20 Wellington, New Zealand

### Returning

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan, 🇮🇷 Iran, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇳🇬 Nigeria, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇻🇳 Vietnam

### Withdrawing

🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇨🇳 China, 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, 🇬🇪 Georgia, 🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico, 🇺🇾 Uruguay, 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

## Voting

### System

Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs

### Winner

🇺🇦 Kler - *Nestrimna*

**Fabulous Song Contest 20**, often referred to as **FSC #20**, was the 20th edition of Fabulous Song Contest, held in Wellington, New Zealand.

68 countries participated in the 20th contest. Kler from 🇺🇦 Ukraine won the contest with the song "Nestrimna" receiving a total of 232 points.

### **HOST CITY**

**Wellington** is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the major population centre of the southern North Island, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region, which also includes the Kapiti Coast and the Wairarapa. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed.

### **BROADCASTER**

**Television New Zealand**, more commonly referred to as **TVNZ**, is a free-to-air public broadcasting television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. Although the network identifies as a national part-public broadcaster, it is commercially funded. TVNZ was established in February 1980 following the merger of the two government-owned television networks, Television One and South Pacific Television, under a single administration.

### **VENUE**

**TSB Arena** venue, located on the capital’s stunning waterfront, TSB Arena is Wellington's biggest and most versatile indoor venue. It's a go-to venue choice for major conferences, international concerts, exhibitions and indoor sporting events, and it's home to the annual World of WearableArt Awards Show. Venues Wellington manages TSB Arena - one of their portfolio of six venues in the heart of New Zealand’s creative capital.

### **PRESENTER**

**Roseanne Park** (born 11 February 1997), better known by the mononym **Rosé**, is a Korean-New Zealand singer and dancer based in South Korea. Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Rosé signed with South Korean label YG Entertainment following an audition in 2012, training there for four years. She made her debut as a vocalist in the girl group Blackpink in August 2016 and made her solo debut with her single album *R* in March 2021. She holds two Guinness World Records: of being the first artist to reach number one on Billboard Global 200 as a soloist and as part of a group, and for having the most-viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours by a K-pop soloist.

### **SECOND CHANCE ROUND**

Second Chance Round or SCR was held for the first time of the contest history. There competed 3 countries from Semi-Finals that finished at 9th positions. There were able to vote all 68 countries that are taking part in #20 edition (not all of them voted). Only the winner went to the Grand Final.

 🇰🇷 South Korea
 🇸🇩 South Sudan