International Song Contest: Discogram Wiki

The **International Song Contest: Discogram**, often shortened to **DISC** is a song contest held on both Discord and Instagram since July 2020. The competition is 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 A.B.

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 (semi-final and final) to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition.

## Origins

The first ever Discogram International Song Contest will start on 17th October 2020. It was held in Pago Pago, American Samoa which also is the first ever country to host the Discogram International Song Contest.

## Participation

Main article: List of countries in the Discogram International Song Contest
Eighty countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

## Format

In every edition, a maximum of 60 countries can participate. Where 54 countries will compete in 3 different semis, where only the 8 highest-placing songs will qualify to the Grand Final.

### Autoqualifications

The member of the "Big 6" consists of  Singapore together with the Top 5 of the previous edition.

## 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. Any country who failed to vote in any event will be disqualified. There will no longer be randomized votes, juries who are unable to vote have to find their back-up jury by either posting it on their stories (on Instagram) or getting a friend to vote on behalf of them.

### Presentation of votes

Since the first edition, all the participating countries must vote in the final, including the countries that failed to qualify from the semi-finals.

The order of the voting nations are often based on running order. After the interval act is over, when all the points have been calculated, the presenter(s) of the show call upon each voting country in turn to invite them to announce the results of their vote. Often the opportunity is taken by each country to show their spokesperson standing in front of a backdrop which includes a famous place in that country.

### Nul points and ties

There has so far been no entries that received nul points with the exception of  Vietnam 01's entry due to withdrawing during the show.

However,  Brazil 02's entry scored nul points from the televotes.

There were several ties that occured in the first edition. It was a tie for 9th between  American Samoa and  United States & a three way tie for 11th between  South Korea,  Hong Kong &  Japan. However none of these ties were a major concern.

There were two sets of ties that occured in the thirteenth edition. It was a tie for 9th between  Singapore and  South Korea & a tie for 11th between  United States &  Thailand. However none of these ties were a major concern.

## Winners

Main article: List of Discogram International Song Contest winners
The contest so far have 14 winners.

## External Links

* Discord
* Instagram