Olympiad Song Contest 47

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

**The Olympiad Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Andorrafor the 47th Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #46** will be the 46th edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **Poliesportiu d'Andorra**, located in **Andorra La Vella**,  Andorra, following the country's victory at the 46th edition with Belen Aguilera performing **Jaque Al Rey**. This will be the **01st** time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 3 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **23 Aug**, **13 Sep** and **21 Sep**. The grand final official date being the **07 Oct**. All three live shows were hosted by **Roberto Leal**.

As of **11 AUG** **All Winners of the contest** confirmed participation in the contest.

## Location

It will take place in the **Poliesportiu d'Andorra**, located in **Andorra La Vella**,  Andorra, following the country's victory at the 47th edition with Belen Aguilera performing **"Jaque Al Rey"**.

### **Venue**

The **Poliesportiu d'Andorra** in **Andorra La Vella**, which has a capacity of approximately **5,000** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **7 AUG**. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

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

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

**RTVA**, announced on **2 AUG** that with the contest being held in  **Andorra** 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**

 Andorra la Vella
 Andorra la Vella
 Andorra La Vella
The stadium was built at the former ground of the Camp d'Esports del M.I. Consell General. Construction started in 2013 and finished in 2014.

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **The Grand Finale**, was unveiled on **7 AUG** in a press conference. Its visual design features a uniquely designed crown logo that alludes to the ideas to be **a symbol of power and celebration as a sign to end the contest with a huge celebration and coronation**. The contest's Executive Supervisor remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with OSC's core values, including diversity, very well.

### **Presenters**

On **7 AUG**, **RTVA** announced that the contest would be hosted by **ROBERTO LEAL**.

**Spokesperson 1**:- **ROBERTO LEAL**
Roberto José Leal Guillén (born 28 June 1979) is a Spanish television presenter, reporter and journalist.

Roberto Leal was born in Alcalá de Guadaíra, Seville on 28 June 1979. Leal graduated in Journalism at the University of Seville. He was a journalist of the newspaper La Voz de Alcalá, and the conductor of the radio program La Resaca, on Sevilla FM.

### **Voting**

The competition will consist of **03** semi-finals and a final. The **10** countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 6 countries from the previous edition **Clean Bandit, Evanescence, Maraaya, Elaine Martins, Tamar Kaprelian and the host champion Belen Aguilera**.

Each participating champion had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective champion's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own song, 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.

### **Semi-final allocation draw**

The draw to determine the allocation of the participating champions into their respective semi-finals took place on **23 Aug**, **13 Sep** and **21 Sep**.

## Finals

### **Semi Final 1**

**15 Champions** are participating in this Semi Final with **Elaine Martins, Maaraya & Tamar Kaprelian** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 10 champions that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final. This is to balance out the number of participants in each semi final to give each champion a fair and equal chance of qualifying.

     Qualified

### **Semi Final 2**

**15 Champions** are participating in this Semi Final with **Belen Aguilera, Clean Bandit & Evanescence** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 10 champions that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final. This is to balance out the number of participants in each semi final to give each champion a fair and equal chance of qualifying.

     Qualified

### **Semi Final 3**

**15 Champions** are participating in this Semi Final with all participants from semi final 1, 2, and the top 6 voting. The top 4 champions that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

### **Grand Final**

30 Champions will create the grand final. 10 from Semi Final 1, 10 from Semi Final 2, 4 from Semi Final 3 and the 6 automatic qualifiers; Clean Bandit, Evanescence, Maraaya, Elaine Martins, Tamar Kaprelian and the host champion Belen Aguilera.

The draw on Clean Bandit, Evanescence, Maraaya, Elaine Martins, Tamar Kaprelian and the host champion Belen Aguilera positions in the running order were done prior to the Semi Finals.

### **Scoreboards**

#### This is how the votes were scored in each Semi Final.

     Voter was replaced
     Qualified