The Balkan Sound Contest

The Balkan Sound Contest, often shortened to TBSC, is a song contest on Youtube held among the members of the Balkan Broadcasting Union since March 2013. The competition was based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. The current and official executive supervisor is Boyan.

Each country's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal or national selection. Then the countries get to vote for each show (pre-qualifying round, semi-final or final) to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition. The contest has also been broadcast outside Europe to several countries that do not compete.

So far,TBA countries have won the competition and therefore hosted the contest. Apart from Macedonia, who hosted due to being the organizer of the contest.

Slogans
Since the first edition already, slogans were used for the contest. In each edition, the host broadcaster was in charge to decide the slogan of the edition and based on it, develope the contest's theme and visual design.

Participation
Any full member of the BBU is allowed to send a song for the North Vision Song Contest. Countries that are not full members can apply for becoming one. The Balkan Broadcasting Union has already accepted some countries that were not full members of the BBU at the beginnings of the ESC. However, the BBU has also already declined a lot of nations and states that wanted to become a full member - and to participate in the North Vision Song Contest.

Each full member has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition. Fifty-five countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

Rules
There are several rules of the contest in order to enter. Main rule of the contest is that the country has to officially join the BBU with a certain broadcaster before applying to enter the contest. Regarding the broadcaster, any broadcaster can be accepted by the BBU if it consists the qualifications of it. The head of delegation of the certain country must be at the position for at least three editions. If the head of delegation is not satisfied with the country, one can swap the countries with other users. There are also rules regarding the entries, such as that Eurovision Song Contest songs and cover songs are not allowed to compete in the contest or that the singer must be over the age of 16.

Voting
The first voting system was in use between the first edition.

Winners
The contest has so far TBA different winning countries with four of them being. Most of the winners have so far been TBA artists.