Zone Song Contest 4

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**Zone Song Contest 4**, often referred as **ZSC 4**, was the fourth edition of the Zone Song Contest. This edition was located in Netherlands as it was the host country. AVROTROS as the TV station chosen by the Dutch delegation to televise and organize such important event of this dimensions for all Europe and the world after their victory in the third edition with the band *Miss Montreal* and the song *"Een Stap Terug"*with 424 points. Again we saw an comfortable victory by the Netherlands they left the trio from France in second place and the "romantic pop-idol" from Denmark. As a fact, "Een Stap Terug" was the first non-English song winning the contest, was sung in Dutch.

The public channel AVROTROS selected a total of 3 hosts in total for the third edition, two boys and one girl, they were: Art Rooijakkers, Karter Deimann and Wendy Van Dijk. Art and Wendy were selected to host both Semi-finals and the Grand Final, while Karter was during the 3 shows in the backstage with the artists and on the *Red Carpet Show*.

There was a surprising debut in this edition as no one expected Kazakhstan, a country that was eager to join the ZBU to debut at the festival. On the other hand, although it seemed that there would be 46 countries competing, Bosnia & Herzegovina announced their withdrawal due to the severe financial crisis that the country is currently suffering, they did not hesitate to affirm that they would return when they had a reliable sponsor, ending the registration season with **45** participants.

## Location

**Netherlands** is a country in Northwestern Europe with some overseas territories in the Caribbean. In Europe, it consists of 12 provinces that borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest. The Netherlands had an estimated population of 17,424,978 *(2019 data)*. And its the 5th most densely populated country in Europe. The country's official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland, and English and Papiamento as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish are recognised regional languages (spoken in the east and southeast respectively), while Dutch Sign Language, Sinte Romani, and Yiddish are recognised non-territorial languages.

**The Hague** is a city and municipality on the western coast of the Netherlands on the North Sea. It is the administrative and royal capital of the Netherlands and its seat of government, as well as the capital of the province of South Holland. It hosts the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, two of the most important courts in the world. The Hague is as well the seat of the Cabinet, the States General, the Supreme Court and the Council of State of the Netherlands, but the city is not the constitutional capital, which is Amsterdam. King Willem-Alexander lives in Huis ten Bosch and works at the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague, together with Queen Máxima. Most foreign embassies in the Netherlands are located in the city. The Hague is also home to the world headquarters of Royal Dutch Shell and other Dutch companies.

### Bidding phase

The head of the public chain AVROTROS declared that at least 4 cities declared interest in hosting the show. They advanced that at the beginning of February and the final decision by the directive on where it will be organized was announced on March, 2020.

Strong rumors confirmed on March that the festival would be held in Eindhoven, but a few weeks later, finally the public entity AVROTROS decided that The Hague would be the host city of the fourth festival, held in April 2020. This was the first festival (even though they already helped the United Kingdom to organize the first edition) held in the Netherlands.

**Key**
  †  Host venue   ‡  Shortlisted venues

 Utrecht | Galgenwaard | 24,426

## Results

### Semi-Final 1

Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom will also vote in this semi-final.

### Semi-Final 2

France, Germany and Italy will also vote in this semi-final.

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