ESC Rules Contest #15 - CLOSED {1970}

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ESC Rules Contest #15

This edition will have a similar structure to the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, but entries can be from any year. More details on rules below.

If you would like to join, just post 'I confirm' below. This time round there are 17 spots.

Rules –

1. Places in this contest are first come, first serve, with no permanent players. You cannot select your own country – the countries are assigned randomly. You will not get the same country twice in a row (unless you won last time)

2. You can select a song from any year

3. Covers are not allowed

4. Instrumentals are not allowed

5. In order to compete for a country, an artist must have…
a. been born or raised there
b. at least one parent from there (grandparents are not enough)
c. lived there for at least 3 years (if they are currently between two countries, they are considered eligible)

5.1. Borrowing -

- A song can compete for a country if at least one of the composers and lyricists are from that country (The vast majority of foreign acts in Eurovision fell under this category.)

- Monaco and Luxembourg can send any song in the French language. They can only sing in other languages if they send native acts.

- San Marino can borrow from Italy

- Andorra can borrow from Catalonia (The only permitted languages are English and Catalan)
 
- Ireland can borrow from Northern Ireland (they can also compete for UK but that's not considered borrowing)

- Artists from unrecognized countries (e.g.  ) can compete for the country they have the closest ethnic ties with (e.g. Kosovar Albanians can compete for Albania).  Ethnic minorities can compete for the country of their mother tongue, unless they come from a multi-lingual country (e.g. an Italian speaker from France can compete for Italy, but an Italian speaker from Switzerland cannot (unless they also have ties to ))

No approval is required for borrowing


6. The countries will withdraw and return based on when they withdrew/returned in the actual contest. The only exceptions are if they win or they withdrew because of poor results but they got good results in this contest.

7. You may hold a national selection in whatever format you like. Once a song competes in an NS, it cannot compete again.

8. The majority of broadcaster-specific rules are ignored (e.g. if you have Denmark after 1999, you do not have to send a song in English, even though it is required irl). One of the exceptions is Belgium’s dual broadcasters – they will alternate between a Flemish (Dutch) and Walloon (French) act each year

9. The song can be any length (there wasn’t much point in including the 3 minute rule)

10. A song cannot take part if it has competed in…
- (Junior) Eurovision
- (Junior) Northvision
- Any forum contest in the last 6 months (based on confirmation date) (this is to prevent songs that aren’t overused at the time, but become overused by the results)
- 5 or more forum contests

11. Songs/artist names cannot include product placement (e.g. Google Maps, Facebook)

Year specific rules –

1. For this edition, there will be 17 players.

2. You can have up to two lead singers (+3 backup singers, as long as they don't have any solo parts) (this rule will finally be abolished next edition   )

3. Belgium’s act must be from Flanders (the Dutch-speaking region)

4. You must sing in one of the official languages of your country (regional languages are fine as long as they're not from diaspora, e.g. UK can sing in Welsh but not Polish)

5. Each player has ten votes. They can be distributed however the player likes (it's like having 10 televotes)

6. Singers can be of any age

7. If anyone does not vote, they will receive a strike. Replacers will vote on their behalf (if replacers cannot be found, the votes of other players will be drawn out of a hat)

8. If there is a tie, each delegation will vote for their favourite out of the tied entries. Whichever song gets the vote of the most countries wins. If there is still a tie they will both be considered winners. (Players who already gave more points to one tied song over the other don't have to vote again)