Algerian Rythms 2 - The Format

Hello !

The Algerian HoD has finally decided to reveal the format of AR #2, after some time of deliberation. 

You can see below how the selection will be organized:

1st step: Foreigner Final    

This edition, 3 African songs will compete to take part in the Algerian NS. A poll will be opened and everyone will be able to vote for his favorite. The song with the most votes will become our Foreign Act.

2nd step: Semi-finals

Canal Algérie has finally decided to introduce Semi-Finals to the selection.

10 songs (9 Algerian entries + 1 Foreign Act) will be dealt into 2 semi-finals (5 songs each). 2 songs will qualify for the final, 1 song will go to the Second-chance round and the 2 last ones will be eliminated.

Voting will be in Eurovision Style, by giving , , , and  ; everyone will be able to vote, but the NBU non-members will count as Rest of the World votes (Associate members such as USA, Mexico are considered as NBU Members).

3rd step: Second-chance round

The two songs that came 3rd in their SF will compete in the Second-chance round. Everyone will be able to vote in a poll for his favorite.

The winner will be qualify for the Final !

4th step: Final

5 songs will finally participate to the final: 4 coming from the SFs, and one from the Second-chance round.

Anyway, the voting here will be more complicated here ; there would be three kind of voters:

  1. JURIES:

  6 countries will choose a professional musician that will rate the 5 songs from 1 to 100.
                   - Every NBU Member can apply to be a jury.
                   - Voting in numerous acts of the selection increases chances to become a jury ; in case of tie, the juries will be selected on first come - first serve rule.
                   - Each song will be given the average of the marks the 6 juries gave it. 
                      e.g: A song gets these marks: 43 - 72 - 39 - 67 - 95 - 28
                            It'll get 57 points for the final.


  2. TELEVOTERS:

  10 countries will open their lines and let people vote for their favorite songs.
                  - Everyone can apply to be a tele voter as well (specify in your application who you want to be).
                  - Voting system is the same as the Semi-finals one.
                  - Votes from each televoter will quite simply be added to the Jury total.

  3. ALGERIAN JURY:

  The Algerian jury will give his votes for the first time and give , , , and to the songs. It's like the votes of 5 televoters.
  These points will be added to the total of each song.

The song with the most points will represent in NVSC 09.


You can start applying now on this thread.
Tell me if you have any questions

NB: The jury votes from the final are inspired from the election " Ein sung fur Oonagh" for NVSC 8? but the HoD didn't have any trouble with that.