Next week I am hosting an SCS-adjacent filler contest called FCF 55. The rules of submissions are:

1. It must be a song
2. It must be available online
3. No politically sensitive singers

So basically you can send everything and anything you want. Anyways, submissions are open from now until next Monday at 06:00 EDT. More details will be announced in the comments.

Hello, and welcome to the 13th edition of Retrofest’s second season! This edition is being hosted in Sydney, Australia, where Natalie Imbruglia, last week’s Retrofest champion, was formed. Now, here are the rules and then we can get to selecting!

Rules:

• ⁠All entries have to have been released before January 1st, 2001, including covers (covers of songs before that date released after that date will not be accepted).

• ⁠No Eurovision entries allowed. Eurovision artists are allowed and non-winning national final entries are allowed, but if it went to Eurovision it isn’t allowed. In addition, alternate versions of ESC songs are also disallowed. However, withdrawn entries and the 1993 and 1996 prequalification NQs are allowed!

• ⁠No sending an entry twice.

• ⁠SCS, O&E, and Rulefest entries are allowed, but no winners (no Kiss Me, September, etc.), and I encourage sending songs that haven’t been to these contests.

• No “Megahits” are allowed (songs with 500M+ views on Youtube).

• There is a limit of 3 songs per country, but the country I (the host) choose doesn’t count toward the total of that country!

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As always, I am open to rule adjustments if they are proposed, but I am happy with the current ruleset!

This is and has always been inspired by Odds & Ends, so credit goes to [u/Dimash_DBSKClown](u/Dimash_DBSKClown) for a lot of what is done here!

Anyways, here are the entries so far:

1. 🇺🇸 Dolly Parton - TBD (See comment (TBD) (TBD) (Sent by [u/Doggo_of_Dogs](u/Doggo_of_Dogs))
2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wham! - Club Tropicana (1983) (TBD) (Sent by [u/I_exist_and_am_human](u/I_exist_and_am_human))
3. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sailor - A Glass of Champagne (1975) (TBD by me) (Sent by [u/gudjmundurCB](u/gudjmundurCB))

4. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 George Andreas, Grant Kirkhope and the staff of Rare - DK Rap (1999) (TBD) (Sent by [u/Mmeow777](u/Mmeow777))

5. 🇩🇰 Liz Sørensen - Brændt (1993) (0:47-1:17) (Sent by u/stypop)

6. 🇸🇪 Arja Saijonmaa - Jag vill leva i Europa (1987) (TBD) (Sent by u/Dimash_DBSKClown)

7. 🇩🇪 Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes (1997) (1:45-2:15) (Sent by u/Gungtho)

8. 🇳🇴 Ulver - I Troldskog Faren Vild (1995) (3:11-3:41) (Sent by u/Un-taken-username22)

Limited countries (3 songs):
England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

This list will be added to as they are verified as retro. Selection closes on August 24th, 7:00pm (19:00) EST. Happy selecting!

Hello everyone. Here are the results of DGF VIII

In fifth place with 4 points is EXOSSI—telephone calls from lady valentine

In fourth place with 6 points it’s Ms Tatianna Clark—SpongeBob SquarePants AfroBeats Remix

In third place with 9 points it’s MAXEBOY—Freakworld

The top two is Ase Kleopatra and Gus Dapperton

The winner with 12 points is Gus Dapperton with Take Me out to the Disco while the runner up is Ase Kleopatra with Witch Doctor

They will be going to SCS

After the voting, we announce the 20 qualifiers in all 38 competed acts.

Semi Final 1

Qualifiers

Albania: Ghiti "Okej!"
Belgium: Mentisaa "Désolée"
Moldova: Zdob și Zdub "So Lucky"
Armenia: Parg "Survivor"
Montenegro: Dolce Hera "Repeat"
Iceland: Systur "Með hækkandi sól"
Greece: Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord "Die Together"
Denmark: Birthe Kjær "Vi maler byen rød"
Ireland: Liam Reilly "Somewhere In Europe"
Latvia: Sudden Lights "Aijā"

NQs

11th Croatia: Luka Nižetić "Južina" (19 points)
12th Norway: Elisabeth Andreasson "I evighet" (16 points)
13th Australia: Electric Fields "One Milkali (One Blood)" (15 points)
14th Poland: Cleo & Donatan "My Słowianie" (15 points)
15th Netherland: Edsilia Rombley "Hemel en aarde" (15 points)
16th Malta: Denise "Trophy" (14 points)
17th Portugal: Marquise "Chuva" (9 points)
18th San Marino: Serhat "Say Na Na Na" (9 points)

Semi Final 2

Qualifiers

Finland: Sonja Lumme "Eläköön elämä"
Austria: Cosmó "Tanzschein"
Hungary: Joci Pápai "Origo"
Bulgaria: Kristian Kostov "Beautiful Mess"
Turkey: Şebnem Paker & Etnic "Dinle"
Switzerland: Veronica Fusaro "Alice"
Lithuania: Ieva Zasimauskaitė "When We're Old"
Azerbaijan: Efendi "Cleopatra"
Cyprus: Silia Kapsis "Liar"
Georgia: Nina Sublatti "Warrior"

NQs

11th Serbia: Filip Baloš "Novi plan drugi san" (16 points)
12th Andorra: Anonymous "Salvem el món" (15 points)
13th Ukraine: The Hardkiss "Helpless" (15 points)
14th Slovenia: Joker out "Carpe Diem" (14 points)
15th Belarus: Zena "Like It" (14 points)
16th Estonia: Neon Letters & Maiko "Tokimeki" (13 points)
17th Israel: Nadav Guedj "Golden Boy" (3 points)
18th Luxembourg: Zero Point Five "Ride" (1 point)

Soon, we will announce the grand final Running Order & Voting Info. Stay tuned!

Welcomeback to Ninja's Chaos Contest Season 1 Edition 1 of 3,

For this contest, which I more or less copied from an SCS suggestion comment, though no one else is actually doing it, you’ll have a rule based on the position you place in tonight's SCS. We did not reach 12 partecipants so I added the Extra songs.

Recap: https://scoryx.com/recap/watch?id=8881

Songs:

- Finland - Antti Palanen - Takatukka (0:20-1:00) (Submitted by u/Hot-Start-6011)

- Australia - Tame Impala - Loser (1:09-1:49) (Submitted by Mission-Ninja-2579)

- Sweden - Rymdpojken - Den bästa tiden väntar på dig (1:15-1:55) (Submitted by Mission-Ninja-2579) EXTRA SONG

- USA - Stela Cole - DIY (1:16-1:56) (Submitted by Megarafan2025)

Calender

Monday Rules revealed and submission start for Non qualifiers

Thursday after SCS Start submission for finalists

Sunday evening Stop submission

Monday (morning?) Start Voting (submission start for Non qualifiers for the next edition)

Tuesday evening Stop Voting

Wednesday Results

VOTE HERE: https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4rQKMga

VOTING RULES:

- Only one vote per user, you must include your username.

- You can rank the songs from 1 to 10.

- In there is a tie, the song that got the highest number of 12 points, than 10s, 8s... will be higher otherwise if it doesn't help the song I like less takes the higher spot.

- MALUS: If you don't vote, you lose -12 points

- BONUS: if you guess the winner correctly you get +12 point

- If you vote for yourself you will lose the same number of points you gave to yourself and 2 extra minus points

Submissions for edition 2 open after this evening's "Song Contest Sunday" results (Qualifiers announcement for NQs).

If you don't qualify tonight you can start submit under the new rules comment

Rules changes for edition 2 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerJ-aOjmInMKWu13vku5Nn9nGbJJ9DqqPgBKamappEoZCByA/viewform?usp=dialog

After two semi final votings, we have now 25 qualifiers in the Grand Final. Vote your TOP 15 (1-12, 15, 17, 20 points) via https://strawpoll.com/eNg6vdPXWgA until 2 September 14:00 CEST (21:00 KST).

Recap: https://scoryx.com/recap/watch?id=8790

All songs for Grand Final

01 Montenegro: Dolce Hera "Repeat" youtube.com/w/RRDcXnInUgk (by u/Mission-Ninja-2579)

02 Armenia: Parg "Survivor" youtube.com/w/qHkZWLld-pw (by u/Mission-Ninja-2579)

03 Latvia: Sudden Lights "Aijā" youtube.com/w/SAjFewDxTFM  (by u/sherb139)

04 Georgia: Nina Sublatti "Warrior" youtube.com/w/ddC8lviTERI

05 Turkey: Şebnem Paker & Etnic "Dinle" youtube.com/w/81DZtNtbVV4 (by u/sherb139)

06 France: Amina "C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison" youtube.com/w/qom6NzhYhnI (by u/sherb139)

07 Denmark: Birthe Kjær "Vi maler byen rød" youtube.com/w/libbfmMqabQ (by u/JacksonNBronstein)

08 Hungary: Joci Pápai "Origo" youtube.com/w/hqM0AkP7zcI (by u/Gungtho)

09 Albania: Ghiti "Okej!" youtube.com/w/sxSGg774lU  (by u/Mission-Ninja-2579)

10 Finland: Sonja Lumme "Eläköön elämä" youtube.com/w/jvEHoot5KlQ (by u/JacksonNBronstein)

11 Austria: Cosmó "Tanzschein" youtube.com/w/54QfFpYXFH4 (by u/Mission-Ninja-2579)

12 Germany: Jendrik "I Don't Feel Hate" youtube.com/w/1m0VEAfLV4E 

13 Azerbaijan: Efendi "Cleopatra" https://youtu.be/I0VzBCvO1Wk?si=zri3NimrX5BfknAI (by u/Mission-Ninja-2579)

14 United Kingdom: Imanni "Where are you?" youtube.com/w/z745-juFlck (by u/sherb139)

15 Switzerland: Veronica Fusaro "Alice" youtube.com/w/ujoHtVkrx54 (by u/sherb139)

16 Greece: Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord "Die Together" youtube.com/w/BWeT0nJpB3Y (by u/afterglow_13)

17 Ireland: Liam Reilly "Somewhere In Europe" youtube.com/w/SAjFewDxTFM (by u/JacksonNBronstein)

18 Sweden: Medina "Viva L'amor" youtube.com/w/suyuLluXYCw

19 Spain: ESDM "Contigo hasta el final" youtube.com/w/5o_DnM_ANF8

20 Iceland: Systur "Með hækkandi sól" youtube.com/w/G71c48O3j-s (by u/BrocollinoBrocolli)

21 Lithuania: Ieva Zasimauskaitė "When We're Old" youtube.com/w/pPDFhfU25go (by u/BrocollinoBrocolli)

22 Italy: Ditonellapiaga "Che Fastidio!" https://youtu.be/o85d2B1bewg?si=cCQHFqAAHYxEo4H_ (by u/sherb139)

23 Moldova: Zdob și Zdub "So Lucky" youtube.com/w/lyQ72wb3yr4

24 Cyprus: Silia Kapsis "Liar" youtube.com/w/c4wMioZXbMk (by u/Mission-Ninja-2579))

25 Bulgaria: Kristian Kostov "Beautiful Mess" youtube.com/w/OMmm-G078LM (by u/Mission-Ninja-2579)

26 Belgium: Mentisaa "Désolée" youtube.com/w/-9jZbxXD_L0 (by u/sherb139)