AVSC

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Asian Voice Song Contest
Asian Voice Song Contest (AVSC) is a song contest on YouTube participated only by countries and territories in the Asian continent. It is also claimed as the unofficial counterpart of the famous Eurovision Song Contest of Europe. The contest is solely founded, researched, edited and managed by Liev.

Format
The manager finds thirty songs, one from each chosen Asian country, that will officially compete with each other. Then draws are held. Each names of the chosen countries are written on a sheet of paper and is gathered in a container. The first 15 countries that will be handpicked will be competing with each other for the first semi-final and the other 15 countries will be competing with each other for the second semi-final. The first-semi-final video is posted first on YouTube, followed by its result after the deadline of the submission of votes. Then the second semi-final video is posted on YouTube, followed by its result after the deadline of the submission of votes. The first 10 countries that would win in each semi-final will compete with each other in the finals. And as the winner is declared, a city from the winning country will be chosen to host the next edition days after the victory.

Participation
Eligible participants are those countries and/or territories under the Asian continent. Twenty countries have participated at least once. They are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

Hosting
The winning country of every edition is granted to choose from one of their legitimate cities to host the next edition. Manila, Philippines was chosen as the first host city of the Asian Voice Song Contest's pilot edition because of the creator's national origin. Taipei, Taiwan is the next and second city to host the contest following the victory of SHERO by S.H.E. in the recently concluded AVSC # 1.

Entries
In order for a song to be eligible to participate in the AVSC, the song must either: Plus, it must have a decent and good quality (not necessarily in HD) video on YouTube and must never been used as an Original Soundtrack (OST) or theme song of any soaps, movies or official events. Song covers and revivals are subject to be judged by the host.
 * 1) have its singer coming from the country it will be representing.
 * 2) have it sang in the language of the country it will be representing.

Artists
In order for an artist to be eligible to participate in the AVSC, the singer must either: Groups are welcome to participate as long as at least one of their members pass one of the requirements for artist eligibility. Well-known pop artists (i.e. Charice, Bruno Mars and Apl.de.Ap ( for the Philippines), Norah Jones (for India), Ne-Yo (for China), Linkin Park (for either Japan or South Korea) and Far East Movement (for either China, Philippines, South Korea or Japan) are prohibited from participating in the contest because they are already popular all over the world and that reason might affect the voters' votes.
 * 1) have at least a quarter of blood lineage with the country he/she desires to represent.
 * 2) have been residing and legally performing in the country he/she wishes to represent.

Contest
The contest currently features 20 countries/territories. Although the contest has no rules as to how many countries should participate, the next edition is rumored to have a rule over this.

Voting
Voting is done everytime a contest has been posted on the official channel of the AVSC on YouTube. Each YouTube user is entitled to have one (1) vote with 12, 10, 8, 5 and 2 points for the countries they like to see on the finals or to win each round (incl. 2 semi-finals and the finals) of the contest. Individuals with multiple YouTube accounts that try to vote twice for a round are subject to be banned from voting in the contest.

Host
The city that would host the next edition of the AVSC depends upon the winning country.

Language
Since Asia has a wide variety of languages, it has been decided uninanimously to use the universal English language as the primary language of the whole contest.

Logo
The logo of the AVSC sports a side-view silhouette of a golden singing woman. The woman symbolizes equality for all sexes, since a lot of women are still mistreated, abused and discriminated across Asia. It is also an advocacy for the inequality between men and women to stop. The golden color of the silhouette means the enlightenment and rebirth of the Asian continent wherein equality, love and peace reigns over both genders. While the female silhouette and the golden color of her silhouette defines a deep advocacy, the meaning of the mic held by the woman simply means what the contest is all about, singing.

Contest Partners
Since the debut of the AVSC on the online song contest scene, it has gathered several contest partners that help promote and make the contest a better one. Here's the list of AVSC's official contest partners:

Spin-off
AVSC launched it's first song contest spin-off, the Asian Voice Song Contest-Friendship Circle (AVSC-FC) wherein the participants who will compete and the countries they will represent are chosen and suggested by AVSC's online friends worldwide.