TiBB Music Festival: Pittsburgh 2023 // And the winner is... Sweden!!! [pg. 3]

[Josiah.]

https://i.imgur.com/W1vaqjC.png

TiBB Music Festival: Pittsburgh 2023
21 & 25 March 2023

Official Wikia: Click Here! (https://channel-tibb.fandom.com/wiki/TiBB_Music_Festival_2023)

It is time to let the competition begin again (and last time we did this was in February of 2021)! I, with Shaun's knowledge AND Riley's (Wizard) lovely ideas, decided to create a spiritual successor to TiBB Eurovision.

Now it's time to start a new era for the contest: doing main edition yearly every April... and we're starting back from square one in Pittsburgh! What songs will be heard? Where are the constant translations into French? When will the madness end? No idea.

Past editions of TiBB Music Festival:
Pittsburgh 01 (August 2019) - (Winner: Australia, ceremony starts p.4) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=360098)
Gold Coast 02 (October 2019) - (Winner: Serbia, ceremony starts p.2) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361665)
Belgrade 03 (January 2020) - (Winner: Norway, ceremony starts p.4) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=363207)
Oslo 04 (March 2020) - (Winner: United Kingdom, ceremony starts p.2) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=364908)
Manchester 05 (April 2020) - (Winner: Italy, ceremony starts p.2) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=366226)
Italy 06 (June 2020) - (Winner: Denmark, ceremony starts p.2) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367392)
Copenhagen 07 (August 2020) - (Winner: United States, final starts p.3) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=368405)
Pittsburgh 08 (February 2021) - (Winner: South Korea, ceremony starts p.4) (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=370459)

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 voting period.

VOTING SYSTEM
The voting system from the first few editions returns. Every country will each give out two sets of 12, 10, and 8-1 points; one for the jury voting, and the other for the televoting.

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 1 to 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.
- Entries must be submitted to me as soon as possible. The voting portion of the contest will take place over the course of a 1 week period.
- 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 a spot in the TiBB Music Festival Hall of Fame! - so if that isn't motivation to bring your A-game, I don't know what is.

Like last edition, 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. Please do note that China, Denmark, France, Germany, and Italy were the bottom 5 last edition and were relegated from participating this edition.

COUNTRIES
AMERICAS:
• Argentina
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Brazil
• Canada ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Chile
• Colombia
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• United States «Host Country» ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• UK Virgin Islands
• US Virgin Islands

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

AFRICA:
• Algeria
• Angola
• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana ««Big 6 qualifier»» <-song chosen->
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Morocco (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Republic of the Congo
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Tanzania
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

EUROPE:
• Åland Islands
• Albania (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia & Herzegovina (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• Faroe Islands
• Finland
• Georgia
• Greece ««Big 6 qualifier»» <-song chosen->
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland (chosen by Cherie) <-song chosen->
• Israel
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Latvia (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• Lebanon
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta (chosen by Kate!) <-song chosen->
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands (chosen by Nicky91) <-song chosen->
• North Macedonia
• Norway (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom (chosen by Alf)
• Vatican City

https://i.imgur.com/nUczt0Z.png
NOTE: Yes, I do know I'm using the ESC2013 theme slogan.

[Alf]

Come on the United Kingdom! Let's have it!

[Josiah.]

I personally have chosen Canada, Morocco, and Norway; which I had chosen when this had originally been scheduled for 2021.

[arista]

Well Done
Josiah



Great Works

[arista]

Japan
Still making Multi Channel SACD's
SHM CD's
BluSpec CD's
DSD CD 's

and
24 bit CD

[Josiah.]

Bumping this.

[Josiah.]

Hoping this gains more traction this time around.

[Nicky91]

Netherlands

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Albania

Latvia

USA

[Cherie]

Ireland please

[Josiah.]

OP and wiki updated.

[Kate!]

Malta and New Zealand please

[Josiah.]

OP has been updated.

[Nicky91]

i've chosen my entries now and i can tease they're good fun and uplifting songs :love:

[Josiah.]

When this finally happens in April, this is gonna be a fun time.

[Nicky91]

fun fact, the artist i chose for latvia, took part as the duo Fomins & Kleins at eurovision back in 2004
r-wTd_9IThc

[Josiah.]

I can say that Ghana, Greece, and South Korea have songs but do not have any member backing them. If anyone wants to choose them, feel free too; because with Calderyon on a break, there isn't anyone to choose South Korea.

[Josiah.]

Another bump for people to choose countries.

[Josiah.]

To everyone who's chosen countries, when I do the recap video and the results videos in April; I have a question...

Should I do voting how I have done it with the overall jury points revealed followed by the televoting points OR should I have the jury points revealed country by country before revealing the televoting points?

[Nicky91]

country by country

[Josiah.]

I have also chosen Sweden.

Ghana, Greece, and South Korea are still "free-agents".

[Josiah.]

Nicky, please look at your PMs

[Josiah.]

Bumping this.

[Josiah.]

I'm contemplating moving this forward to earlier dates in March.

[Josiah.]

South Korea and Ghana still need chosen by people.

I'm upset that this isn't as popular as it used to be because of lack of people on the forum and the (what feels like hundreds) of debate threads, amongst other threads.

[Josiah.]

Here's an example of what the scoreboard will look like:
https://i.imgur.com/o6585qJ.png

[Josiah.]

After thoughtful consideration, I have multiple announcements.

1: I am bringing the dates forward to next week (21 & 25 March). Alf, Kate, and Cherie, please get your songs in as quickly as possible.

And 2: I will be doing the old bi-monthly/tri-monthly cycle like we used to do.

[Josiah.]

OP updated, as Ireland's song has been received.

[Josiah.]

Still waiting on songs from Alf and Kate

[Josiah.]

Malta and New Zealand’s songs are in. Just waiting on the UK’s song

[Josiah.]

The recap video has been exported, and is uploaded to Google Drive. See you here at 8pm tomorrow!

[Josiah.]

We'll see you at 8pm for the 9th TiBB Music Festival!

[Kate!]

We'll see you at 8pm for the 9th TiBB Music Festival!

:love: I'm there for it.

[Josiah.]

I'm so excited that this is finally happening after 2 years. I can't wait!

[Josiah.]

Pulling the show forward to 7:00!

[Kate!]

30 minutes to go

[Josiah.]

15 minutes!

[Josiah.]

Now is the moment you've been waiting for... Welcome back to Pittsburgh everybody!


https://i.imgur.com/nUczt0Z.png (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OZ1zTkUu2AdzU_u_Tpwe6EKg9z0EMuDq/view)
(click the picture to watch the video, and then come back to this post to view voting details)

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Just as stated by Athena in the video, you can vote by sending me a private message. You must send in 2 sets of 1-8, 10, and 12 points (one for jury voting, one for televoting). You cannot under any circumstance vote for your own country. Please have some differences between your two sets of votes.

Voting closes at 6:00pm BT/2:00pm EDT on Friday afternoon. The results will be on Saturday evening at 7:00pm BT/2:00pm EDT.

Good luck to all and...

TiBB, START VOTING NOW!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zL8LIA9qzX8tlhCb8qMxw?si=6525facd7c1344e9

[Cherie]

Now is the moment you've been waiting for... Welcome back to Pittsburgh everybody!


https://i.imgur.com/nUczt0Z.png (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OZ1zTkUu2AdzU_u_Tpwe6EKg9z0EMuDq/view)
(click the picture to watch the video, and then come back to this post to view voting details)

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Just as stated by Athena in the video, you can vote by sending me a private message. You must send in 2 sets of 1-8, 10, and 12 points (one for jury voting, one for televoting). You cannot under any circumstance vote for your own country. Please have some differences between your two sets of votes.

Voting closes at 6:00pm BT/2:00pm EDT on Friday afternoon. The results will be on Saturday evening at 7:00pm BT/2:00pm EDT.

Good luck to all and...

TiBB, START VOTING NOW!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zL8LIA9qzX8tlhCb8qMxw?si=6525facd7c1344e9

Beautiful presentation :love:

[Josiah.]

Beautiful presentation :love:

Thanks Cherie.

[Josiah.]

Reminder that voting is open.

[Josiah.]

Please vote. I am the only person to have voted so far.

[Cherie]

Please vote. I am the only person to have voted so far.

I will vote tomorrow

[Niamh.]

Please vote. I am the only person to have voted so far.

can anyone vote or just those playing?

[Josiah.]

can anyone vote or just those playing?

Anyone can vote

[Niamh.]

Anyone can vote

So what do I need to do?

[Josiah.]

So what do I need to do?

Watch the recap (or listen to the songs from the Spotify playlist), then send me 2 sets of 1-8, 10, and 12 points. One is for the jury voting, and the other for the televoting.

They'll be considered as the "Rest of the Forum" vote.

[Niamh.]

Watch the recap (or listen to the songs from the Spotify playlist), then send me 2 sets of 1-8, 10, and 12 points. One is for the jury voting, and the other for the televoting.

They'll be considered as the "Rest of the Forum" vote.

I have to send 2 different sets of votes? So am I not voting for who I like best in that case if I have to send 2 different sets?

[Josiah.]

You still are voting for your favourites Niamh.

[Niamh.]

Voted, some good choices in there. Your presentation is great Josiah

[Josiah.]

Thanks Niamh.

[Cherie]

Tunes! Done

[Josiah.]

Thanks for your votes Cherie. Now just waiting on Kate's votes.

[Josiah.]

As of right now, without Kate's votes, there's an 80 point difference between 1st place and 2nd places, and there's a 199 point difference between 1st place and 16th place.

[Josiah.]

Who knew that waiting for the last sets of votes could be so nerve-racking.

But it is clear to me that there is a runaway winner.

[Cherie]

Who knew that waiting for the last sets of votes could be so nerve-racking.

But it is clear to me that there is a runaway winner.

Thats mad that we all chose the same one

[Josiah.]

I know.

[Josiah.]

Almost 6 hours left to vote!

[Josiah.]

Almost 4 hours left to vote!

[Josiah.]

I can say that I will be pulling an all-nighter to get the voting video done (once Kate's votes are submitted).

[Kate!]

I can say that I will be pulling an all-nighter to get the voting video done (once Kate's votes are submitted).

Josiah please stop badgering me regarding voting. You've pmd me 5 times and posted in here as well. I'm not having a good day and I won't be voting.

[Josiah.]

I'm sorry Kate. Now I feel bad.

[Josiah.]

[B]So I guess that means that voting is closed. The results video will come tomorrow at 7pm.

[Kate!]

I'm sorry Kate. Now I feel bad.

I've messaged you. No you don't need to say sorry. I'm sorry for letting you down a bit.

[Josiah.]

That makes me feel better. I'm hoping the results go well. There's a decent margin between 1st and 2nd places; and the countries in 2nd and 3rd places have switched.

[Kate!]

That makes me feel better. I'm hoping the results go well. There's a decent margin between 1st and 2nd places; and the countries in 2nd and 3rd places have switched.

Good. You're a great poster Josiah and you make an effort on this forum with positive contributions. :thumbs:

[Josiah.]

Good. You're a great poster Josiah and you make an effort on this forum with positive contributions. :thumbs:

Thanks Kate. In the 12 years I’ve been on TiBB, you’ve been such a great friend to me.

[Josiah.]

Editing on the video is going well. We're still aiming for a 7pm premiere; complete with an interval act from our previous winners from 2 years ago, Blackpink.

[Josiah.]

Who knew that manually reordering a scoreboard on PowerPoint would take so much time.

[Josiah.]

The results video is uploading to Google Drive right now. See you at 7.

[Josiah.]

I present to you, the winner!


https://i.imgur.com/nUczt0Z.png (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zen2GBmVCDur_msCUKfnh5usvxpcl06W/view)
(click the picture to watch the video, and then come back to this post)

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Thank you all for such a fantastic comeback edition. I'm really excited for the 10th edition in June. No more relegation as the semi-finals and the second chance round will be back. See you then, and I know we'll have fun.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zL8LIA9qzX8tlhCb8qMxw?si=6525facd7c1344e9

[Kate!]

Who won? I'm out so can't watch video at the moment.

[Josiah.]

Who won? I'm out so can't watch video at the moment.

Sweden.

[Josiah.]

The video is able to be viewed now. It had been processing for about 2 1/2 hours for some reason.

[Cherie]

Love the winner

[Josiah.]

And I can say that after thoughtful consideration, we'll be going to Stockholm for the 10th edition!

[Nicky91]

i withdraw from this now after those horrible results :umm2:


where is the love for genuine fun acts gone :idc:

[Josiah.]

Nicky, don’t get upset or withdraw. Not everyone is gonna have great results (look at me with Denmark during the 4th, 5th, and 7th editions). This entire contest is supposed to be fun. I say give it one more try with the next edition.

[Josiah.]

And I have a really good twist for the 10th edition that you may like Nicky.