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WHAT?
The results of the 134th Buzzjack Song Contest semi finals. Sixty-nine nations sent in seventy-one sets of votes for their personal top ten songs in their delegated semi final. Twenty nations will qualify from each semi final while fourteen will fall to the wayside and miss out on the grand final. The qualifiers will be revealed in random order but after six qualifiers have been revealed the non-qualifiers will be revealed starting with the last place. Semi final one will start, then followed by semi final two afterwards.

WHEN & WHERE?
The results will start in this thread at 8 PM GMT+1 (UK Time) but we're pretending this contest is being held in Trinityfjord, the capital of majestic north Vinorel nation Mosquetania.

WHAT TO EXPECT?
We have five non-qualifiers with votes from 10 or more countries and five qualifiers with votes from less than 10 countries. The average reach of the songs was getting votes from 10.6 countries in semi one and 10.3 countries in semi two. We have two three-way ties in the 18th to 25th region. Whether these ties apply to a qualifying/non-qualifying position remains to be seen. The final qualifying countries in both semis (20th place) both received around 50 points. Unfortunately New Lexico and POPHub voted after the deadline passed so they will receive a 15% deduction from their points total while Bhangra failed to vote entirely and will in turn receive a 33% deduction.

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE?
Yes, actually there is! Similar as to the entry reveal thread tonight I have a gift for each of the nations participating. Each nation will receive a fan-made flag inspired by their nation, official flag and whatever else I could dig up about your nation. I made 70 flags for fun, one for each nation participating. Initially I kickstarted this because I was looking for bigger versions of the flags of the nations involved in a specific size ratio but seeing how that would be a tough task and almost impossible for me to receive them all in the same size I decided to instead create these flags as they would all automatically be the desired size and I used the opportunity to advance my expertise in Photoshop.

I want to be absolutely clear that with these flags I am in no way saying my flags are better than the originals or that I don't like the original flags of each nation. There are so many different flags in this contest that are stunning, hilarious and inspired so it was a great excuse to learn more about the various nations participating. I tried to keep them at least somewhat inspired by the original but this varies from flag to flag, and sometimes I also allowed myself to make assumptions about the nation at hand - especially if there was limited information on the original flag or in the national thread. It was a fun creative project for me to see what I could make with limited information to base them on and only done for fun so I do hope you enjoy these gifts and that no one gets offended by what I created. I am after all only human. The flags are gifts so you are entitled to do whatever you want with them after I gift them to you.