is often a crunch (aka me every WHF so I relate). What will not be transferred is an entry with incomplete lyrics, just a header, or one considered too low-effort or inappropriate for the standards of WHF.
Additional Information on Headers: You are encouraged to include the names of your song's IC producers and IC lyric writers. This information will go on your header. I will supply the header template used by Euskirribakondara and Normandy and Picardy (which will be replaced by a graphical header on the IC thread). I encourage you to use the below header to place on the top of your entry, as this information will be useful for IC thread preparation. Just make sure to delete any topics you don’t need.
OFFICIAL HEADER:
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[align=center][blocktext][box][size=250][b]XX[/b][/size]
[size=200][color=gold][b]NATION_NAME[/b][/color]
[color=#0070b8][b]ARTIST_NAME - "SONG_TITLE"[/b][/color][/size]
[b]Language(s):[/b] LANGUAGE_HERE
[b]Title Transcription:[/b] TRANSCRIPTION_HERE
[b]Title Translation:[/b] TITLE_IN_ENGLISH_HERE
[b]Tune:[/b] [url=YOUTUBE_LINK]RL_ARTIST - RL_TUNE[/url][hr][/hr][color=#858282][b][u]Entry Specifics[/u][/b]
[b]Trigramme:[/b] YOUR_3_LETTER_TRIGRAMME_HERE
[b]Lyrics:[/b] LYRICISTS_HERE
[b]Music:[/b] MUSICIANS_HERE
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As a final aside, please help yourselves to this very handy Spanish phrasebookif you would like to incorporate greetings and courtesies in your RP. Be mindful, however, that there are slight pronunciation differences between Castillan Spanish and Latin American Spanish; regarding the latter, do note that Achaean Spanish is influenced by Caribbean Spanish (namely, the Spanish spoken in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and coastal Colombia and Venezuela). You can use this article summarizing the Caribbean dialect if you would like to understand more about Achaean Spanish diction and speech patterns and incorporate it into your RP.