Welcome to Achaean Republic!
Hello everyone and welcome back to the World Hit Festival - it's time for the 54th edition of the World Hit Festival and this time we have the honour of going to La Cañada in Achaean Republic. This is because of the nation's win at the 53rd World Hit Festival which was hosted in Bovingdon, Britonisea. The Intermissión with their song, "Quédate" won the Festival in style with 50 points! Congratulations to them and we cannot wait for the broadcasters responsible for hosting the 54th World Hit Festival to put on a fantastic show.
I am happy to announce that the Junior World Hit Festival 8 will go ahead soon! Bidding for the JWHF8 will begin on the 27th September 2020 and we will know our host by the 1st November. The Junior World Hit Festival 8 will be the final World Hit Festival event of the year, with it being hosted on the 20th of December and so it will be a real celebration of the heights of the Festival this year.
Moreover, it's confirmed that WHF56 will be Orchestral Themed as it was at the 46th World Hit Festival, which means the winner next edition will get first dibs on hosting that.
I cannot wait to see you all in Achaean Republic for what is expected to be a fantastic and vibrant show!
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 - feel free to delete extra description[/i]
[b]Pick A Number 1-30 from [url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=achaean_republic/detail=factbook/id=1426453]This List[/url]:[/b]
[b]Short Paragraph on what "Music & Mystery" means to Artist(s) Personally in Nation's Official Language:[/b][/box]
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.
World Hit Festival 54: Choose Your Fate!
Provisional Sign-Ups (20)
Updated 11 September 2020, 16:00 BST
- Achaean Republic [HOST] Beauchamp - Escóndete de Mí
- Beepee [BONC] Ashi N - Walk a Mile
- Britonisea [BVC] Jordan Hamilton & Nicholas Leblanc - No More
- Darkmania
- Estogium [RVC]
- Fromulya [TVRF] Cut Aisyah Nurramadhani - Ihsan
- Izmedu [RTI] National Final
- Kalosia [RTVK] Arnoud Beumont - Vivu
- Kyritakia [Kosmos] Akira - Σε ποιον είσαι;
- Llalta [LBN] Maya Glennis
- Malta Comino Gozo [MCG1]
- Nekoni [nk.TV]
- Normandy & Picardy [SRNP] Michelle - J'ai le droit aussi
- North Alezia [ABA] Lisa Ammah-Andrews - Searching For Home
- Pemecutan [UBC] Putu Sutha - Sahabat Sejati
- Scotatrova [SSTR] Maria Flauírnse - No Escape
- Skanden [SKT] Caterina Marza - Intrattienimi
- South Alezia [WTF] Kay Wattefs - I Hate Everyone
- Tödlichebujoku [Estegoa100] Sivartti Yataroo & Hajimee Heikkinen - TBA
- Vartugia Eighteen plus - Bitches & Titties
Tunes
Ricardo Arjona - Sobrevivirás (Achaean Republic)
Kim Begovic - Rhythm Back to You (Beepee)
Marco Mengoni - Hola (I Say) ft. Tom Walker (Britonisea)
MIKA - Dear Jealousy (Kalosia)
Verrückt // Eisbrecher (Kyritakia)
Netta - Cuckoo (Music Box Version) (Llalta)
House of Wolves - My Chemical Romance (Nekoni)
Yseult - Corps (Normandy & Picardy)
Diana Wang - Home (North Alezia)
Mukai Taichi - Hero (Pemecutan)
Victoria - alright (Scotatrova)
Artist Unknown - You Are An Idiot Remix (South Alezia)
National Finals
VodiFest 70 (Izmedu - Results pending)
Rules and Procedures
ContestHosting
- 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.
- 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 - 6th places, 7th places etc.
- A nation is also expected to send their full ranking to the Host. 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 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
- The host is within their rights to question whether an entry is good enough to be transferred/puts the Festival into disrepute.
1 This rule was clarified here, you can find what it read before the Draft Thread opened. Essentially if there are 36 entries on the Draft Thread (not including the host), regardless of whether the host has posted, this will be the highest amount for Semis without more than one qualifier. If one more non-host nation posts, then the top 6 will be offered a spot in the final - though they don't have to take this offer if they don't want to. Though if everyone accepts this invitations, this will leave 30 nations to go through the Semi-Final process.
- 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.