GiraVision Song Contest Wiki

Welcome to the GiraVision Song Contest!
This is a music contest inspired by the world-famous Eurovision Song Contest. People will claim a country and choose a song for that country, and each country will compete in a series of rounds, depending on how many countries are participating. The first season of GiraVision is currently ongoing.

Rules
 Song Selection 

1. The song must be below 60 million views.

2. Worldchart artists are allowed every season ending in a 5.

2a. Worldchart artist = An artist with 3 or more songs with 100 million views or more.

3. Songs can be from any time period.

4. Songs that have competed in (J)ESC are not allowed, but songs from a Eurovision National Final are allowed after they get eliminated.

5. You cannot change your song once you submitted.

6. The song must have a 25-second timeslot that will be used in the recap.

7. No strongly political or inappropriate songs are allowed. However, 1 troll song is allowed per season.

8. Live versions and covers of songs are not allowed.

8a. Please also refrain from using songs with a picture that doesn't move. Replacement videos are allowed but optional.

9. An artist can only compete for one country/territory per season.

10. The list of songs can be found in the List of Countries page.

Country Claiming

1. Countries will be randomly assigned to the contestants that wish to participate in each edition.

Voting

1. Voting will be done ESC style (12, 10, 8, 7-1) for your top 10 songs. You give 12 points to your favorite song, 10 to your second-favorite, and so on.

2. If you're not in a semi-final or final, you can still vote as a televoter! Those who have a country in a semi-final or final have to vote.

3. If you have a country in a semi-final or the final and do not vote, a certain amount of a song's points will be taken away, depending on the round you're in.

3a. If you don't vote in a semi-final, half of your song's points will be taken away.

3b. If you don't vote in a final, your song will have 0 televoting points instead of however many you get.

3ab. If the season only includes a final, half of the song's total points will be taken away if a country doesn't vote.

3bc. If there are no televoters in the semi-final or final, then the same would apply as rule 3ab.

Seasons

1. In every edition that ends in a 0 (e.g. 10, 20, 30, etc.), there will be an all-star season! Every song from the previous 9 seasons can compete for a second chance! (For example, if it's season 20, songs from seasons 1-19 can compete!)

1a. A song can't compete in these seasons if they (1) already won GiraVision or (2) were in the top 6 of in the edition before the all-star season, which is the seasons ending in 9 (e.g. the top 6 from Season 9 can't compete in Season 10).

1ab. If a country debuts in a season with a number ending in 9 and makes the top 6, I will make an exception and have you pick a regular song with all song rules applying.

Participation History
This table shows how many songs participated each year in the GiraVision Song Contest along with each season's slogan.

Winner History
This table shows the winner history of the GiraVision Song Contest.

Special Season History
This is the history of the special editions and spinoffs of the GiraVision Song Contest.