Binational Music Fest

The **Binational Music Fest**, often shortened to BMF is a song contest held on YouTube since November 2020. The competition is based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest  which is held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)  since 1956.

Each country's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal or national selection. Then the countries get to vote for each show (semi-final or final) to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition.

## Origins

The first ever Binational Music Fest started on 13 November 2020. It was held in Quebec City, Cakhstan which also was the first nation to host the contest. 20 nations took part in the first edition each submitting one entry to the contest. Each country awarded 12 points to their favourite, 10 points to their second favourite, and then 8 to 1 points to the rest.

The first edition was won by United Korea.

## Participation

Main article: List of countries in the Binational Music Fest
Any countries formed by Flags Mashup Bot  is allowed to send a song for the Binational Music Fest. Each country has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition.

Each member is responsible for the selection of artists and songs sent by the country that edition. A total of twenty countries have participated in the contest at least once. These will be listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

## Format

The contest's format was the same during the first editions; one grand final round was held.

Since the very first edition the winning country of each edition is automatically chosen to be the host of the next edition. As the host broadcaster, the heads of delegation can decide how and when they want to host the competition, present the logo, make a theme song and other things. However if a broadcaster cannot afford to host the competition, the runner-up or the council will help out. The show would still be hosted in the winning country.

## Rules

**1. Countries rules**

1.1. The participants have to take a "country" that is created by Flags Mashup Bot.

1.2. The participants cannot pick a mashup between 2 countries on the list below.

1.3. One country cannot be used in more than 3 mashups per edition.

1.4. The participants can use a mashup of cities/administrative divisions/former countries (or territories)/organizations/fictional places etc.

- If the formal country is a country (or some part of a country) on the list above now, it'll be applied with rule 1.2. too.

- The participants cannot send artists from the organizations or fictional places side.

1.5. The participants have to post a link of the twitter post of the mashup when they debut with a new country.

**2. Artists rules**

2.1. The participants cannot send artists from the same side more than 3 times in a row.

- If the participants' artists have the connection to both sides, they will be counted on the side with a stronger-connection.

- If the participants' artists have the connection to both sides but there is not a stronger-connection side, they'll be counted with the previous side you used.

- If the participants can only use artists from one side, this rule will not be applied.

2.2. 1/3 of the entrants must have a connection to the country.

2.3. No age limits.

2.4. The participants cannot send deceased artists.

**3. Entries rules**

3.1. Well-known/Worldwide popular songs are not allowed.

3.2. The participants' song cannot be sent in more than 4 forum contests. (National selections are not counted)

3.3. The song can be released from any year.

3.4. Official covers are allowed.

3.5. Instrumentals and remixes (with original artists) are allowed.

3.6. (J)ESC songs are not allowed.

- Eliminated-songs from national selections are allowed.

3.7. Timeslot is 25 seconds.

3.8. Approval is unnecessary.

**4. Other rules**

4.1. If there are at least 15 participating-countries, the Eurovision voting system will be used. (12, 10, 8-1)

4.2. If there are less than 15 participating-countries, the Melodifestivalen voting system will be used. (12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1)

4.3. The winner can decide the host city/venue, slogan and maybe the presenter of the next edition.

4.4. The contest is held alternately with AncientVision Song Contest.

## Voting

The voting system used in the contest has been in place since the beginning and is a positional voting system. Each country awards one set of 12, 10, 8-1 point to their 10 favourite songs.

### Nul points and ties

So far there has been no entry that received no points from any country.

## Winners

Main article: List of Binational Music Fest winners
The contest has so far 6 winning country.

## External Links

* Forum
* YouTube channel