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The sixth Worldvision Song Contest promises to be the biggest and best yet.

But first, you gotta qualify.

Nineteen nations will send acts to Douglas. Each country will determine its representative in its own way.

These are the stories of the chosen 19.
((As entries are announced, they will be listed here))

Wavispa - Superstar, Jasmina
Bazalonia - (Just Put It) In My Belly, Gregory Jones
The Archregimancy - The Toparion of Kassiani, The Arctic Hermits of the Archregimancy
Solenial - What's Up Sally, Jimmy & the Frogs
Fat Obnoxious Scousers - Time to Get Off, Robbie Nobbs and the Nobbettes
Cafundéu - How Much Does You Cost, Anise Neomeu
Khenas - Twelve Points, Radio Silajske
Cachette de Lions - Athena, Rhoda Black
Mallatarsland - Slilent But Deadly, Harry Stottle
Zwangzug - The Pendulum, The Neoreactionaries
Gerainia - Rip It, Phunky
Rejistania - Kansu I Lan, Salan Kihle
Sorthern Northland - I've Got A Lovely Pint Of Beer, The Drunken Wankers
Kura-Pelland - No Going Back, Jackie Tarquin
Scotchpinestan - Celebrate People, The Banjo Men
Krytenia - Under A Blue Sky, Andy Robidoux
Valeneska - Holding On, Word
Wentland - Simultaneous Existence and Non-Existence, Professor Daniel Blenkinsop
Swilatia - Follow My Heart, Niezwykłe

Notice:
The broadcast of the WSF (Wavispa Song Festival) has been cancelled as only one song has been entered into the contest. We will try to avoid this problem, next year by opening up the contest with online submission, but for now wil will siply send the song Superstar by Jasmina to the WorldVision Contest by default.

An online poll was created at "www.bazaloniavision.com.bz" for a popular vote on who to send, the top ten current Bazalonian artists where listed with one song of their choice to be performed.

The results are not in yet, as there is still another month to go but it could be anyone's.

The following acts are in our national final:


The Melons, with The Day The World Began
Phunky, with Rip It
Tafsut and the Cipicips, with I Should Have Made it Big


The finals will be around tonight-ish. Check www.wvision.gr (http://www.wvision.gr) for updates.

OOC- If it's okay i'd like to post the semi-final's today and the finals tomorrow.

The Solenial Semi-Finals

After weeks of careful and tedious voting the following acts are through to the national final. The well-established working artists are:

Chocochococookie- Can it be any more choclatier!?
Livid Carcas- Death! Death! How i wish you were Dead!
Neil and Guss- Mess with your mum
Jimmy and the Frogs- What's up Sally
Candice Winters- Lovin' is all i do (with or without you)

The Finalists will contest in the final on Thursday 26th June 2008 in Beatrix Hall in Werser, Solenial.

Web-poll results...

(Just put it) In my Belly by Gregory Jones

Congratulations

The Holy Synod of the Archregimancy believes that a competition to discover the finalist of the Worldvision Hymn Contest would be inappropriate as it would encourage a woeful lack of monastic humility.

The Holy Synod has therefore selected the entrants from the Archregimancy itself, without recourse to 'votes' and other such secular nonsense.

The Holy Monastic Republic will be represented by....

THE ARCTIC HERMITS OF THE ARCHREGIMANCY

With their uplifting polyphonic acapella number

THE TROPARION OF KASSIANI

It's bound to wow all of the Orthodox voters.

THE SOLENIAL NATIONAL FINAL FOR WORLDVISION 6

The Winner(s) are:

Jimmy & The Frogs- What's up Sally

Tonight on Mallatarsland Station One, we have the finals entries for Worldvision 6. Due to previous television voting scams, it has been decided that a panel of judges will choose who our entry will be. The Contenders are as follows:-

Captain Bugsquash --- Oops parp, I did it again

Desborough Zombie --- The Monster Munch is yummy

Harry Stottle --- Silent but Deadly

Bonnie Rotten --- Cake Makes you Fat

Smokey Bacon --- We like Crisps

Cilla Whitehouse --- Yet Another Beer Song

Tune in at 10pm this evening for a fun filled show.

And here are the results of the Fat Obnoxious Scousers Jury

In 5th place with 4% of the vote is Fat Willy and the Ding Dongs singing Beer is my friend.

In 4th place with 7% is Final Fantasy singing Egg on your face.

In 3rd place with 16% of the vote is Garry Garter singing Hug Me

In 2nd place with 29% is Palace of Waterminster Singing I'm plastered, ignore me.

But our Winner with 44% and representing the Fat Obnoxious Scousers in Worldvision 6 is.

Robbie Nobbs and the Nobbettes Singing Time to get off

Once again, the national finals in Cafundéu were divided in three days, each of them with the participation of different groups with different music styles. After that, the decision was divided in three parts:

1- an internet poll. The winner of this stage wins 2 points / 2nd wins 1 point.

2- famous musicians that weren't participating voted in the second part. The winner wins 2 points too / 2nd wins 1 point.

3- music experts voted. In this part, the winner wins 3 points / 2nd wins 2 points

The announcement happened in the Opala Hall Theater, the second biggest of the city of Lasft. This time, the MPC singer Toninho do Violoncelo announced the results:

"For the first part, here are the results:"

Internet Poll
(Place- Song Name - Group Name/Singer [Style])

1- "There's a Limit for Your Credit" - group Interest Rate (Pop Rock)
2- "Popular Theatre" - group Os Garanhões (Pop)
3- "The Security Guard" - Marquinhos Tetê (Funk)
4- "How Much Does You Cost?" - Anise Neomeu (MPC)
5- "Someone Stole My Wallet" - Otávio Kinen (Pop Rock)

"Now, to the second part. The voters are: famous country singer Juliano César, rock star Erik Stock Market, drums player Neto Baiano, rock star Zaqueu Barbosa and TV music show presenter Eric Farias. To the results:"

Famous People Voting

1- "How Much Does You Cost?" - Anise Neomeu (MPC) - 2 votes
2- "There's a Limit for Your Credit" - group Interest Rate (Pop Rock) - 1 vote
2- "The Security Guard" - Marquinhos Tetê (Funk) - 1 vote
2- "Laura" - group Sambacanção (Samba/Pagode) - 1 vote

"And, finally, the last part, with the votes of the music experts. To the results:"

Experts' Voting - 10 experts

1- "How Much Does You Cost?" - Anise Neomeu (MPC) - 5 votes
2- "Profit is Profitable" - group Anonimous Society (Hard Rock) - 3 votes
3- "Someone Stole My Wallet - Otávio Kinen (Pop Rock) - 1 vote
3- "Read the Small Letters - Edson Coins (Reggae) - 1 vote

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Final Standings:

1- "How Much Does You Cost?" - Anise Neomeu (5 points)
2- "There's a Limit for Your Credit" - group Interest Rate (3 points)
3- "Profit is Profitable" - group Anonimous Society (2 points)
4- "Popular Theatre" - group Os Garanhões (1 point)
4- "The Security Guard" - Marquinhos Tetê (1 point)
4- "Laura" - group Sambacanção (1 point)

So, the selected song is "How Much Does You Cost?", of Anise Neomeu!

*MPC is Música Popular Cafundelense (Cafundelense Popular Music), a different style.

Welcome, to the finals of the Khenian national selection. After seeing which songs passed through the two semi-finals last week, this is the big night, where YOU get to select the Khenian entry for WorldVision 6. If any of you missed the semi-finals, here are the songs that passed through.

From the first semi we have:
1) Where Are You Now?, by Jiwani
2) Peace Will Come, by Sadrina
3) My Lovesong, by Alejara Sijante
4) Twelve Points, by Radio Silajske
and the wildcard:
5) Muzika, by Sajana Takansi
From the second semi we have:
6) Forbidden Love, by ha Adora
7) You Lied, by A Band Without a Name
8) Song for Khenas, by Kaneja
9) The Legend of Rock, by Duel of the Fates
and the the wildcard:
10) The Last Day, by Sijana Desari and Nifeti Rellale

And, now there will be 15 minutes to vote for one of these songs to represent Khenas in the contest. Voting... starts... now!
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15 minute voting period. No WorldVision parody video shown this time, only a recap of the songs listed in this final.
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Alright, now that the voting period is over, and the results are in let's see how some of the songs did:

In third place, we have You Lied, by A Band Without a Name.

Second place, My Lovesong, by Alejara Sijante.

And in first place, our entry to WorldVision 6 is... Twelve Points, by Radio Silajske!

And... that's about it. If anyone is interested in the full results, they will be on the website later today.

After 3 heats (groups, male solo and female solo) and a semi final, the final comes down to five acts, all hoping to represent Cachette de Lions in its second WorldVision entry.

So here they are:
Rhoda Black - "Athena"; a dramatic ballad.
Chantay Shamlin - "Tonight"; a pop song with folk influences.
Nakesha Skupski - "I Found Out"; a fairly generic pop song.
Maricela Palmatier - "J'éspere que cette nuit ne finira pas"; a gentle ballad with only piano accompanying the vocals.
Citizen - "Falling Leaves"; a more rock-oriented song.

The 25 participants who were knocked out of the competition awarded points to the songs, and combined with the votes of a jury of musicians and critics as well as a public vote, here are the results:

5th place; Nakesha Skupski - "I Found Out"; 3 points.
4th place; Maricela Palmatier - "J'éspere que cette nuit ne finira pas"; 7 points.
3rd place; Chantay Shamlin - "Tonight"; 9 points.
2nd place... Citizen - "Falling Leaves"; 12 points.
And the winner, representing Cachette de Lions in Douglas, Scotchpinestan, is RHODA BLACK with "ATHENA"! Congratulations and good luck to Rhoda.

The Easiest way to get something done is Rejistania is usually hard and sufficiently idiosyncratic to scare off even lawyers (who seem to thrive on strange and idiosyncratic things). The World Vision is infected by the Rejistanian Way quite a bit. The way for an upstart become to the Rejistanian representative leads through a number of national finals, regional finals, regional finals featuring only bands from other regions (metafinals) and superfinals but not through a national final. Every placement in a tournament gives the interpreters a number of points and a mathematical formula (which actually deserves the name 'formula' due to its complexity) is used to determine the winner.

Of course was the decentralism of the affair something which irked the media: no grand national final to broadcast. They had to settle on 'statcasting' ie a kind of broadcasting which involves the statistics and speculations more than the actual events. Most of the events were only featured on regional TV stations. The Rejistanian people however were happy: This kind of system gave them the chance to view many of their favorite bands live in nations near their own or even their own nation.

The Top 10 were:
10. N.Ixi Ni - Sous les etoilles
The Reja-rockers tried to succeed with a chanson-like song about love in French. And failed to meet the taste of the public

9. Hetakil k~hetto - Xtylitysinh
Are they for real? Are they being ironic? The 'hip hop collective from tha ghettoj of Hetakil Sedi' leaves both options open. Their kireshi (a creole which developed from the English of Progressan immigrants and various northern Rejistanian languages) texts deal with the topic, all rappers seem to be obsessed about: their own greatness

8. Ameri'ny Xunus - Desil'tan Ines
Punk is but dead, the band from KaMaRi, which's name means 'deadly texts' still keeps the revolution alive. with a lot of heartfelt anger, desperation and wit, they sing about and against the world in which we live in. The fact that they were arrested during their tour for driving under various influences in a 'borrowed' car kinda lowered their chance of winning.

7. Alan Ivelmor - Tahai, hatue!
Happy, danceable music by a teen star who is said to be related to the unforgotten Alan Belmore. No teenager seemed to be able to resist the charms of this combination. Fortunately, not only teenagers voted.

6. The Great S* Conspiracy - shensa sitensa
A group of hackers with a song against electronic voting led the top 10 list for several months. Does this seem to be fishy? Well, why do you ask, of course, it was. The Conspiracy (who had to censor one part of their name due to trademark issues) decided that the best way to make a point for their claim that no system was unhackable by proving it and using various televoting systems of various the finals as example.

5. Kansu Aseri - Hikilana
While many Rejistanis seemed to like the very traditional band the fact that they could represent Rejistania was considered scary. While their music was liked it had the image of a guilty pleasure. As soon as they reached the first place in the Top 10, voting for them declined sharply.

4. Malplimultuloj - La Mondo
A group of disabled people who sing in Esperanto, does this sounds as if it is too crazy to ever succeed? Well, maybe, but the band with unpronounceable name (which means 'Members of Minorities') actually managed to make it work: A blind drummer, a keyboard-player who is wheelchair-bound, a sinha (Sinha is a development disorder, which made him grow no bigger than 1.02m) guitarist and an autistic lead singer with a shared passion for the language Esperanto make music which is known and liked in all of Rejistania.

3. Amija mi'jada - lanja lanja
The name of the band means translated 'Grandma sings' which ironically states what this band is: A group of nice old ladies with instruments and awe-inspiring voices. Most of the people who voted for them were themselves past the 50th year of their life.

2. Xan'het veka - jdunu'he!
'Reja' pop ie: rejistanian popular music doesn't need to be great, it just suffices that it is devoid of enough quality and full of emotion to be understood anywhere on the rejistanian island.

And the winner? Well, I'll tell you after a quick break!

So, the votes are counted and the Nation has decided.

Nation?

Well, the President mainly. After two attempts with fairly ribald songs done on a ceebeebies budget, he has decided to move us away from the toilet humour and go for the most serious song available.

And the winner is.......... Harry Stottle singing Silent but Deadly.

*sigh*

"So after the best-ever finish of artists from Zwangzug, what's in store for contest 6?"

"Future-World has withdrawn, so the field should be more wide open-oh, snap, the Rejistanians are back."

"Excellent, I love Rejistanian music."

"So does the rest of the world."

"Anyhow, we'll be presenting the top four finishers, sort of like at the last contest.

"In fourth place, Tetrakiss, with "Block Intersection"."

"In third, Thurlow Flinton, who sang "Last One Standing"."

"Second place goes to...oh, what the?! Jumping Jill's "Let's Pick Our Nose Underground"?! Going for the juvenile vote? That's completely ridiculous!"

"I agree."

"Oh. Okay."

"So the winners are...hmm. How long has it been since our compatriots used completely inappropriate scientific allegories to make a point?"

"About five contests, why?"

"'Cause we're doing it again."

"Oh no...Please tell me nobody figured out that we can share incomprehensible critiques of the society with the world...?"

"I'm afraid the voters did."

Representing Zwangzug will be The Neoreactionaries, performing "The Pendulum".

"OK, everything is in order?"

"Yes, we've got some fantastic acts this year, people seemed to have been invigorated by the Committee's performance. If they could get points, then so could anyone..."

"Right, who have we got?"

"The Warpstoned...hippies from somewhere near Molton, with "Blessed", a paean to the funny weed."

"Hm, I'm not so sure about that. Do we want to encourage drug use?"

"They assure me it's nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with gardening. Apparently people pour poison on dandelions, they're campaigning against that."

"OK...who else?"

"To please the metal contingent, there's a song called "Carve Her Heart With Pride" by Genocide..."

"Oh dear, I've heard of them..."

"No wonder, given that court case over the desecration of the church...but they seem nice enough boys, they even complimented the cucumber sandwiches."

"Right, what's the dance number?"

""Anaesthesia" by T-Zone featuring Cookie D...a trance number that many people are tipping to go to the top of the charts. This might be the favourite, 180 beats per minute and Cookie's rather excellent dancing, as well as her bounteous..."

"Careful! Remember that wardrobe malfunction from those nutters who went the other year?"

"Don't! She's assured me it's all in place. And I've offered my full support."

"I don't wonder. Have we a ballad?"

"Yes, Emily Kane with her song "Eddie Argos"...it's a quiet number about this obsessive who keeps writing songs about her. Bit of a kick to it, but just Emily and her guitar. She gets shouty at the end. But it'll do."

"OK...indie music?"

"Alternative Carpark have entered with "Out Of Our Heads", not sure what it's about but they're entering it out of irony, apparently."

"Right, right...anything more?"

"Electronica? We've got Lufthansa Terminal, they just stand behind their keyboards barely moving. Their song is "East Berlin", it's about some fictional city in an alternative plane or something. Bit weird."

"OK...what's left? Soul?"

"Yeah, we've got a smoothie called Jemal...with "Like It Like That". Should be a wow with the lades."

"That all?"

"Yes, we don't want to overburden the voting public. All the votes are coming from Wentland phones! And we've made sure there's a university lecture on WBC2 so all the viewers will be watching us."

"Excellent! I am looking forward to the contest."

"Me too..."

"OK, everything is in order?"

"Yes, we've got some fantastic acts this year, people seemed to have been invigorated by the Committee's performance. If they could get points, then so could anyone..."

"Right, who have we got?"

"The Warpstoned...hippies from somewhere near Molton, with "Blessed", a paean to the funny weed."

"Hm, I'm not so sure about that. Do we want to encourage drug use?"

"They assure me it's nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with gardening. Apparently people pour poison on dandelions, they're campaigning against that."

"OK...who else?"

"To please the metal contingent, there's a song called "Carve Her Heart With Pride" by Genocide..."

"Oh dear, I've heard of them..."

"No wonder, given that court case over the desecration of the church...but they seem nice enough boys, they even complimented the cucumber sandwiches."

"Right, what's the dance number?"

""Anaesthesia" by T-Zone featuring Cookie D...a trance number that many people are tipping to go to the top of the charts. This might be the favourite, 180 beats per minute and Cookie's rather excellent dancing, as well as her bounteous..."

"Careful! Remember that wardrobe malfunction from those nutters who went the other year?"

"Don't! She's assured me it's all in place. And I've offered my full support."

"I don't wonder. Have we a ballad?"

"Yes, Emily Kane with her song "Eddie Argos"...it's a quiet number about this obsessive who keeps writing songs about her. Bit of a kick to it, but just Emily and her guitar. She gets shouty at the end. But it'll do."

"OK...indie music?"

"Alternative Carpark have entered with "Out Of Our Heads", not sure what it's about but they're entering it out of irony, apparently."

"Right, right...anything more?"

"Electronica? We've got Lufthansa Terminal, they just stand behind their keyboards barely moving. Their song is "East Berlin", it's about some fictional city in an alternative plane or something. Bit weird."

"OK...what's left? Soul?"

"Yeah, we've got a smoothie called Jemal...with "Like It Like That". Should be a wow with the lades."

"That all?"

"Yes, we don't want to overburden the voting public. All the votes are coming from Wentland phones! And we've made sure there's a university lecture on WBC2 so all the viewers will be watching us."

"Excellent! I am looking forward to the contest."

"Me too..."

(ooc: wtf is going on? It deleted my post, now it brings it back...)

(OOC: That's Jolt for you, I guess...before, I could see the earlier post from the front page (Most recent post in this forum: Wentland, WV6 finals), but when I looked at the threads, it wasn't there.)

Phunky, with Rip It, won the finals last night, and will be competing in WV.

OOC: thanks to Jolt and my schedule a 'few minutes' absence became longer.

The winner: Kansu I Lan - Salan Kihle
When all insightfull, new and creative ideas fail, there is still reja-pop - and more precisely: the one, which is so exaggeratedly sweet that sugar fades in comparison. Kansu I Lan, a barely 12 year old girl who looks as if innocence became a person, thus qualified with a song which has a name which can mean 'advantageous'.

"Hey look, Worldvision is coming up soon."

"I guess that means we need to get our contestant sorted out then?"

"Yep, and we're the defending champions aren't we."

"Er no, we forgot to send our contestant until the day after the last contest finished."

"Oh that's right, yeah."

"So we'll just send the contestant we meant to the last one to this one and that's our job over for now."

"What if we forget to send him again?"

"Go down to the Sorthern Arms pick the band up, go to the airport and get the next plane to Scotchpinestan."

"Right, whose the band and the song?"

"The band is The Drunken Wankers, and the song is I've Got A Lovely Pint Of Beer, you should recognise them easy enough."

The number of entries in the Scotchpine national contest had steadily risen every time, so it was expected that this time around, things would be bigger than ever.

But when it was announced that Scotchpinestan would host the Worldvision finals, that sent interest off the charts. It would be impossible to list all of the acts that signed up - indeed, it might be easier to make a list of acts that DIDN'T enter.

Auditions throught the country weeded out the riffraff, and the top 100 got to compete at the Douglas Civic Center, the site of the Worldvision finals. Ten acts competed each week, and Scotchpinestan voted one through to the top ten each week. Once the top ten were decided, they were whittled down to the top five.

Now, those five have one last chance to impress the nation. The stakes have never been higher: Since the world finals will be in Scotchpinestan, the people of Scotchpinestan will only vote for an act that they believe can win the competition.

So, here are the final five:

- Mack Semple, who plays the piano, has a style influenced by jazz and country music. His song is called "Make Me Love You".

- Pop-folk artist Jessica Ferry has been a big hit with the judges, and may be the favorite to win here. She got here with "Reach".

- The Banjo Men are in the final five for the third time. Their previous two journeys ended at this stage; now they hope they can finally get to the final with "Celebrate People".

- Heavy metal group Abstract Pain have been a dark horse throughout the competition; they brought a power ballad called "Intense".

- The fifth act is another group of rockers, Chili For Breakfast, with a song called "Keep Off The Grass".

Do any of these acts have what it takes to win Worldvision 6? One of them will get to find out...but first they have to win over the hearts of Scotchpinestan, one more time.

Kura-Pelland's final proved an entertaining affair. But after the disaster of Vinny Dellago last year, ballads predictably dominated.

The eventual winner was Jackie Tarquin's relatively upbeat string-heavy piece of schmaltz, No Going Back. It's expected to do quite well. Goodness knows why. So was Vinny Dellago

The third time was the charm.

After two previous failed attempts, The Banjo Men finally won the right to represent Scotchpinestan at Worldvision with their song "Celebrate People".

The wave of patriotism following the overthrow of the West Starblaydi regime has led to a lot of flag-waving songs being entered.

Andy Robidoux's "Under A Blue Sky" was eventually chosen by the Krytenian music jury.

Valeneska Song Contest

Intstead of creating a new contest just for selecting the country's WorldVision entry, the Valeneska Misnisty of Culture and the national broadcaster both decided to send the winner of the the Valeneska Song Contest, an event that has already existed for the last 10 years or so.

This year the contest was held in the third-largest city Bar, which got to host after winning last year's contest with the song Light of Love, which won over more than enough votes to edge out Taryńsk and Lirespol for the city's first title.

This year's contest had a few changes from last year's though, as instead of having one festival where any city can enter a song into, the contest was split up into two divisions, The WorldVision Contest and the Nation Contest, into which the various cities were sorted based on last year's results.

Entries:

Sarenaski
The country's capital region wasn't much to talk about this year, having sent the typical pop song Tell Me.

Bar
Winning the contest last year didn't seem to be enough for this city, this year they are trying too hard to win the contest again, and perhaps win something for the country at WorldVision. Their song Jutro Będzie Lepiej is a piece of over-the-top theatre about good, evil, and the end of the world.

Lirespol
Having almost won last year, this city decided to try again with the same kind of song they had last, sending the previously unknown singer Selena, with the song Tonight. While the song was popular with the voters, the song's performance easily exposed this singer's lack of experience.

Tarynsk
One of the favourites this year, because they seem to be favourites every year, the city of Tarynsk was represented with the song Peace and Love, which seemed like a good enough song to send to WorldVision, because every year at least one coutry sends a peace song.

Sejnaki
The most successful city in the contest, with 3 titles, was being represented this year with the Kura-Pelland-style ballad Loving Someone and Leaving Someone the original title of the song was A song about loving someone and leaving them, but then only when you leave you realise how much you love them, so you start to wonder whether you leave or not, because you're in love. It's a long title, I know., but it had to be shortened to fit on the scoreboard.

Czenkavi
For an almost certain null points, the city of Czenkavi somehow decided to send the song She Moves, originally a low-quality cover version of an existing song, but then changed because neither WorldVision or the Valeneska Song Contest actually allow cover versions to be entered. At least it was only 2 minutes long.

Nare
The Nare entry this year, Praise the Lord met almost entirely negative reception, as any religious wong would in an atheistic country like Valeneska. Only the few other religious people in the country might actually vote for it, and that still might not be enough to actually get points to it.

Nerelski
One of the less-known cities in the contest decided to, in an effort to get more points, sent the song Sa'Hedza a song featuring a fake shaman, dancers from all sorts of strange foreing tribes, and lyrics in an imaginary language. The artist of the song claims that this is about "the struggles faced by stateless nations", but people see it as just a pathetic attempt to look "exotic".

Lansk
Although there may already be enough, Lansk sent another pop love song, this one was called All of Your Love. This is the stuff you see lots of in WorldVision, though, so it would not be strange to have it an a national final.

Irnastki
The Irnastki entry Once More didn't seem like much to talk about at first. The performers tried to change this with a strange and over-the-top performance, involving unusual uses for seemingly normal objects (for example, using umbrellas as swords). It was still overshadowed by the Bar entry though.

Prasada
The main dark horse this year, this city sent Holding On, a so-called "rap" (Which really sounds nothing like a rap) about how some guy "met an angel" last night. When it came to musical quality, this song looked like it was obviously going to be relegated, but since it was still somewhat listenable, and the performance made it seem like a joke entry, it got more then a few votes for being such.

Visalski
Inspired by the success of last year's pirate song from Mallatarsland, the city of Visalski decided to send the song Flipping out, which was about ninjas. It was about as successful as that donkey song from Mallatrsland.

Lejanki
In an attempt to stand out of the other songs, Lejanki sent the rock anthem Lost Again. The song was considered one of the favourites at first, but on the night of the contest, the song's rather weak performance killed it.

Varsanski
While last year this city was one of the favourites to win (although in the end they only did well enough to avoid being relegated to the national contest.), it was a different story this year, with typical boy-band trash Last Dance not being expected to do very well.

Jensanti
Once again, we have another typical pop song, The Jensanti entry Shine On, execpt since this one was further in, some people actually remembered it.

Savleti
The Savleti entry Svetovizija was in Valeneskan, so very few few people actually understood it, but for those few that did, the song was about the contest itself, and the stuff that happens there, and whether Valeneska should enter in the first place.

Tinaski
Getting close the end of the Contest, the Tinaski entry was the the pop-punk song You Lied. It may have been the only song of its style in the contest, but after lots of other weirdery, few people seemed to care.

Velatski
This year Velatski sent the ballad Distant Lights, which, although the lyrics were halfway decent, the performance was amongst the worst on the night, and the singer sounded like she was screaming for help. Like actual screaming, not just the high-pitched singing seen in some WorldVision entries.

Mijaski
The city of Mijaski was represented with the somewhat ethno-type song My Country, which did have some pre-contest support for being the most Valeneska-like song in the contest, even though it was still in English.

Partanski
Finally, the show was closed with the Partanski entry, a pseudo-rock type song Come on, come in. Not exactly the strongest closing act, but it sounded better in the recap where it was played as the first song.

Voting:


Voting can be seen here (http://www.tummiweb.com/escnation/scorewiz/show.php?id=49684)

Valeneska will send Holding on, by Word to the WSC

bumped.

Jemal went off stage, blowing a kiss to the ecstatic crowd. One woman charged the stage area screaming but was rugby-tackled by security. Host Tess Talentless was flustered but continued bravely.

"Wow, everyone, what a concert we've just had!!! Everyone seems to have gone down a storm...we just await the votes with interest!!! Phone lines are open NOW so get calling!!! Wooooo!!!!"

Tess Talentless stood on stage with all the contestants behind her. "Well, we're here now, and let's have the scores on the boards now..."

A giant scoreboard suddenly exploded into a cornucopia of colours. Each of the acts' names were on there, with several empty spaces for digits to the right. Enough room for up to 99,999,999 votes per song. Optimistic? Perhaps, but the show had been so popular, the reactions so positive...

"OK, Eugene, please let us have the number of votes for The Warpstoned..."

A drumroll...

...ZERO.

A gasp from the audience and a wave of a toke from a Warpstoned.

"Zero votes? Quite a surprise there, but I suppose your rather extreme hippyism put people off. And your support don't have phones, I think? OK, let's see the next one...

"OK, the votes for Genocide, please, Eugene..."

Another drumroll...

...another zero.

"Well, I guess metal is not Wentland's cup of char...OK, Eugene, next...the votes for T-Zone...that MUST be popular..."

Another drumroll...another zero.

And so it continued. No votes for ANY of the acts. Tess Talentless was aghast.

"NO-ONE’s got ANY votes!!! What do we do now?"

Just then a technician ran on stage with headphones and a clipboard. "Miss Talentless, there's been a problem..."

"You can say that again..."

"Miss Talentless, there's been a problem..."

"You can...no, wait, what's gone wrong?"

"The phone numbers that were sent out for the songs were wrong. Everyone's been getting a wrong number tone. No-one has been able to vote."

"So what happens? Do we get a re-vote?"

“I don’t think there’s time...”

Tess Talentless yelled to her producers. “Is there ANYONE who voted AT ALL??? HELP!!!!!”

Her earpiece crackled. “There was one vote...”

“WHO FOR!!!!”

“Well, there was a call from someone thanking us for putting on such a rubbish programme. It meant that they could watch WBC2 instead...and they wanted to say just how wonderful Professor Daniel Blenkinsop was...”

“That’s not a vote, surely?

“Well, what is a vote? A preference for one thing over another?”

“But he wasn’t entered!!!”

There was a flurry of paperwork at the other end of the earpiece. “Er, it says the competition is open to anyone who performs on television tonight...not on this programme necessarily...”

“You mean we have a professor winning? What did he sing?”

“He didn’t sing, he lectured on whether something exists and doesn’t exist at the same time...”

“Oh, well, that’s it then...”

Tess approached the audience.

“Ladies and gentlemen...it is UNANIMOUS...the winner is...PROFESSOR DANIEL BLENKINSOP with SIMULTANEOUS EXISTENCE AND NON-EXISTENCE...”

Silence.

A cough.

Professor Blenkinsop had already tucked himself up in bed with a jug of hot cocoa. He was not available for the traditional encore.

((Bump - I've TGed the three nations we're still waiting on. We're down to 21 because I had originally left a spot open for Future-World just in case, and one other nation CTEd.

I'm traveling this weekend, coming back the 21st, so probably on the 22nd I'll start up the actual Worldvision thread.))

((Bump - I've TGed the three nations we're still waiting on. We're down to 21 because I had originally left a spot open for Future-World just in case, and one other nation CTEd.

I'm traveling this weekend, coming back the 21st, so probably on the 22nd I'll start up the actual Worldvision thread.))


OOC: I'd better start writing then. Whoot!

OOC: I sincerely apologise for not getting back to you all earlier. I entered the contest thinking I'd be able to check the forums and post every day, but work has been so intense and my Internet access so infrequent that I've only been able to go online once a week. Sorry for holding everyone up!

I hate to say this, but it looks like I'll have to pull out this time. I'll see you all again for WorldVision 7!

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Hello, and welcome to another version of the piosenka dla swilasji, the national contest in Swilatia for selecting a song to WorldVision. This year there are few... changes to the way we do the contest, this year, there is no music videos shown, instead all songs will be perform live here at BSD park stadium in Vilvek.

And also... that's it, voting stays the same, with one going on our website to vote for one of the song in the contest. So now it's time for to show the songs.

Entry number 1:
Stop, by Eliza Sejazka
So, this is going to be first song of the show, unlike in the last contests, we're not opening with a Highschool band or Duel of the Fates. Instead, we have what... seems normal enough of a WorldVision song, something that might fit in at the contest, if people remember it after the rest of the songs after.

Entry number 2:
No Borders-Zadnych Granic, by Prawdziwy Swiat
And of course, every year there has to be one of them peace song. This one also have lyrics in Polish, although what's the point when every-one else sing in English.

Entry number 3:
Duty-Free, by The Wenesia Girls
And, every year there has to have a few joke entry, this is the first one. At least this time, we get to see if it can be perform on a stage, and if no, we don't vote it.

Entry number 4:
Wake Up, by Decompressed
And this is... what somehow won us contest four with. Yeah, we have group unheard of before and after the contest, with song about stuff that no-one care about. Why we send that song? Vilvek would done much better.

Entry number 5:
Follow My Heart, by Niezwykłe
Now, we go on this band, they've been trying to get into the WorldVision since contest 3, and they never even finished in top four. Last year they didn't even participate, they did not know how to do the internet submission. I this song they're joined by members of the second Bandyty Swilajskie band, which fell apart after the last WorldVision.

Entry number 6:
Show Me Your Love, by Strawberry Band
Now with this being last year of Niezwykłe participating, the next band is now show their song for WorldVision.

Entry number 7:
Lied to my Heart, by Strawberry Band
And another song from same band, trying diffirent style to get different people to vote for them. Niezykłe did this a lot, somehow the SBC let them, so they do same with this band.

Entry number 8:
You're Dumb, by Michał i Michał
And here is another regulars, these ones have song "you're dumb", in which one guy in the band tell the other guy in band how dumb he is. And other way around. Now sure, I don't hate everything like last host, but these guys need to stop, because, they... just... weird.

Entry number 9:
A WorldVision Song, by Stick72
And, like how we had that kind of song we win with contest 4 all the way up there, here is a song like on we lost with last year. Still, this seem to be what people here vote for, so, as long as perfomance is better than what we had in WorldVision, this may get vote.

Entry number 10:
No Way, by Iced-T
And here something there never was in Piosenka dla Swilasji before. Is like some sort of rap song or something like that. Now, since we never see this in contest before, we don't know how this going to go, but I quite fure some people will scared off from the Kura-Pelland entry last year and how it did almost last.

Entry number 11:
Burn the House Down, by Furious Angels
And now what could be call another joke entry, but not like one last year. This instead is like some sort of metal song, but so fake really. Not even acurate. What's about a house? Isn't metal suppose to happen in a graveyard, forest, castle, or something like that?

Entry number 12:
Television Blues, by Filip Ganowski
Now getting to the end, is yet more joke song, this one about a guy who can't find anything good on TV. There too much garbage. Just like there too much joke song in Piosenka dla Swilasji.

Entry number 13:
Empty Streets, by Biało Niebieskie
Okay, here is the wierdest song of all this year. It has no word. None. Just some weird music. No words. What's a song with no words? Is it a song? Should it be at WorldVision? Piosenka dla Swilasji?

Entry number 14:
Forever, by Blue Diamonds
So here is another new band showing its song, this one more of pop-rock song. They try to use draw at end to make their song remembered, but now it might not sound much. The songs is good enough, but now I just start wanted to know what the entry is.

Entry number 15:
Look at Me, by Jenni
And of course, every year there has to be song like what Lovisa send. Or does it. Maybe if people want Lovisa songs to be in Contest, they should just ask Lovisa back. We'renever going to take their place.
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And a 4, a 3, 2, 1, Voting is over.

So, that make all the votes, we have the four highest songs, like in WorldVision. Other results are on the website, www.piosenka-dla-swilasji.swi.

Fourth Place: Empty Streets, Biało Niebieskie
Third: Wake Up, Recompressed
Second: Duty-Free, the Wenesia Girls
First: Follow my Heart, Niezwykłe

Oh, and first place is the entry.

OOC: I know the grammar is terrible. This is the same crappy announcer that did the voting for Swilatia in WorldVision 3 and 5.

((Rennidan never posted an entry nor responded to my TG, so they are disqualified. That leaves 19 entries to Worldvision 6. I will post the competition thread shortly.))