Variation Yagredin Music Festival 01

Logo and slogan of the first edition

**Variation** **Yagredin Music Festival 01**, often referred as **VYMF 01**, was the debut edition of the Variation Yagredin Music Festival. The edition was held in Rävwick, Vulpihjel as it was chosen as the host country. Annalisa and Alice Kochiayen were selected as the presenters of the event.

Twenty-five countries participated in the first edition, all of them being debutants as it was the first edition. In order to participate, the countries had to be firstly approved to be members of the Yagredin Brodcasting Union (YBU).

Among the founding countries were Agartias, Anteera, Aythmos and Zhavina, Casacolburg, Cyncordia, Deltascape Ω-Type, Drakkengrad, Dsôn Ílios, Harukona, Hrojistan, Kaechyeodae, Kosta Vera, Lakkusunmō, Luania, Nabeelo, Pacamonea, Pluviøterra, Ryza, Saint Khalia, Skaarvaag, Sunlit Sands, Vulpihjel, Woodvale, Yaranesia and Zarjaia.

The recap has been published on the 25th of june, while the results were shown on the 1st of august 2021.

The winner of the edition was Nabeelo with the song "Wilisamala (Goddess)" performed by Kratae Rsiam, which scored 105 points, seven points over the runner-up, Pluviøterra scoring 98 points and the song "The Storm" from Maisy Kay. The top 3 complete made Vulpihjel with Aidan's song "Naħseb Fik" with an amount of 86 points. Cyncordia received only 2 points and was therefore the last place of the first edition.

## Rules

Every special edition is named as that because only a certain type of songs is allowed to take part in this event.

For the Variation Yagredin Music Festival the rules are as it follows. Every edition the theme of the edition changes and so every new edition there are rules which have to be fulfilled by the countries. This edition, all countries had to send songs that appeared less than 4 times in the history of all Yagredin events to this date.

Allowed are every artists existing, from a very young age to a really old one. Also songs from the ESC national finals are fine. Not allowed are ESC songs itself and songs that already took part in the YMF main event. But of couse, the paragidms change from edition to edition depeding on the theme.

The songs are checked by a certain commision, which discuss the acceptability of each song.

## Languages

To mark the versality of Yagredin, each edition has a language table to get an overview over the languages.

## Running Order

   The offical running order for the show was decided by the YBU to make the show as exciting as possible and to have the maximum of excitement in the show.

The show was opened by Agartias, finishing 11th and it was closed by Nabeelo, taking the 1st place. Meaning that the opening act finished near the top 10 and closing position even won the edition.

## Participants

With twenty-five countries, there were also twenty-five new and known artists participating writing YMF history. We are deviding between men, women and groups. This edition had 18 female participants and 3 male participant. Furthermore the edition had 10 groups. The percentages for the distribution are 58% woman, 32% groups and 10% men.

### Returning Artists

 Pluviøterra
 #06 (YMF)
 #16 (JYMF)

## Results

Twenty-five countries participated in the final, with all of the participating countries had to cast in their vote.

## Voting Grid

To ensure that every vote was counted correctly, the YBU is publishing every voting grid of the certain edition after the end of it. So every country can take a look into the voting and knows who they did vote and who did vote for them.

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