Rules

There are several rules regarding one user's participation in the Sonorous Song Contest.

Rules

 * Contest course
 * Every user interested to participate in the contest can comment on its thread on http://forum.songcontests.eu, providing me with the (free) country they want to participate with in the respective edition (who's first takes one country)
 * There is no strict rule about borrowing; countries with limited musical artists (such as San Marino or Liechtenstein) can borrow artists and songs from other countries
 * Also, a country can be represented by an artist from another territory as far as they have a special connection to the country (please explain!)
 * If accepted, the entry will compete in the Grand Final of the contest's respective edition
 * In a PM, each participant will provide me with their votes from 1-7,8,10,12, signifying their top 10 from the respective edition (you musn't vote for your own country)
 * An extra 8 points will be awarded to the country that had the most participants voting for them
 * An extra 8 points will be awarded to the country that had the most 12 points
 * Apart from their top 10, the participants will pick a 'wildcard' out of the remaining countries; the country (or if a tie, the countries) with the most 'wildcards' will be awarded an extra 8 points
 * If you are unavailable to vote for some reason, you can ask for replacement votes. If you don't give a reason and don't vote before the applied deadline, you get one strike (three strikes lead to a ban).
 * Equally which place one participant has achieved in the respective edition, they are still eligible to compete in the next edition and can (but are not forced to) stick with the same country
 * Your country will become free for everyone to have if you withdraw for one edition
 * The winner will host the contest's next edition; he will decide which city of his country will host the contest


 * Song criteria
 * As the Sonorous Song Contest is designed to throw attention towards new(er) artists and song, entries shouldn't be 'older' than 2000
 * Due to the contest's title, "Sonorous" (deep, full sound), we are not looking for shallow songs that only consist of two vocal lines and the rest instrumental. Although there is no criteria to define a "not shallow" song, please make sure that it has somekind of a story to it
 * No ESC or JESC entry is allowed to take part in the contest, although non-winner national final entries are eligible
 * When submitting your song, please also tell me which portion of it you want to appear in the contest's recap that will be uploaded on my YouTube channel
 * Remixes and covers are allowed, although a cover/remix isn't eligible if the original recording already takes/took part in the contest