NEW RULES
RULES ABOUT OFFICIAL VIDEOS VIEWS
All the countries
Following ESCT 35 the ESCT Council has decided that some of the contests rules needed to be re-thought. For that reason, some changes will be made.
The first change that was made was regarding the overall view limit. As long as we remember the view limit has been 50 million views. However it was concluded that that view limit basically only ends up ruling out extremely popular songs and everything ends up being available anyways, making the restriction very minimal. For that reason we cut the limit down to 25 million views. We believe it is an happy medium where it will give us the opportunity to learn about new music and will rule out the obvious ones we all know.
Microstates
Now on to a more touchy subject: microstates (Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino). It has come to our attention people grow extremely frustrated by the advantages the microstates have. This countries of very small dimension can borrow from any spot of their respective country with no view limit which basically ends up meaning we have 2 of the same country (2 Germanys , 2, Frances, 2 Spains, 2 Italys). For that reason, we had to think a lot and this new rule has been in the making for a few editions now. It wasn’t easy to reach a conclusion but ultimately, the rule that will be placed is that while microstates can still borrow from their countries, they will get a 1 million view limit. The council knows this is a drastic change but it is a change that makes sense and that you can work with and around it.
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