Mysterious Song Contest 29

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**Mysterious Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Uganda for the 29th Edition.

The Mysterious Song Contest #29 will be the 29th edition of the annual Mysterious Song Contest Wikia. It will take place in the **Mandela National Stadium**, located in Kampala,  Uganda, following the country's victory at the 28th edition with Sabina Ddumba performing "Not Too Young". This will be the first time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 03 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **06th July 2016** and the grand final being the **16th July 2016**. As of 05th July 2016, **53 countries** have announced their participation in the contest so far.

## Location

NBS Television  Uganda, announced on **25th June 2016** that their first choice as host arena for the Contest was the **Mandela National Stadium** in Kampala. However other cities and arenas were still able to apply. After  Uganda win in Astana, those making a bid had approximately three days to submit their offer to NBS Television.

The **Mandela National Stadium** in Astana, which has a capacity of approximately **45,202** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **01st July 2016.** This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

The stadium is located on Namboole Hill, in Bweyogerere Ward, in Kira Municipality, in Wakiso District. This location lies approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi), by road, east of the central business district of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest metropolitan area.

## Presenters

On **01st July 2016**, NBS announced that Anne Kansiime and Phill Lewis will be the hosts of the 29th contest. They host together as main stage and green room hosts.

Anne Is a Comedian from the country and has toured several times with her comic jokes on standby.

Phill is an actor predominantly in the states with his more well known parts being Mr Mosby from 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'

## Format

The competition will consist of 03 semi-finals and a final, a format which has been used more regularly in the contest. The 07 countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 3 countries from the previous edition  Ireland,  Australia and the host nation  Uganda. Once the 21 qualifiers have been announced there will be a 24 hour vote for the wildcards which will join the finalists to create a grand final of 27 countries.

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.

## Participants

The following countries have confirmed their participation into the contest.

**Table key**

     *Participating Countries*
     *Withdrawing Countries*

## Returning Artists

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

* Austria Conchita Wurst [Prev. #09, #20 & #25]
* Belgium Natalia [Prev. #26]
* France Marina Kaye [Prev.  Monaco #21]
* Georgia Tamta [Prev.  Greece #16]
* Hungary Cserpes Laura [Prev. #07]
* Italy Francesca Michielin [Prev. #12 & #24]
* North Korea Dami Im [Prev.  South Korea #11]
* Puerto Rico Melanie Martinez [Prev.  Dominican Republic #25, #26 & #27]
* Romania Inna [Prev. #26]
* Russia Vitas [Prev. #27]
* Singapore Gentle Bones [Prev. #27]
* Taiwan Rainie Yang [Prev. #20]
* Turkey Hadise [Prev. #09]
* Uganda Sabina Ddumba [Prev. #28]
* United States Joe Jonas [Prev.  Marshall Islands #14]

Cserpes Laura last competed in edition #07 where she came 2nd place scoring 168 in the grand final. Cserpes, to date, is the highest scoring Hungarian in the contest.

Dami Im last competed in edition #11 where she won the contest for  South Korea scoring 151 points in Yerevan. This was South Korea's first win.
Gentle Bones last competed in edition #27 where he won the contest scoring 179 points in the grand final. He was the second person to win for Singapore after Daphne Khoo.

Sabina Ddmuba competed last edition in Astana, edition #28, where she won the contest for the first time for  Uganda scoring 176 in the grand final. After her incredible win, the HoD of  Uganda wanted her to represent the nation once again.

## Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on 05th July 2016. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists  Uganda,  Australia and  Ireland. The countries were split into three pots which would either be semi final 1, semi final 2 or semi final 3. Then a random generator was used to allocate countries into the running order. The results were as follows:

It was decided that  Uganda would vote in semi final #01,  Australia would vote in semi final #02 and  Ireland to vote in semi final #03. This was to assure to make the results fair and even for all participants in the edition.

Once the qualifiers have been announced the finalists have 48 hours to vote for the 3 countries they want to see as their wild cards from the non-qualifiers. Those countries would then join the finalists into the grand final.

## Semi Final 1

**17 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Uganda** voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

## Semi Final 2

**16 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Australia** voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

[1] Due to lack of voting, Norway was disqualified from semi final and therefore could not qualify to the grand final.

## Semi Final 3

**17 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Ireland** voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

[2] Due to lack of voting, Luxembourg was disqualified from semi final and therefore could not qualify to the grand final.

## Grand Final

27 Countries will create the grand final. 07 from Semi Final 1, 07 from Semi Final 2, 07 from semi final 3, 3 wildcards and the automatic qualifiers  Uganda,  Australia and  Ireland.

The draw on  Uganda,  Australia and  Ireland position in the running order was done prior to the Semi Finals.

This was the running order for the Grand Final

### **12points**

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

## Voting & Spokespeople

This is the order of how the votes were released and the spokesperson from each country

First part of results

01.  Dominican Republic Leonel Fernández Reyna

02.  Germany Judith Rakers

03.  Turkey Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ

04.  Canada Celine Dion

05.  Italy Donatella Versace

06.  North Macedonia Esma Redzepova

07.  United States Katy Perry

08.  Taiwan Mirza Atif Ali Baig

09.  Armenia Iveta Mukuchyan

10.  Philippines Sarah Geronimo

11.  North Korea Kim Jong Un

12.  Azerbaijan Nigar Jamal

13.  France Laura Coquerel

14.  Pakistan Imran Khan

15.  Spain Barei

16.  Sweden Lynda Woodruff

17.  Democratic Republic of Congo Serge Ibaka

18.  Mexico Vicente Fernandez

19.  Ireland Andrea Corr

20.  Georgia Nina Sublatti

21.  Vietnam Huong Tram

22.  Nigeria Davido

23.  Slovenia Manca Špik

24.  Serbia Milica Todorović

25.  Greece Maria Elena Kyariou

26.  South Africa Karlien van Jaarsveld

27.  Finland Johanna Kurkela

Second part of results

28.  Australia Chris Hemsworth

29.  Hungary Gábor Alfréd Fehérvári

30.  The Netherlands Tim Douwsma

31.  Uganda Lilian Mbabazi

32.  Albania Elhaida Dani

33.  Russia Ivan Urgant

34.  Belgium Selah Sue

35.  Romania Paula Seling

36.  Kazakhstan Keti Topuria

37.  Iceland María Sigrún Hilmarsdóttir

38.  Indonesia Anggun

39.  Morocco Samira Said

40.  Puerto Rico Don Omar

41.  Croatia Severina Vučković

42.  New Zealand Lorde

43.  Singapore Benjamin Kheng

44.  Japan Tao Okamoto

45.  Denmark Anja Nissen

46.  Bulgaria Poli Genova

47.  Liechtenstein Sabine Dunser

48.  Luxembourg Fränk Schleck

49.  United Kingdom Rachel Stevens

50.  Austria Conchita Wurst

51.  Norway Margaret Berger

52.  South Korea Lee Ji-eun

53.  Kosovo Zana Krasniqi