Welcome to thirteenth edition of Music Olympics! We are here in Aalborg, 🇩🇰 Denmark the hosting city this season after Tina Dico's Fancy won the twelfth edition.

Applications are now open, you can now can now confirm your two countries in this thread but please do read the rules below before confirming. You can now also send your entries to me until 19th of January 4pm GMT.

I slightly changed the format and here are the following:

- As usual you can apply up to 2 countries however you must choose 1 country from Americas Region, Europe Region, Africa Region, or Asia-Pacific Region.

Countries from Americas Region: https://tengaged.com/blog/chris2pei/8757341/lists-countries-americas-region
Countries from Europe Region: https://tengaged.com/blog/chris2pei/8756738/lists-countries-europe-region
Countries from Africa Region: https://tengaged.com/blog/chris2pei/8742319/lists-countries-africa-region
Countries from Asia-Pacific Region: https://tengaged.com/blog/chris2pei/8758069/lists-countries-asia-pacific-region

- The song has to be either sung by someone from that country, made by someone from that country, or have a blood related from the parents living/roots on that country. Music from previous installment are not allowed to play again. Cover songs and live performance video can not participate in the competition. Entry should be an official music video, lyric video, or an audio video. A band or a collaboration can represent the country if at least one of members is from the selected country. There will be no view limit in this edition.

- The edition will only have Finals regardless if applications is abundant. The voting system is retain:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12 as the highest or most favorite song.

- Awards will be introduced like: Americas Outstanding Entry, Europe Outstanding Entry, Africa Outstanding Entry, Asia-Pacific Outstanding Entry, Best Non-English Entry (this promotes to have more non-English entry this edition and in future), and Undiscovered Gem Entry (this also promotes to submit song that have less than 50 million views in YouTube uploaded before June 2018). Awarding will be based on total 12,10, and 8 points the country will got from the jurors.

Some players must drop their one country to prevent a 2 country represents in same regions like:
hellocat: 🇫🇮 Finland 🇮🇸 Iceland
MrKlopp: 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Tester: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England 🇦🇽 Aland Islands
chris2pei: 🇯🇵 Japan 🇵🇭 Philippines
Pencepence: 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇩🇰 Denmark
DallasAndrew: 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇴 Romania

And these are the following players that can retain their 2 countries as 1 country represents in a region:
stuartlittle16: 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇺🇸 USA
boozes: 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇽 Mexico
DrG2: 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 🇵🇹 Portugal
TheRankKing1: 🇨🇦 Canada 🇸🇪 Sweden

Good luck and Happy New Year!