EuSC Updates/General Discussion

I've decided to amend the voting rules from edition 9 to make them fairer, both for new and long-term players:

I will be adding a warning system (sorry тнєяσиттi95 ... I kind of stole it from you, hope you don't mind ) where players will receive 1 warning if they don't vote on time without telling me they can't, and they will be suspended for 1 edition after receiving 3 warnings (1 warning per edition). Players who don't vote in an edition (without telling me they can't) will have to re-confirm in the next edition if they wish to keep their country, meaning that until then, other players will be able to confirm with your country.

To make this rule fairer for long-term players, players who have been suspended from participating in editions 9 or earlier will not be suspended again until they have received more than enough warnings to make up for the number of times they had been suspended previously. I will be keeping track of each player's warnings and suspensions in the Taken Countries thread.

I will not be giving out warnings until the end of the voting period in edition 9, so players who haven't voted in edition 8 will be suspended from participating in edition 9.

Read the full rules here: ovsc.proboards.com/thread/13476/euphorias-song-contest-rules

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As for the contest itself, I would still like to carry on hosting, however I will need to simplify the contest a bit: this means that I won't be making separate videos for the intro and running order, the intro will no longer be animated, and there will no longer be a running order slide in the recap video. This will free up some time for me to do other things, such as make support banners (these won't be as elaborate as the banners from other contests) which will hopefully attract more forum users to the contest, and allow the contest to run more smoothly (and faster!!). I will also probably be making recap videos using a set layout that won't change much as the contest goes on, which means it'll ideally take me less time to make them

I hope this all makes sense to everyone