Rules

Wonderful Song Contest ► Rules

► 1. Participation ▸ Participation in Wonderful Song Contest is going with permanent player list, where people every edition get one random country. ▸ Wonderful Song Contest Broadcasting Union announced, that if there will be more than maximal participation members (58), they can join Waiting List. How to join Waiting List? ▸ To join Waiting List, you have to write private message to owner of the contest, and he'll get you spot in waiting list. When will be free space in Wonderful Song Contest, owner will write you DM with all informations and you have to accept your participation in Wonderful Song Contest. ▸ Waiting List will also go one by one from up to down, so who first come, first take. ▸ Players in Prequalification round has always shorter deadline, to make sure that we can end before semifinals. ▸ If you know, that you can't participate in upcoming edition, please write DM to owner, and he will keep your spot, but will be for one edition given to someone from Waiting List. ► 2. Strike System ▸ Everyone has to vote in their own semifinals and final (prequalification round), when they won't vote in them, they will get small strike. ▸ You need to have 3 big (6 small) strikes to be banned from Wonderful Song Contest, while you can't return. ▸ Everyone has to send songs in time, if you won't send song in time, you will receive 1 big strike. ▸ Also, if you know that you can't vote in time, but you don't want to receive strike, then you have 10 hours before deadline write to owners DM or to your private channel with reason, that you cannot vote. - You won't receive strike ▸ If you will advertise your contest with owners permissions, you will receive 1 big strike. ► 3. Song Rules ▸ Songs, that took part in Eurovision Song Contest or Junior Eurovision Song Contest are not allowed. ▸ Songs, that has compete in National Final for ESC or JESC are not allowed. ▸ You have to send song, that was released after year 2018. ▸ Covers, Instrumentals or Remixes are not allowed. ▸ You have to pick your Timeslot with song. ▸ Artist need to have connection with countries. ▸ Overused songs are not allowed. (3+ more contests - council will check all songs.) - Only in edition x5 are allowed. ▸ Worldchart singers are not allowed. Worldchart singer is singer, which has more than 3 songs over 100M views. ▸ Limit view is 25M, while countries, that have to borrow has limit only 10M views. ► 4. Prequalification Round ▸ Prequalification Round is new round in edition, to get last 4 spots in semifinal. ▸ 12 countries will participate in Prequalification round, 8 countries from previous prequalification round that non-qualified and 4 bottom countries from semifinals. ▸ Also as same as countries will work players for Prequalification round, where 4 bottom semifinalist will join Prequalification round. ▸ Prequalification round will start always 1 day after Grand Final Results of previous edition. ► 5. Voting ▸ Delegations have to vote in their semifinal and all delegations have to vote in grand final, also prequalification delegations have to vote in prequalification round. ▸ Prequalification Non-Qualifiers will also always vote in one semifinal and final. ▸ In semifinals and final you have to vote with official Eurovision Voting System, which means you give 12, 10, 8-1 points to your 10 favourite songs. ▸ In prequalification round you have to vote with official Wonderful Prequalification Voting System, which means you give 12, 10, 8 & 6 points to your 4 favourite songs. ▸ Delegations which are not in prequalification round can vote free in. ▸ Delegations are allowed to vote only in their own semifinal, their votes for another semifinal won't be counted. ▸ You are always voting with just one set of points. ▸ Grand Final will consits of juries = 26 countries, that got into final and televoting = 32 countries, that failed to qualify to grand final or even semifinal. ▸ All delegations have to vote in deadline, later votes won't be allowed! ► 6. Your Private Channels ▸ Every player has his own private channel, where he is supposed to be communicating with owner & song manager. ▸ In Private Channel you have to send your official songs, which you can't share anywhere. ▸ You also have to send your votes there, it's easier for everyone to see who voted and who not. ► 7. Server Rules ▸ You have to respect each other, so you can't be rude or rasist/homophobic to other players. ▸ You can't spam with useless things, there is channel for it. ▸ You can't advertise your contests. ▸ You can't send "porno", videos or photos. ► 8. Videos ▸ This is official list, how wonderful song contest videos will look like. ▸ 1st will be presented Prequalification round, results will be presented somewhere around 3rd - 4th sneak peek. ▸ When Prequalification round will run, we will start with 6 sneak peeks, where 4 qualifiers from Prequalification will be presented too. ▸ After Sneak Peeks, we will start with semifinals, results will be after deadline (mostly 1 week) ▸ And in the end we will have grand final recap & results. ▸ Results will consists of opening show, jury voting, non-qualifiers votes & televoting. ▸ One edition is supposed to run one month. ► 9. Wonderful Division ▸ Prequalification Round is new round in edition, to get last 2 spots in prequalification. ▸ 18 countries will participate in Wonderful Division, 16 countries from previous Wonderful Division that non-qualified and 2 bottom countries from prequalification. ▸ Also as same as countries will work players for Prequalification round, where 2 bottom prequalification countries will join Wonderful Division. ▸ Wonderful Division will always start earlier than Prequalification Round.