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Posted by NeonProject - January 3rd, 2012


| Home | Artist Status | Rules | Country List | Act Blocks | The Results | Thread |

Cross666

Act: #?
Representing: Norway
Track: Jotunheim
Placing: TBD

Total Points: TBD
Total Jury Points: TBD
Total Block Points: TBD
Highest Points: TBD
Point Average: TBD

Liquid Ooze

Act: #?
Representing: Japan
Track: Black Keys
Placing: TBD

Total Points: TBD
Total Jury Points: TBD
Total Block Points: TBD
Highest Points: TBD
Point Average: TBD

Moonburn

Act: #?
Representing: India
Track: Mauyra Thunder
Placing: TBD

Total Points: TBD
Total Jury Points: TBD
Total Block Points: TBD
Highest Points: TBD
Point Average: TBD

PeppersMOD

Act: #?
Representing: Ghana
Track: Ghana Campfire
Placing: TBD

Total Points: TBD
Total Jury Points: TBD
Total Block Points: TBD
Highest Points: TBD
Point Average: TBD

Rahmemhotep

Act: #?
Representing: Turkey
Track: Ayaklanma Bok (English: Bok Riot)
Placing: TBD

Total Points: TBD
Total Jury Points: TBD
Total Block Points: TBD
Highest Points: TBD
Point Average: TBD


Posted by NeonProject - January 3rd, 2012


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UPDATE: More points have been added to the available points in the results! Some entries will now be given 14, 16, 19 and 24 points in each category!

One of the biggest events for the Newgrounds audio community is about to go into it's 6th event and after a year long hiatus. The RAC (Represent A Country) Contest is a huge event in which artists can represent a country through their music in a variety of creative ways. Some artists previously in the contest have gone on to become big names in the NG community and it is also a fantastic opportunity for newcomers to meet other artists and make new friends. This contest is an open contest, meaning that any artist from anywhere can take part, you just have to upload the track to a file sharing site, Newgrounds or The Audio Portal to take part.

Key Dates:

4th Jan - Contest Launch
13th Feb - Signup Deadline
20th Feb - Submission Confirmation
19th March - Submission Deadline
26th March - Results*

*To be confirmed


Posted by NeonProject - January 1st, 2011


The results are in! The top 5 of this contest are...

1. Ghana
2. China
3. Ireland
4. Italy
5. Lebanon

In RAC 6 the following countries will automatically qualify for the final...
Ghana, China, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Korea, Antarctica and Slovenia

And here are the most victorious countries in each voting block...

Block 1 - North Pole
Block 2 - Ireland
Block 3 - Slovenia
Block 4 - Ghana
Block 5 - China

Congratulations Ghana!

RAC 5 [Results]


Posted by NeonProject - October 31st, 2010


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Block 1

#1:- Norway
#2:- North Pole
#3:- Israel
#4:- Sweden

Block 2

#5:- Ireland
#6:- Antarctica
#7:- Thailand
#8:- Korea

Block 3

#9:- Haiti
#10:- United States
#11:- Slovenia
#12:- Belgium

Block 4

#13:- Ghana
#14:- Australia
#15:- Germany
#16:- Italy
#17:- Lebanon

Block 5

#18:- Ukraine
#19:- England
#20:- Africa
#21:- China
#22:- Romania


Posted by NeonProject - October 30th, 2010



Posted by NeonProject - October 28th, 2010


[Home] [Artist Status] [Rules] [Permitted Countries] [Running Order]

Participants are expected to follow the rules, the RAC team may be more lenient on some rule breaks compared to others, but it is best that you carefully follow all rules when taking part. Judges also have the right to refuse a mark on your work if they believe it breaks the rules of the contest.

1. Your submission can be of any music genre or style, however, any lyrics or samples used in your piece must be referenced. STRICTLY NO VOCAL OR COPYRIGHTED SAMPLES!
2. The work you submit must be your own composition. Newcomers to the contest must take screenshots of their DAW as they produce their track. This is to avoid fraud entries, which ruin the experience for everyone.
3. Your track must be between 3:00 minutes and 4:00 minutes. In extreme circumstances we will allow ten seconds over and under, any more than that and we simply cannot accept you.
4. Only one act can apply for each country, if the country of your choice has been taken you can offer to collaborate, but we will need PM's from both accounts to confirm the collaboration.
5. All tracks must be in by the deadline. Participants are advised to regularly check their NG inboxes as we will need replies from applicants on certain matters. The more you reply the more we can help you. If you have a problem with reaching the deadline contact NeonProject in advance (not the day before) and we may be lenient. Communication works wonders with events like these and you get a lot more respect from the team if you do so.
6. Submissions must not contain racism, strong language or any other material seemed offensive.
7. All submissions must provide proof of research on that country to back up your piece. This could be a news article about your country, an article about a native musical movement or simply a collection of songs from that country which inspired your work.

Semi-Finals

Due to a high turnout from the previous contest. The RAC team have had to limit how many entries can take part in the final. The final will consist of 25 acts however we want as many people to take part as possible. The highest 5 countries from the last contest have automatic qualification into the final. The remaining 20 spaces will go to entries chosen by the Judges. There is no in-depth judging system for the qualifiers, the judges will simply chose the entries they would like to see in the final. The qualifiers will be revealed over the period of 5 days. Each day a block from the running order will be revealed. In each block will be one auto-qualifier and 4 successful semi-final entries.

Accepted, Hold and Banned

This year the contestants page will feature a new system. If you are in the accepted area your submissions has been completed and approved by the RAC team. If you are on hold, we are waiting for you to either complete your track, make changes, provide research material or provide DAW screenshots. If you are in the banned list your entry has been rejected, this can happen if you break a severe rule. As you are representing a country not only are you, as an artist, banned, but the country is banned from the contest too.

The Scoring Process

On the final night a slideshow will be shown where points are given for each category, the points given will be; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12.

The judges score each piece in the main categories out of 10, all the scores are then added and the highest scores allocated the points above.

The Categories:

Representation: The way your piece reflects the country, whether it's the choice of structure, instrumentation or musical style. The easiest way to gain points here is through lyrics and the choice of instrumentation.

Evidence: For the first time ever, contestants will be required to hand in evidence. This is to show the research artists have gone through in order to deliver their sound. Judges will be marking the quality of the evidence and how well the research can be noticed in the musical piece.

Originality: Arguably one of the most challenging categories. Does your piece use those dreaded cliché chords? You have no chance here. Originality means that your piece stands out from the rest and offers a new taste to the Judges pallette.
Instrumentation: How well does your instrumentation fit together, is it layered well? Is it suitable for your style?

Musicality: Harmonies and melodies are catchy and sucessful. Chords match with all notes and there is nothing out of place.

Entertainment: Although opinonated, it would be pretty unfair to judge a music contest without scoring the entertainment value. Make sure your piece isn't long winded and an that parts change before the listener gets bored.

Consistency: The above categories for each artist will be added up and divided by the number of categories they were judged on.

Exterior Points

Judges are not the only people who determine the outcome of the contest. All participants will be seperated into blocks of 5 (People in their running order area). Each participant will be invited to select and rank their top 5 entries of the contest, they will not be allowed to list anyone for their block in the votes. Each block is then totalled and the points allocated, just like the Judges categories. Entries unsuccessful in gaining a Final spot will also voter in the same way as the finalists would, however this will simply be known as the 'semi-finalists' block and all their votes will go towards just one result. There is also chance for participants to win further points by bringing support to the broadcast and having the most viewer votes.

The following shows how much each scores system is worth in the overall result:

Judges: 46%
Finalist Blocks: 38%
Semi-Final Block: 8%
Public Vote: 8%


Posted by NeonProject - October 28th, 2010


[Home] [Artist Status] [Rules] [Permitted Countries] [Running Order]

One of the biggest events for the Newgrounds audio community is about to go into it's 5th event. The RAC (Represent A Country) Contest is a huge event in which artists can represent a country through their music in a variety of creative ways. Some artists previously in the contest have gone on to become big names in the NG community and it is also a fantastic opportunity for newcomers to meet other artists and make new friends. This contest is an open contest, meaning that any artist from anywhere can take part, you just have to upload the track to a file sharing site, Newgrounds or The Audio Portal to take part.

The date for the RAC 5 Show has not yet been announced, so keep your eyes open.

Key Dates:

1st Nov - Contest Launch
20th Dec - Signup Deadline
27th Dec - Submission Deadline
27th - 31st Dec - Finalist Spotlight Week
1st Jan* - RAC 5 Final

*To be confirmed


Posted by NeonProject - October 24th, 2010


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Disqualified Artists: 9
Participating Countries: 22

Automatic Qualifiers:-

Haiti [RetromanOMG]
North Pole [PenguinSam]
United States [Stupor]
Thailand [Rahmemhotep]

Confirmed

Africa [Chozz]
Antarctica [Kirbyfemur]
Australia [WhiteSymphonia]
Belgium [Darthduba]
China [Naerbu]

England [Logical Defiance]
Germany [DJ Inthedark]
Ghana [jkap1]
Ireland [Lashmush]
Israel [TheCoreMan]

Korea [XayberOptix]
Lebanon [Camoshark]
Romania [Popraz]
Slovenia [Matvei]
Sweden [Reptiore]

Ukraine [Ajyablo]

Disqualification

Brazil [AwkwardFish]
Chile [Carlitoz]
Cyprus [BorntoDJ167]
Egypt [zomgkerrie]
Hungary [Flash-MX]
Iceland [SineRider]
Japan [DJ MindSweeper]
Malta [Sequenced]
Switzerland [Fire118]

[Signup stage is now closed]


Posted by NeonProject - June 25th, 2010


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Due to a post-contest disqualification the results have been changed. Thanks to Kirbyfemur for the recalculation of the results.

"NEW" Final results
1)Haiti: 66
2)Scotland: 58
3)North Pole: 57
4)United States: 50
4)Thailand: 50
5)China: 49
6)Russia: 47
7)Antarctica: 38
8)Italy: 36
9)Kurdistan: 22
10)Turkey: 20
10)Serbia: 20
10)Denmark: 20
11Romania: 18
12)Luxembourg: 17
13)Lebanon: 16
14)Iceland: 15
15)Kurdistan: 14
16)Indonesia: 13
17)Norway: 11
17)Israel: 11
18)Canada: 10
18)Chile: 10
19)Brazil: 9
20)Australia: 5
21)Belgium: 1

Representation:-
12 Points: Scotland
10 Points: China
8 Points: Turkey
7 Points: North Pole
6 Points: Haiti
5 Points: United States
4 Points: Kurdistan
3 Points: Iceland
2 Points: Antarctica
1 Point: (N/A)
Originality:-
12 Points: Haiti
10 Points: Scotland
8 Points: Thailand
7 Points: United States
6 Points: Antarctica
5 Points: Kurdistan
4 Points: Serbia
3 Points: China
2 Points: Indonesia
1 Point: (N/A)

Instrumentation:-
12 Points: Thailand
10 Points: Serbia
8 Points: Iceland
7 Points: Haiti
6 Points: Italy
5 Points: China
4 Points: North Pole
3 Points: Romania
2 Points: Antarctica
1 Point: (N/A)

Musicaliy:-
12 Points: United States
10 Points: Haiti
8 Points: Russia
7 Points: Italy
6 Points: China
5 Points: Lebanon
4 Points: Luxembourg
3 Points: North Pole
2 Points: Norway
1 Point: (N/A)

Entertainment:-
12 Points: Haiti
10 Points: Italy
8 Points: Kurdistan
7 Points: Norway
6 Points: Thailand
5 Points: United States
4 Points: Scotland
3 Points: Lebanon
2 Points: Denmark
1 Point: (N/A)
Block Points Breakdown
Block 1:-
12 Points: North Pole
10 Points: Scotland
8 Points: United States
7 Points: Thailand
6 Points: Kurdistan
5 Points: Haiti
4 Points: Israel
3 Points: Italy
2 Points: Norway
1 Point: (N/A)

Block 2:-
12 Points: Antarctica
10 Points: Russia
8 Points: Thailand
7 Points: Brazil
6 Points: Serbia
5 Points: North Pole
4 Points: Iceland
3 Points: Denmark
2 Points: Australia
1 Point: Belgium

Block 3:-
12 Points: Russia
10 Points: Turkey
8 Points: Lebanon
7 Points: Antarctica
6 Points: Haiti
5 Points: United States
4 Points: Thailand
3 Points: Romania
2 Points: China
1 Point: (N/A)

Block 4:-
12 Points: China
10 Points: Kurdistan
8 Points: North Pole
7 Points: Luxembourg
6 Points: United States
5 Points: Russia
4 Points: Scotland
3 Points: Indonesia
2 Points: Turkey
1 Point: (N/A)

Block 5:-
12 Points: North Pole
10 Points: Canada
8 Points: Russia
7 Points: Antarctica
6 Points: China
5 Points: Italy
4 Points: Haiti
3 Points: Australia
2 Points: Brazil
1 Point: (N/A)

Block 6:-
12 Points: Romania
10 Points: Scotland
8 Points: Indonesia
7 Points: Israel
6 Points: North Pole
5 Points: Thailand
4 Points: Russia
3 Points: Denmark
2 Points: Antarctica
1 Point: (N/A)

Public Vote Scores

12 Points: Denmark
10 Points: Chile
8 Points: Scotland
7 Points: China
6 Points: Luxembourg
5 Points: Italy
4 Points: Haiti
3 Points: Kurdistan
2 Points: United States
1 Point: (N/A)


Posted by NeonProject - May 15th, 2010


[RAC Home] [Rules] [History] [Contestants] [Running Order] [Results] [Facebook] [NG] [TAP]
When? 25th June!
Where? Radiogrounds

Artists will be assigned their position in the running order at random after they have submitted their entry. The order is divided into blocks of 5 participants. These are the voting blocks mentioned in the exterior points section of the rules page.

Block 1

#1 - Lebanon
#2 - Russia
#3 - Luxembourg
#4 - Antarctica
#5 - Canada

Block 2

#6 - Chile
#7 - Papua New Guinea
#8 - Haiti
#9 - Japan
#10 - Scotland

Block 3

#11 - Israel
#12 - Iceland
#13 - Italy
#14 - Kurdistan
#15 - North Pole

Block 4

#16 - Egypt
#17 - Belgium
#18 - Venezuela
#19 - Thailand
#20 - Denmark

Block 5

#21 - Norway
#22 - Romania
#23 - Brazil
#24 - United States
#25 - Indonesia

Block 6

#26 - Australia
#27 - Serbia
#28 - Greece
#29 - Turkey
#30 - China

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