Oceanian Song Festival

The **Oceanian Song Festival**, often shortened to OSF is a song contest held on YouTube, primarily, among the countries and territories of Oceania since November 2020. The competition is based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest which is held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956.

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 to determine the winner of the edition.

## Origins

The first ever Oceanian Song Festival started on 24th November 2020. It was held in Koror, Palau which also was the first nation to host the Oceanian Song Festival. 14 nations took part in the first edition each submitting one entry to the contest. Each country awarded 12 points to their favourite, 10 points to their second favourite, and then 8 to 1 points to the rest. The first edition was won by the Galápagos Islands.

## Participation

Main article: List of Countries in the Oceanian Song Festival
Any country or territory with territory in Oceania is allowed to send a song for the Oceanian Song Festival. Exceptions to this rule must be approved by the council of the contest. Each full member has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition.

Twenty-two countries have participated at least once. These will be listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

## Format

The contest's format has remained constant since the contest's debut. The contest has one final featuring a varying number of countries. All songs are performed during the final and then the jury of each country cast their votes to determine the winner.

## Rules

There are several rules of the contest in order to enter. The main rule of the contest is that the country has to be part of or have significant cultural ties with Oceania, with a certain broadcaster before applying to enter the contest. Regarding the broadcaster, any broadcaster can be accepted by the council. If the head of delegation is not satisfied with the country, one can swap the countries with other users. There are also rules regarding the entries, such as that Eurovision Song Contest songs are not allowed to compete in the contest or that the singer must be over the age of 16. Artists must have a connection with the country that they are representing.

## Voting

The voting system used in the contest has been in place since the beginning, and is a positional voting system. Each country awards one set of 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.

### Presentation of votes

Since the first edition, all the participating countries have been voting in the final. Since the first edition, the results were announced from last to first places, with the current announced entry being played.

### Nul points and ties

So far there has been no entry that received no points from any country. The lowest scoring entry was the Solomon Islander entry in the second edition, which received six points.

There have been ties during the contest. In case of a tie between two or more countries, the country that received points from the most countries wins the tie. However, if the countries received points from the same number of countries, the number of 12 points is counted and if they are still tied it goes on until the tie breaks. The first notable tie in the contest was the one between Papua New Guinea and Samoa in the second edition.

## Winners

Main article: List of Oceanian Song Festival winners
The contest has so far two winning countries.