Season 17

The **RSC17** was the **17th** edition of the discord contest Regions Song Contest. It took place in the city of Palermo,  Sicily, Italy  after  **Sicily**'s win in Season 16 with the song “Old Italian Songs”.

It was the **first** time Italy  had hosted the contest. This seventeenth season consisted of one pre-qualification round held on April 21st, two semi-finals held on April 27th & 29th, and the grand final on 15 May 2021.

All the live shows were hosted on YouTube as well as presented on the Discord server. Fifty-Five entries took part in the **seventeenth** season of the contest. Each region had to compete with one song.
The Top 06 of the sixteenth edition was part of the **Big 05** and so on, was automatically qualified for the Grand Final.

These regions were :

* **Sicily- Host Region**
* New South Wales
* Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
* Hertfordshire
* Kingston

The winner was **Åland Islands** in  **Finland** with the song **"Idiot"** performed by **Maja Kristina**, with **220** points.

## Participating Regions

**Debuting Regions -**  Åland Islands,  Cardiff,  Grodno,  Guayama,  Isle Of Man,  Khartoum,  La Altagracia,  Luxembourg,  Maribor,  Mashonaland East,  Newport,  North Carolina,  Opole,  Southwest,  Tel Aviv,  West Yorkshire

## Venue

### Host City

After  Sicily's win in Santiago, the  sicilian delegation announced the **17th** season would be hosted either in **Palermo**, **Catania** or **Messina** (the three largest cities of  Sicily). Later on, yet none of the cities had a venue capable to host the contest, it was officialized that the contest would take place in **Palermo**. **Palermo** is a city of southern  Italy, the **capital** of both the autonomous region of  Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of  Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The population of Palermo urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 855,285, while its metropolitan area is the fifth most populated in Italy with around 1.2 million people.

### Arena

Since Palermo has no indoor venue to host the contest, it was decided that the contest would be hosted in **Stadio Renzo Barbera**, which would be adapted to the contest's needs for hosting. The **Stadio Renzo Barbera** is a football stadium in Palermo,  Italy. It is currently the home stadium of Palermo F.C. team. The stadium was inaugurated during the fascist era on 24 January 1932. For matches, the stadium has a maximum capacity of 36,365.

### Hosts

The hosts of the **17th** edition were :

* **Irama** is an  italian singer and songwriter. He rose to fame in 2018, following the victory of the seventeenth edition of the talent show *Amici di Maria De Filippi.* He participated at the  Sanremo Music Festival in 2016 with the single "Cosa resterà" in 2019, with the song "La ragazza con il cuore di latta", and lately, in 2021, with the song "La genesi del tuo colore".
* **Barbara D'Urso** is an  italian television personality, television host, actress and writer. She is an actress, known for Blues metropolitano (1985), Per giusto omicidio (2004) and Il manoscritto di Van Hecken (1999).