Changes: Represent A Country

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Represent a Country is a series of Audio contests on Newgrounds hosted by NeonProject. The aim of the contest is for each participant to represent a country of their choice and submit an original and entertaining piece of music.

The first contest was entirely judged by a panel of judges, scoring each act in the following categories; Representation, Originality, Sound Quality and Entertainment. In the Second Contest the entries were played over internet radio station Radiogrounds. Viewers, at the end of the show, were given instruction on how to help their favourite act by voting for them. The Public votes were then combined with the Judges scores.

Represent A Country (February 2009)

Flag Of South Korea, the winning country of the first RAC Contest

The songs submitted for this contest had to be between One minute and Fifty seconds and Three Minutes. In the first contest only one person was allowed to represent each country. This contest's results were put in scores out of Sixty. The winner of the first contest was Lashmush representing South Korea, the results of the full contest are as follows:

Rank	Artist	Song	Country	Score
#1	Lashmush	The Swarm	South Korea	56/60
#2	Kazm0	Deutsche Musik	Germany	55/60
#3	Deflector	Pyramids Of Sand	Egypt	54/60
#4	zomgkerrie	My Minds Eye	India	53/60
#5	HaniiPuppy	The Thistle Oer The Grave	Scotland	52/60
#6	MJTTOMB	Latin Insomnia	Argentina	45/60
#7	Spikrodd	Overdoze	Belgium	44/60
#8	NeverHundred	Thieves World	Russia	37/60

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Represent A Country 2 (April 2009)

Flag of Switzerland, the winning country of RAC 2

The second contest expanded on the forumula created in the first contest. The second contest also gained more interest, this was evident through the number of participants. In the first contest there were 8 Entries, in the second contest there were 17 entrants. The Second contest brought a lot of change, for a start, it was the first contest to be aired on Radiogrounds. Rule Changes also occured. The Time limit was raised to 2:30 - 3:50. People were also allowed to apply for the same country, however, they would have to take place in A Semi-final and battle the other people aiming to represent that country. Tracks weren't allowed to be submitted to the portal until a week before the contest. This rule confused people and was dropped halfway through the contest. The scoring system was changed to a Eurovision style scoreboard, with points being allocated to the acts. DJ Trancite was the Winner of the Second Contest.

Rank	Artist	Song	Country	Representation	Originality	Sound Quality	Entertainment	Votes	Total
#1	DJ Trancite	Switz Anthem	Switzerland	12	07	08	12	12	51
#2	Phyrnna	Journey To The East	China	06	08	12	01	10	37
#3	PenguinSam	Yism'Chu	Isreal	10	12	07	07	--	36
#4	Gasmasq	Represent	Portugal	05	06	06	10	02	29
#5	Sownshadow Fox	Song	Wales	03	05	05	08	05	26
#6	Zomgkerrie	Passione Italiana	Italy	08	--	03	05	07	23
#7	Johnny Frizz	The Masters Gate	Saudi Arabia	07	03	04	06	--	20
#8-	Kazm0	Kse	Germany	02	--	10	03	03	18
#8-	Popraz	Dark World Adiago	Romania	04	04	02	--	08	18
#9	Eirun	Mortamin	Hungary	--	10	--	--	01	11
#10	wtflolnoob	Ghandi On The Tabla	India	01	02	--	--	06	09
#11	Pure-Metal-UTA	White X In The Sky	Scotland	--	01	--	--	04	05
#12	statueofdiveo	America Of States United	U.S.A	--	--	--	04	--	04
#13	Darkmaster603	Russian Waltz No.1 In A Minor	Russia	--	--	01	02	--	03

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Semi Finalists Who Did not qualify for the Final:

Artist	Song	Country
Airprogressive	Suono Dell'Italia	Italy
LK412	Kismat	India
AriA	Requiem Of Bass	India

Countries making their RAC Debut: Switzerland, China, Israel, Portugal, Wales, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Hungary and U.S.A.

Represent A Country 3 (December 2009)

The third contest took place in December, with signups starting in November. This contest introduced the concept of "The Big" contestants, these were high scoring veterans of the contest who were given free admission to the final and the chance to chose a country before the contest was launched. In RAC there were three "The Big" artists, it was announced at the end of the contest that RAC4 would have 4 "The Big Artists"

RAC "Big 3"

Artist	Country
zomgkerrie	Ireland
Kazmo	Germany
HalcyonicFalconX	Japan

The third spot was supposed to go the previous winner of the contest, however, DJ Trancite's Account had been deleted, therefore the spot was offered to the second place holder HalcyonicFalconX (previously known as Phyrnna).

Overall Contest Statistics

Top Scoring Recurring Artists:

Zomgkerrie — zomgkerrie, the current top scoring recurring artist of the RAC Contest suite

Rank	Artist	Contests	Countries	Total Score
#1	zomgkerrie	1+2	India+Italy	76
#2	Kazmo	1+2	Germany	73

Top Scoring Recurring Countries:

Germany, the current top scoring recurring Country of the RAC contest suite

Rank	Country	Contests	Artists	Total Score
#1	Germany	1+2	Kazm0	73
#2	India	1+2	zomgkerrie, wtflolnoob	62
#3	Scotland	1+2	HaniiPuppy, Pure-Metal-UTA	57
#4	Russia	1+2	NeverHundred, Darkmaster603	40

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-Countries making their RAC Debut: South Korea, Germany, Egypt, India, Scotland, Argentina, Belgium and Russia.
 ==[http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1034602 Represent A Country 2 (April 2009)]==