Psychological manipulation

Chapter 5: Voting

§ 5.1: Absolutely no vote revealing. Under no circumstances are you allowed to reveal your votes before you are called during the results show. Semi-final votes may not be revealed until the full results for the edition have been posted.

§ 5.2: Absolutely no vote manipulation. This includes knowingly adjusting your votes with one or several other users in order to boost your own chances, controlling multiple accounts and other forms of intentional or tactical voting. A breach can lead to a ban from the contest.

§ 5.3: When voting, users will rank their top 15 entries and give their top 10 points in the order of 12, 10, and then 8 through 1, with 12 points going to their 1st place, and 1 point to their 10th place. 11th-15th will receive no points, but still need to be included in the ranking in case a country in the user's top 10 is disqualified.

§ 5.4: Users send in a ranking of their top 15 entries to the host when voting. Voting can only be done through the voting form on Reddit. Users can not vote for their own entry.

§ 5.5: Users are required to vote in the semi-final they are either participating in or allocated to vote in as an automatic qualifier.

§ 5.6: All participating users, including users that failed to qualify, are required to vote in the final.

§ 5.7: Cross-voting

Users also have the option to vote in the semi-finals they’re not required to vote in.

Users submits crossvotes as any other vote (cf. § 5.4)

The sum of all crossvotes will be combined. The combined crossvotes will have one-fourth of the total voting power in the semi-final, while the internal votes count for the other three-fourths.

When the number of crossvoters are more than third of the number of internal voters, the crossvotes will be scaled down to hold 25% of the total voting power in a semi-final. Should the number of crossvoters be fewer than a third of internal voters, the raw point totals from the crossvoting will be used, giving the crossvoting less than 25% of the total voting power in a semi-final.

§ 5.8: Disqualification

Failure to vote will result in a disqualification from the current edition and the following edition.

All votes cast to a disqualified entry will be removed and reallocated to other entries.

Should an automatic qualifier fail to vote during the semi-final period, their entry will be disqualified and the grand final will proceed without their entry.

§ 5.9: Withdrawals

Users have the option to withdraw from the edition before a deadline.

All votes cast to a withdrawn entry will be removed and reallocated to other entries.

A withdrawal will not result in a disqualification in the following edition.

A withdrawal must be messaged to the host and done in a reasonable time before the deadline.

Should an already eliminated participant wish to withdraw during the final, it will have to be discussed with the moderators.

§ 5.10: Should two or more entries share the same scores, the ties will be broken in this order:

Songs that received points from the greater amount of countries

Songs that received the greater amount of 12 points, 10 points, 8 points and so forth until the tie is resolved.

Should there still be a tie, the entries will be tied.

Should there be a tie between two songs in the semi-finals, the song that received the greater amount of points from the internal votes will precede.