RAC 5 [Haiti]

The contest launch has officially been announced as the 1st November. Contestants will, this time, be given just under 2 months to create their tracks. As usual participants of the previous contest have 2 days before the contest goes open to choose their countries. This time only one artist can represent each country, unless it is a collaboration.

The deadline for submissions is the 27th December, however, no date for the show, or place has yet been announced.

The final list of Permitted countries;

Africa
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Cuba
Denmark
Finland
Ghana
Hungary
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Japan
Malawi
Mexico
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Romania
Slovenia
Spain
Trinidad & Tobago
United Kingdom

Another 25 countries have been confirmed as eligible countries today, making the total of 55 representable countries. There is one final part to the list, so you can expect to have around 80 countries available to represent.

The countries revealed today are as follows;

Armenia
Austria
Belarus
Brazil
Canada
China
Croatia
Egypt
Germany
Greece
India
Jamaica
Lebanon
Luxembourg
Moldova
Montenegro
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
San Marino
Scotland
Korea
Switzerland
Tonga
Turkey

The 5th contest is due to make some big changes to the contest and some are already evident from NeonProjects news post on Newgorunds.

The top 5 countries from RAC4 have been granted automatic qualification into the final for the 5th contest. Other countries will have to go through a semi-final system before making it to the final. In the final there will be 25 countries competing for points and there will be 5 voting blocks.

The contest now has a list of permitted countries, which is going to be revealed in 3 parts, so far only part 1 of the list has been revealed;

Albania
Andorra
Antarctica
Argentina
Australia
Bulgaria
Chile
Cyprus
Estonia
France
Georgia
Guinea
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Malta
Pakistan
Portugal
Serbia
Sweden
Tunisia
Ukraine
Venezuela