The Voice of BANANO Announcement (100k BAN Prize Pool!)

Jun 24, 2020 4 min read

The BANANO community consists of numerous enthusiastic and talented people. Our Jungle is full of talents, especially in the singing business: Impressive and peculiar voices have demonstrated their passion and quality performance on different occasions. Now, the Venezuelan BANANO community has proposed to create a Singing Talent Academy on Twitter, called ‘The Voice of BANANO’, which is funded by the BANANO team with a 100k BANANO prize pool going to all participants — read all details below.

The Voice of BANANO: Talent Academy on Twitter

The contest will be organised by the Venezuelan BANANO community and happen at Twitter, so you’ll see updates coming from the unofficial Spanish BANANO Twitter account. All participants must upload a video showcasing their talent by commenting to a specific tweet. Total prize pool is 100k BANANO! Everyone who participates will get rewarded!

This contest has different stages time wise, such as a tournament. Here’s how it will go:

Elimination Phase

  • If you think you have a talent for singing, upload a video, in response to the pinned tweet linked here.
  • The video must not exceed 1 minute in length, and you must use the #VoiceOfBANANO hashtag when posting the video at Twitter.
  • Your submission will only be valid if you record yourself in the same video with a visible poster/note that shows your Twitter username and the #VoiceOfBANANO hashtag (to avoid abuse). This Phase begins now and will end on June 28 at 5:00 pm (Caracas Time).
  • Our jury of selected long-term BANANO community members will select the best 16 submissions, who will advance to the next round. In case we get less than 16 valid submissions, we will adjust the following rounds accordingly.

Quarter finals

  • The 16 selected candidates from the elemination phase will be matched into 4 duels with 4 participants each.
  • This Round begins on July 1st and ends on July 4th at 5:00 pm.
  • Winners will be selected based on Twitter polls
  • 4 winners (1 from each group) will advance to the Semi finals

Semi finals

  • The 4 winners from the Quarter finals will again be matched and showcase their singing talents in 2 direct duels.
  • This Round begins on July 6 and ends on July 10 at 5:00 pm.
  • Winners will be selected based on Twitter polls
  • Both winners advance to the Grand Final, and the respective other participants will fight another duel for third place!

Third place

  • This Round begins on July 12 and ends on July 15 at 5:00 pm.

Grand Final:

  • Congratulations if you made it this far! This will be the Grand Final! Who will be The Voice of BANANO?
  • Submissions for finals will start on July 12 and end on July 17.
  • Voting round begins on July 18 and ends on July 20.

Prizes:

We will reward all participants as follows:

1st place: 50,000 BANANO
2nd place: 30,000 BANANO
3rd place:10,000 BANANO
All other participants will equally share 10,000 BANANO

The Details and Rules:

  1. To participate, you only have to send your video commenting to the corresponding tweet, playing part of the song of your choice and, only in the Elimination Phase, holding a poster that contains your (@username) Twitter user and the hashtag #VoiceOfBANANO.
  2. Any language and musical genre is accepted.
  3. Only one submission per person.
  4. Contest submissions have to be unique for each round, material cannot be re-used.
  5. The Voice of BANANO event will have an interactive format, so to make sure we can reach you via direct message on Twitter each participant and voter must follow the account @banano_es on Twitter.
  6. In the public voting phases, only the voting in the surveys will be taken into account. But, if there is a tie, we will also take into account the comments, likes and retweets that you have previously obtained in the round. So any comments, likes and retweets count.
  7. The time zone for the closing of each participation phase is Caracas (-4:00 GMT)
  8. Stay tuned for any tweets mentioning you, and inform you in case you advance to the next round, respectively.
  9. The organizers (community members Pulitzer, Eva and joseit0) reserve the right to disqualify any participant who does not comply with the rules or of whom we find to be quilty of manipulating votes, using multiple accounts or or violate the contest rules otherwise.

Showcase you talent to the world! Start your submission here at Twitter!

Disclaimer & Credits

Any mention of a third party platform, product, service or website in this article does not imply any endorsement by the BANANO team. All information is provided to the author’s best knowledge at the time of writing, will likely not be updated and thus might be outdated when this article is read in the future. This article was written by Joseit0 with editing by bantano. Artwork by Phantoad. Special thanks to Rosemarys, DanielJusto and the Telegram community for the idea, and to all judges!

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