The Sounds Song Contest 2018

==Bidding Phase==
Despite having only a few countries confirming. There are four countries currently bidding to host the contest. Sápmi is currently bidding with all broadcasters trough Finland, Sweden, Norway taking part at the bid. Aswell as Murmansk Oblast. Also altrough only the Dutch NPO confirming. The presidents of both Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands aims for hosting the contest as a collective bid. On the 11th of August both the United States, Japan and the Philippines have confirmed a bid aswell.
See Hosting Bid for Edition 1 for further information about which venues are taking up for a bid.
Hosting bid 	Round 1	Round 2	Winner
The Philippines 	10 	8 	
BeNeLux bid 	10 	11 	
Ireland 	3 	8 	
Japan 	2 	 	
Russia (As the EAV 3 Winners)	1 	 	
Belgium (seperately) 	1 	 	
Sweden 	1 	 	
Germany 	1 	 	
United States 	1 	 	
Sápmi 	1 	 	
Vietnam 	1 	 	
Netherlands (seperatly) 	1 	 	
Luxembourg (seperately) 	 	 	
Australia 	 	 	
United Kingdom 	 	 	
It's announced on the 4th of September that The Benelux will take up a bid after winning from Ireland and The Philippines respectively.
City 	Venue 	Seats 	Host which semi	Notes
Rotterdam 	Ahoy 	15.818	Final 	Represented JESC 2007
Rotterdam 	De
Kuip 	51.000	 	Home to Feyenoord, hosted UEFA Euro 2000 and the UEFA Euro Cup 2002
Utrecht 	Jaarbeurs
Utrecht 	15.000	 	
Dordrecht 	FC
Dordrecht Kijkzicht	6.000 	 	Host of FC Dordrecht
Gorinchem 	A15 Hall 	10.000	 	
Amsterdam 	Ziggo
Dome 	17.000	Semi-Final 1 	
Amsterdam 	Paradiso 	6.000 	 	
Amsterdam 	AFAS Live 	6.500 	 	Represented JESC 2012
Arnhem 	Gelre
Dome 	41.000	 	
Antwerpen 	Sportpaleis Antwerpen	23.359	Semi-Final 3 	
Antwerpen 	Lotto Arena 	8.500 	 	
Brussels 	Palais 12 	15.000	 	
Charleloi 	RTL Spiroudome 	6.300 	 	
Ghent 	Flanders Expo 	13.000	 	
Hasselt 	Ethias Arena 	21.600	 	Hosted JESC 2005
Liège 	Country Hall Liege 	7.200 	 	
Luxembourg City	D'coque 	8.300 	Semi-Final 2 	
==Participant Countries==
===Allocation Draw===
Pot1 	Pot2 	Pot3 	Pot4 	Pot5 	Pot6 	Pot 7 	Pot 8
Norway 	Lithuania 5 	Liberland 	France 10 	Italy 6 	China (People's Republic of) 7	Philippines 9 	United States
Sweden 	Belarus 4 	Austria 9 	Catalonia 	Malta 	North Korea 	Cambodia 3 	Canada
Estonia 4	Ukraine 	Germany 	Basque Country	Bosnia and Hergezovina	South Korea 1 	Australia 	US Virgin Islands
Ireland 	Transnistria 	Belgium 	Spain 5 	Albania 10 	Pakistan 	New Zealand 	Brazil
Wales 	Russia 8 	Luxembourg 	Portugal 	Greece 	Myanmar 2 	Zimbabwe 2 	Argentina
England 7	Kazakhstan 11	Noord-Brabant 8	 	Cyprus 	Vietnam 3 	South Africa 6	Antartica 1
Sapmi 	 	Friesland 	 	Turkey 	 	 	Colombia
 	 	 	 	Israel 11 	 	 	
Two countries hosted by one person.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
===In the Competition===
The song submission deadline is on the 29th of September. However the Japanese Cities, Japan and The United States excluded from the rule. They are going to send the songs on 14th of October.
====Semi Final 1====
In this semi-final 8 Countries will granted towards the final. Mark will arrange the recap video.
No.	Country 	User 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	English Translation	Place	Points	Voting Penalty
1 	United Kingdom 	Mark Vd Steen 	Callum Scott, Leona Lewis 	You Are The Reason (2018) 	English 	 	1 	130 	
2 	Antartica₁ 	Adrián Suárez 	Paloma Faith Antartica may borrow songs from The UK, Argentina, Chile, Australia, The US, Russia, Norway and South Africa since Antartica has no pernament population.	'Til I'm Done (2017) 	English 	 	8 	68 	
3 	Ukraine 	Robi Sadiaza 	The Hardkiss 	Korabi (Кораблi) (2017) 	Ukrainian 	These Ships 	7 	73 	
4 	Philippines 	Justin Angelo Pascual Alvarez	Jess Connely 	Turn Me Down (2017) 	English 	 	13 	25 	
5 	Bosnia and Hergezovina	Matthew Tan 	Dubioza kolektiv 	Rijaliti (2018) 	Serbian 	Reality Show 	15 	17 	
6 	Portugal 	Joshua Adrian Gumasing 	Ella Nor (Leonor Andrade) 	Bang (2018) 	Portuguese 	Bang 	4 	102 	
7 	Belarus 	David Adrian Adraneda 	MÉLOVIN Altrough not concluded in the borowing rules. Mélovin is allowed to participate for Belarus as an exeption. 	That's Your Role (2018) 	English 	 	3 	106 	
8 	England 	Ivvan Sanchez 	Leona Lewis 	Trouble (2012) 	English 	 	9 	42 	
9 	Ireland 	Vladislav Kovalenko 	Johnny Logan 	Voices (Are Calling) (1993)	English 	 	16 	14 	
10 	Catalonia 	Quim Amarós Le-Roux 	Alvaro Soler 	La Cintura (2018) 	Spanish 	The Waist 	2 	119 	
11 	Brazil 	replacement:Daniel Salazar  	Pitbull feat. Ke$ha 	Timber (2013) 	English 	 	DSQ 	60 	DSQ
12 	Cyprus 	Robert Ten Haken 	Eleni Foureira 	Caramella (2018) 	Greek 	Caramel People 	12 	28 	
13 	Zimbabwe 	Boy GoldenBoy 	Tinashe Makura 	Hello (2013) 	English A few phrases containing in Shona.	 	11 	35 	
14 	Albania 	Robin van der Biessen 	Arilena Ara 	Aeroplane (2014) 	Albanian 	Airplane 	5 	94 	
15 	Israel 	Zion Faithmore 	Lola Marsh 	Wishing Girl (2017) 	English, Hebrew 	 	10 	39 	
16 	Friesland 	Frederika Selvius 	Elske DeWall 	In Nije Dei (2017) 	West-Frisian 	A New Day 	14 	21 	
17 	Northern Cyprus 	Ammad Khan 	Ammad Khan Cover artist who covered his own entrees. 	Artık Sevmeceğim (2017) 	Turkish 	I love you now 	18 	0 	
18 	United States 	Hans Montserrat 	Lady Gaga 	Perfect Illusion 	English 	 	6 	86 	
====Semi Final 2====
In this semi-final 8 Countries will granted towards the final. Either Antwan or Joeri will arrange the recap video.
No.	Country 	User 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	English Translation	Place	Points	Voting Penalty
1 	Vietnam 	Channel Phoungblox 	Hương Tràm 	Cánh Hoa Tàn (2017) 	Vietnamese 	Flowers 	7 	62 	
2 	Luxembourg 	Joena Stayaert 	Alice On The Roof 	Malade (2018) 	French 	Sick 	19 	7 	
3 	South Korea₁ 	Adrián Suárez 	BLACKPINK 	Boombayah ('붐바야') (2016) 	Korean, English 	Boom Bang 	3 	97 	
4 	China (Peoples Republic of)	Ivvan Sanchez 	Miss A 	Hush (2013) 	Korean, English 	 	9 	49 	
5 	Russia 	Johan Vonk 	Davay 	Tri Polovski (три полосы) (2016) 	Russian 	Three Stripes 	14 	25 	
6 	Turkey 	Halit Berkay 	Aynur Aydın 	Better (2014) 	English 	 	4 	93 	
7 	Argentina 	Lucho Martelotte 	Lali 	Del Otro Lado (2015) 	Spanish 	In the Other Side 	6 	75 	
8 	South Africa 	Jan Andersen 	Zonke 	Tonight (2018) 	English, Xhosa 	 	10 	44 	
9 	Australia 	blueoccamy 	Amy Shark 	I Said Hi (2018) 	English 	 	1 	126 	
10 	France 	Robin van der Biessen	Lynda 	L'Amour Ne Suffit Pas (2017) 	Arabic Altrough the French titel. The song has been completely sung in Arabic.	Love is not enough 	15 	24 	
11 	Myanmar 	Boy GoldenBoy 	Shwe Htoo feat. Y Zet 	Ngar Mhan Tal (ငါမွန္တယ္ ေရႊထူး) (2017) 	Burmese 	I'm Right 	5 	83 	
12 	Estonia 	David Adrian Adraneda	Rasmus Rändvee 	This Love (2017) 	English 	 	11 	38 	
13 	Basque Country 	Antwan van Meenen 	Berri Txarrak 	Spoiler! (2017) 	Basque, English 	 	 	 	
8 	55 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
14 	Canada 	Jeremie Mercado 	Lights 	Banner (2012) 	English 	 	16 	19 	
15 	North Korea 	Jeroen Dirksen 	Ri Hyong-suk 	Rainbow of Unification 	Korean 	 	17 	18 	
16 	Lithuania 	Dominykas Kazlauskas 	BEATRICH 	Superstar (2017) 	English 	 	13 	27 	
17 	Greece 	Fotis Barlakas 	Tamta 	Arxes kalokairiou (Αρχές Καλοκαιριού) (2018)	Greek 	Early Summer 	18 	13 	
18 	Liberland 	Niels Bodewitz 	Debbi Liberland may borrow songs from Serbia, Czech Republic and Croatia since Liberland has no pernament population.	High On Love (2018) 	English 	 	12 	37 	
19 	Sapmi 	Joeri Groen 	Jon Henrik Fjällgren 	Jag Är Fri (Manne Leam Frijje) (2015) 	South Sámi, Swedish 	I am free (Freedom)	2 	111 	
===Semi Final 3===
In this semi-final 8 Countries will granted towards the final. Mark will arrange the recap video.
No.	Country 	User 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	English Translation	Place	Points	Voting Penalty
1 	US Virgin Islands	Darko Maric 	Lindsey Sterling feat. Lzzy Hale 	Shatter Me (2014) 	English 	 	13 	30 	
2 	Malta 	Bradley DeBono 	Jason Derulo feat. Ira Losco 	Colors (2018) 	English 	 	14 	18 	
3 	Pakistan 	Ammad Khan 	Ammad Khan Cover artist who covered his own entrees. 	Julie (2018) The song haven't got a Youtube Link. It has been sended as a mp4 file on Facebook.	Pakistani 	 	 	 	
15 	15 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
4 	Germany 	Tasha Köning 	Unheilig 	Geboren Um Zu Leben (2010) 	German 	Born To Live 	5 	81 	
5 	Italy 	Jan Andersen 	Thegiornalisti 	Felicità Puttana (2018) 	Italian 	Bitch happiness 	6 	76 	
6 	Noord-Brabant 	Johan Vonk 	Lamme Frans 	FEEST! (2017) 	Dutch 	Party! 	17 	6 	
7 	New Zealand 	Karins Mimmon Martin Simanis 	Broods 	Free (2016) 	English 	 	10 	53 	
8 	Transnistria 	Bogdan Bogdan 	O-Zone 	Dragostea Din Tei (2003) 	Romanian 	Love of the lindens	8 	65 	
9 	Sweden 	Daniel Svendsgaard 	Robyn 	Dancing On My Own (2010) 	English 	 	1 	117 	
10 	Colombia 	Ciarán O'Leary 	Sebastián Yatra feat. Dalmatia 	SUTRA (2017) 	Spanish 	Sex Imago 	12 	36 	
11 	Austria 	Justin Angelo Pascual Alvarez	Vincent Weiss Austria is allowed to borrow German artists between the first and third edition. Due to a dispute about between Justin and Tasha about who is taking Germany.	Musik Sein (2016) 	German 	There must be music	2 	111 	
12 	Belgium 	Aline Van Rossem 	Hooverphonic 	Romantic (2018) 	English 	 	3 	88 	
13 	Cambodia 	Channel Phoungblox 	Nikki Nikki 	Beautifull Art (2017) 	English, Khmer	 	7 	69 	
14 	Spain 	Dominykas Kazlauskas 	Reyko 	Spinning Over You (2017) 	English 	 	16 	14 	
15 	Wales 	Steve Thornton 	Lily Beau 	Treiddia'r Mur (2018) 	Welsh 	Shake the Wall 	11 	48 	
16 	Norway 	Cityguru Cityguru 	Tone Damli 	Butterflies (2009) 	English 	 	9 	56 	
17 	Kazakhstan 	Zion Faithmore 	Far In Gate 	Alysta (алйста) (2018) 	Kazakh 	Out There 	4 	85 	
====Semi Final 4====
While to ease of pressure and blockvoting. There would be a third Semi-Final especially designed for the Japanese Cities. Hans Montserrat will create and maintain this Semi-Final. 2 Cities will go towards the final.
The hosts will be Yohio, LiSA, Miwa, & GACKT. https://www.facebook.com/groups/258993634730978/permalink/259048311392177/
No.	Country 	Artist 	Song 	Place	Points
1 	Sapporo 	Daichi Miura 	Be Myself 	7 	61
2 	Okinawa 	Lenny Code Fiction	Make My Story 	6 	64
3 	Chiba 	NEWS 	生きろ 	11 	44
4 	Fukuoka 	SKE48 	いきなりパンチライン 	9 	51
5 	Kumamoto 	MV 	Lemon 	8 	53
6 	Hiroshima	Krary Pamyu Pamyu 	Kimino Mikata 	5 	65
7 	Kyoto 	UVERworld 	Odd Future 	4 	71
8 	Yokohama 	NormCore 	カウントダウン 	1 	128
9 	Osaka 	AKB48 	Sentimental Train 	10 	49
10 	Tokyo 	Keyakizaka46 	Ambivalent 	11 	44
11 	Nagoya 	Masaki Suda 	Long Hope Philia 	3 	76
12 	Saitama 	Perfume 	Future Pop 	2 	107
===Second Chance Bracket===
Pot	Country 	Points	Country 	Points	Country 	Points
1 	Norway 	2 	China (Peoples Republic of)	4 	England 	7
2 	New Zealand	1 	South Africa 	5 	Israel 	4
3 	Wales 	6 	Estonia 	8 	Zimbabwe	4
====Final====
The final will have 30 countries across the globe. 6 Pre-Qualifying countries from Team-Members. 4 OKN Participants and 20 Countries from Semi-Final 1 and 2.
No.	Country 	User 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	English Translation	Place	Points
1 	Germany 	Tasha Köning 	Unheilig 	Geboren Um Zu Leben (2010) 	German 	Born To Live 	5 	325
2 	Argentina 	Lucho Martelotte 	Lali 	Del Otro Lado (2015) 	Spanish 	In the Other Side 	25 	112
3 	Transnistria 	Bogdan Bogdan 	O-Zone 	Dragostea Din Tei (2003) 	Romanian 	Love of the lindens	24 	119
4 	Italy 	Jan Andersen 	Thegiornalisti 	Felicità Puttana (2018) 	Italian 	Bitch happiness 	28 	106
5 	Estonia 	David Adrian Adraneda 	Rasmus Rändvee 	This Love (2017) 	English 	 	17 	138
6 	Yokohama 	 	NormCore 	カウントダウン 	Japanese 	Countdown 	29 	88
7 	Albania 	Robin van der Biessen 	Arilena Ara 	Aeroplane (2014) 	Albanian 	Airplane 	6 	281
8 	Turkey 	Halit Berkay 	Aynur Aydın 	Better (2014) 	English 	 	21 	127
9 	Austria 	Justin Angelo Pascual Alvarez	Vincent Weiss Austria is allowed to borrow German artists between the first and third edition. Due to a dispute about between Justin and Tasha about who is taking Germany.	Musik Sein (2016) 	German 	There must be music	12 	175
10 	Australia 	blueoccamy 	Amy Shark 	I Said Hi (2018) 	English 	 	3 	402
11 	Basque Country	Antwan van Meenen 	Berri Txarrak 	Spoiler! (2017) 	Basque, English 	 	 	
19 	134 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
12 	Catalonia 	Quim Amarós Le-Roux 	Alvaro Soler 	La Cintura (2018) 	Spanish 	The Waist 	8 	242
13 	Ukraine 	Robi Sadiaza 	The Hardkiss 	Korabi (Кораблi) (2017) 	Ukrainian 	These Ships 	23 	120
14 	Sapmi 	Joeri Groen 	Jon Henrik Fjällgren 	Jag Är Fri (Manne Leam Frijje) (2015)	South Sámi, Swedish	I am free (Freedom)	1 	508
15 	Antartica₁ 	Adrián Suárez 	Paloma Faith Antartica may borrow songs from The UK, Argentina, Chile, Australia, The US, Russia, Norway and South Africa since Antartica has no pernament population. 	'Til I'm Done (2017) 	English 	 	16 	149
16 	Portugal 	Joshua Adrian Gumasing 	Ella Nor (Leonor Andrade) 	Bang (2018) 	Portuguese 	Bang 	14 	161
17 	Japan 	Hans Montserrat 	Cö Shu Nie 	Asphyxia 	Japanese 	 	34 	70
18 	Denmark 	Bogdan Bogdan 	Julie Bjerre 	Tæt På Mine Drømme (2015) 	Danish 	Close to My Dreams 	32 	78
19 	Belarus 	David Adrian Adraneda 	MÉLOVIN Altrough not concluded in the borowing rules. Mélovin is allowed to participate for Belarus as an exeption. 	That's Your Role (2018) 	English 	 	15 	153
20 	South Africa 	Jan Andersen 	Zonke 	Tonight (2018) 	English, Xhosa 	 	26 	112
21 	Hungary 	Antwan van Meenen 	Leander Kills 	Nem Szól Harang (2018) 	Hungarian 	It's not ring 	20 	134
22 	United States 	Hans Montserrat 	Lady Gaga 	Perfect Illusion 	English 	 	10 	211
23 	Cambodia 	Channel Phoungblox 	Nikki Nikki 	Beautifull Art (2017) 	English, Khmer 	 	18 	135
24 	England 	Ivvan Sanchez 	Leona Lewis 	Trouble (2012) 	English 	 	27 	111
25 	Belgium 	Aline Van Rossem 	Hooverphonic 	Romantic (2018) 	English 	 	30 	87
26 	Netherlands 	Joeri Groen 	Delain 	We Are The Others (2012) 	English 	 	4 	373
27 	Kazakhstan 	Zion Faithmore 	Far In Gate 	Alysta (алйста) (2018) 	Kazakh 	Out There 	9 	230
28 	Saitama 	 	Perfume 	Future Pop 	Japanese, English 	 	33 	73
29 	Vietnam 	Channel Phoungblox 	Hương Tràm 	Cánh Hoa Tàn (2017) 	Vietnamese 	Flowers 	35 	68
30 	Singapore 	Daniel Svendsgaard 	The Sam Willows 	Take Heart (2015) 	English 	 	22 	122
31 	Sweden 	Daniel Svendsgaard 	Robyn 	Dancing On My Own (2010) 	English 	 	13 	162
32 	South Korea₁ 	Adrián Suárez 	BLACKPINK 	Boombayah ('붐바야') (2016) 	Korean, English 	Boom Bang 	7 	258
33 	Slovenia 	Mark Vd Steen 	Tanja Žagar 	Carica (2016) 	Slovene 	Empress 	31 	80
34 	United Kingdom	Mark Vd Steen 	Callum Scott, Leona Lewis 	You Are The Reason (2018) 	English 	 	2 	474
35 	Myanmar 	Boy GoldenBoy 	Shwe Htoo feat. Y Zet 	Ngar Mhan Tal (ငါမွန္တယ္ ေရႊထူး) (2017)	Burmese 	 	11 	196
36 	Nagoya 	 	Masaki Suda 	Long Hope Philia 	Japanese 	 	36 	62
==Incidents==
===Brazil's politically motivated boycott towards Northern Cyprus===
While lists there were two boycotts of this edition. One of which was politically motivated. The old HoD of Brazil: Μηνάς Αντωνίου citing the participation of Northern Cyprus as a state as the main reason of leaving the group. Saying suffering multiple times and attacked the HoD of Northern Cyprus because of Μηνάς his political views. Breaking rule 2.6 "If you participate you have to accept that all countries, ethnic groups, territories, breakaway states and regions are eglibe to participate. Whether the place has legal justition or not over the territory. If accepted, there is no withdrawal afterwards possible on this cause."
After this happened Daniel replaced his votes. Even though the replacement, Brazil still has a sanction of qualifying in this Edition. Making it unpossible for Brazil to win. Aswell as Μηνάς being blocked for another 5 editions to come. There is even a possibility he could be sanctioned longer than just 5 editions.
===Boycott because of a person===
While many people voted for participation. Kenneth Brian is opposing to participation. Citing "I'll apply as absolutely inactive, y'alls.". Aswell as citing Hans competing as the main reason to withdrawn from all editions. While team member Joeri Groen cited that it's outrageous to withdraw because of one person and it's unfair and backwarded to withdraw because of a person. The team is open to everyone, even to the persons who a certain person (even team member) hate. It's not sure whether he gets sanctioned because of this.
===Inactivity===
The long inactivity has been a major factor of this contest becoming less succesfull than other contests. The group originally had 134 members at the start of Edition 1. On 20th of November 2018 this group had just 121 members. It's a small growth from the lowest number of members that was 114 in between those times. Various of people especially the HoD of Sweden and Singapore stating that this is something to be concerned of.
Also numurous of participants forgotted voting due to unknown reasons. Even though Semi-Final voting alone took 2 months.
==Broadcasting and Viewing Figures==
These are the following broadcasting figures. Which are fictional.
Country 	SF1 	SF2 	SF3 	SF4 	Final
Netherlands	844.000 	796.000 	838.500 	72.150 	TBA
Sapmi 	64.000 	112.500 	78.000 	13.300 	TBA
Vietnam 	23,400,000	73,100,482	54,300,200	62,480,000	TBA
Cambodia 	1,000,000 	2,700,000 	15,405,330	8,490,120 	TBA
==References==