The Olympiad Song Contest

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 For The Junior Olympiad Song Contest. Check: Junior Olympiad SongContest

## Contest Rules

### Participant Rules

1. You must show activity in the forums *(been a member for least1 month, have made at least 50 posts).*
2. Participants must vote on time as set in the edition.
3. Top 3 from the previous edition must keep their country or withdraw for 1 edition.

### Artist Eligibility

1. The artist can only perform for one country per edition.
2. The artist can only represent a country by CLEAR heritage with evidence/proof if there is doubt.
       2.1. NVSC wikia and language sung / used through media platform will NOT be a justified reason for heritage.
       2.2 Acceptable pieces of evidence: Parents, citizenship, being born there.
       2.3 Unacceptable pieces of evidence: Grandparents, children, having lived there for x amount of time, being married/engaged to someone from there, having represented said                  country at Eurovision *(eg. Serhat for San Marino)*, posts on social media in a particular language.
3. Acts and all band members must be over 18 years old (Check rules for JOSC age limits).
4. 33%+ (1/3) of the band/group/collection has to be from this nation to be eligible to compete.

### Song Eligibility

1. Any Eurovision or Junior Eurovision entries are NOT ELGIBILE to compete in any format.
2. Any previous *Eurovision National Selection* songs are NOT ELIGIBLE to compete in any format.
3. Song has to have been released in the last 5 years.
4. Songs from previous OSC national selections ARE ELIGIBLE to be re-used.
5. Song timeslot is 25 seconds which must be given when song is submitted.

### Voting

1. Voting in ESC style.
2. Participants MUST vote within the deadline.
3. Non-voting during the edition is 1 strike. A strike means a ban from the next edition.
       2.1 a 4th strike after this is a permanent ban.
4. Not voting in a semi final will result in that country being disqualified from from qualifying to the grand final.
       4.1 Non voting in a grand final will lose the country next edition if the country reaches top 3.

### National Selection

1. Poll, recap, form or open voting are acceptable formats.
2. Can only be performed for the current edition.
3. All selection songs MUST be sent to all council in a PM for approval.
4. Songs from previous OSC national selections ARE ELIGIBLE to be re-used and compete.

### Eligible nations

List of countries in the Olympiad Song Contest

This list includes all UN recognised sovereign states and other observer, territory or other states.

The list reflects nation states that are used on the forum.songcontests.eu and have competed in the past while preventing nations to compete just once and not returning.

## Editions

### **Participating Countries**

Here is a list of all the countries which have participated in MSC to date, along with the editions each country made their debut in.

**Bold** indicates a winning debut nation.

## Contest Statistics and Records

In this section we shall display all the current statistics and records currently held by countries and in the countries alike.

* Highest grand final Winning score (Split Voting): 379 points  Italy
* Highest grand final Winning score (single voting): 222 points  Australia
* Highest semi final Winning score (Split Voting): 246 points  Greece
* Highest semi final Winning score (single voting): 151 points
	+ Albania
	+ Finland
* Lowest grand final Winning Score: 89 points  United Kingdom
* Lowest grand final last place score: 1 point
	+ Canada ed.60
* Longest participation run without a win: 38 Editions  Hungary
* Longest participating run before first win: 51 Editions  Sweden
* Country with most 12 points in grand final: 8x 12 points
	+ #42  Indonesia
	+ #46  Andorra
	+ #61  United Kingdom
* Country with most grand final wins:  United Kingdom 6 times (ed.1/3/31/50/57/61)
* Artist with most grand final wins: 2 wins
	+ Mirela #2  Spain, #33  Spain
	+ Dotan #12  The Netherlands, #47  The Netherlands.
	+ Lindsey Stirling #19  United States, #63  United States
* Artist who has appeared the most:14 times Samira Said
* Most countries in a contest: 53 Countries, Edition 29
* Youngest winner: Ziruza, 21 years old - Edition 43
* Oldest winner: Sean Paul, 43 years old - Edition 31
* Best debut results: 1st Place
	+ #01  United Kingdom
	+ #05  Denmark
	+ #06  Latvia
	+ #08  Singapore
	+ #15  Mali
	+ #36  Iraq
	+ #55  Belize
* Wins by Continent:
	+ Africa: 5
	+ Asia: 10
	+ Europe: 38
	+ North & Central America: 6
	+ Oceania: 4
	+ South America: 2