Chummervision Radio Festival

The Chummervision Radio Festival is an annual competition held among active member countries of the Chummerpean Broadcasting Union (CBU).

Each member country submits a song to be performed on radio and live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. There are two programmes to the contest, Pure Roots which features traditional entries sent by each country, and Unplugged which features unknown, upcoming or established artists performing stripped back performances.

Hosting
Each programme of the contest will be hosted in the winning country of the previous year, unless that country declines to host.

Voting
The voting system for the Chummervision Song Contest has been in place since Winter 2012, and is a positional voting system. Countries award a set of points from 1 to 8, then 10 and finally 12 to other songs in the competition — with the favourite song being awarded 12 points.

A country's set of votes is decided by televoting, where viewers from each country vote via phone or SMS for their favourite song(s). The songs with the most votes are then compiled in order in the form of points.

Presentation of votes
After the interval act is over, when all the points have been calculated, the presenter(s) of the show call upon each voting country in turn to invite them to announce the results of their vote. Votes are read out in ascending order, culminating with the maximum 12 points.

Tiebreak
In the event two or more countries receive the same amount of points, a count is made of the total number of countries who awarded any points at all to each of the tied countries, and the one who received points from the most countries is placed ahead. If the numbers are still tied, it is counted how many sets of maximum marks (12 points) each country received. If there is still a tie, the numbers of 10-point scores awarded are compared—and then the numbers of 8-points, all the way down the list.

Big Four
In the Chummervision Song Contest, Aitze, Dandenia, the UOCT Republic and W'ree have automatically qualified for the final, regardless of their positions on the scoreboard in previous contests. They earned this special status by being the four biggest financial contributors to the CBU (without which the production of the Chummervision Song Contest would not be possible). Due to their untouchable status, these countries became known as the "Big Four". Since the introduction of semi finals, the host also qualifies, meaning that a maximum possibility of five countries can automatically qualify.

Pure Roots, which will feature qualification rounds, will allow the "Big Four" to qualify to the final automatically.

Semi-finals
Pure Roots will feature two qualification rounds, known as semi-finals. All participating countries have to participate in the semi-finals. The only countries which automatically qualify for the grand final are the host country, and the Big Four: Aitze, Dandenia, the UOCT Republic, and W'ree.

In each of the semi-finals the voting is conducted among those countries which participate in that semi-final in question. The automatic grand final qualifiers also vote for the semi-finals, with 2 voting in one, and 2/3 voting in the other. In contrast, every participating country in a particular year may vote in the Sunday grand final — whether their song qualified from the semi-final or not.

After the votes have been cast in each semi-final, the countries which received the most votes—and will therefore proceed to the grand final on Sunday—are announced by name by the presenters. Full voting results are withheld until after the grand final, whereupon they are published on the CBU's website.