Contest participants Participation can not be older than fourteen as of August 31 of the year before the competition ; nor can they be past the eighth grade as of February 1 of that year 's competition .

Festival programming includes Cause_to_be_included four outdoor and two indoor performance stages featuring local , regional and headliner bands , the Kidz Korner , strolling Self_motion entertainers/buskers , interactive displays and exhibits , the Wild Marketplace , the award-winning Singer/Songwriter Contest and Stage , the Battle of the Bands competition Competition , the Art Guitar Auction , the Budding Talent Competition , and the Taste of Texas Food Garden .

It determines the country 's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest , and has been staged almost every year since 1958 .

The U.S. National Yo-Yo Contest is the culminating yo-yo competition Competition of the National Yo-Yo League ( NYYL ) .

The winner of this competition gains Getting the seed to the semi-final at the World Yo-Yo Contest as the United States representative .

Players qualify for the U.S. National Yo-Yo Contest through one of the nine NYYL sanctioned Rewards_and_punishments Regional competition .

An International Snow Sculpture Contest has been held Hold at the Odori Park site since 1974 , and 14 teams from various regions of the world participated in 2008 .

The International Pageant of Pulchritude , also known as Miss Universe or the International Beauty Contest , was a beauty contest Competition that began Process_start in 1920 , featuring contestants from multiple nations .

Usually referred Adducing to as Festival di Sanremo , or outside Italy as Sanremo Music Festival or Sanremo Music Festival Award , it was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest .

The festival is used as the way of choosing Choosing the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest and it has launched Process_start the careers of some of Italy 's most successful singers , including Andrea Bocelli , Paola e Chiara , Il Volo , Giorgia , Laura Pausini , Eros Ramazzotti , and Gigliola Cinquetti .