Rules of World Musicon

## General Rules and Etiquette

* Be kind to eachother. Don't insult eachother. Especially don't insult the admin.
* World Musicon does not have an opinion on geopolitics. Therefor we allow all disputed territories besides all if not most UN Countries aswell as most regions of the world. Don't complain about this!
* Don't advertise in our groups unless it's allowed by the admin.
* Don't force political or religious ideologies upon eachother in the group chats.

## Rules of the Song Contest

### General Rules

* The singer needs to be from the country representing or atleast been living in the country he is representing for atleast 2 years, have studied in the country he is representing or have atleast 1 ancestor from the country he is representing in. In case you'll represent a region than you can borrow from a singer within the sovereign nation it's in. For several nations and overseas territories there are borrowing rules, this is because these places have a too small music industry to function on it's own.

* In case a band will represent a country. Atleast 1 member from the band needs to be from this area. In case you'll represent a region than you can borrow from a singer within the sovereign nation it's in. For several nations and overseas territories there are borrowing rules, this is because these places have a too small music industry to function on it's own.
* All songs are allowed. This includes National Final, Eurovision and Junior Eurovision songs. As long the singer is from the country/region representing.
* There is no age limit on the songs.
* There are no lyrical restrictions. Songs can be both instrumental and with lyrics.
* The song needs to be availible on YouTube. Everyone must send a YouTube Link.
* Everybody needs to send their own timeslot. A timeslot is a 30 second part of the song you want to see included in the recap video.
* Songs from previous World Musicon editions are not allowed. To see songs from previous editions click here.
* Everyone must send a recap/timeslot from the song.
* Everyone must vote in this contest.

### Borrowing Rules

To see the list of borrowing rules click here.

## National Finals

Everyone is allowed to held a National Final if they prefer to do so. The minimum amounth of songs are 2 songs and the maximum is 14 songs. Besides all rules apply from above when helding a national final. The remaining songs that didn't won the national final can be reused for the upcoming elections.

## Preliminairy Rounds

A preliminairy round is a song contest within a song contest. Usually below 30 countries in 1 final. If a preliminairy round is held. Than you have to follow the rules above in selecting song and voting. Additionally only one entity per person is allowed to represent a preliminairy round.

Current list of preliminairy rounds are:

* Atlanticvision Song Contest (between the countries, overseas territories and regions in Europe, North America, West Africa, Carribbean and those who border the Atlantic Ocean, Medditerean Sea, Black Sea and the White Sea) - FOR EDITION 6
* Islandvision Song Contest (between islands, island nations and archipelagos) - PROPOSED
* Asia-Pacific Music Cup (between Asia, Oceania, Indian Ocean Island States and Former Soviet Union) - PROPOSED
* Regiovision Song Contest (between unrecognized states, regions, cities and ethnic groups) - FOR EDITION 10

Preliminairy rounds based on National Finals:

* OKN (Japan and Japanese Regions.) - EDITION 1-3
* North American Music Cup (Between Canadian and US States) - PROPOSED

### Rules

* All rules when looking for a song apply. This also means that World Musicon used songs can't be reused in a preliminairy round.
* Songs that didn't won the preliminairy round can't be used for other preliminairy rounds and World Musicon.

## Eglible Entities

Click here to see all member states for World Musicon and click here to see all the eglible entities.