Colorful Song Contest

The Colorful Song Contest, often shortened to CSC is an online song contest on YouTube. The contest manager is HerrVonBommel, who also produced the Magnificent Song Contest and the TuneVision Song Contest.

Participation & Voting

 * You have to choose one country to participate.
 * Only European countries are eligible to participate in this contest.
 * Territories like the Åland Islands, the Faroe Islands or Gibraltar are not allowed to enter the competition.
 * "Borrowing countries" like San Marino are eligible to participate as well.
 * Jury and Televoting
 * You can't vote for your own country.

Song Rules

 * No "overused" songs.
 * No (J)ESC artists and songs.
 * No songs from national selections of the Eurovision Song Contest.
 * The artists must be alive and at least 16 years old to take part.
 * The artists must have a strong connection to the country they're representing (Born there, living there etc.).
 * World-wide known artists like Calvin Harris or Rita Ora are not allowed.
 * Songs that have been released before 2016 are not allowed to take part in the contest.
 * No views limit.
 * An artist can't enter the same edition twice. Example: Annalisa can't represent Italy and San Marino with two different songs.

Borrowing Countries
Borrowing countries must be represented by artists who are 100% native to the country they are borrowing from. Example: Annalisa is allowed to represent San Marino, because she is 100% Italian. However, Betta Lemme is only allowed to represent Italy, because she is Canadian with Italian roots.


 * Kosovo can't borrow from Albania or Serbia. It must be represented by Kosovan artists.

Countries
