Olympiad Song Contest 53

Final dates
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Director
 Executive supervisor
 Host
 Number of entries
 Voting system
 Winning song

**The Olympiad Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Sweden for the **53rd** Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #53** will be the **53rd** edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **Ericsson Globe**, located in **Stockholm**,  Sweden, following the country's victory at the **52nd** edition with Dotter performing **Backfire**. This will be the **01st** time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of one the grand final, with official dates for the grand final being the **6th October**. All three live shows were hosted by **Dotter, Elize Ryd and Gustaf Skarsgård**.

As of **27th September 2020** **31** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **1** country has made their debut. **9** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **14** countries withdrew.

## Location

It will take place in the **Ericsson Globe**, located in **Stockholm**,  Sweden, following the country's victory at the **52nd** edition with Dotter performing **"Backfire"**.

### **Venue**

The **Ericsson Globe** in **Stockholm**, which has a capacity of approximately **16,000** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **20th September**. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

### **Bidding phase and host city selection**

Following **Sweden's** triumph, the Olympiad Broadcasting Union (OBU)'s Executive Supervisor for the Olympiad Song Contest, issued the hosting invitation to **SVT** during the winner's press conference.

**SVT**, announced on **6th September** that with the contest being held in  **Sweden** that any city, town or arena that would like to host the contest would had four days to apply to the broadcaster with their interest.

The following selection criteria were outlined for the selection of the host city:-

* The venue must be covered with a capacity of at least 1,000 but ideally up to 10,000 attendees.
* An international press centre must be able to accommodate no less than 1,550 journalists.
* Venues must also be provided for the opening and closing ceremonies of at least 3,000 attendees.
* The host city must be able to guarantee the safety and security of participants, members of delegations and guests.
* The host city must provide a social program alongside their bid, showcasing the hospitality, originality, cultural values and identity of both the city and country.

     **Host City**

 Halmstad
 Östersund
 Stockholm
The Ericsson Globe is the largest hemispherical building on Earth and took two and a half years to build.

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **Making Magic**, was unveiled on **20th September** in a press conference. Its visual design features a uniquely designed witch hat logo that alludes to the ideas to making your own magic in life to make your fantasies a reality. The contest's Executive Supervisor remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with OSC's core values, including diversity, very well.

### **Presenters**

On **20th September**, **SVT** announced that the contest would be hosted by **Dotter**, **Elize Ryd**and**Gustaf Skarsgård**.

**Spokesperson 1**:- **Dotter**
Johanna Maria Jansson (born 10 June 1987), better known by her stage name Dotter, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She finished second in Melodifestivalen 2020 with her song "Bulletproof", one point behind the winning song.

**Spokesperson 2**:- **Elize Ryd**
Hanna Elise Isabell Maj Höstblomma Ryd (born 15 October 1984), known professionally as Elize Ryd, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, dancer, composer, and show artist, best known as one of the three vocalists in the melodic metalcore/power metal band Amaranthe. She also gained some popularity prior to the band's inception by performing guest vocals for the symphonic power metal band Kamelot, both on tour and in the studio.

**Spokesperson 3**:- **Gustaf Skarsgård**
Gustaf Caspar Orm Skarsgård (born 12 November 1980) is a Swedish actor. He is best known outside Scandinavia for his role as Floki in the History Channel series Vikings as well as for his roles in the films Evil (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Kon-Tiki (2012). He also played Karl Strand in the second season of the HBO series Westworld.

### **Voting**

The competition will consist of one grand final. The **31** countries will compete where each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

## Participating Countries

As of **27th September 2020** **31** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **1** country has made their debut. **9** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **14** countries withdrew.

### **Returning Artists**

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in OSC. Iskuhi Hovhannisyan was the representative for  Armenia back in ed.28 and had already used her song Hima Herte Imna. With the new team, this was missed in screening and the song went to score top 6 in Stockholm.
Tacoyaki Rainbow and Zara Larsson both competed in Juniour Olympiad prior to this edition. Zara Larsson had first debuted in ed. 8 of the Mysterious Song Contest prior to the rule change in edition 41 which stated and age limit to be over 18. Zara Larsson is also to only person to compete and host the Junior format this edition.

* Armenia Iskuhi Hovhannisyan
* Hong Kong Jackson Wang
* Indonesia Agnez Mo
* Japan Tacoyaki Rainbow
* Romania INNA
* Slovenia Raiven
* Sweden Zara Larsson

## Finals

### **Grand Final**

30 Countries will create the grand final.

## Scoring

### **12points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the Grand final:

### **Scoreboards**

This is how the countries scored in the grand final.

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## National Selections

Here is a list of all the national selections held this edition.