TiBB Music Festival: Oslo 04 // and the winner is... United Kingdom! (pg. 4)
 

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. In August, we were in Pittsburgh, then to the Gold Coast in October, and in Belgrade back in January. Cut to next month, and we'll be saying Hello Oslo! 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 1 sets of 4-8, 10, and 12 points for the jury voting, and there will be 1 set of an unknown number of points for 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 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 1 week period. The final will take place on a Tuesday and the final results will be on the 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.

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 (sans all of the ones I have, because some things never change with me, and because of the nature of the new participation rule).

COUNTRIES

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

ASIA & OCEANIA:
• Australia ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Calderyon) <-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 Liam-) <-song chosen->
• Philippines (chosen by Josiah.) <-song chosen->
• Samoa
• South Korea ««Big 6 qualifier»» (chosen by Morgan.) <-song chosen->
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Tonga
• Vietnam

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

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

UK and US please

Oh and I’ll take South Korea if we can have 2-5 :love:

Hong Kong, Japan, China and India.

5th choice is between Australia and Taiwan.

New Zealand, Belgium, Sweden

OP updated.

Barbados, Jamaica, Denmark, Canada, Colombia

Josiah has already taken Denmark.

I'll take Australia as my 5th.

Ecuador then

Actually no South Africa final choice

OP updated!

It was Jamaica instead of Ecuador

Bulgaria and Romania as well please

The OP has been updated.

Egypt, Netherlands, Ireland, Morocco, Hungary pls

OP updated.

Looking at the list of countries so far, we have 29 provisional and 15 confirmed.

I can't wait to hear all of the songs this edition.

3 weeks to go! Hopefully those of you who haven't sent in songs send them in soon.

I will try to send them this week.

Please inform if they have been used already.

Song submission period is still on. Although with everything going on in the media lately. I expect this latest round of songs by tomorrow.

Still waiting for song submissions.

Ladies and gents, this is your warning on submissions. Last day for them will be on Saturday.

And it is looking like we will have just a final this edition instead of a semi-final and a final like we did last edition.

Plus I am changing the voting system to the one I currently use for Veggie Brother finals (with one change). Every country's jury will give out 4-8, 10, and 12 points. The televoting however will be done with 1 set of 936 points (52 points from each of the 18 participating countries so far). The points given for the televoting will be based off of proportional representation, but everyone voting will be relegated to just one vote per device to avoid another TiBB Eurovision 2018 incident from happening.

If Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, and Norway (host country) do not submit songs, they will be replaced in the Big 6 by Denmark, Portugal, United Kingdom, and United States.

Bump... I hate to see people not do things that they've provisionally confirmed for. It's hard on my part because I try so hard to make this look good and then it starts going down like a sinking ship. :(