Nova Grand Prix Wikia

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The **Nova Grand Prix**, often shortened to **NGP**, or **Nova**, is an annual song competition inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest, which was created by Nazar Novak, an ordinary student from Ukraine, on February 10, 2014 and open to countries all over the world. The inaugural competition took place on July 2014, in Ottawa, Canada. One hundred and six countries have taken part since the inauguration of the contest.

## Format

The competition involves one representative from each of the participating countries. The festival is held in an online format. From each country can participate only one representative (soloist, duet etc, or musical band), performing a song. The most popular song is determined by voting of participaning countries

The contest is held annually, in the last full week in July, and is one of the most unusual simulators in the social network "VKontakte". For all time in the competition curators from different countries of the world participated (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan).

*Further more: Rules*

## Participation

Any independent country of the world, developed in the musical industry, may take part in the competition. Usually, those countries that passed into the final are able to take part next year and some returning and debuting contries are willing.

*Further more: List of countries in the Nova Grand Prix*

Listed are all the countries that have ever taken part in the competition alongside the year in which they made their debut:

 Australia -  Fiji -  New Zealand -  Japan -  Azerbaijan -  Russia -  Philippines -  India -  Algeria -  Ghana -  DR Congo -  Rwanda -  Kenya -  South Africa -  Brazil  Venezuela -  Barbados -  Canada -  Cuba -  Jamaica - Template:USA -  Germany -  United Kingdom -  Belarus -  Romania -  Ukraine -  Denmark -  Sweden -  Greece -  Italy -  Spain -  Iran -  South Korea -  Morocco -  Armenia -  Nigeria -  Uzbekistan -  China -  UAE -  Kazakhstan -  Trinidad and Tobago -  Iceland -  Singapore -  Kyrgyzstan -  Cyprus -  Ireland -  Malaysia -  Mexico -  Chile -  Serbia -  Argentina -  Turkey -  Paraguay -  Peru -  Thailand -  Colombia -  Indonesia -  Slovakia
 Austria -  Haiti -  Mongolia -  France -  Zambia -  Ecuador -  Solomon Islands -  Cape Verde -  Sri Lanka -  Uganda -  Poland -  Egypt -  Norway -  Cote d'Ivoire -  Lebanon -  Panama -  Netherlands -  Cameroon - Template:Bosnia and Herzegovina -  Tanzania -  Tunisia -  Vietnam -  Senegal -  Bangladesh -  Zimbabwe -  Papua New Guinea -  Uruguay -  Latvia -  Hungary
 Kosovo -  Israel -  Finland -  Namibia -  Pakistan -  Liberia -  Moldova -  Angola -  Switzerland -  Dominican Republic -  Costa Rica -  Laos -  Ethiopia -  Estonia -  Georgia -  Croatia

#### **Map of participating countries**

     – Countries that participate this year.
     – Countries that did not participated earlier, but participate this year.
     – Countries that participated earlier, but do not participate this year.
## Hosting

Most of the expense of the contest is covered by commercial sponsors and contributions from the other participating nations. The contest is considered to be a unique opportunity for promoting the host country as a tourist destination. The table below shows a list of cities and venues that have hosted the NGP, one or more times. Future venues are shown in *italics*.

## Slogans

 2015 | Russia (Novosibirsk)
 2016 | France (Lille)
 2017 | United States (New York)
 2018 | Iceland (Fellabær and Egilsstaðir)