City Showdown is an award-winning digital series produced by KLRN Public Television that features local musicians in a friendly competition between city council districts. The project seeks to seeks to educate, engage, and entertain viewers while encouraging civic awareness and the diversity of San Antonio’s local music scene. 

City Showdown features ten local musicians and groups who each represent a San Antonio City Council district with original music videos. The format and rules of KLRN City Showdown are loosely adapted from the Eurovision Song Contest but instead of countries, contestants are each assigned a district to represent by KLRN. Efforts are made to assign contestants to districts they live in or to which they have a connection, however KLRN reserves the right to assign contestants and districts as needed for purposes of the show

Entries are original music videos from contestants that have been previously released in the last five years and are available to view on YouTube. A complete playlist of City Showdown entries can be found HERE. 

Generous support for City Showdown is provided by Capital Group, Community First Health Plans, San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture, Escamilla & Poneck, LLPand H-E-B.

FORMAT 

KLRN’s City Showdown is a digital series that takes place mostly on the dedicated web page klrn.org/ciyshowdown. There, each artist has a video featuring an interview of them discussing themselves and their music followed by their music video. Additionally, each artist will have a dedicated blog post on KLRN’s site with their bio, links to social media, and information about each council district. 

Throughout the duration of the series (Monday, November 18 – Sunday, December 8), all ten contestants will earn points from online users. Viewers can visit klrn.org/cityshowdown to vote for their favorites. up to ten times (10x) per week. The voting period will begin each Monday at 12:00AM and will reset each Sunday at 11:59PM. 

VOTING

Over the course of the series, online viewers will vote for their favorite entries by visiting KLRN’s webpage klrn.org/CityShowdown.

On the webpage, voters will be asked to provide two pieces of information:

• Which artist/district they are voting for
• Their zip code 
   

The KLRN City Showdown webpage will feature a map of San Antonio for reference along with a link to the official City of San Antonio website where users can find their City Council district by inputting their address. 

Viewers can cast their votes for whichever district they’d like – no matter where they live. For purposes of a fair competition, the website will only allow one IP address to vote a maximum of 10 times per week. Online viewers are encouraged to participate, however fraudulent or spam voting will not be tolerated. 

JURY VOTING

In addition to the online vote, a City Showdown jury will also vote on the contestants, ranking each from their most favorite to least favorite. The jury is comprised of community members who span a range of ages, backgrounds, and tastes. The name and title of each juror can be found on the City Showdown webpage. 

Contestants will each receive points based on how the jury ranked them, to be awarded during the Results episode. Please note that individual jurors’ scores will not be revealed. 

RESULTS PRESENTATION

After public voting closes on Sunday, December 8 at 11:59PM, KLRN will calculate total votes received from the online public. 

The presentation of results will be released soon after in the form of a video posted to KLRN’s YouTube channel and on the City Showdown website. 

KLRN will first reveal how the jury ranked each of the contestants. From there, the results of the online vote will be revealed one-by-one, beginning with the artist in 10th place and working up. 

The winner of City Showdown will be determined by the artist or band that receives the highest combined score from the jury vote AND online vote from the public. 

The winner of City Showdown will receive a $250 H-E-B gift card and bragging rights for the year. 

CONTESTANTS

Artists for Season 2 were identified through a combination of social media research and exploring the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture Artist Registry. While efforts were made to feature artists who are from each district, the reality is that some artists live in a different district than the one they represent. Some artists live on or near a border between districts; others were selected for a connection they have to a district (i.e., living on the north side but often playing shows downtown). KLRN reserves the right to assign contestants and districts as needed for purposes of the show. Because of this, we refer to all the artists as “representing” a district to avoid any confusion. 

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

• Contestants must be 18 years of age or older
• By participating, contestants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of KLRN
• Contestants must live or work in the San Antonio area
• City Showdown is a friendly competition celebrating San Antonio’s diverse music scene. Negative, offensive, and aggressive online behavior toward other contestants or KLRN will not be tolerated and could result in disqualification.
• Songs and music videos used for the contest must be original works.
• Contestants must allow KLRN the rights to use their original work for the purposes of the series and marketing efforts.
• Scores are determined by a 50/50 split between a jury and votes received from the public. Final online voting data will be shared on KLRN’s website following the competition.
• Participants/Contestants will not pay anything to be a part of the series
• Contestants will not encourage or suggest fraudulent online voting during the contest
• KLRN reserves the right to manage, oversee, and determine voting results based on data received.