The Zen Factor 1

The Zen Factor 1 is the first season of the reality music show The Zen Factor. It's a contest where 17 nations from the Zendari world competes in a special music competition. Each week there will be different tasks/themes/genres/subjects involving music and each nation must send a song that fits good with the task of the week. All the competing nations will then rank all the other nations from best to worst. There will be a jury consisting televoters in Junker, Sosij and Zerox who also ranks the nations. The contestants rankings and the jury rankings will be added together and the country with lowest average ranking each week will have to leave the contest.

Rules

 * When the nations send in their songs, they must follow the basic Zendari Rules. EXCEPT THIS: "You cannot send any songs from Eurovision Song Contest or Junior Eurovision Song Contest".
 * A music video is not essential but the song must be available on YouTube. Contestants will be allowed to upload and submit a song themselves, provided that it is not removed by the copyright holder.
 * The running time of the song cannot be less than 1 minute, and the song cannot be longer than 10 minutes.
 * An artist cannot sing two songs in the same week during this contest. First come, first served.
 * All songs must be free of hateful and discriminating lyrics.
 * There are no restrictions relating to spoken language of entries, however all lyrics must follow the same rules.

Flow of the contest:

Week 1 - Part 1 - The contestants will get to know what the task/theme is and can start sending in songs and recap times (25 seconds). They will have a few days to do this. (BUT YOU CANNOT REVEAL YOUR SONGS!!!!) Week 1 - Part 2 - When the songs are picked Totte Junker will release all the songs in a playlist and a recap. The vote will start here. Also the task/theme for Week 2 will be presented here too, so the contestants need to send in songs for the next task/theme here too. Week 1 - Part 3 - Voting closes, the bottom 3 will be revealed but no one will be eliminated the first week. Instead the results from Week 1 and Week 2 will be added together and the country with lowest rank will leave the contest in the results of Week 2.

Week 2 - Part 1 - Songs have been picked during week 1, so there will be a new release with playlist and recap. The vote will start here. Also the task/theme for Week 3 will be presented here too, so the contestants need to send in songs for the next task/theme here too. Week 2 - Part 2 - Voting closes, results will be revealed with a bottom 3 and one of them will be eliminated.

Week 3 - Part 1 - Same as week 2 Week 3 - Part 2 - Same as week 2

During the season there will be double eliminations, but the contestants will be notified if that is going to happen.

If a country fails to pick a song or send in votes, they will be disqualified from the contest and the previous eliminated country will take their spot. Thats why everyone needs to pick their songs for the next week BEFORE the results of the actual week. With this there will be no long waiting times or delays.

Voting Rules
Will be added when the first voting starts!

Week 1 - Openers
A playlist can be found here, and a recap can be found here.

Vote by ranking all the countries except your own in the ranks 1st to 16th.

Week 2 - No Eyes Dry
A playlist can be found here, and a recap can be found here.

Vote by ranking all the countries except your own in the ranks 1st to 14th.

Week 3 - Locations
A playlist can be found here, and a recap can be found here.

Vote by ranking all the countries except your own in the ranks 1st to 11th.

Week 4 - Mainstream
A playlist can be found here, and a recap can be found here.

Vote by ranking all the countries except your own in the ranks 1st to 10th.

Week 5 - Back to the Future
A playlist can be found here, and a recap can be found here.

Vote by ranking all the countries except your own in the ranks 1st to 9th.

Week 6 - Let's get painted!
A playlist can be found here, and a recap can be found here.

Vote by ranking all the countries except your own in the ranks 1st to 8th.

Week 7 - Eurovision Last Places
A playlist can be found here, and there will be no more recaps!

Vote by ranking all the countries except your own in the ranks 1st to 5th.