Rules of the Worldvision Song Contest: Difference between revisions
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=== 9. Other Moments === | === 9. Other Moments === | ||
9.1. Failure to vote, collusion, randomness, intentional falsification, irregular voting patterns, generating rankings from AI or a refusal to provide rankings in full will result in disqualification of the Participant from the next Season of the Project. IECO will calculate a substitute aggregated result for each country concerned and the voting will be replaced using jury results of all other countries from the Allocation Draw pots with an exponential formula (Section 8.3).<br> | 9.1. Failure to vote, collusion, randomness, intentional falsification, irregular voting patterns, generating rankings from AI or a refusal to provide rankings in full will result in disqualification of the Participant from the next Season of the Project. IECO will calculate a substitute aggregated result (a fallback) for each country concerned and the voting will be replaced using jury results of all other countries from the Allocation Draw pots with an exponential formula (Section 8.3).<br> | ||
9.2. If an Observer refuses to participate in voting, fails to vote with accordance to the rules or is unable to do so, they will be replaced and another Observer shall be appointed instead. If they have already casted their votes in any of the previous stages of the Season, IECO will calculate a substitute aggregated result and the voting will be replaced using televoting results of all other countries from the Allocation Draw pots with an exponential formula (Section 8.3). Observers that were identified with certain irregular voting patterns shall not be invited again to participate in the next Season.<br> | 9.2. If an Observer refuses to participate in voting, fails to vote with accordance to the rules or is unable to do so, they will be replaced and another Observer shall be appointed instead. If they have already casted their votes in any of the previous stages of the Season, IECO will calculate a substitute aggregated result and the voting will be replaced using televoting results of all other countries from the Allocation Draw pots with an exponential formula (Section 8.3). Observers that were identified with certain irregular voting patterns shall not be invited again to participate in the next Season.<br> | ||
9.3. If the Participant have a valid reason and informed the organizers of inability to vote due to circumstances, the replacing voting will be calculated, but no penalties will be introduced to the Participant<br> | 9.3. If the Participant have a valid reason and informed the organizers of inability to vote due to circumstances, the replacing voting will be calculated, but no penalties will be introduced to the Participant<br> | ||