Olympiad Song Contest 65

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

**The Olympiad Song Contest** welcomes the world to the  Canada for the **65th** Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #65** will be the **65th** edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **BC Place**, located in **Vancouver**,  Canada, following the country's victory at the **64th** edition with Rêve performing **CTRL + ALT + DEL**. This will be the **2nd** time the country hosts the contest

### **Venue**

The **BC Place** in **Vancouver** which has a capacity of approximately **54,405** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **1st July 2023**. This will be the Arena's 1st time hosting the contest.

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

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

**CBC**, announced on **June 11th 2023** that with the contest being held in  **Canada** 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.

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **Find Your Colour**, was unveiled on **1st July 2023** in a press conference. Its visual design features a **Solid White Square** logo that alludes to the ideas to living in a world where we have diversity and creativity and that your 'white square' is for your fill with whatever colour you want 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 **1st July 2023 2023**, **CBC**announced that the contest would be hosted by **Brooke Lynn Hytes**, **Ginella Massa**, & **La Zarra**

**Brooke Lynn Hytes**
Brooke Lynn Hytes is the stage name of Brock Edward Hayhoe (born March 10, 1986), a Canadian-American drag queen, ballet dancer, performer, and television personality. Hytes achieved international recognition for competing on the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Hytes is also a main judge on the spin-off series Canada's Drag Race, becoming the first Drag Race contestant to become a full-time judge in the franchise.

**Ginella Massa**

Ginella Massa (born January 29, 1987) is a Canadian television journalist. An Afro-Latina Muslim reporter and anchor, she became Canada's first hijab-wearing television reporter in 2015, and the first news anchor in hijab when she anchored the 11 p.m. newscast for CityNews on CITY-DT in Toronto, Ontario, on November 17, 2016.

**La Zarra**
Fatima-Zahra Hafdi (born 25 August 1987), known professionally as La Zarra, is a Canadian singer and songwriter based in France. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool with the song "Évidemment", finishing in 16th place.

### **Voting**

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.

## Participating Countries

As of **9th July 2023**, **18** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **1** country has made their debut. **6** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **12** countries withdrew.

### **Returning Artists**

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

* Australia Kylie Minogue [Prev. #33 for  Italy  with Laura Pausini]
* Canada Alex Sampson [Prev. JOSC #27]
* Malta Ira Losco [Prev. #35]
* The Netherlands Duncan Laurence [Prev. #52]
* Romania Roxen [Prev.#55]
* Spain Abraham Mateo [Prev. JOSC#03 for  Andorra]
* United Kingdom Sigala [Prev. #35, #39, #61]

## Scoring

### **12points**

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

## National Selections

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