Olympiad Song Contest 50

Semi-finals dates
 Final dates
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Director
 Executive supervisor
 Host
 Number of entries
 Voting system
 Winning song

**The Olympiad Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Ukraine for the **50th** Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #50** will be the **50th** edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **National Palace of Arts "Ukraina"**, located in **Kiev**,  Ukraine, following the country's victory at the **49th** edition with Kazaky feat. Gaspar performing **Push**. This will be the **4th** time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of **2** semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **17 March 2020** and **23 March 2020**. The grand final official date being the **2 April 2020**. All three live shows were hosted by **Volodymyr Ostapchuk & Olexandr Pedan**.

As of **16 March 2020** **35** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **1** country made their debut, the country being  Myanmar. 12 countries returned to the contest after absences, while **11** countries withdrew.  South Korea was not in the initial list of confirmed countries. However, UA:PBC decided that to increase viewers and make the contest more exciting,  South Korea was eligible to compete providing that met the rules and complied within time.

## Location

It will take place in the **"National Palace of Arts "Ukraina"**, located in **Kiev**,  Ukraine, following the country's victory at the 49th edition with Kazaky feat. Gaspar performing **Push**.

### **Venue**

The **National Palace of Arts "Ukraina"** in **Kiev**, which has a capacity of approximately **3,714** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **13 March 2020**. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

### **Bidding phase and host city selection**

Following **Ukraine's** triumph, the Olympiad Broadcasting Union (OBU)'s Executive Supervisor for the Olympiad Song Contest, issued the hosting invitation to **UA:PBC** during the winner's press conference.

**UA:PBC**, announced on **9 March 2020** that with the contest being held in  Ukraine that any city, town or arena that would like to host the contest would had four days to apply to the broadcaster with their interest.

The following selection criteria were outlined for the selection of the host city:-

* The venue must be covered with a capacity of at least 1,000 but ideally up to 10,000 attendees.
* An international press centre must be able to accommodate no less than 1,550 journalists.
* Venues must also be provided for the opening and closing ceremonies of at least 3,000 attendees.
* The host city must be able to guarantee the safety and security of participants, members of delegations and guests.
* The host city must provide a social program alongside their bid, showcasing the hospitality, originality, cultural values and identity of both the city and country.

     **Host City**

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **Pushing Limits**, was unveiled on **13 March 2020** in a press conference. Its visual design features a uniquely designed diamond logo that alludes to the ideas to how diamonds are made in science by external pressures to create a beautiful and strong object and this is to symbolise our journey in life that pressure that may push us to our limits and that will make stronger to become the person you were meant to be. The contest's Executive Supervisor remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with OSC's core values, including diversity, very well.

### **Presenters**

On **13 March 2020**, **UA:PBC** announced that the contest would be hosted by **Volodymyr Ostapchuk & Olexandr Pedan**.

**Spokesperson 1**:- **Volodymyr Ostapchuk**
Volodymyr Valeriyovych Ostapchuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Валерійович Остапчук) (born 28 September 1984) is a Ukrainian television presenter, voice actor and radio host.

He was born in Uman. Ostapchuk hosted Eurovision Song Contest 2017 alongside Oleksandr Skichko and Timur Miroshnychenko. It was the first time that the Eurovision Song Contest was presented by a male trio, and the second time, after the 1956 edition with a solo male presenter, that the contest didn't feature a female presenter.

**Spokesperson 2**:- **Olexandr Pedan**
Oleksandr Serhiyovych Pedan (Ukrainian: Олесандр Сергійович Педан born March 24, 1982, Khmelnytsky ) is an Ukrainian showman and TV presenter.

His father Serhii Yosypovych and mother Valentina Nikolaevna met in the dance ensemble at the university. Olexander became their third child, he has two older brothers.

In 2016, along with Dmitry Tankovich, he was the presenter of the National Selection for Eurovision in 2016, where Jamala won. In the fall of 2016 began work on the project "Stars under hypnosis".

### **Voting**

The competition will consist of **16 March 2020** semi-finals and a final. The **10** countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 6 countries from the previous edition.

Each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

### **Semi-final allocation draw**

The draw to determine the allocation of the participating countries into their respective semi-finals took place on **XX**. The **XX** semi-finalists had been allocated into **XX** pots, based on the geographical locations of the nations. Drawing from different pots helps to increase suspense in the semi-finals. The draw also determined which semi-final would be broadcast and voted by each of the six automatic finalist countries

* Iceland
* Lebanon
* Russia
* Sweden
* Turkey
* Indonesia
* Myanmar
* New Zealand
* North Korea
* Philippines
* Canada
* Cape Verde
* Chile
* Mexico
* United States
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Greece
* Hungary
* Moldova
* Romania
* Germany
* Italy
* Portugal
* United Kingdom

## Participating Countries

As of **16 March 2020** **35** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **1** country made their debut, the country being  Myanmar. 12 countries returned to the contest after absences, while **11** countries withdrew.  South Korea was not in the initial list of confirmed countries. However, UA:PBC decided that to increase viewers and make the contest more exciting,  South Korea was eligible to compete providing that met the rules and complied within time.

### **Returning Artists**

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in OSC.

* Albania Ava Max [Ed. #44]
* Cape Verde Lisandro Cuxi [Ed. # 37]
* Denmark Nabiha [Ed. #23]
* Finland Nightwish [Ed. #22]
* France Nilusi [Ed. Junior#13, Junior#25]
* Greece Nikos Oikonomopoulos [Ed. 48]
* Lebanon Gabbie Hanna [Ed. #45]
* New Zealand Theia [Ed. #35]
* Philippines Morissette Amon [Ed. 39]
* Spain Enrique Iglesias [Ed.  Andorra#06,  Andorra#36]
* Spain Wishin [Ed.  Puerto Rico#4,  Puerto Rico#8]
* United States Tolvai Reni [Ed.  Hungary#38]
* United States András Kállay-Saunders [Ed. #15]

## Finals

### **Semi Final 1**

**15 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with all of the automatic qualifiers of this edition voting. The top 10 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final. This is to balance out the number of participants in each semi final to give each country a fair and equal chance of qualifying

     Qualified

### **Semi Final 2**

**15 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with all of the automatic qualifiers of this edition voting.. The top 09 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final. This is to balance out the number of participants in each semi final to give each country a fair and equal chance of qualifying

     Qualified

### **Grand Final**

26 Countries will create the grand final. 10 from Semi Final 1, 10 from Semi Final 2 and the automatic qualifiers  Denmark,  France,  Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and the host nation  Ukraine.

The draw on  Denmark,  France,  Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and the host nation  Ukraine positions in the running order were done prior to the Semi Finals.

## Scoring

### **12points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the Grand final:

### **Scoreboards**

#### This is how the votes were scored in each Semi Final.

     Voter was replaced
     Qualified

## National Selections

Here is a list of all the national selections held this edition.

 United States | Select A Star | Say  Tolvai Reni feat. András Kállay-Saunders | 108