Talk:Linguavision Song Contest XIV/@comment-26322081-20171027202313/@comment-5666680-20171029101632

I do somewhat agree with you, but I'm pretty sure that the participant knew about the rule: "Your song must not be in the English language!" as he put down Italian as the language of his song. Of course it's his fault that he didn't check whether the song was actually in Italian and I also agree with you that it isn't the admins' job to let them know about it and give them a chance to change their song (eventhough the admins have been doing that as a nice gesture). But you have to keep in mind that the rule only applies for only-English song and Mambo italiano has some parts in Italian. The rules are very unclear on which bilingual or multi-lingual songs that also include parts in English are allowed and which ones are not. For example "Vamos A La Playa" by Loona was allowed in LSC XIII, containing almost half of the lyrics in English, but "Alcohol Is Free" by Koza Mostra wasn't allowed in LSC XII, despite containing only 3 words in English.

So my point is that - eventhough it's kinda obvious that you can't join with a majority English song - it wasn't necessarily his fault for picking "Mambo Italiano" as it does have parts in Italian and there was no way for him to know if there way too much English in it.

As for what the repercussion will be, I think it would make a lot more sense to go with the one under point 1) that you suggested and only not count his points this edition, but allow him to enter the next one. I mean, it would make no sense to prohibit him from entering the next one because he joined this one with an invalid song. Imagine it like this: "A person joins with a song that has been already used in a previous edition, but gets accepted into the contest anyways. Later on the administration finds out that the song had already been used in an old edition and decides to instead of disqualifying him this edition, ban him from entering the next one" - it doesn't make much sense to do that, right? And the same goes for Gallia.