Heat-Haze
Chorus Battle

Heat Haze Chorus Battle is a 3-round non-elimination lore-based CB centered around following the events of the Kagerou Daze. Participants will create entries following their "mekakushi dan"s story while covering songs from the Kagerou Project discography.

Up Next - Chapter 1 End

Rules

General Rules

- Plagiarism will result in automatic elimination.
- Please be polite to both judges and participants.
- Please don't publicly or privately send unsolicited critiques to teams. Unless the specific team grants you permission to critique their work, this job goes to the judges.
- Please don't DM judges or hosts for any inquiries regarding the CB.
- For any inquiries, use the #questions channel or the #support-tickets channel in the official discord server.

Team Requirements

- A group can consist of a minimum of 5 members and a maximum of 12 members.
- A group must consist of a minimum of 3 vocalists and a maximum 12 vocalists
- Members must have an active social media account (ie. Instagram, twitter, youtube, etc.)
- A member can only be part of one team during a specific round.
- Teams can change their roster at no cost at any time during the CB. Please notify the staff team of any changes.
- Members can be anonymous, however, identities must be disclosed to the HHCB staff.
- Each team must have a leader and a co-leader and will be the staff's point of contact.

Submission

- Members must NOT be in any outfits of the original characters in Kagerou Project. Designs must be original.
- For songs, you can cover any of the songs in the Kagerou Project discography.
- Remixes, translated lyrics and mashups are allowed!
- Videos must be 2:30 mins minimum and 6 mins maximum.
- Song can be any language and is not limited to one.
- Each member must be credited unless anon.
- Original artists must be credited and and external assets doc must be in the description.
- Script, A capella, art, WAV, alt video links may or may not be placed in the video description. However, they must be submitted on the entry submission form for judging.
- Title format is : 【 #HHCBC1 】 song name 【Team Name】

Grace period

- Grace period will start after the round deadline and go on for 48 hours.
- For rendering issues, a screenshot must be provided before the grace period starts to submit your entry in grace without deduction.
- Each hour in the grace period is a 0.5 deduction unless the team submitted a proof of render screenshot.
- The team won't receive more deductions once the screenshot is submitted (ex. team sent a screenshot 4 hours into grace, team will receive 2 points of deduction even if team submitted 10 hours later).
- Any team who submitted after the grace period is automatically eliminated.

Scoring

Each chapter (round), each team will be able to earn up to 220 points, divided into:
- 200 points for the main categories (vocals, mix, art, visual, animation).
- 12 points for bonus challenges.
- 8 points for lore evaluation.
Since this is a non-elimination CB and everyone's reaching chapter 3, the total points for each chapter will be added to a culminative total which will be how the HHCB winner will be decided.