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Post by ferrygraf on Sept 10, 2014 20:13:06 GMT 1
In this thread important announcements or rule changes will be posted! 10th September 2014: New 2nd-Chance-Round system! 29 people have taken part in our survey and the result is: I prefer the wildcard system - 6 I don't mind, I'm fine with both systems - 13 I want to keep the 2nd chance round - 10 That means we'll keep the 2nd-chance-round! However, it will be modified:From now on, the 11th-14th placed songs of both semi-finals + 1 other, lower placed entry, picked by the admins, from each semi-final will take part there! This means the 2nd chance round will consist of 10 songs instead of 12! Furthermore, only participants who don't take part in the 2nd-chance-round are allowed to vote there! (=direct Qualifiers or non-qualifiers) The Top 3 of this round will qualify to the grand final! Hopefully this is a satisfying solution for most of you
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Post by ferrygraf on Sept 13, 2015 14:48:28 GMT 1
13th September 2015: Participants Limit
In the 40th Edition we reached for the first time our limit of 50 participants: Right now 46 countries are competing and 4 places are reserved (+ Cuba).
To provide a good-working and fluent contest, it's not possible for us to extend this limit, at least not for the moment. Somewhere we just have to draw a line, it would become too big otherwise
Logically that means we cannot accept new players right away for now. Thus we need some regulation what will happen in such cases.
Example:
Someone wants to join with South Africa. He'll be put on the waiting list.
Now there are two possibilities if someone withdraws, I'll give a random example for each to illustrate it:
1.) If the German player withdraws permanently, the next German who showed interest will be contacted and will join if he agrees. That means that countries which already have people on the waiting list will stay in the competition. (e.g. also UK, France, Greece, US etc.)
2.) If the Kazakh player withdraws permanently (or any country that doesn't have anyone waiting to take it), the South African person on the waiting list will be able to take Kazakhstan's place and South Africa will join.
If we have many new countries waiting to join, we'll give the next free spot to the one who applied the earliest.
We still won't have an official waiting list thread though, I'll write down all interested people in a personal file. If someone new's interested to join, please post it in one of our threads (current edition, off-topic...) or send me a PM.
! Of course these rules only count as long as we have 50 countries in the contest ! (reserved or taking part)If you have any questions about it, please ask in the off-topic thread so that we can clarify it in public.
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