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Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:31 PM

Welcome to Worldvision VII! Sovarasma is delighted to present you beautiful scenery of different locations of the Earth, as we provide regular spaceships to and fro on Buzzverse. Planning to travel to Earth because you are fed up with tedious work? We got you covered!

To begin planning your vacation, please first pick the island of your choice below and write your choice by replying to this thread. You will then be assigned a set of a country and a city. To complete the transaction of the travel package we provide, you must provide an entry from artist(s) either related to the country or the city. You can find detailed rules below.












Dates:

Confirmation and assignment: 5-14 December
Voting: 15-22 December
Results day: 23 December

Rules:

• Once you get your set of a country and a city, you can send an act coming from either the country or the city.
• Once you decided, you can confirm using the Google form below.
• The act must be related to the country/city (born, raised, connected or based). In terms of connection, one of their parents or grandparents must be born, raised or based in the country/city.
• If there are multiple people directly credited to the entry, at least one-third (33%) of them are related to the country/city.
• Previous Eurovision, BJSC or spin-off entries will not be allowed.
• City acts are subject to the full BJSC Veto Framework.
• Country acts are under a more relaxed framework, so long as they are within the spirit of the contest.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1byg_LAQOKN2Q5QPpXio8eGOj3Ez0fFX3L6ps-P6Jq-A/edit?usp=sharing

https://forms.gle/b9YJUGimSRDG6Axz9

Deadline: 14 December, 23:59 GMT

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:39 PM

Also simply post the island you picked below and I can assign you the city and the country in the reply!

EDIT: Please pick me an island from above x I will select the first pick and reveal the corresponding set of city/country.

Posted by: Silas 5th December 2022, 06:41 PM

Kangaroo Island for République d’Áskorza please!

Posted by: Silas 5th December 2022, 06:42 PM

I nominate Spitsbergen for the host

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:43 PM

The kangaroos of the ill-fated island have collectively decided the following:

Guernsey

and

New York City

Good luck!

Posted by: Ansel 5th December 2022, 06:44 PM

Southampton Island for Pestolia please!

Posted by: Slade 5th December 2022, 06:45 PM

Hispaniola for Jadakissnia please!

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:45 PM

The disgruntled polar bear has told me to get out of the territory with

Fiji

and

Berlin

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:46 PM

The sacred saints of Southampton Island have nominated the following to the cursed delegations of Pestolia:

Barbados

and

Rome

Posted by: NocheLuna 5th December 2022, 06:47 PM

Hyped for this!
Palawan looks lovely, so I would like to pick that one please

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:48 PM

Se le ha dado lo siguiente You have been given the following

Azerbaijan

and

Birmingham

Gracias!

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:49 PM

The beautiful Palawan has its untold secrets. They are revealing this classified set to you:

Türkiye

and

Helsinki

Posted by: seven. 5th December 2022, 06:52 PM

Axel Heiberg Island for Trifoski pls

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 06:53 PM

Axel Hypeberg can't wait to see your entries coming from one of the following locations:

Faroe Islands

and

Stockholm

Posted by: Slade 5th December 2022, 06:55 PM

I was trying to manifest Spain with the Spanish-sounding location title, off the strength of the latest PFSC contest, instead I attracted "whether you're in Birmingham or Ibiza, shake it like a Latina" xo

Posted by: CodySleighBell-y 5th December 2022, 06:55 PM

Luzon for the culture! 🇵🇭

Posted by: CodySleighBell-y 5th December 2022, 06:58 PM

ngl the city part scares me bc I remember getting Georgia for WV3 and that was a struggle

how much more something even more specific

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 07:02 PM

What do I have here hmm Oh... there they are!

Chile

and

Auckland

Posted by: Yet!!!!!! 5th December 2022, 07:04 PM

Newfoundland for mer!

Posted by: Yet!!!!!! 5th December 2022, 07:04 PM

City OR country.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 5th December 2022, 07:06 PM

Maui please

Posted by: King Rollo 5th December 2022, 07:06 PM

Can I have Great Inagua please.

Posted by: FrankLuck 5th December 2022, 07:24 PM

Kerguelen please!

Posted by: FrankLuck 5th December 2022, 07:24 PM

Kerguelen please!

Posted by: Addy! 5th December 2022, 07:32 PM

Sardinia for me please!!!

Posted by: Michael Bubré 5th December 2022, 07:40 PM

That moment when 2 of the 'countries' given so far are not countries (well Faroe Islands is kind of in the same way as England etc. are countries but I don't think Guernsey is a country by any reasonable definition xx)

I'll take South Georgia x

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 07:55 PM

The puppy king has assigned you the following set YETTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

Indonesia

and

Sydney

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 07:56 PM

Will Maui's list summon the return of Terra Lobster? We will find out:

Suriname

and

Manchester

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 07:58 PM

The Great Inaguans are proud to give you the following:

Curacao

and

Toronto

Don't disappoint them!

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 07:58 PM

The almighty pengwings have voted unanimously for you to take the following:

United Arab Emirates

and

Paris

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 08:00 PM

While you will be enjoying great seafood there, the price of paying such trip are:

Jamaica

and

Montreal

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 08:03 PM

The assignment of dependent territories is completely intentional x But are you going to have Tbilisi or Savannah in this card? The penglings have secretly told me:

Kyrgyzstan

and

Tokyo

Posted by: Michael Bubré 5th December 2022, 08:15 PM

Today I feel Kyrgyz

Posted by: FrankLuck 5th December 2022, 08:29 PM

Fastest decision of my life

Posted by: Yet!!!!!! 5th December 2022, 08:42 PM

Bajeebus I know nuttin aboot music from either of thoSE

... WAIT!!!!!!

OI BETTER NOT GET LAST PLACE IN THIS!!!

Posted by: Dancember 5th December 2022, 08:44 PM

Madagascar pour moi

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 08:51 PM

LISTEN UP!!



You get:

Taiwan

and

Brighton

Posted by: awardinary 5th December 2022, 09:14 PM

Bali

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 09:16 PM

This beautiful island has some of its most well-kept secrets. They are now revealing them to you:

Egypt

and

Malmo

Posted by: Cow Cow 5th December 2022, 10:03 PM

Kyushu

Posted by: Qween 5th December 2022, 10:21 PM

Roosevelt Island please

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 10:25 PM

While you will be blessed with AMAZING food and scenery (Sakurajima ), my local tour guide contact has reached out to me and told me they need entries from either:

Democratic Republic of Congo

or

Nashville

Posted by: uhsting 5th December 2022, 10:26 PM

The streets are saying

Costa Rica

and

Milan

Posted by: Iz 💀 6th December 2022, 02:02 AM

I'll take Bioko pls 🙇‍♀️

Posted by: diva las vegans 6th December 2022, 03:38 AM

Is Disko Island still free? If so then I want it

Posted by: Silas 6th December 2022, 07:41 AM

Dafuq am I gonna do with a channel island?!


NYC it is then

Posted by: uhsting 6th December 2022, 10:26 AM

The residents of Bioko will assess your travel application with the entries from one of the following:

Poland

and

Mexico City

EDIT: I have mixed up with Disko Island assignments earlier oops. The new edited message shows the correct set.

Posted by: uhsting 6th December 2022, 10:27 AM

The land of BIG DROPS has spoken. To enjoy good dance music, you are obliged to send entries from one of the following:

Ghana

and

Copenhagen

Posted by: Dobbo. 6th December 2022, 10:36 AM

Margarita please!

Posted by: uhsting 6th December 2022, 10:38 AM

If you want to enjoy great margaritas on the island, you are obliged to send entries from one of the following:

Cabo Verde

and

Sheffield

Posted by: Dobbo. 6th December 2022, 10:38 AM

Much excitement, thank you.

FYI I'm more inclined towards a Margarita pizza than a Margarita cocktail so that's what I'll be tucking into!

Posted by: uhsting 6th December 2022, 10:43 AM

ngl I thought about the pizza as well but apparently it was called margherita

Posted by: Dobbo. 6th December 2022, 10:45 AM

Huh didn't even know that either!

Posted by: King Rollo 9th December 2022, 12:37 PM

Entered a song.

I have listened to some music from Curacao but I was always likely to send a Canadian act I like as soon as I found out they are from Toronto. I am entering my favourite song by them.

Posted by: Cow Cow 9th December 2022, 01:17 PM

Is it okay if the city/country representative is only a featured act?

Posted by: uhsting 9th December 2022, 01:32 PM

Yup it's fine for me!

Posted by: FrankLuck 10th December 2022, 06:49 PM

I'm properly obsessed with my entry, I knew that I'll find gold in Paris

Posted by: Silas 10th December 2022, 10:12 PM

Ive put in a holder entry while I have a dig about. Annoyingly if I had swapped me and the host I would have like a million options for Berlin because I listen to so many Berlin based/origin artists already

Posted by: HarryHex 10th December 2022, 10:42 PM

Devon Island why not

Posted by: uhsting 10th December 2022, 10:44 PM

Is Devon an island or a county? Well it doesn't matter because this is the set you get

Morocco

and

Brussels

Posted by: uhsting 11th December 2022, 04:37 PM

Just about 3 days left before the confirmation and assignment deadline! If you want to participate, here is your chance to do it now and pick an island.

Posted by: uhsting 11th December 2022, 06:09 PM

Sorry for the double post here. I want to experiment a bit with the collection of results this edition and I'm trying to write up a code in Python that is going to churn out results a lot more quickly and collect votes through Google Form via a much more user-friendly interface.

I'm still happy to receive votes from DM if you would like to format your post nicely.

Let's see how this goes for me!

Posted by: CodySleighBell-y 12th December 2022, 08:29 PM

Okay I sent something that is most likely gonna ruin my good form in this spin-off as of late but it's beautiful and I think people should listen to it

then again I said this last time and got 5th so we'll see

Posted by: Iz 💀 13th December 2022, 04:39 AM

Ooh that's interesting. Let me know how it goes, I've written pseudocode in my head for how to do the coding logic of similar things on Buzzjack before, but I hadn't considered that the Google API has a good set of tools for retrieving those sorts of things.

I still need to do my search but I know where to go with Mexico City, Poland less so, unless you really want bargain basement pop or doom metal which seem to be its main exports and not much inbetween.

Posted by: uhsting 13th December 2022, 12:01 PM

I haven't thought of retrieving directly through Google API. I intended to download Google sheet as a .csv file and import it to Python which seems a lot easier to do.

Anyways, we have 21 nations signing up and 12 entries so far! I will need to ask the mods about a potential veto but otherwise hope we will get a couple more countries and entries in!

Posted by: uhsting 13th December 2022, 12:03 PM

Also if you need help with finding entries, I can suggest a couple of sources x

Posted by: Iz 💀 13th December 2022, 12:55 PM

That probably also works - and then the objective is to output formatted scoreboards I assume?

I usually set my Excel sheets up to procedurally generate scoreboards which didn't take too long but you could easily set up a loop for what I did and make them after pressing a button that way with the right script from a csv sheet.

Posted by: uhsting 13th December 2022, 01:01 PM

Yup, the objective is to generate a typical scoreboard which you can see at the end of the contest. I could then do some fancy colouring and make it look nice on Excel later. I am trying to program a code that will generate a random sequence that gives me a scoreboard after x amount of votes.

Posted by: Silas 13th December 2022, 01:54 PM

That’s quite easy to do in excel as you go tho.

Col A - Position
Col B - whatever format spacer you want
Col c - Country
Col d - spacer
Col e - artist - song
Col f - spacer
Col g - Sum(h2:*2)

Every scoreboard you replace the * with the next column along, double click the bottom corner to apply the change to all and then sort Z-A on Col G. Count 1..2..3..4 and drag down in Col A and then copy A2:G42~ and paste onto buzzjack and you’ll get a standard formatted thing

You can even alter the set up to add BBCode as necessary if you wanna like bold country names of those that have voted. Takes maybe a minute to do all of the changes and paste into the text box. It’s how I produce the scoreboards for every contest I’ve hosted. Eg the last TBO results scoreboard is all formatted this way

Posted by: uhsting 13th December 2022, 03:24 PM

Ah I did it with PFSC and Pride during my hosting similarly but the issue is that this process is very exhaustive. I will see if I can create a function that will just generate lists in .txt by only inputting the order of votes presentation as I like so I can just copy and paste as I do my results presentation. I could also try to make a graph of how the ranking of countries changes as the votes come along.

Posted by: uhsting 14th December 2022, 11:39 AM

I've sent reminders Anyone still interested can still hop on the spaceship by the end of today and I will assign the countries+cities asap x

Posted by: Slade 14th December 2022, 01:42 PM

Thanks for the reminder! Submitted.

Posted by: uhsting 15th December 2022, 12:09 AM

F**k I forgot to send a reminder to Addy! Hope he can send me an entry soon, which will put the official number of entries to 21!

If you still want to sneak in a change, or do a last-minute pick on an island (will assign you the set very quickly x), you are welcome to do so before I put up a thread before like 20:00 today x

Posted by: FrankLuck 15th December 2022, 02:56 PM

Can I still switch my entry quickly?

Edit: Well, I did
If you can't accept it, it's fine. This entry is cool too (and the crowd will enjoy it more than my original one), but that one should be a BJSC entry for sure, even if it flops.

Posted by: uhsting 15th December 2022, 03:31 PM

I haven't started making the recap and the thread ddd so you're fine x

Posted by: CodySleighBell-y 15th December 2022, 07:48 PM

is it just me or does 21 feel relatively low for WorldVision

Posted by: Dobbo. 15th December 2022, 07:51 PM

Very low. Actually this is quite an unusual time to be starting one (not that I'm against it personally) as we're usually finished with the main contests by now and we're in a cooling off period with only TBO / Rejects.