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Semi Final 1 // Semi Final 2 // Semi Final 3 // Battle Stage // Grand Finals
Vha Mehlodhivestoile, or The Star Song is back in 2017 after a very successful 2016, which saw the winner of the contest, Mini Surrey North go on to represent the country in the WorldVision Song Contest and Rigas Jengiz representing the World Hit Festival. History was created with this contest, and we are ready to relaunch the Multiverse's largest search for a WorldVision/World Hit hopeful! But before you get started with the songs, have a look at the current format of Vha Mehlodhivestoile, as there has been a few changes since last time.
The Format
The Current Format of Vha Mehlodhivestoile 2017
It is still quite similar to that of last years contest. 24 songs were chosen by BVC and music professionals. A lot of different genres which will appeal to the Britonish ears were chosen, as well as international submissions too. Only a few of the acts are from the international submissions. The 24 songs are then split in to 3 groups for the semi finals (equivalent to last year's heats) based on gender/group and what type of songs. We tried to make all the semi finals feature something different from each other. Each week, the international jury will be presented with the eight songs (snippets of them) and they have to pick the top few they like. This will be combined 50/50 with the Britonish Jury and televote, and the top 3 will go through the final automatically. Then, the fourth-placer in each semi final will go to the Battles (which is the equivalent to last year's Semi Final). A fourth act will be picked to join those in the battles; and it is likely to be a song which did well in the International Juries but were let down by the Britonish Jury or televote. Then, the songs will be split in to two battles and will go through a head-2-head. An international jury, which will be decided earlier, will pick one of the two out of Battle 1, and the Britonish televote will pick out of Battle 2. On the thursday that this event happens, the winners will be announced and the finals will be announced by the 16th March 2016 [11 in the final, one more than last year]. In the final, International Juries will have more power. They are to vote using the current WorldVision scoring system [12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]. Countries are allowed to have two sets of votes; Jury and their own televotes/ online votes. They will be amalgamated with the Britonish votes, whom will give out 174 points (WV Scoring x3, representing Televotes, Jury and Online). The winner will be announced on the 26th of March 2017. All entrants in the final will be able to go to Vha Mehlodhivestoile: Encores, in the Westley Theatre on the Thursday after the final.
In the heats, points will be awarded 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0.
The Format of the Previous Mehlodhifehstivalhen
Since the 39th Melfeh, the format has changed. Firstly 32 songs are selected from a board of music professionals and fans of the WorldVision and World Hit Festival. Then, 32 songs are then divided in to 4 groups via a drawing selection process which usually takes 30 minutes. The songs are put in one box and the 4 groups are mixed in a separate box. Once the 4 groups are picked, group one then gets ready to perform their song in two weeks in a city, which has been drawed from a hat. The same follows for the other groups weekly. The top 2 get through to the finals automatically, however the next two songs are entered in to the Semi Finals. Once all the Groups have performed and 8 Finalists and 8 semi finalists are chosen, a new slate is made. There is a draw deciding when people perform for the semi finals and finals. When the Semi Finalists perform, 3 songs are picked from that and therefore qualifying to the finals. At the finals, 11 songs perform. The 11 songs are then put to a vote by the public and the winner represents the country in one of the big contests.
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