Our Perfect Song Contest 20

Armenia

 Austria

 Azerbaijan

 Belarus

 Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Croatia

 Estonia

 Hungary

 Kosovo

 Kyrgyzstan

 Latvia

 Lebanon

 Malta

 Philippines

 Portugal

 Slovakia

 South Africa

 Turkey

 Uzbekistan

**Our Perfect Song Contest 20** is the nineteenth edition of Our Perfect Song Contest. The contest took place in **Kaunas** after **Lithuania's** victory with Ruta Loop in the 19th edition. A total of 66 countries competed in Our Perfect Song Contest 20. Countries from TOP 6 previous edition  Lithuania  South Korea  Russia  Sweden  Kazakhstan and  Australia are directly qualified to the final, while the other competing countries are split into two Semi-Finals. No countries withdrew,  Algeria and  Egypt debuted in the contest. The returning countries are:  Andorra  Armenia  Austria  Azerbaijan  Belarus  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  Estonia  Hungary  Kosovo  Kyrgyzstan  Latvia  Lebanon  Malta  Philippines  Portugal  Slovakia  South Africa and  Turkey.

To see previous edition, click here. To see the next edition, click here.

## **Location**

### ***Host Country***

**Lithuania**, officially the **Republic of Lithuania** (Lithuanian: *Lietuvos Respublika*), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. Lithuania is one of the Baltic states. Situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the southeast of Sweden and Denmark, Lithuania is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people as of 2019. The capital and largest city is Vilnius and other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians are Balts. The official language, Lithuanian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, the other being Latvian.

### ***Host City***

**Kaunas** is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915.

During the interwar period, it served as the temporary capital of Lithuania, when Vilnius was seized by Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas was celebrated for its rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco and Lithuanian National Romanticism architectural-style buildings as well as popular furniture, the interior design of the time, and a widespread café culture The city interwar architecture is regarded as among the finest examples of European Art Deco and has received the European Heritage Label. It contributed to Kaunas being named as the first city in Central and Eastern Europe to be designated as a UNESCO City of Design. Kaunas has been selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2022, together with Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

### ***Venue***

#### ***Venue information***

**Žalgiris Arena** is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. The arena is located on an island of the Nemunas River. It is the largest indoor arena in the Baltics. The arena's maximum possible seating capacity for basketball games is 15,450, and 20,000 spectators for concerts (when the stage is in the middle, and 17,000 when stage is in the side of the arena). The Žalgiris Arena replaced the Kaunas Sports Hall as a major venue in the city. The Žalgiris Arena is used to host basketball games as well as concerts. The arena's namesake basketball club BC Žalgiris, which currently competes in the domestic LKL and the EuroLeague, uses the facility for all of its European and LKL home fixtures. BC Žalgiris and Žalgiris Arena has had the highest average attendance in the Euroleague in 2011-12, 2012-13, 2017-18, and 2018-19.

#### ***Hosting Bids***

The table below shows the hosting bids of OPSC 20 venues.

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 Vilinius

## **Format**

### ***Hosts***

#### **Monika Marija**

**Monika Marija Paulauskaitė** , known simply as Monika Marija (born 31 May 1998 ), is a Lithuanian singer. Raised in Kelmė, a town in northwestern Lithuania, Monika Marija moved to Vilnius after earning her high school diploma to study French philology at the university. In 2017 sheparticipated in the auditions for the fifth edition of the talent show Lietuvos balsas, the Lithuanian version of The Voice format. At the beginning of 2018 she participated in the Lithuanian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song The Truth, written by the 2001 Eurovision representative Erica Jennings , and she finished in 4th place. In December of the same year she released her eponymous debut album, supported by two national tours that led her to sing, among others, at the **Žalgirio Arena** in Kaunas. After having selected the Ballad "Criminal" to participate in Eurovizijos 2019, the selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, in light of the success obtained in Lithuania with the single "Light On", he decided to take part in the competition also with the latter, becoming the only artist of the edition to compete with two songs and reaching the final with both.

#### **Gabrielė Martirosian**

**Gabrielė Martirosian** (born **Martirosianaitė**; 23 February 1991 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian model, actress and radio and television presenter. She is best known as Miss Lithuania 2008. Martirosian started her career as a model with the Modilinos agency in 2007, with her first two contracts involving working in Tokyo and Bangkok. In 2008, she was selected as Miss Lithuania, subsequently representing Lithuania in that year's Miss World in Johannesburg. However, she did not progress beyond the first round. She was selected as an ambassador for Vilnius' European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2009. After graduating from Ugnės Karvelis Gymnasium in Akademija in 2009, she studied Lithuanian philology at Vilnius University, graduating in 2013. She founded the clothing label *Oh! Skin* in 2015 and the nail art salon *Nail Game* in 2017. Since 2019, Martirosian has been a presenter on LRT Radijas. She has become known to an international audience for hosting the Lithuanian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside Ieva Stasiulevičiūtė in 2017, Giedrius Masalskis  in 2019 and Masalskis and Ieva Zasimauskaitė in 2020.

### ***Allocation Draw***

The countries were split into four quarter-finals. After a qualification, they pass to the semi-final round. The allocation draw will consist of 6 pots only for the semi-final round.

### ***Visual Design***

This section will be updated after the official artwork reveal.

### ***Edition 20 Rules***

Every 10 editions, the OPBU organizes a special edition. The countries have to send a song they sent in past. However, they aren't allowed to send winning songs, and the Big 6 members can't send their entries from the 19th edition. Some countries were allowed to send new songs without any rules.

The table below shows how many songs from each edition have been sent.

### ***Voting***

The voting format for OPSC is each country awarding points from their professional jury of 12, 10, 8-1. The participants have to give two different sets of votes - One will be jury, the other one will be Televote.

### ***Big 6***

In the contest, the top six from the previous edition make up a **Big 6**, in different way **Pre-Qualified** or **Automatically qualiified** countries. The six countries won't compete in the Semi-Finals, but they will mandatory have to vote in them. The big 6 members of OPSC 20 are:  Lithuania  South Korea  Russia  Sweden  Kazakhstan and  Australia.

### ***Semi-Finals***

In the Semi-Finals, a total of 40 countries will compete. 40 competeting nations that qualified from the quarter-finals round will be split into two semi-finals. There will be 18 competeting countries in each semi-final. The top 10 songs will make it to the Grand Final and continue fighting for the win.

### ***Grand Final***

The Final will consist of 26 countries that participated in the edition. The countries competeting in the Grand Final will be the Pre-qualified countries and 20 qualifiers from the Semi-Finals. All countries competeting in the edition will have to vote in the show, containing the Non-Qualifiers. The winner will be chosen by the Proffesional Jury votes and Televote.

## **Results**

### ***Quarter-Final 1***

The first quarter final took place on TBA. All QF1 participants had to vote in the quarter-final.

### ***Quarter-Final 2***

The first quarter final took place on TBA. All QF2 participants had to vote in the quarter-final.

### ***Quarter-Final 3***

The first quarter final took place on TBA. All QF3 participants had to vote in the quarter-final.

### ***Quarter-Final 4***

The first quarter final took place on TBA. All QF4 participants had to vote in the quarter-final.

### ***Semi-Final 1***

The first semi-final took place on TBA. All SF1 participants had to vote in the semi-final.

### ***Semi-Final 2***

The second semi-final took place on TBA. All SF2 participants had to vote in the semi-final.