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How to play? (after installing/using the Spotify App)

First of all, you have to apply under the appropriate Topic as explained there...you will be asked to specify who will be your Artist/Group/etc and what Song you will perform during the entire season (remember to post the link of your Spotify Song if you want to be sure I'll pick the correct one, in case of more versions)...

When we will have found the required Partecipants of the current season, you will be notified by a private mail of your participation in our show...we will then divide you all in two groups, one for each Semifinal...and we will let you know about the date of those (they are not live Semifinals, but if you want you could be more active in those days in order to follow the show)...

Each Semifinal will last 24hours irl from their start. During that period of time, our Jury of 5 Judges will be able to listen all of your performances to draw up their personal Rankings to establish the first 60% of votes, simultaneously with our Audience expressing their preferences into a Poll to get the remaining 40% of votes...after combining both of them, we will see who will join the Final and who won't...

With the Final, that could usually last 24hours or 48hours irl, a third figure will judge your performances...Yourselves! You will have to establish your personal Ranking too, and that will be combined again with a new Ranking by our Judges and a new Ranking by our Audience! After that, we will discover the final decisive Ranking together with the Winner!

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Semifinals' Voting System:
Each one of the playing songs will be judged and voted by both our Audience (represented by a Poll, votes with a value of 40% of the total score) and our Judges (represented by some chosen ones, votes with a value of 60% of the total score too). The two resulting provisional Rankings will be then combined in order to get the final and definitive Ranking, that will determine who will join the Final and who will be exlcluded...

Final's Voting System:
Each one of the qualified songs will be judged and voted by three different figures (we keep our 2nd Season Voting System, I'll try to give a 40%/40% of influence to both Jury/Partecipants and a 20% of influence to our Audience). Our Audience and our Judges like in the previous phases, with also all of the Partecipants! In fact, you will all be able to vote and take out your personal Ranking, giving some predetermined amounts of votes to your favourite songs between the other ones (you can't vote for yourself and if you don't draw up your personal Ranking you will get a huge penalty in negative points)...you will only vote in the Final and that will be very important, don't miss that! Even not qualified partecipants could vote in the Final, giving their votes! ;)

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Judges' Votes (sending them by private mails):
12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points to their favorite top 10 songs...
p.s. If they want to, they could also write some comments about all the songs they consider worthy, in both a positive or negative way...

Audience's Votes (a secret Poll that I'll personally check):
An amount of points proportioned to the % of votes received, considering the impact on the resulting Ranking...

Partecipants' Votes (sending them by private mails):
12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points to their favorite top 10 songs...
p.s. If they don't send their votes in time (24h or 48h) when required, they will get a huge penalty with negative Malus points...

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In both Semifinals and Final too, there will also be a Bonus of extra points available to all the competing Songs that are gloabally less popular! So try your best to don't pick the most famous Songs you know...be original! A little advantage to those that will be probably more disadvantaged by our Audience Ranking and so on... (we're going to use Spotify Listenings of each competing Songs, to determine those Bonus of extra points...)
< 50.000.000 Spotify Listenings = +5 Points
< 25.000.000 Spotify Listenings = +10 Points
< 5.000.000 Spotify Listenings = +20 Points
< 1.000.000 Spotify Listenings = +30 Points
< 500.000 Spotify Listenings = +35 Points

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p.s To my dear Jury members and Partecipants...feel free to write me any advice you want to, in order to improve the game... ;) It's the third season, but there will aways be a chance of improvement for the future ones... ;)

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