Super Vision Song Contest 30 • Format Poll

+1 on the overused idea, that could be really fun.

I think another fun one could be a really weird voting system, like 20,17,14,12,10,8,6,5,4,3,2, & 1 (so you give 12 countries points apparently)

I have a crazier idea - not select only 1 theme, but more (for example: People have to exchange nations and then send the worst song from the nation they received which song must be in the country's official language). 

My suggestion is to not go on making such huge changes. It is an anniversary edition and it should be a special one, and not a joke one. I gotta say I found some of the suggestions to be quite good. Others are rubbish. IMO overused songs is a good idea, but we have to be careful not to lean on joke acts. The idea I liked the most is to do songs in their own countrie’s language, although it wouldn’t change a thing for some countries (like USA, UK, Australia...)
Bringing back everyone and making a huge (but organized) show is amazing.
I think the”Groups” theme is lame and the one with only male competitors is not good at all, given the actual circumstances we are facing in the world regarding sexual harassment and gender inequality.
I loved the idea of swapping countries for one edition only, but I think it should follow a random sorting process. It would be a mess if we all were to choose our favorite country and then have to get permission to swap and etc. it would take ages. So a sorting process would be nice, maybe with a few remarks like you can’t end up with a country of your own continent. I don’t know. Just a thought. But swapping is a fun and great idea and it will motivate us to pursue and understand more about other countries’ music scene.
Finally, I will leave as a suggestion that each user may pick an artist (just the artist, not the song) for another country. It might be a chance for everyone to see your favorite foreign act that has never appeared in the contest. But again, with an organized process so everything is quick and efficient.
Sorry about the long text.
Cheers everyone. Let’s have an amazing contest!

Include a challenge rule for this edition:

Everybody can choose any country. But be careful! Once you confirm with a country, anybody is still free to confirm with any country, including yours! A preliminary round would be organised in order to elect one contestant per country. The vote would be quite classical: all the songs implied in the preliminary round would be put together and everybody would give ... to his favourite songs (only restriction: you can't vote for a song of your country). We would obtain a ranking and for each country, the song with the highest amount of points would be qualified.

So the choice of the country is very strategic: you can choose a small country with a higher chance to qualify for the rest of the competition (but eventually smaller chances to win) or a bigger country with a risk to be challenged and to be eliminated at the first stage of the competition. A strict control of overused songs would be implemented in order to avoid easy victories during the first round.