Welcome to Normandy & Picardy!
Firstly I would like to congratulate Normandy & Picardy and Frédéric Duchamps and Annabelle Vallence for winning the 56th World Hit Festival, after the nation had waited a long time, coming agonisingly close on multiple occasions. Frédéric Duchamps and Annabelle Vallence won the festival with the song "T'es tombée sur ma main" with 37 points. The first French song made history as the first song that won the Festival - congratulations once again.
The show must go on! We return to having normal (non-orchestral) World Hit Festivals, and for the first time since Avranches at the 33rd World Hit Festival, Normandy & Picardy will host their fifth Festival in Amiens. We very much look forward to the upcoming World Hit Festival and wish the SRNP the best of luck.
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.
Below you can find the rules of the 57th World Hit Festival!
Rules and Regulations...
ENTRIES
- For an entry to be accepted, must have at least a tune and a complete set of lyrics. Incomplete, inappropriate or disorganised/unclear entries will not be accepted at the discretion of the host and the Overseer.
- Reserved RL Tunes Nations must not send a reserved tune from this list. Songs that have been reserved are those that have placed in the quintile of any participating Festival, including Junior World Hit Festival. Songs that do not place in the top quintile are reserved for a year from the IC date of the Festival. You can find all information, and more, by browsing that link. The Overseer will be responsible for checking tunes, with the host double-checking before transferring the entry to the IC.
- 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 13 nations per Semi Final. The number of participants before Semi Finals are initiated will be dependent on circumstances.
- The maximum amount of nations that can participate without more than one automatic qualifier (ie the host) is 18 nations per Semi-Final. Once this number has been broken, the top 6 (including the host) will automatically qualify to reduce 18 nations to 15 in each Semi.*1
CONTEST
- A nation is allowed to submit 2 puppets maximum to the contest, meaning that a user can be controlled at most 3 nations in the contest.
- Users must send a full ranking of all nations on the IC Thread to the host of the competition when the voting opens. If users usually split their rankings across multiple participating nations (master and at least one puppet), they are free to provide only one ranking - provided it directly aligns with how many points given out across the user's participating nations. Otherwise, the user must send a ranking per participating nation they own. Rankings should not be displayed by any given user until after the Festival has been completed.
- 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.
- When participating with multiple nations, users can only give themselves 8 points maximum. Votes will not be accepted if users give themselves, through any of their nations, more than 8 points.
- In the event of a tie, the countback system goes as follows: Amount of nations - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 6th places, 7th places etc.
HOSTING
- 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 can reveal they will host the World Hit Festival after talks with the Overseer on when to do this. It will still officially be announced 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 and so on until it reaches the Overseer. The Overseer can give hosting responsibilities to a user placed below them if they are willing to host.
- 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.
The 57th World Hit Festival...
AMIENS, NORMANDY AND PICARDY
HOSTS OF THE 57TH WORLD HIT FESTIVAL
Draft Thread - 21st February
Sign-ups close - 28th February
Closure of Draft - 7th March (+24 hour grace period)
Voting Deadline - 14th March
Winner Known By - 21st March
Participating
If you would like to participate at the World Hit Festival, please complete the form below.
By signing up, your broadcaster agrees to be automatically added as an associate member of International Broadcasting Alliance. For full membership, please sign-up on the thread.
Provisional Sign-Ups (5)
Updated 7th February, 20:40 GMT
- Britonisea [BVC]
- Carrelie [CarrelieOne] Anilïs Carolesier - Ç'aie ve Çanmier [I've Got the Feeling]
- Darkmania [DaTV]
- Normandy & Picardy [SRNP - HOST]
- Vartugia
Tunes (0/0)