Olympiad Song Contest 49

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  Norway for the **49th** Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #49** will be the **49th** edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **Vikingskipet**, located in **Hamar**,  Norway, following the country's victory at the **48th** edition with KEiiNO performing **Dancing in the Smoke**. This will be the **third** time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of **02** semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **06th January 2020**. The grand final official date being the **20th January 2020**. All three live shows were hosted by **Erik Solbakken & Jenny Skavlan**.

As of **21st December 2019** **31** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **1** countries have made their debut. The country being  Zambia **07** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **09** countries withdrew.

## Location

It will take place in the **Vikingskipet**, located in **Hamar**,  Norway, following the country's victory at the 44th edition with KEiiNO performing **"Dancing In The Smoke"**.

### **Venue**

The **Vikingskipet** in **Hamar**, which has a capacity of approximately **20,000** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **15th December 2019**. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

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

Following  **Norway's** triumph, the Olympiad Broadcasting Union (OBU)'s Executive Supervisor for the Olympiad Song Contest, issued the hosting invitation to **NRK1<** during the winner's press conference.

**NRK1<**, announced on **5th December** that with the contest being held in  **Norway** 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**

 Hamar
 Lillehammer
 Oslo

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **be the ONE**, was unveiled on **19th December** in a press conference. Its visual design features a uniquely designed XX logo that alludes to the ideas to XX. The contest's Executive Supervisor remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with OSC's core values, including diversity, very well.

### **Presenters**

On **15th December 2019**, **NRK1** announced that the contest would be hosted by **Erik Solbakken & Jenny Skavlan**.

**Spokesperson 1**:- **Erik Solbakken**
Erik Solbakken (born 17 November 1984 in Hemsedal, Norway) is a Norwegian television presenter. Solbakken hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 together with Haddy Jatou N'jie and Nadia Hasnaoui.

In 2011, he hosted the Eurovision Young Dancers competition in Oslo. Alongside Jenny Skavlan, Solbakken hosted Melodi Grand Prix, the Norwegian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, in 2013 and 2014.

**Spokesperson 2**:- **Jenny Skavlan**
Jenny Ebbing Skavlan (born 3 June 1986) is a Norwegian model, actress, television presenter, and author. She started her career by appearing in a television commercial for Pizza Grandiosa in 2007. She has since appeared in such films as Fatso, Dead Snow, Børning, and Tomme Tønner. In 2008 Skavlan participated as a celebrity dancer on Skal vi danse? on Norway's TV2. In 2012 she wrote a book, Sy om, about her passion for sewing.

### **Voting**

The competition will consist of **02** 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  **Canada,  Denmark,  Estonia,  Germany,  Romania and the host nation  Norway**.

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 **4th January**. The **27** semi-finalists had been allocated into **6** 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 ( **Canada,  Denmark,  Estonia,  Germany,  Romania and the host nation  Norway**).

* Andorra
* Italy
* Spain
* Sweden
* Ireland
* The Netherlands
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Colombia
* Guyana
* Jamaica
* New Zealand
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Philippines
* Israel
* Tunisia
* Zambia
* Slovenia
* Turkey
* Ukraine

## Participating Countries

As of **21st December 2019** **31** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **1** countries have made their debut. The country being  Zambia **03** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **09** countries withdrew.

### **Returning Artists**

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

* Colombia Leona Lewis [Ed.  Guyana #43]
* Colombia Cali Y El Dandee [Ed. #10.  Jamaica #34]
* Indonesia Agnez Mo [Ed. #40]
* Israel Lola Marsh [Ed. #44]
* Italy Giorgia Todrani [Ed. #11,  San Marino #41, #44,
* Norway Ina Wroldsen [Ed. #29]
* Philippines IV of Spades [Ed. #38]
* Romania Ruby [Ed. #46]

## Finals

### **Semi Final 1**

**14 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  Germany,  Norway and  Romania voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. 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

\*\* Disqualified for failing to vote

### **Semi Final 2**

**13 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  Canada,  Denmark and  Estonia voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. 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

\*\*Disqualified for failing to vote

### **Grand Final**

26 Countries will create the grand final. 10 from Semi Final 1, 10 from Semi Final 2 and the automatic qualifiers  **Canada,  Denmark,  Estonia,  Germany,  Romania and the host nation  Norway**.

The draw on  **Canada,  Denmark,  Estonia,  Germany,  Romania and the host nation  Norway** 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.

 Spain | La Canción para España | La Vida Sólo es Una  Maria Isabel | 8