Olympiad Song Contest 52

Semi-finals dates
 Final dates
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Director
 Executive supervisor
 Host
 Number of entries
 Voting system
 Winning song

**The Olympiad Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Norway for the **52nd** Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #52** will be the **52nd** edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **Trondheim Spektrum**, located in **Trondheim**,  Norway, following the country's victory at the **51st** edition with AURORA performing **The Seed**. This will be the **fourth** time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of **2** semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **13th July 2020**. The grand final official date being the **22nd July 2020**. All three live shows were hosted by **Marcus Gunnarsen & Martinus Gunnarsen**.

As of **12 July 2020** **35** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **2** countries have made their debut being  Bermuda and  Guatemala. **7** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **17** countries withdrew. Spain had original confirmed on 15th June but did not reveal an entry in time for the show to begin.

## Location

It will take place in the **Trondheim Spektrum**, located in **Trondheim**,  Norway, following the country's victory at the 51st edition with Aurora performing **"The Seed"**.

### **Venue**

The **Trondheim Spektrum** in **Trondheim**, which has a capacity of approximately **12,000** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **8th July 2020**. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

### **Bidding phase and host city selection**

Following **Noryway's** triumph, the Olympiad Broadcasting Union (OBU)'s Executive Supervisor for the Olympiad Song Contest, issued the hosting invitation to **NRK1** during the winner's press conference.

**NRK1**, announced on **1st July 2020** that with the contest being held in  **Norway** that any city, town or arena that would like to host the contest would had four days to apply to the broadcaster with their interest.

The following selection criteria were outlined for the selection of the host city:-

* The venue must be covered with a capacity of at least 1,000 but ideally up to 10,000 attendees.
* An international press centre must be able to accommodate no less than 1,550 journalists.
* Venues must also be provided for the opening and closing ceremonies of at least 3,000 attendees.
* The host city must be able to guarantee the safety and security of participants, members of delegations and guests.
* The host city must provide a social program alongside their bid, showcasing the hospitality, originality, cultural values and identity of both the city and country.

     **Host City**

 Bodø
 Stavanger
 Trondheim

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **Come With Us**, was unveiled on **8th July 2020** in a press conference. Its visual design features a uniquely designed Tribal triangular logo that alludes to the ideas to wanting to enable the viewers to get even closer to the participants that are taking part in the competition. They will get to know them as people and get a feeling for how much it means for them to take part. The contest's Executive Supervisor remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with OSC's core values, including diversity, very well.

### **Presenters**

On **10th July**, **NRK1** announced that the contest would be hosted by **Marcus Gunnarsen & Martinus Gunnarsen**.

**Spokesperson 1**:- **Marcus Gunnarsen**
Marcus & Martinus (both born in Elverum, 21 February 2002) occasionally known as M&M, are a Norwegian pop-duo consisting of twin brothers Marcus and Martinus Gunnarsen. They have released three albums: Hei, Together and Moments. In 2019 they released an EP called SOON. Since winning Melodi Grand Prix Junior in 2012 they have won numerous prizes such as Spellemannprisen in 2017.

**Spokesperson 2**:- **Martinus Gunnarsen**
Marcus & Martinus (both born in Elverum, 21 February 2002), occasionally known as M&M, are a Norwegian pop-duo consisting of twin brothers Marcus and Martinus Gunnarsen. They have released three albums: Hei, Together and Moments. In 2019 they released an EP called SOON. Since winning Melodi Grand Prix Junior in 2012 they have won numerous prizes such as Spellemannprisen in 2017.

### **Voting**

The competition will consist of **02** semi-finals and a final. The **10** countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 6 countries from the previous edition  **Canada,  Finland,  Malta,  South Africa,  Sweden and the host nation  Norway**.

Each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

### **Semi-final allocation draw**

The draw to determine the allocation of the participating countries into their respective semi-finals took place on **12th July 2020**. The **29** semi-finalists had been allocated into **5** pots, based on the geographical locations of the nations. Drawing from different pots helps to increase suspense in the semi-finals. The draw also determined which semi-final would be broadcast and voted by each of the six automatic finalist countries ( **Canada,  Finland,  Malta,  South Africa,  Sweden and the host nation  Norway**).

* Dominican Republic
* Haiti
* Puerto Rico
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Malaysia
* Philippines
* Russia
* South Korea
* Thailand
* France
* Germany
* Liechtenstein
* The Netherlands
* Switzerland
* Greece
* Italy
* Romania
* Slovenia
* Ukraine
* Chile
* Colombia
* Guatemala
* New Zealand

## Participating Countries

As of **12 July 2020** **35** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **2** countries have made their debut being  Bermuda and  Guatemala. **7** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **17** countries withdrew. Spain had original confirmed on 15th June but did not reveal an entry in time for the show to begin.

### **Returning Artists**

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in OSC.

* Australia Amy Shark
* Canada Avril Lavigne
* Dominican Republic Kat DeLuna
* Norway Astrid S
* Philippines Bella Santiago
* Russia Polina Gagarina
* Sweden Dotter

## Finals

### **Semi Final 1**

**15 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Finland, Norway and  Sweden** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 09 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final. This is to balance out the number of participants in each semi final to give each country a fair and equal chance of qualifying

     Qualified

### **Semi Final 2**

**14 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Canada, Malta and  South Africa** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 11 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final. This is to balance out the number of participants in each semi final to give each country a fair and equal chance of qualifying

     Qualified

### **Grand Final**

26 Countries will create the grand final. 10 from Semi Final 1, 10 from Semi Final 2 and the automatic qualifiers  Canada,  Finland,  Malta,  South Africa,  Sweden and the host nation  Norway.

The draw on  Canada,  Finland,  Malta,  South Africa,  Sweden and the host nation  Norway positions in the running order were done prior to the Semi Finals.

## Scoring

### **12points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the Grand final:

### **Scoreboards**

#### This is how the votes were scored in each Semi Final.

     Voter was replaced
     Qualified

## National Selections

Here is a list of all the national selections held this edition.

 Malta | The Voice Of Malta | Avec Moi  Emma Muscat ft. Biondo | 26 points