Alternative Song Contest Wiki

## Broadcast

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20 September 2018 - present

> *Most recent edition: Alternative Eurovision Song Contest #33 - Kaunas, Lithuania*
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> *Upcoming edition: Alternative Eurovision Song Contest #34 - Cairo, Egypt*
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 The **Alternative Eurovision Song Contest**, often shortened to **AESC** is a song contest on Youtube held among the members of the Alternative Broadcasting Union since September 2018. The competition was based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. The current and official executive supervisor is **Charlie Cox**.

Each country's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal or national selection. Then the countries get to vote for each show (pre-qualification round, semi-final or final) to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition. The contest has been broadcast around the world, and due this fact, every edition the jury members from The rest of the world cast their votes, and the host of the edition invite one guest country outside the europe to participate. No guest countries have yet won the competition, although Canada and Japan were very close to this.

So far, 14 different countres won the competition. **Russia, France, Spain, Switzerland** and **Italy** won the contest twice. The winner with the most editions is **Halflives**, who scored 483 points during the special edition 10 in **Bern**, giving the Italian their first win. **Uzbekistan** in edition 13 is the winner with the most 12 points, which is the maximum number of points that can be awarded to a song.

## History of the Contest

On 9 August 2018, Sylwia Zimny, producer of the Alternative Broadcasting Union decided to open an international music contest, in that every full member of the ABU can take part by sending artists representing their countries with songs. It was called *Alternative Eurovision Song Contest*. The name of the competition comes from the desire to create an "alternative" (in a more literal sense - fan-like) version of Eurovision. The name is meant to reflect a different way of driving, and allow the common people to decide what song the country will represent. The name is often confused, and the competition is considered to be "Alternative" due to the genre, which is an absolute mistake in the sense.

The first ever edition started on 20 September 2018. It was held in Poland, that means it's the first host country, but also first ever automatic qualifer. Other 5 pre-qualificated countries in edition 1 was hosts neighbors, Belarus, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine. Thirty seven countres took part in edition 1, each country awarded 12 points to their favorite, 10 points to their second favourite and then 8 points to 1 point for the rest. Each country is free to either hold a Televote only, a Jury Voting only or both at the same time which combined make up the voting they will submit. The voting procedure has not changed since then.

United Kingdom, is the first ever country who won the contest, and it hosted edition 2. After this, the winner of the competition would always host the next edition. It has not changed still.

## Logos, Theme Arts and Slogans

### Logos

The logo is borrowed from the Eurovision Song Contest. But the prefix *"Alternative"* is added to it. It was originally written in the same font as *"song contest"*, and was flush with the heart that contains the current host flag. After edit 3, this has changed, and the word *"Alternative"* has been moved slightly to the side, and is located between the first letter *"e"* and the heart, and is in the same font as the word *"Eurovision"*. The logo is still used, but with slight shadow changes, which is not very visible or indicated.

### Theme Arts

Theme arts are created differently in each edition. They have a different color scheme, different logo and slogan. Theme arts are modeled on and inspired by previous winners or current host countries, often showing their cultural merits. Theme arts are usually of the same color, but they are often combined. But there is always one dominant color. The 20 edition uses orange and purple, which for many seemed a rather unusual mix. The most used color is purple, followed by blue, green and yellow. The theme art in brown, pink and black only appeared once. There has never been a theme art in white. At the beginning, the facets that were used for editing were imported from the Internet under special licenses, mainly from facets.la and pngtree.com, but from the 17th century the competition owners themselves create mainly logos. Backgrounds are often a mix of many different aspects. For example, in the 16th edition in Kazakhstan, the starry sky from the winning song was used for the background.

### Slogans

Like theme arts, the slogans are inspired by previous winners as well as the origin of countries. In many cases, the slogan is also the main theme of the editing as all country names are related to it. The slogan is always in English, but may have annotations from other languages, most often from the host country. Below is a list of all taglines

The slogans of the second slogans belong to the spin-offs of the main competition, where countries submit songs that did not win the national finals. This is a slightly smaller event than the main AESC.

## Participation

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Anyone from **ABU** members is able to send a song and participate in the contest. Countries outside the **ABU** are able to participate in special editions, but also in regular editions. If such a so-called "guest country", chosen by the host, is in big 6, he stays for the next edition, but still does not become a regular participant. Regular countries can participate in any edition, they can also leave. In the history of the competition, not all countries debuted right away. In total, 58 regular countries participated in the competition, in the table below you can see the countries that did not make their debut in the 1st edition.