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Schedule for the 61st World Hit Festival | La programme du 61eme Festival International de la Chanson
Times are subject to change...
Draft Thread - 26th September 00:00 BST
Sign-ups close - 3rd October 22:59 BST
Closure of Draft - 20th October 22:59 BST (with the Live Draw following soon after, subject to change based on numbers)
Voting Open - 24th October 23:30 BST or earlier - 31st October 23:59 BST
Winner Known By - 3rd November
In the case of Semi-Finals, the Winner Known By date will be moved back to accommodate for extra voting/more days to prepare graphics...
Welcome to Normandy and Picardy! | Bienvenue en Normandie et Picardie!
Je tiens tout d'abord à remercier mon prédécesseur au poste de superviseur, M. Guy Autriche. Je le remercie et le radiodiffuseur Britonique pour leur travail fantastique pour aider le festival à grandir de succès en succès, et je sais très bien que la barre est haute. Encore une fois, je suis heureux de pouvoir superviser le festival et j'ai hâte de réaliser la tâche. Peut-etre ma patrie, Normandie et Picardie, est le meilleur endroit pour commencer, le pays qui accueillera le festival pour la septième fois, et la troisième fois en cinq concours. Je suis impatient de travailler avec SRNP, pour lequel j'ai eu le plaisir de travailler pendant de nombreuses années, afin d'assurer le plus grand succès possible pour ce festival comme nos précédents, et j'espère que nous pourrons même rivaliser avec les réussites remarquables de M. Autriche et BVC le dernier festival à Aronyk. Merci encore une fois pour monter un grand spectacle commémoratif.
Pour l'instant, toutefois, les courants nous ont entraîné d'Aronyk à Rouen, la capitale des Deux Républiques, qui recevra enfin le plaisir d'accueillir le Festival International de la Chanson. En fait, ce festival « Courants » seront le thème officiel, une réflexion sur l'histoire de la ville de Rouen, des courants bien réels de la Seine sur laquelle il se trouve et vers la mer sur laquelle la Normandie et Picardie s’est fondée depuis si longtemps, aux courants artistiques présents dans, pour example, les célèbres peintures de Monet ayant pour thème la Cathédrale de Rouen, ou la carrière littéraire de Gustave Courbet, aux courants électriques par lesquels le monde moderne est alimenté tel qu'on le connaît, et aux courants et rythmes de la musique, la raison pour laquelle nous sommes tous ici. C'est un endroit idéal pour abriter le festival, et je souhaite la meilleure des chances à l’équipe de SRNP. J'attends avec l'impatience l'occasion pour démarrer et dire « Allons-y ! » Venez pour le voyage !
Firstly, I would like to thank my predecessor as overseer, Guy Autriche. I thank him and the Britonish broadcaster for their great work in helping this contest grow from strength to strength, and I am very aware that these will be big shoes to fill. I am again grateful for the opportunity to oversee this contest and look forward to carrying out the task. There is perhaps no better place for me to start than my own home country, Normandy and Picardy, which will now host the contest for the seventh time, and the third time in five contests. I look forward to working with SRNP, whom I had the pleasure of working for for many years, to ensure that this contest can be as successful as our previous hostings, and I hope we may even be able to rival the great work of M. Autriche and BVC last contest in Aronyk. Thank you, once again, for putting on such a great anniversary edition.
Now, however, the currents have taken us from Aronyk to Rouen, the capital of the Two Republics which will finally get the pleasure of hosting the World Hit Festival, Currents, in fact, will also be the official theme of this contest, reflecting the history of the city of Rouen, from the very real currents of the river Seine on which it stands out to the sea on which Normandy and Picardy has so long relied; to artistic currents, as reflected, for example, in Monet's famous paintings of Rouen Cathedral, or the literary career of Gustave Courbet; to the currents of electricity that power the modern world as we know it; and the currents and beats of music, the reason we are all here. It is an ideal location to host the contest, and I wish the team at SRNP the very best of luck. I can't wait to be saying "Allons-y!" and getting everything underway; come along for the journey!
Christine Périault
World Hit Festival Overseer | Le Superviseur du Festival International de la Chanson
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. In order to see how the whole thing works, feel free to explore the Draft Thread and IC Thread of the previous competition in Britonisea, which will also allow you to get a feel for the contest and what is required.
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 (updated to WHF53). 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.
*PLEASE NOTE:* Much of this data is currently outdated, and is set to be updated and consolidated into a single database alongside a new WHF nationstates-side hub, hopefully to be completed by the end of WHF62. OOCly, I welcome any assistance in helping me realise this project
*A SHOUT OUT* to Achaean Republic for compiling a Spotify playlist of the winners of the World Hit Festival, which can be found here
Below you can find the rules of the 61st 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 but must meet Acceptable Entry Standards for the World Hit Festival in order for it to be accepted. This includes information about formatting and things the Host and Overseer will do to ensure your participation. *1
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Rouen, Normandy and Picardy
If you'd like to sign up, simply fill the form out below. Any extra requirements requested by the host will be found and explained in the form below too.
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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]
[i]Host's Required Info[/i]
[align=center][i]Normandy and Picardy is a nation built on many different sorts of currents, and the postcards this contest will explore the places, the people, and the values that make the Two Republics the place that it is. They will, however, also, seek to bring viewers from across the multiverse, and the different competing countries, into the postcards as well, as we believe many of the values we share are universal, and can unite us all. We ask you simply to choose a number between 1 and 30 below, which will be associated with a location or activity in Normandy and Picardy which we will invite your act to visit or partake in for the postcard. You will note that each number is also associated with a word; we ask the delegations to translate the word associated with their choice into a national language of their country.[/i][/align]
[b]Pick a number between 1 and 30 from [url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=normandy_and_picardy/detail=factbook/id=1592335]HERE[/url]:[/b]
[b]Translation of the chosen word/phrase into a national language:[/b]
[b]Official Trigramme:[/b]
[b]Name of Head of Delegation:[/b][/box]
Participating Nations (17)
Last updated: 25/09/2021, 22:25 BST
Achaean Republic (AS1): Katherine Guardiola - Quizás El Viento Sople
Adab (ABC): TBC
Axuva (TPNB-X): LINDIGA - The End
Azab Indosiar: Pocong - Suara Hati Pocong
Beepee (BONC): Norma Deen - Impatient
Britonisea (BVC): TBC
Carrelie (Radio Dourie/CarrelieOne): Marie Losienne - Memories
- New Douria (NDBC): Aime - They
Kalosia (RTVK): TBC
- Fromulya: TBC
- Skanden: TBC
Moorland: TBC
Normandy and Picardy (SRNP): Sophie Muret - Un Jour Viendra
Pemecutan (UBC): Arisatya - Dimana Itu Cinta?
Samudera Darussalam (BPS): The Pambudi Sisters - Selamat Datang