Our Perfect Song Contest

**Our Perfect Song Contest,** also known as OPSC is an online Song Contest based on Eurovision Song Contest, founded by two polish Eurovision fans - ESC Konrad and ESC Jeann. The contest was created in June 2018 and ended in September 2021.

## **Format**

### *Participation & Voting*

In every edition, 42-53 participants receive a random country they are obliged to submit an entry for. The participation and song rules are explained in the paragraph below. The countries are split into two semi-finals, where by voting with traditional Eurovision voting style, the qualifiers are chosen. There's a total of 20 qualifiers, what means 10 will pass each semi-final round. The countries that place in the top 6 in the Grand Final get to be pre-qualified in the upcoming edition. However, they still need to vote in the semi-final round.

### *Rules*

The contest is held on Discord, that requires having a Discord, formerly Google+ account to participate. The competition and punishment rules have been changing on period of years, and are temporarly updating. The table below shows the rules, applying since the 17th edition.

 Song Guidelines
* The artist needs to be related to the country they represent. This rule is strict when it comes to bands, and is explained on the official server.
* Eurovision National Final songs aren't allowed to compete.
* Eurovision artists are not allowed to enter the competition, unless they are sent as a band. This rule is explained on the official server.
* "Overused" songs are not allowed to compete. That means, the songs can be sent to maximum three other contests.
 Punishment System

1. ↑ After Google+ officially shut down in April 2019, the contest has moved to Discord. However, the change was announced back in 2018, and the compeition was held on Discord since January 2019.

### Countries making its debut

Up to 18th edition, 76 counrties debuted in OPSC. All have participated at least one. However, there's 11 more countries which are associate broadcasters. Their debut will be decided during the Associate Broadcaster round hosted every 5th edition. You can see all the countries and associate broadcasters [1] . The table below shows the countries that debuted in any edition.

### Slogans

Since the first edition, the contest's artworks contain a slogan, which is usually inspired from the previous winner. Examples of the slogans inspired by the winning entry are "Unity" - the slogan used in edition 15, that was inspried by two countries winning, or "Ajaton Rajaton" from edition 12, which is basically a part of the winning entry, Ikava. The table below shows all the slogans used in Our Perfect Song Contest.

## **Winners**

Up to now, Our Perfect Song Contest organised 17 full editions with 18 winners. The winner with the point record is  **Italy**, which won the the eighth edition, receiving an amount of 576 points. The country that was the closest to beat Shanguy's record was Susanne Sundfor, the Norwegian representative in edition 17. Our Perfect Song Contest 15 had an exception, where there was two winners caused by a tie. The OPBU couldn't break the tie, so the announced winners were  **Belgium** and  **Moldova**. After the 15th edition, the OPBU created a tie-breaker rule, where in case of a tie between two or more countries, the one with bibgger amount of televote points will place higher. That means, that if the rule was introduced before fifteenth edition, the winner of #15 would be  **Moldova**, that won the televoting this edition.

The contest was won by 16 different countries. The only nation that has won the contest multiple times is United States, who won the 3rd, 5th and 9th edition. The countries with most runner-ups are Lithuania, Australia and Singapore - all of them missed the victory three times.