TiBB Music Festival: Belgrade 03 // and the winner is... Norway! (pg. 5)
 

It is time to let the competition begin again! I, with Shaun's knowledge AND Riley's (Wizard) lovely ideas, decided to create a spiritual successor to TiBB Eurovision. Then in August, we had our first edition in Pittsburgh, then to the Gold Coast in October. Cut to next month, and we'll be saying: Dobre veče Belgrade! What songs will be heard? Where are the constant translations into French? When will the madness end? No idea.

FORMAT

The format of the TiBB Music Festival will remain similar to TiBB Eurovision, however, there are some changes. I will have a Spotify playlist of all of the songs for you to listen to the songs during the 4 day voting period. For the voting, there will also be 2 sets of points (just like TiBB Eurovision), however, everyone will be sending 2 sets of 1-8, 10, and 12 points (one for jury voting, one for televoting).

For the first time in TiBB Music Festival history, due to the potentially high number of countries participating, there will be a semi-final added into the competition. There will also be the addition of the Rest of the World jury for those not participating in the contest.

RULES

- If you want to take part, reply to this thread with the countries you want! But please, if you do reserve a country, I expect an entry.
--From this edition onwards, everyone can choose 2-5 countries to participate as.
- In a change from TiBB Eurovision, participants can now choose a song that is already in the public database (look on Spotify or YouTube, there are plenty of songs on either one).
- Lyrics, an artist name, song title AND music video are all that's required.
- Members may only represent between two and five countries.
- Entries must be submitted to me as soon as possible. The events of the contest will take place over the course of a week. The semi-final will take place on Sunday, the semi-final results will take place on Monday, the final itself will take place on Tuesday and the final results will follow on Saturday of the same week.
- And for the first time since Globalvision, countries that are not in Europe or Australia will be able to participate.

You have as much time as you need to find your entries. Please find songs that we all may enjoy, and please don't feel afraid to take part The more entries, the more fun it is to run. Songs can be about anything you like, and whilst we are fairly liberal with what is deemed "in good taste" obviously a song containing 30 different death threats may well find itself lost in my inbox and doomed never to enter.

The winner of this glorious festivity shall also receive a supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics this lovely little award (which has been potentially lost in the TiBB Admin towers)! https://i.imgur.com/pCZ1tmH.png - so if that isn't motivation to bring your A-game, I don't know what is.

Before this thread was posted, Denmark's song was chosen, and due to the semi-final, the Big 6 (the top 6 of the previous edition) will all qualify for the final. All of the countries mentioned below will be free game (sans Denmark, because some things never change with me, and Philippines, because of the nature of the new participation rule).

COUNTRIES

AMERICAS:
• Argentina
• Bahamas (chosen by Strictly Jake) <-song chosen->
• Barbados (chosen by WickedSkengMan) <-song chosen->
• Brazil
• Canada ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Tana Mongeau) <-song chosen->
• Chile (chosen by EscapismIsAnotherPrison) <-song chosen->
• Colombia
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Jamaica (chosen by WickedSkengMan) <-song chosen->
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• United States (chosen by Strictly Jake) <-song chosen->
• U.S. Virgin Islands

ASIA & OCEANIA:
• Australia (chosen by Morgan.) <-song chosen->
• Bangladesh
• China (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• Fiji
• Hong Kong (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• India (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• Japan (chosen by Calderyon) <-song chosen->
• New Zealand (chosen by Black Dagger) <-song chosen->
• Philippines (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Samoa
• South Korea (chosen by Morgan.) ««Big 6 qualifier»» <-song chosen->
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Tonga
• Vietnam

AFRICA:
• Algeria
• Angola
• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana (chosen by WickedSkengMan) <-song chosen->
• Ivory Coast (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Republic of the Congo
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Tanzania
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

EUROPE:
• Albania
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic (taken by Morgan.) ««Big 6 qualifier»» <-song chosen->
• Denmark (taken by Josiah.) ««Big 6 qualifier»» <-song chosen->
• Estonia
• Finland
• France (chosen by EscapismIsAnotherPrison) <-song chosen->
• Georgia
• Germany (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• North Macedonia (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Norway (chosen by Black Dagger) <-song chosen->
• Poland
• Portugal (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Romania (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Russia (chosen by Tana Mongeau) <-song chosen->
• San Marino
• Serbia «Host Country» ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Sweden (chosen by Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Strictly Jake) <-song chosen->
• Vatican City

I choose United Kingdom and USA thanks

Norway and New Zealand cheers x

Australia and South Korea please

Sweden and Romania please

OP updated!

I want Barbados and is it possible to add Jamiaca so I can take it?

Yep. It's added.

Japan and Hong Kong, I guess.

Maybe Taiwan.

You should add Taiwan.

Added.

And Vietnam.

I just added that and India.

Very good.

Bangladesh.

Seriously considering changing to India.

So far, we have 16 countries (10 for the semi-final, and 6 for the final). That's a fantastic start.

The deadline for song submissions is 17 January 2020.

I Choose Netherlands

and

Ivory Coast

OP and Wikia Updated.

I would recommend that people would choose the other Big 6 countries (Canada, Czech Republic, Serbia) left unchosen.

I will be doing a special TiBB News Tonight broadcast tomorrow night to explain everything in full. Whilst that happens, keep choosing countries; remember you can now pick 2 countries.

So far, 18 countries have announced their provisional participation, with 10 countries confirming (the Big 6, Australia, Ivory Coast, The Netherlands, and Philippines).

Everyone is welcome to claim their 2 countries. Just remember that the contest will now have a semi-final (unless the number of countries is low).

I might just have to my old TiBBMF tradition and choose songs for countries not picked.

There isn’t really a single country I’m interested in left (besides China but I did that last time) from what I can see. I’d try Japan, but Calderon has that and Hong Kong locked and loaded �� Gonna do some research on countries left and see if I can find anything worth sending!

To break this down for simpletons like me, do you just rewrite lyrics to other songs, then post the lyrics?