The World Music Contest

The World Music Contest
Abbrev.	TWMC
Founded	01 Nov, 2012
Origin	Belgium
Editions	47
Countries	40
Songs	748
Website	http://www.worldmusiccontest.tk

The World Music Contest (abbreviated TWMC), is a song contest where the recaps are placed on Youtube, with an own website with all the information. Everyone can join. You don't have to play for the country you live. The songs you want to send in must match with the theme and can be from all countries in the world.

Rules

1. COUNTRY - You can only have an avalible country. Players can only play for their own country or country where they are born.
2. THEME - Songs must be according to the theme. Once you have send an entry, you can not change it anymore.
3. VOTING - The voting system is the same as on Eurovision. What if two countries has the same points? We will first look who's got the most votes. If that's also the same, we find out who's got the most 12 points, 10 points, ... Sending no votes or after the deadline results in a disqualification for the current and next 2 editions.
4. SONGS - Once a song is chosen, it could not participate at new edition. Ex-winners could not be send in again. No songs or artists who participated on the Eurovision song contest. Other songs from artists in national ESC-selections will be allowed, songs from the selections will be rejected. The same about unior Eurovision.
5. DATES - We start each edition on the beginning of the month. The semi-finals are running from the 1st till the 8th of the month. The VHB-Competition (2nd chance competion) runs from the 11th till 15th and the final runs from the 17th till the 25th. Deadline to send the songs is also the 25th of the month.
6. QUALIFIERS - The number of songs going through in each semi-final depends on the total number of participating songs. 4 qualifying countries if we have less than 43 participating countries. 5 qualifying countries if we have more than 43 participating countries. We have also 5 qualifing songs in the VHB-Competition.
7. VHB-COMPETITION - This is a second chance competition for the 4 songs who rankend after the qualifiers in each semi-final. In total 12 songs compete in this competition and the top 5 qualifies to the final. The 3 letters of VHB reffers to the family name of the manager.
8. WINNER - The winner of the previous edition goes automatically to the final and has to choose a city, hosts and a venue for the next edition. The winner makes the order draw for the next edition. The full draw has to be finnished before the start of the edition. The host player is also able to follow the voting of the semi-finals and the final.
9. DRAW - The full draw for the semi-finals, VHB-competition and the final has to be finnished by the winner before the start of the edition. In the case 2 or more countries sending the same artist will they be drawed after each other in the same semi-final.
10. MANAGER - Two countries receive the votes of the manager before the start of the voting of the semi-finals or final. This to show the contest we keep it fair and the manager do not change his votes to have an inlfuence on the results.
11. VIDEO - Almost all videos will be accepted for the recap, only 'picture'-videos will be rejected. This are the videos with only images in it. Another matching videos must be found by the player self to replace the original image-video.
12. FUN - Have fun in The World Music Contest.

Editions

Length of each edition

Each edition has a duration of one month. The Semi-Finals take place from the 1st till the 10th, the Final from the 15th till the 25th.

Winners

#	Country	Winning entry	City	Hosts	Venue
#1	Slovakia	Celeste Buckingham - Run Run Run	Paris
#2	Brazil	Anggun - Mon Meilleur Amour	Bratislava	• Celeste Buckingham • Roman Juraško	Stadion Ondreja Nepelu
#3	Spain	Adele - Someone Like You	Rio De Janeiro	• Sangalo • Luan Santana	Cidade das Artes
#4	Iceland	Yohanna - Is It True?	Barcelona	• María Valverde • Rafael Nadal	Palau Saint Jordi
#5	Spain	Anton Ewald - Begging	Reykjavik	• Regina Osk • Hera Björk	Harpa Concerthal
#6	Sweden	Timoteij - Kom	Vigo	• Anne Igartiburu • Cristian Gálvez	Estadio de Balaídos
#7	Canada	Bon Jovi - It's My Life	Jokkmokk	• Jenny Silver • Anton Ewald	Snow Arena
#8	Belgium	Of Monsters & Men - Mountain Sound	Ottawa	• Pamela Anderson • Jon Bon Jovi	Ottawa Baseball Stadium
#9	Denmark	Nathalie Imbruglia - Torn	Deerlijk	• Stephen Swart • Nick Vanhaverbeke	Gemeentehuis Deerlijk
#10	Latvia	Stromae - Papaoutai	Copenhagen	• Lene Nystrom • Mathias Lauridsen	Parken Stadium
#11	Monaco	Emmanuel Moire - Beau Malheur	Riga	• Ingūna Butāne • Lauris Reiniks	Arēna Rīga
#12	Australia	Birdy - Skinny Love	Monaco	• Stéphanie de Monaco • Louis Ducruet	Sporting Club Monte Carlo
#13	Romania	Compact Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts	Perth	• Rose Byrne • Chris Hemsworth	Perth Arena
#14	Norway	Evanescence - Bring Me To Life	Sibiu	• Selena Gomez • Mila Kunis	Stadionul Municipal
#15	Israel	Tuval Safir - Aim Rak Nakshiv La Rohahc	Hamar	• Kristian Ødegård • Carina Dahl	Vikingskipet
#16	Belgium	Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten	Petah Tikva	• Assi Azer • Amit Igor	HaMoshava Stadium
#17	France	Indila - Dernière Danse	Brussels	• Aurélie De Backer • Nick Vanhaverbeke	Sint-Katelijnestraat 12
#18	Norway	Elen Levon - Wild Child	Paris	• Natasha St-Pierre • Nikos Aliagas	Stade de France
#19	Netherlands	Cserpes Laura - Élj Pont Úgy!	Lillehammer	• Bård Ylvisåker • Vegard Ylvisåker	Håkons Hall
#20	Sweden	Laleh - Colours	Amsterdam	• Gigi Ravelli • Arjen Robben	Amsterdam Arena
#21	Austria	Helene Fischer - Atemlos Durch Die Nacht	Malmö	• Ace Wilder • Ulrik Munther	Malmö Arena
#22	Germany	Milky Chance - Stolen Dance	Vienna	• Kati Bellowitsch • Christoph Waltz	Wiener Stadthalle
#23	Burundi	Jason Paige - Pokémon Theme	Berlin	• Tina Arena • Kevin Mc Kidd	Olympiastadion
#24	Estonia	Oonagh - Orome	Bujumbura	• Frank Zappa • Captain Beefheart	Centre Culturel Français
#25	Germany	Christina Aguilera - Hurt	Tallinn	• Sandra Nurmsalu • Tõnis Mägi	Saku Suurhall
#26	Netherlands	Andreas Moe - Ocean	München	• Angelina Jolie • Albert Einstein	Nationaltheater München
#27	Switzerland	Hudson Taylor - Battles	Utrecht	• Dilan Yurdakul • Klaas Jan Huntelaar	Stadion Galgenwaard
#28	Iceland	Hurts - Stay	Lucerne	• Alfie Hudson Taylor • Pierre Bouvier	Culture and Congress Centre
#29	Slovenia	Softengine - The Sirens	Reykjavík	• Friðrik Ómar • Páll Óskar	Laugardalshöllin
#30	Belarus	Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do	Izola	• Peter Poles • Klemen Slakonja	Mestni Stadion Izola
#31	Poland	Mrozu ft Sound'n'Grace - Nic Do Stracenia	Minsk	• Dmitry Shepelev • Katsia Zingarevich	Minsk Arena
#32	Belgium	Walke The Moon - Shut Up And Dance	Warsaw	• Katarzyna Cichopek • Krzysztof Ibisz	The National Stadium
#33	Belgium	Katzenjammer - A Bar In Amsterdam	Bruges	• Conchita Wurst • Nick Vanhaverbeke	Bruges Concert Hall
#34	Hungary	One Republic - Love Runs Out	Gent	• Hugo Sigal • Nicole Josy	Ghelamco Arena
#35	UK	Lucie Vondrackova - Zombie	Budapest	• Kati Wolf • Magdi Rúzsa	Papp László Sportaréna

Funky Loser

This is a wild card in our contest for one of the countries who arrived on the most thankless place in the contest, just beneath the qualified countries. We started with this 'award' when we split up the contest in semi-finals on edition 6 and was announced by a draw. The name of this wild card award 'The Funky Loser' was used from edition 8. The player for United Kingdom always gives his comment by his FunkyThoughts, that's how this award gets his name. From edition 10 the host player had the opportunity to save one country out of the three unlucky songs in each semi-final, this song was no longer chosen by a random draw.

#	Funky Loser	Song	Final Ranking	Info
#6	Israel	Gali Atari and Sagiv Cohen - Mehamerhakim	16/16	Last
#7	Malaysia	Faizal Tahir - Karma	16/16	Last
#8	Finland	Sunrise Avenue - Hollywood Hills	9/18
#9	South Africa	Bon Jovi - Always	DSQ
#10	Chile	Daniel Guerrero - Me Matas Corazón	18/20
#11	Taiwan	F.I.R. - Our Love	14/20
#12	Fiji	Jessie J - Domino	20/20	Last
#13	Slovakia	Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love	3/20	Bronze
#14	Estonia	Muse - Supermassive Black Hole	19/20
#15	Malaysia	Cvetelina Yaneva - Bonboni	9/20
#16	Italy	S Club 7	15/18
#17	Iceland	Ragnheiður Gröndal - Ást	15/18
#18	Belgium	Karolien - Lightspeed	8/18
#19	Spain	Brequette - Más	17/18
#20	Panama	Jessica Mauboy - Never Be The Same	9/18
#21	Russia	Zedd ft. Hayley Williams - Stay The Night	14/18

VHB-Trophy

This is another wild card in the contest named and awarded by the manager of the contest. Sometimes the manager himself is so surprised a song is not qualified, he invented this magical trophy. This trophy was introduced in TWMC#16.

In TWMC#19 the manager selected 2 songs (Burundi & Turkey) and let the participants choose their VHB-Trophy.

#	VHB-Trophy	Song	Final Ranking	Info
#16	Russia	Fefe Dobson - Don't Let It Go To Your Head	18/18	Last
#17	Burundi	Khadja Nin - Mama	5/18
#18	Netherlands	Sub Zero ft. the Alpines - Tidal Wave	10/18
#19	Burundi	2 Fabiola ft. Loredana - She's After My Piano	14/18
#20	Iceland	Guy Sebastian - Like A Drum	13/18
#21	Taiwan	A-Lin - What Comes After Happiness?	12/18