Griffiniskaja Laul 8

Griffiniskaja Laul 08 will be the eighth edition of the Griffiniskaja Laul musical event and Waiting List Song Contest national final which will take place in the principality of Pzyerüyölkeä following their victory at the previous edition. The festival was planned to choose Griffin representative for the 224th Waiting List Song Contest, but it was postponed and it will be used to determine Griffin entry for the 225th Waiting List Song Contest instead. Visual identity and the original line up changed with the postponement; however venue and the host, as well as opening and interval act stayed the same.
The winner of the festival was the principality of Meremaa with the song "Fall So Hard" performed by a returnee artist - Christopher. This was the first time Meremaa has won the contest.
Category:Griffiniskaja Laul
==Location==
===Bidding phase===
This was the first time that Pzyerüyölkeä won and hosted an edition of the contest. Preparations for the contest began immediately after the principality won. The executive supervisor of the Griffiniskaja Televisioon (GTV) confirmed that tradition of co-organisation between the main channel GTV 1 with a regional broadcaster will continue. This was confirmed by the regional GTV branch - GTV PZY as well.
Five major cities Pzyerüyölkeä expressed interest in hosting the contest a few days after the previous edition has ended, and all of their bids were accepted by GTV for the official hosting rights competition. These cities are: Göldtsit (the capital and the biggest city of the principality, also the fourth biggest city in the Griffin Empire), Rakozsit (14th biggest city in the Empire), Läähtisit (20th biggest city in the Empire), Plosnatsit (26th biggest city in the Empire) and Pustigslæting (28th biggest city in the Empire).
During a special press conference it was revealed that the principality's capital would host the event at the city stadium.
Draw	City 	Venue 	Capacity	Notes
01 	Göldtsit 	Stadijümi Göldtsitiskaja 	33,150 	
02 	Göldtsit 	Göldtarrenaa 	9,000 	
03 	Göldtsit 	Emtlý Plioed Halý 	4,397 	
04 	Rakozsit 	SGArrenaa 	14,000 	
05 	Rakozsit 	Rakozsitiskaja Arrenaa 	6,500 	
06 	Läähtisit 	Nelzaar Nauraam Stadijümi	19,022 	
07 	Plosnatsit 	Altõdiiriska Arrenaa 	24,000 	Historic location under the state protection
08 	Pustigslæting	Shaitö ot sparrtotre 	6,500 	
===City and venue===
Göldtsit (/ˈgoldt'sit/, English: Goldcity) is the capital of the Griffin principality of Pzyerüyölkeä and is the center of the region of Pzyerimeremaa. The city is located on the banks of the River Vereberjsej. It is the fourth-largest city in Griffin Empire, with 1,360,829 inhabitants of whom 479,553 live in the historic city centre district.
Pzierish capital is the centre of the both Griffin and West-Natian aerospace industry and hosts the largest space centre in Galea. That is not a coincidence since the University of Göldsit is one of the oldest in Natia and, with more than 108,000 students, it is the fourth-largest university campus in Griffin Empire, after the universities of Kralingslæting, Hermýn and Nýtdainsk. It is a very old city itself being founded in the earliest Griffin period, the city was the capital of the Pzierish Kingdom until it joined the Empire the year 1000. In the year 1001. Goldcity became the capital of the principality of Pzyerimaa until united principality of Pzyerüyölkeä was created in 1424. Three World Heritage Sites are here Müüdüükanaal; Kirkja ot förrshtooved (temple of reason) and the former hospital Uegötõlõrõtschwebegradtschwarödvorec. Even though the city was named "gold" after the local gold mines, the city's nickname is "pinksit" ("the pink city") because of its unique architecture made of pinkish terracotta bricks.
Stadijümi Göldtsitiskaja is the largest multi-purpose stadium in Göldtsit. It is currently used mostly for football matches, mainly those of the Goldcity Football Club, as well as rugby matches. It is located on the island of Lenaölldt near the centre of Göldtsit. It is a pure football and rugby ground, and therefore has no athletics track surrounding the field. The stadium is able to hold 33,150 people. 
The stadium's bid, like a few before, was dependant on the construction of the roof over the central area. The roof construction was funded by the office of the mayor of Goldcity as well as few local noble families.
==Format==
===Show===
It was revealed on all major social, printed and broadcast media that the host for the 8th edition would be Griffin actor Skylar Astin. The official photoshoot was revealed on the biggest billboard in front of the Kaptöllä at Griffiniskaja Tere square in Pyetsit during the traditional 100 days till Laul ceremony.
Skypar Astin is Griffin actor and singer. He became known for portraying Jesse Swanson in the musical films Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2. He was also in the original cast of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, and has since appeared in films such as Hamlet 2, Taking Woodstock, Cavemen, and 21 & Over. He played the role of Greg Serrano on the last season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a role originally played by Santino Fontana. His most recent role is as Max in the musical dramedy Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.
The show was opened with Ashe and Finneas, the winners of the previous edition singing their winning song as well Ashe's song from the second Griffiniskaja Laul. Traditionally, the host - Skylar Astin had his opening monologue. Opening act also included the flags parade. Postcards were dedicated to the discography of the 7 participants rather than promoting the regional tourism or celebrating the country itself. Interval act included the host singing a medley that included MIKA's Lollipop, Greyson Chance presenting his new single, Ashe singing her lead single from her new album and Gaia singing her previous WLSC and GL entries.
Act 	Artist 	Song / performance 	Notes
Opening act 	Ashe & FINNEAS	Till Forever Falls Apart	Previous edition winning song
Opening act 	Ashe 	Moral of the Story 	Pzyerüyölkeän entry for the Griffiniskaja Laul 2
Opening act 	Skylar Astin 	Monologue 	Monologue
Interval act	Skylar Astin 	Medley 	
Interval act	Greyson Chance 	Hellboy 	Winner of the first edition
Interval act	Ashe 	Me Without You 	
Interval act	Gaia 	Coco Chanel 	Pzyerüyölkeän song at the fourth edition
Interval act	Gaia 	Chega 	Griffin song at the WLSC 199
==Songs selection==
Regional branches of GTV had sole discretion on the process they employed to select their entry for the contest, although the GTV strongly encouraged that broadcasters engage the public with the selection of their act. Even though the regional broadcasters got to choose their representatives completely on their own once again, there were no regional finals and all principalities have chosen their acts internally.
Number of songs submitted for the first planned event was once again higher than at the previous edition at 3 811 with the most of them coming from Foreõsvdetrre and the least from Färzas - Lætingmaa. After the show was postponed, new applications process was opened and 3541 songs were received.
===Original line up===
Draw	Principality 	Artist 	Song 	Note
01 	Eestimadnait 	Karolina Stanisławczyk 	Cliché 	
02 	Õklingsmaa 	Declan Mckenna 	Rapture 	Represented Doire at the 194th NSC
03 	Pzyerüyölkeä 	Oscar Anton & Clementine	Nuits D'été 	
04 	Sletterimaa 	Amber 	Ben Je Vergeten	
05 	Foreõsvdetrre 	fenkii ft. põhja korea 	bangkok 	Internally chosen as Griffin representative for the 224th WLSC
06 	Meremaa 	Gracie Abrams 	Mess It Up 	
07 	Färzas - Lætingmaa	Güneş ft. Uzi 	Dua 	
==Results==
Draw	Principality 	Artist 	Song 	Place	Points
01 	Õklingsmaa 	half·alive 	What's Wrong 	4th 	105
02 	Pzyerüyölkeä 	Ваня Дмитриенко	Венера-Юпитер	6th 	34
03 	Eestimadnait 	Omar Rudberg 	Alla Ba OUFF 	113 	3rd
04 	Sletterimaa 	Froukje 	Niets Tussen 	120 	2nd
05 	Foreõsvdetrre 	Conan Gray 	Overdrive 	101 	5th
06 	Färzas - Lætingmaa	Kaan Boşnak 	Barbar 	5 	7th
07 	Meremaa 	Christopher 	Fall So Hard 	134 	1st
===Split votes===
====International jury====
Draw	Principality 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Place	Points
01 	Õklingsmaa 	8 	 	10	 	10	5 	5 	1 	1 	10	5th 	50
02 	Pzyerüyölkeä 	 	5 	5 	5 	 	8 	 	 	 	1 	6th 	24
03 	Eestimadnait 	5 	 	12	12	5 	10	12	5 	8 	 	3rd 	69
04 	Sletterimaa 	10	8 	8 	8 	 	1 	10	10	5 	12	2nd 	72
05 	Foreõsvdetrre 	1 	10	 	10	12	 	1 	12	10	8 	4th 	64
06 	Färzas - Lætingmaa	 	1 	 	1 	1 	 	 	 	 	 	7th 	3
07 	Meremaa 	12	12	1 	 	8 	12	8 	8 	12	5 	1st 	78
====Televoting====
Draw	Principality 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Place	Points
01 	Õklingsmaa 	 	10	10	12	5 	8 	10	2nd 	55
02 	Pzyerüyölkeä 	1 	 	1 	8 	 	 	 	6th 	10
03 	Eestimadnait 	8 	5 	 	1 	8 	10	12	4th 	44
04 	Sletterimaa 	10	1 	5 	 	12	12	8 	3rd 	48
05 	Foreõsvdetrre 	5 	8 	8 	10	 	1 	5 	5th 	37
06 	Färzas - Lætingmaa	 	 	 	 	1 	 	1 	7th 	2
07 	Meremaa 	12	12	12	5 	10	5 	 	1st 	56
==Reception and result at the Waiting List Song Contest==
Once again the show was a hit with the biggest viewing audience to date. All songs (both first and the second line-up) received mostly good reviews and most of them debuted at high places on Griffin official charts. Foreosvdetrish song bangkok that would have represented the principality if the show was held for the Waiting List Song Contest 224 as planned went on to achieve high fifth place at the song contest itself and became one of the biggest hits of the year. The song Dua was another smashing hit despite the Griffiniskaja Laul being cancelled. The official line-up did even better with all of the songs charting both in Griffin Empire and in various Natian countries. Winning entry Fall So Hard was expected to do well, but exceeded expectations and finished sixth at the big event which was held in Šppóplä,  Låpøtré, Cydoni-Gibberia collecting 71 points. 
Points awarded to Griffin Empire
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
 	
* Gringotts
* New Bander State	
* Kimmystan	
* Effiland
* Moisantia
* Solentoya	
5 points 	4 points 	3 points	2 points	1 point
* Bigicia
* Joseyeon	
* Slagensala	 	
* Akatsuki
* Endórë
* Oussou Empire	
* Låpøtré