Rules

## 1. How to participate:

- You must have **real**, active facebook account;

- You must enter ASFE facebook group: ASFE GROUP

- You can't choose a country until there is no comfirmation post there; you cannot have your own country

- Also it's allowed to host a national final once you choose a country, but firstly you have to send all the participating songs to an admin.

## 2. Avaiable Countries

- You are allowed to book a country from list the list below (click chosen country to check what songs were used in the past):

* Aland Islands
* Albania
* Algeria
* Andorra
* Armenia
* Australia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bosnia & Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Crimea
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Egypt
* England
* Estonia
* France
* Faroe Islands
* Finland
* Georgia
* Germany
* Gibraltar
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Iran
* Iraq
* Ireland
* Isle Of Man
* Israel
* Italy
* Japan (a guest country)
* Jersey
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kosovo
* Latvia
* Lebanon
* Libya
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* North Macedonia
* Northern Ireland
* Norway
* Malta
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Montenegro
* Morocco
* Palestine
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* San Marino
* Scotland
* Serbia
* Shetland Islands
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* South Africa (a guest country)
* South Ossetia
* Spain
* Svalbard
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Syria
* Transnistria
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* Uzbekistan
* Vatican
* Wales

- Microstates are allowed to borrow from other countries [views (audio+mv) limit is 12 mln]:

- Guest countries also have lowered limit (12 mln)

* Aland Islands from  Sweden and  Finland;
* Faroe Islands from  Denmark;
* Svalbard from  Norway;
* Gibraltar from  Spain and  England;
* Andorra from  Spain;
* Isle Of Man from  Wales;
* Luxembourg from  France;
* Jersey from  France;
* Liechtenstein from  Germany;
* San Marino and  Vatican from  Italy;
* South Ossetia from  Georgia and  Russia;
* Transnistria from  Moldova;
* Monaco from  France;
* Shetland Islands from  Scotland

## 3. Song

- The song you are choosing can't be released before 1st January 2018;

- The limit of views is 120MLN (sum of the OFFICIAL audio & music video);

- Covers, remixes, or Eurovision entries are not allowed;

- Songs from National Finals are not allowed;

- It has to be an original studio version;

- The official music video/audio (depends on what you choose) of chosen song must have less than 4 minutes and 0 seconds

## 4. Artists

- The artist must be alive and be older than 15 years old;

- The artist of the chosen song must: be living, born in or have parents who were born in the chosen country;

- You can't use ESC, ASFE or JESC winners;

- You can't choose one artist 2 times in a row;

- If there are DJ and singer in a song you want to send, **the singer** has come from the chosen country.

## 5. Banned Singers

Some of them are banned, which means, that you cannot use them, because they are too famous or used too many times. Don't forget about rules from the point 4.

- Boy In Space

- Ava Max

- Arilena Ara

- Elvana Gjata

- Bebe Rexha

- Dua Lipa

- Eleni Foureira

- Ilira

- Rita Dakota

- Blanche

- Angele

- Alma

- Mikolas Josef

- Lenny

- Fallulah

- Faustix

- Marina Kaye

- Tamta

- Katerine Duska

- Alice Merton

- Au/Ra

- Mark Forster

- Michael Schulte

- Greta Slóme

- Noa Kirel

- Rita Ora

- Aminata

- Dynoro

- Within Temptation

- Cyrylic

- Aurora

- Ina Wroldsen

- Dan Balan

- Abir

- Fernando Daniel

- Sergey Lazarev

- All the Putin supporters

- Aitana

- Alvaro Soler

- Agoney

- Rosalia

- Mabel

- Winona Oak

- Zara Larsson

- Luca Hanni

- Melovin

- Little Mix

- MARINA

## 6. Voting

- Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favorite songs;

- SF Televoting: every person needs to choose from 3 to 5 favorite songs in their semi finals in a special google form;

- GF Televoting: you must ask someone from the Facebook group (or a family member, friend, etc.) to be your televoter (provided with screenshot);

- You can't vote for yourself (if you're someone's televoter, you can give 1-7 points to your country;

- Friend voting is not allowed, **play fair.**

## 7. BIG 5

- Big 5 is previous edition's top 5;

- 3 countries have to vote in the semi final 1, and another 2 in semi final 2;

- People from the Big 5 choose their countries in a private message.

- There is a wild card voting to get the 22nd finalist from the eliminated countries

## 8. Penalties

- If you withdraw during the voting, you are banned for 2 editions;

- If you don't send the jury top (in QF,SF or GF) you are banned for 1 edition;

- If you don't send the televote top
a) Finalists = -50% of your points received from the televoting
b) Non Finalists = Warn\* c) BIG 6 in semifinals = -50% of points received in televoting

* 2 warns = ban for 1 edition