World Song Cup

Official Languages will be English, French and Esperanto.

## Rules

### Competing

* Each competing user have to send a 20 seconds timeslot and a youtube link to the song they want to broadcast.
* Each competing user have to send the name of the artist, the language the artist sing in and the name of the song.
* Names of songs not in Latin Script needs the name both in Latinized and Local Scripts.
* Each competing user need to give a name of a broadcaster they like to compete with in this fictional song contest. If they won't we can always look for.
* Only 2 Eurovision and Junior Eurovision Songs can compete each edition. There is no restriction on National Final songs or songs from other festivals. Instrumental songs are always allowed.
* Artist needs to have a link with the country in any way. Like participating in a national final or for a country in Eurovision, Turkvizyon or ABU Festival. Work for more than 4 years in a row inside the current place you compete with. Have family or a relationship inside that country. Or worked or born inside that country.
* Each facebook user account is eglible to compete in this contest. We won't look who is the user in real life.

### Voting

* Not voting once is a 33% voting strike. Not voting twice means a 50% voting strikes. Not voting three times your banned for this and next edition. No exceptions are taken at any moment.

### Competing places

* All placed lists of IOC (except: historic>obsolete), Geography of association Football, ISO, FIFA (except: obsolute), The Voice, Idols and Got Talent are competeable except The United Kingdom, Belgium and UAE.
* Françaafrique, East Africa, Central Asia, West Africa, Latin America, CIS can only compete upon request after only one place of that region competes.

* Any competing place needs to tolerate the other places competing and therefor can't withdraw from the Eurovision/Geograclub group and needs to vote untill the edition officially ended.
* Taiwan will be presented as it is under the IOC.
* England,  Contigeous United States (English),  France,  China (Mainland China),  Australia and  Russia will be permanently auto qualified for the final regardless of which user takes it.
* Brazil,  Germany,  Indonesia,  India,  Japan,  Philippines,  Italy and  Mexico can get permanently auto qualified if they enter top 5 or if another aq-country withdraws.
* Cyprus will be divided into the 4 entities as of the United Nations agreed to divide the map.
* Kosovo can compete in all editions except if Serbia hosted the competition.
* Iraqi Kurdistan will automatically compete in the semi-final with the least Turkish users to avoid tensions.
* The United Kingdom will be automatically divided into there Home Nations.
* Belgium will be split up into  Belgium (Flanders) and  Belgium ( Wallonia) since there are no Belgium only state broadcaster currently.
* Japan will be split into Okinawa and Japan. South Korea into Jejudo and South Korea.
* Overseas Territories are added into 1st batch regardlessly.
* If multiple people like to represent the Arab League, the Arab League will be split up as in 2nd batch.
* Kashmir, Crimea and Liberland can compete as independent due to being ethnic regions with disputes between multiple countries.
* If succesfull, the 2nd batch of places will compete along with the 1st batch of places.
* If 3 editions will have more than 60 countries, there will be freedom to use every administrative or ethnic region existing with a flag.
* Ethnic Minorities, 2nd batch and other places can compete if the HoD is from this place.

### Hosting

* After winning you automatically compete the next edition. You have to provide a logo and a slogan of the next upcoming edition. Aswell as the host venue and city.
* You will be automatically qualified to the grand final.