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Notes from the organizer: RULES OF THE APTEROUS EUROVISION SONG CONTEST:

Objectives:
Each player was assigned to a country. This was decided by sorting the entrants by Apterous user surname, and then assigning a country based on alphabetical order according to the official Eurovision album track listing, which is according to ISO 3166-1. All stages are a single round robin. Your objective is very simple: to score as many points as you can against your opponent. The top 10 highest-scoring players against you will receive points "from" you: 12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. To score points yourself, therefore, you must come in the top 10 highest scores against a particular opponent. In a case of a tie in an individual vote (e.g. if two people score 50 against you), the higher amount of points will be awarded to the game that was played first. In case of a tie in the overall scoreboard, then the tie will be broken by the following procedure: fewest 0s, most 12s, most 10s, most 8s, most 7s (etc), until most 1s. If the scores are still tied, then whoever had the higher score in an individual game will be awarded the higher position.

Semi Finals:
- Each player was drawn into their semi final using the 2020-21 allocations of the real life semi finals.
- Rather than qualifying automatically, the "big 5" countries (Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy) and The Netherlands were assigned to the semi final their real life counterparts will be voting in.
- I am placing an embargo on semi final standings to highten suspense - you are, of course, free to calculate the results yourself, but you may not share them with anyone else. The semi final results will only be revealed in full after the grand final.
- The top 10 from each semi final will qualify, and games will be carried forward against your fellow qualifiers to avoid an unnecessary repetition of games.
- With great pomp and circumstance, the finalists from each semi final will be announced LIVE in Aptochat in no particular order.
the highest individual score in a game will be ranked higher.
- As the semi finals were lop-sided, one player was moved from SF2 to SF1 to make sure the semi finals remained equal. Please aptomail me if you want the geeky information as to how this was done.
- With 17 games to be played, I am generously affording 4 weeks to play your semi finals. This is very generous... so you should have no excuses! The date, therefore, is **3 JUN 2021**.

Penalties and unplayed games:
UNPLAYED GAMES WILL RESULT IN A UNILATERAL POINTS DEDUCTION, measured by % - for example, a player playing 14 out of 17 games will have their score reduced by 18%. These deductions can be waived if one player can demonstrate a meaningful effort to play the game - **so please include me in any Aptomails** - and will be adjudged to win the game 50-0, so may still gain points from you. This is to avoid deliberate evasion of playing stronger players. Any player who does not play a third (33%) of their games (taking into account the waiving process described above) will be disqualified. They will not award points, they will not be able to receive points in the games they have played, and games against them will be null and void.

Reminder - the date is **3 JUN 2021**.

Ran from: 7 May – 3 June 2021. Format: 9 Rounder. Matches: One-off. Level scores: Tie-breakers played. Approved.

Fixtures: 171. Completed: 146.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Bold: max game. *: game decided on a tiebreaker.