Yourvision Song Contest Rules

The official rules of the Yourvision Song Contest include rules for the entries, the broadcasting of the contest, or the voting.

## Community

* The main language in the community and the contest is **English**.
* Do not offend other participants in the contest, if caught so you will get a strike. If you get three strikes from the YBU you will be banned from the contest.
* If you are caught cheating in the contest, you will be banned from the contest permanently. There are **NO** second chances.
* Don't edit the Yourvsion Song Contest pages **without my permission**! Only your personal country page you can add with your stuff

## Participation

* If you want to participate in GreatVision you must have a membership of the Your Broadcasting Union with an active broadcaster. If the country is not a member, then an application must be made with the appropriate information.
* Every user participate with **only one country**. You can only change your country **on request to the YBU.**
* To take part in one edition, the country must confirm within the given deadline for confirmation. If the country does not confirm their participation before the deadline, then they are not allowed to participate. Exceptions can be made in very rare cases after the organization reviews the country's request.
* Not allowed to participate are (specific territories like: (Guam, Canary Islands etc.). As well only the United Kingdom can participate.

## Entries

Before selecting an entry, each broadcaster must take into consideration the following rules.

* Songs that have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest or its Junior version are not allowed to take part in the contest. National selection songs from each countries at Eurovision are allowed to participate.
* Cover songs are not allowed to compete in the contest. As well Songs from Movies or TV series are not allowed to compete if they have multiple language versions.
* Songs that have been released before 2012 are not allowed to participate in the contest. We want new music from your country.
* The artist(s) must be from/have a clear relation to that country your participate in the competion. That means your selected artist must have roots or born in your participating country to participate in the contest.
* An artist cannot enter the same edition twice.
* Your entry do not must have a own video or a Lyric video, if your entry do not have a video, we will create one if there is no video.!
* There is 75 mln on views on YT, send which song you want.
* Like in Eurovision the singers must be over the age of 16 to participate in the Contest.

### Internal selection

In case of an internal selection, the broadcaster must follow some rules when selecting an entry.

* If the country will select internally their entry, they should announced the artist at least one week before they reveal the song.
* The song you would like to send, has to be **approved by the YBU council**, before you reveal your entry in the Community
* The song must be **submitted** to the YBU before the given songs deadline.
* The song must be presented within the given songs deadline.

### National selection

* The songs you would like to send for you NF, has to be **approved by the YBU council,** before you reveal your National Final in the Community.
* There are no rules regarding the amount of songs, the length or the voting system of the selection.
* The national selection can start only after the confirmations of the edition have opened.
* The results of the selection have to be presented before the given songs deadline. However, the broadcaster is allowed to submit a request for a later result presentation.

## Voting

* Voting is in Eurovision style. 1-8, 10 and 12 points! Each country award two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting.
* The voting result must be submitted within the given voting deadline. Unless the Head of Delegation informs for their inability to vote, the country will receive a strike in case they fail to submit their votes in time.
* You cannot post your results official in the community or other pages. Only in comments, hangouts or private messages votes are counting.

## Borrowing

If the country from your artist is taken, you can be borrow with your country depending on there roots, family or birth.  These countries are the following:

* Andorra from  SpainSpain
* Faroe Islands from  Denmark
* Liechtenstein from  Austria,  Germany and  Switzerland
* Luxembourg from  Belgium,  France and  Germany
* Monaco from  France
* San Marino from  Italy
* Vatican City from Italy