I don't know which contest it was and who was hosting, but I remember during semi results all the DNQ's were announced as qualifiers first, only minutes later telling us that it was all a joke

#rude

The shame of me attempting to enter another country for the 100th BJSC (aptly named Wasteland). Thankfully I was found out BEFORE the contest could get underway, so I was not able to mislead anyone. I did pay the price with a 32-contest ban, spread over 3 and a half years, but my ability to ever host a BJSC event, or spin-off, continues to be subject to the punishment. Moral of the story... don't cheat or bend the rules.

5 minutes ago, Addy! said:

I don't know which contest it was and who was hosting, but I remember during semi results all the DNQ's were announced as qualifiers first, only minutes later telling us that it was all a joke

#rude

Believe it or not, also Pavel.

1 minute ago, Iz 🌟 said:

Believe it or not, also Pavel.

Thank you!!!

My lawyer will contact soon...still have PTSD from it!!!

I remember Pav doing that - although I do also remember that a fair few of us realised what was happening

1 minute ago, Addy! said:

Thank you!!!

My lawyer will contact soon...still have PTSD from it!!!

I recall it so well because I also got on the wrong side of it (61, if anyone was curious about the contest).

Quite funny in retrospect tbf, more hosts should do it (no, they should not do that)

The oddly specific circumstances of Hendinia winning a spin-off, failing to vote, then Jadakissnia winning by default happening about three times

2 hours ago, awardinary said:

That time when Ben's Sanctuary were incorrectly disqualified when they actually should have qualified...

A DNQ f*** up has happened I think at least 5 times. If it’s caught quick enough we just add them to the final

2 hours ago, Cody Piastri said:

mine is the utter shock of hearing about people being able to change their entries midway through the contest, like if you’re gonna go with something why not stand by it? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

That’s never happened. Once the semis open that’s it.

Tho we did once veto a track after the semis opened

37 minutes ago, Chez Wombat said:

I believe it was you and Vulker/Vulkyria joint hosting iirc x

Yes! And it was like irl super messy between Pav and Vulker both if I remember correctly

Vulker just like full on ghosted the site and after a couple of days we just had to give up And cancel the semis

The sequel to the Pavel "twist" drama being that he got delt the same treatment when I won BuzzJack BigBrother (forever my lone popularity contest win on this forum).

The single digit/early teen contests had the horrors of the "reservation thread". This was back in the days when it was very much a spinoff of the Eurovision forum and a lot of people were having 'national finals' where you could "reserve" about four songs per contest for your national final, only to not use three or, if you found something else, none of them in the actual contest.

Confirmations in the very early days were announced during the confirmations window with the opening post updated, that's all. And then odds were made, some songs got low odds, people reacted and changed them. Or people just changed their mind like they do now but it was done publicly. But songs were never swapped over during the voting period indeed.

The lore everyone seemed to reference recently is BJSC 5 where I held a semi to turf out only three songs, because we were strict on our 24 song final back then 🤣

I wish we had these all written down somewhere because there have been some great moments over the years. Multiple confirmations, funny/deserving vetoes, cheeky entry attempts, voting dramas, Kath's ikonek phone hosting spread out over 3 days in 2009 etc...

1 minute ago, LexC said:

The single digit/early teen contests had the horrors of the "reservation thread". This was back in the days when it was very much a spinoff of the Eurovision forum and a lot of people were having 'national finals' where you could "reserve" about four songs per contest for your national final, only to not use three or, if you found something else, none of them in the actual contest.

Which of course saw some people reserve artists they had no intention of using, to ensure nobody else would.

Yes the Slinkee Minx thing is not so much that people could change their entry mid contest, just that confirmations were originally done in public so everyone knew when people changed their entries, but you still couldn't change after voting started.

The one time I do recall a song being swapped out after the semis started was when someone sent a remix of Major Lazer's 'Keep It Goin' Louder' and it initially evading notice that the original version had already been sent in an earlier contest!

And also to add a third example of Pavita's hosting shenanigans (albeit from the same contest as the one Addy posted about), he initially posted an edited version of the final set of votes in BJSC 61 to make it appear that I won before being lol jk and posting the real results where I came 2nd. Luckily I did win for real only half a year later so the mental scarring was only temporary xx

(love this thread, am sure I could come up with many more things to post in it, we love a good lore drop x)

I also remember a lot of drama over Tim getting vetoed over a "mod discretion" veto when like four people posted to let slip that they already knew what song it was but I think the veto got appealed/rescinded?

Lots of memorable hosting over the early years too, particularly in the order votes were revealed. I'm sure in the 12 point system era Hitstastic lumped all of the high scores for one song (I want to say Charice's Louder) on right at the end, so it went from a complete no-hoper all night to suddenly contending then winning in the last few votes. He wasn't the only host to pull the old 'winner emerges from nowhere' trick, which had the countries who sent the winners in question complaining all night of their terrible results until they suddenly emerged.

1 minute ago, gooddelta said:

Lots of memorable hosting over the early years too, particularly in the order votes were revealed. I'm sure in the 12 point system era Hitstastic lumped all of the high scores for one song (I want to say Charice's Louder) on right at the end, so it went from a complete no-hoper all night to suddenly contending then winning in the last few votes. He wasn't the only host to pull the old 'winner emerges from nowhere' trick, which had the countries who sent the winners in question complaining all night of their terrible results until they suddenly emerged.

Dare whoever the host is on the next Cor Lupus win to do this exact strategy!

On the first scoreboard, I unknowingly posted all the entries left on 0 points (so all but 10/15 tracks depending on voting format) in the order of their final position. I'm not sure if anyone else has done that but I did this TWICE a decade apart, and I believe (hope) only Bré was clever enough to notice each time. If it had been pointed out more widely then it might have made lore for the shortest ever final results threads.

5 minutes ago, Harve said:

On the first scoreboard, I unknowingly posted all the entries left on 0 points (so all but 10/15 tracks depending on voting format) in the order of their final position. I'm not sure if anyone else has done that but I did this TWICE a decade apart, and I believe (hope) only Bré was clever enough to notice each time. If it had been pointed out more widely then it might have made lore for the shortest ever final results threads.

I remember noticing that but I thought it was in unknown pleasures.

This thread is amazing, I completely forgot some of the things myself.