Mafiascum.net

The MafiaScum Song Contest is a competition modeled after the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It's a means to gain exposure to new music through the tastes of your peers, like it or not. Those that enter must also vote for the people they are running against based on how much they like the songs. Everyone picks an alias in the form of a country (any one of your choosing) and sends in a song that they like in order to expose it to the other contestants. After voting, they are tallied in the thread and a winner is named. No matter who wins, everyone wins by gaining new knowledge of songs, artists, albums and genres of music in the process!

List of Previously Entered Songs



1. Find a song that you like on any internet medium that isn't restricted or private.

2. Submit it via the form linked above!

3. Wait until I reveal the entries. You may or may not be cut (as stated at the end of this post).

4. Once entries are revealed, you will rank your top 10 countries! You will do this via a Google Form link to be provided later. The point values are as follows:

12 points - 1st
10 - 2nd
8 - 3rd
7 - 4th
6 - 5st
5 - 6th
4 - 7th
3 - 8th
2 - 9th
1 - 10th

Please rate fairly by giving all countries a listen. You may not vote for yourself. Everyone, regardless of entry or cut status, may vote, so you can still participate even if you chose not to enter or if you got cut! However, if those that entered and are accepted do not vote, they will get a 20 point penalty and be banned from entering in the next contest, so please consider that before entering.

5. Wait for results. It's that simple!



In order to eliminate bias, certain entries based on previous performance are banned. After dozens of contests and a following of a vague "Code of Ethics" by the Song Contest population, there have been so many entries that a rule system is now in place as to what can and cannot be entered. Please refer to the list of entered songs linked above and CTRL+F your artist AND song name to make sure it isn't included in the following list.



-You cannot enter an artist that has won ANY contest in the past, no matter how far away that contest is.
-You cannot enter an artist that has been entered in the last 15 contests.
-You cannot enter a song that has been entered before, regardless of placement. (You can enter a cover or different version of that song.) For example: You cannot enter in "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes, but you can enter in "The Hardest Button to Button" by The White Stripes.
-You cannot enter an artist that has gotten Top 3 in a Battle of the Best. For example: You may not enter anything by the Doves, as they got 2nd in a BotB.
-You cannot enter something that is not a "song". We generally interpret this term very loosely, but here are some examples:

Things considered a song: Anything created with an actual artist and song title that is INTENDED for the listener, even if it's painful to listen or even if there's nothing included (Examples: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit, Eminem - Lose Yourself, Barney - I Love You, John Cage - 4'33, Sunn 0))) - 0))) Bow 1, etc.)

Things not considered a song: Anything without an artist or title, a video clip of something random, a comedy routine (unless it's an actual song a la Stephen Lynch), a large square wave, an animal barking, total silence not being attributed to an artist, etc. (Examples: A clip of Louis CK's Shameless, an ibex screeching, a clip of a game show, a clip of someone screaming, etc.)

I will let you know if your entry does not meet the criteria of a "song," but it should be fairly obvious.



-You can enter an artist that has gotten 2nd or lower at least 15 contests ago, as long as you do not repeat a song.
-You can enter an artist that got top 3 in a song contest, unless it won that contest or also got top 3 in a Battle of the Best.
-You can enter a different version of a song entered before, such as a cover (or the original if the cover was entered first). For example, Johnny Cash's "Hurt" has already been entered, but you can still enter Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt".

Other than that, you're good! If your entry violates one of these rules, you'll have until the deadline to fix it or we reserve the right to deny your entry (as if you haven't entered one at all) due to time constraints.

Reserved Countries

Bhutan
Burkina Faso
Central African Republic
Djibouti
Ecuador
Egypt
Greenland
Hong Kong
Hungary
Italy
Kenya
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Madagascar
South Korea
Spain
Tanzania
United Kingdom
USA





If we get more than 26 entries, the 26 participants in the competition will be decided based on the following criteria:

1. First-time entrants

2. Last winner (Parama)

3. Current Song Contest Team (toolenduso and JurgenVW)



5. Everyone else

Anyone who does not make the cut is guaranteed a spot in one of the next 3 contests.

The following people will be ineligible to enter for not voting in SC123: rb and Psyche

I probably am not gonna enter for real this time but we'll see

You were with a girl, i happened to see you yesterday
you're the same as always, lighting one up after another
Oh why am I not a cigarette to you, without a filter
I would just walk from your fingers to your lips

Like nicotine you still pulse through my veins
I still love you, know that I never stopped
Like nicotine, you're killing me slowly
Because I'm long addicted to your lips

i'll see about it this time but i'm a very busy laddie nowadays

ego

This isn't a seasonal song, but if it were this would be the time for it.

Bloop

I have returned from the wilderness

In post 7, Scigatt wrote:This isn't a seasonal song, but if it were this would be the time for it.

I hope it's not spooky cause most of us aren't gonna hear it until thanksgiving.

I have returned

In post 10, PJ. wrote: I hope it's not spooky cause most of us aren't gonna hear it until thanksgiving.

Nah, it's not like that, though it could be called haunting.

I almost entered Carly Rae Jepsen's new song because it's very fucking good, but instead I picked an older song that I knew about but had never actually heard until a few days ago. I'm very curious how it will perform.

Huh. Didn't occur to me that I scheduled it on the same day as the U.S. midterm elections.

tool is a russian infiltrator making sure that people are busy entering songs for the contest last minute instead of going out to vote

Unless you're voting Republican, then for literally the sake of the world please stay home

In post 16, Parama wrote:Do what I want you to or you're nothing to me!

Fixed.

In post 16, Parama wrote:

Reminder:

VOTE YOU BASTARDS

Unless you're voting Republican, then for literally the sake of the world please stay home

if you don't vote, you lose 20 points and can't participate in the next Song Contest.

In post 18, xyzzy wrote:

In post 16, Parama wrote:

Reminder:

VOTE YOU BASTARDS

Unless you're voting Republican, then for literally the sake of the world please stay home

if you don't vote, you lose 20 points and can't participate in the next Song Contest.

Unless you don't enter

In post 17, KuroiXHF wrote:

In post 16, Parama wrote:Do what I want you to or you're nothing to me!

Fixed.

stay home coward

I already voted, but the whole message of, "It's your civic duty to vote and so you must! (but Republicans are exempt because I don't want what/who they're voting for!)" is really ridiculous and backwards.

This really doesn't need to be another politics thead. >_> I entered something that I hope Parama-sempai doesn't sneer at :ohdear:

In post 21, KuroiXHF wrote:I already voted, but the whole message of, "It's your civic duty to vote and so you must! (but Republicans are exempt because I don't want what/who they're voting for!)" is really ridiculous and backwards.

It's one thing when a rando does it and an entirely different thing when the President is tweeting the same sentiment but in reverse.

(K, now music)

In post 22, Shadoweh wrote:This really doesn't need to be another politics thead. >_> I entered something that I hope Parama-sempai doesn't sneer at :ohdear:

i am skipping this contest entirely so do whatever

but republicans? can die, for all i care. there is no way to be both a republican and a good person