Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival 02

Logo and slogan of the second edition

**Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival 02**, often referred as **2YMF 02**, was the second edition of the Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival. The edition was held in Yevragrad, Aythmos and Zhavina as it won the previous edition with the song "Brat Na Brata". Klava Koka was selected as the presenter of the event.

Twenty-three countries participated in the second edition, Agartias and Woodvale being debutants. In order to participate, the countries had to be firstly approved to be members of the Yagredin Brodcasting Union (YBU). No country did return. Nevertheless Vulpihjel and Ynaiven did withdraw after both participating in the debut edition.

The recap has been published on the 24th of november, while the results were shown on the 8th of december 2019.

The winner of the edition was Agartias with the song "Mudbira" performed by A-WA, which scored 123 points, five points over the runner-up, Nabeelo with 118 points and the song "Barrio" from Mahmood. The top 3 complete made Yaranesia with Iveta Mukuchyan's song "Hayastani Aghjikner" with an amount of 111 points. Pacamonea received only 13 points and was therefore the last place of the second edition.

## Rules

Every special edition is named as that because only a certain type of songs is allowed to take part in this event.

For the Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival the rules are as it follows. The competing songs has to be from previous national selections for the YMF main event. Therefore it does not matter whether it was in ESC national finals or worldcharts. As soon as a song did not win a selection, it can be sent to the 2YMF.

Of course not the winner, or better the song that gets chosen to represent the country. Furthermore it has not be the runner-up, any song that didn't get send is allowed.

The songs are still checked by a certain commision, which discuss the acceptability of each song.

## Languages

To mark the versality of Yagredin, each edition has a language table to get an overview over the languages.

## Running Order

   The offical running order for the show was decided by the YBU to make the show as exciting as possible and to have the maximum of excitement in the show.

The show was opened by Cyncordia, finishing 16th and it was closed by Astenau, taking the 4th place. Meaning that the opening act finished in the middle and closing position finished in the top 5.

## Participants

With twenty-three countries, there were also twenty-three artists debuting in the history of the YMF. We are deviding between men, women and groups. This edition had 14 female participants and only 5 male participant. Furthermore the edition had 9 groups. The percentages for the distribution are 50% woman, 32% groups and only 18% men.

## Results

Twenty-three countries participated in the final, with all of the participating countries had to cast in their vote.

## Voting Grid

To ensure that every vote was counted correctly, the YBU is publishing every voting grid of the certain edition after the end of it. So every country can take a look into the voting and knows who they did vote and who did vote for them.

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