The Eastern Sound 01

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**The Eastern Sound 01**, often referred to as TES 01, was the first edition of The Eastern Sound. It was held in  Gold Coast, Australia. It was the first time Australia hosted the contest. **SBS** selected the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre as venue for the edition, whilst Delta Gooderm was chosen as host.

TBD countries participated in the contest. All the countries were making their debut.

The winner of the edition was **TBD** with the song *"TBD"* performed by *TBD*. The song scored **TBD** points, only TBD more than the runner up, TBD. TBD finished in third place with TBD points, whilst TBD, TBD & TBD completed the top six of the edition. The host country, TBD , came TBD.

## Bidding Phase

The first edition of **The Eastern Sound | TES** will be hosted in Gold Coast, Australia. In addition, the Perth and Melbourne arenas were also competing for the competition, but they lost in the vote.

 Melbourne
 Perth

## Location

### Country

 **Australia** is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, though its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

Australia is a highly developed country, with the world's 14th-largest economy. It has a high-income economy, with the world's tenth-highest per capita income. It is a regional power and has the world's 13th-highest military expenditure. Immigrants account for 30% of the population, the highest proportion in any country with a population over 10 million.

### Host City

 The **Gold Coast** is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately 66 kilometres (41 mi) south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales. The Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, making it the largest non-capital city, and Queensland's second-largest city.

Gold Coast is a major tourist destination with a sunny, subtropical climate and has become widely known for its world-class surfing beaches, high-rise dominated skyline, theme parks, nightlife, and rainforest hinterland. The city is part of the nation's entertainment industry with television productions and a major film industry. The city hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games which ran from 4 to 15 April 2018.

## Venue

The **Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre** (GCCEC) is located on the Gold Coast Highway in Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The world-class venue was opened on 29 June 2004 at a cost of A$167 million and is linked by a covered walkway to The Star Gold Coast.

    As Australia's largest regional convention centre, GCCEC offers flexible function rooms and space where it counts, including; a main arena, four large exhibition halls, and a range of meeting rooms to cater from 10 up to 6000 guests. Situated centrally in Broadbeach, the GCCEC is within walking distance to tourism hotspots, five-star accommodation, premium shopping facilities and convenient public transport.

In December 2019, the Gold Coast Convention Centre was meant to host the first Eurovision Asia Song Contest, however due to production issues the contest had been postponed. It was also the place of Australia's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019 and 2020.

## Presenters

The first presenter of The Eastern Sound 01 will be **Delta Lea Goodrem** (born 9 November 1984). She is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Goodrem signed to Sony Music at the age of 15 and released her debut album, *Innocent Eyes* (2003), which topped the ARIA Albums Chart for 29 consecutive weeks. It was on the List of best-selling albums in Australia, with over four million copies sold.

Goodrem has a total of nine number-one singles and 17 top-ten hits on the ARIA Singles Chart. She has sold over eight million albums globally and overall has won three World Music Awards, 9 ARIA Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and several other awards. She has served as a coach on *The Voice Australia* every year since 2012 (except from in 2014), for which she is reportedly paid AU$2 million per season after negotiating an increase from her initial $800,000. She coached eventual winners of the show in season five in 2016 and again in season six in 2017.

## Format

The **Eastern Broadcasting Union** (EBU) has decided that in the upcoming edition there will be 2 Semi-finals. In each semi-final 10 countries will qualify for the Grand Final to make a line-up of 21 competing countries (20 Semi-Final qualifers + The Host Country -  Australia).

### Voting

The **Eastern Broadcasting Union** announced that the voting system would be each country awarding one sets from their professional jury and of points from 1-7,8,10 & 12 + televoting. The voting system is also used to determine the qualifiers from each semi-final, but as before the qualifiers are announced in a random order.

### Semifinal Allocation Draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation will be held on the TBD 2020 at the headquarters of Moscow. The only one pre-qualified country is  Australia.

After that the remaning thirty countries were divided into six pots, based on their geographical place. Each time a country will be drawn from the pot, it´s half of the semi-final was determined.

The six pots were the following:

* India
* Indonesia
* Malaysia
* The Philippines
* Hong Kong
* Japan
* Korea
* Singapore
* Fiji
* Guam
* Hawaii
* Kazakhstan
* Mongolia
* Uzbekistan
* Nepal
* Russia
* Thailand
* Vietnam
* New Zealand
* Solomon Islands
* Sri Lanka
* Vanuatu

### Running Order

The Running order of both Semi-finals will be official announced by SBS at the 11th October 2020, shortly before the semi-finals start. The Running order for Grand Final will official announced in TBD TBD 2020, on day before the Grand Final will start.