Olympiad Song Contest 48

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  Romania for the **48th** Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #48** will be the **48** edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **Romexpo Central Pavilion**, located in **Bucharest**,  Romania,  Romania offered to host the contest after the champion's victory at the **47th** edition with Dotan performing **Numb**. This will be the **01st** time the country hosts the contest. The contest was original set to close due to lack of original support however, a petition was set up to keep the contest open and the numbers allowed the contest to stay open.

The contest is scheduled to consist of **01** grand final, with official date for the grand final being the **15th November**. The Live show was hosted by **Simona Patruleasa and Elena Gheorghe**.

As of **2nd November** **31** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **2** countries have made their debut which are  Anguilla and  Tunisia. **29** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **0** countries withdrew. It was originally decided that  Australia,  Hungary and  Japan were to compete in the competition, however, they had not sent a representative by the deadline and were therefore removed from the contest.

## Location

The contest will take place in the **Romexpo Central Pavilion**, located in **Bucharest**,  Romania,  Romania offered to host the contest after the champion's victory at the **47th** edition with Dotan performing **Numb**. 13 countries stepped forward to host the edition, the MBU discussed and decided that  Romania should be given a chance to host.

### **Venue**

The **Romexpo Central Pavilion** in **Bucharest**, which has a capacity of approximately **50,000** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **4th November**. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

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

Following **Dotan's** victory, the Olympiad Broadcasting Union (OBU)'s Executive Supervisor for the Olympiad Song Contest, issued the hosting invitation to **all countries** during the winner's press conference.  Romania stepped forward and offered their country as the hosting nation of the 48th edition.

**TVR1**, announced on **1st November** that with the contest being held in  **Romania** 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**

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **Be Radiant**, was unveiled on **2nd November** in a press conference. Its visual design features a uniquely designed opening flower logo that alludes to the ideas of rebirth and revision a new start for the contest and to radiate the new wave of the contest for its bright future. The contest's Executive Supervisor remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with OSC's core values, including diversity, very well.

### **Presenters**

On **5th November**, **TVR1** announced that the contest would be hosted by **Simona Patruleasa and Elena Gheorghe**.

**Spokesperson 1**:- **Elena Gheorghe**
Elena Gheorghe (born 30 July 1985;) is a Romanian singer. In the first half of the 2000s, she joined the Romanian pop group Mandinga, with whom she released two albums with. In 2006 she separated from the group and pursued her solo career. She has released three studio albums and one compilation album. She scored a top ten in the Romanian Top 100 with the debut single "Vocea Ta".

**Spokesperson 2**:- **Simona Patruleasa**

### **Voting**

The competition will consist of **01** grand final. 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 **2nd November** **31** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **2** countries have made their debut which are  Anguilla and  Tunisia. **29** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **0** countries withdrew. It was originally decided that  Australia,  Hungary and  Japan were to compete in the competition, however, they had not sent a representative by the deadline and were therefore removed from the contest.

### **Returning Artists**

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

## Finals

### **Grand Final**

31 Countries will create the grand final. The allocation draw for the grand final was decided on the

## 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 the grand final

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## Spokespeople

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

01.  Norway Ina Wroldsen
02.  United States Nick Cannon
03.  Tunisia Amani Swissi
04.  Spain Alvaro Soler
05.  France Indila
06.  Sweden Robin Bengtsson
07.  Estonia Ott Lepland
08.  Germany Palina Rojinski
09.  Romania Andreea Marin
10.  China Haman Hu
11.  United Kingdom Mel Giedroyc
12.  Jamaica Samantha J
13.  Mongolia Nominjin
14.  Belgium Silke Mastbooms
15.  Poland Honorata Skarbek
16.  Indonesia Ananda Omesh

17.  Sri Lanka Mathangi Arulpragasam
18.  Canada Shawn Hook
19.  Malaysia Nik Qistina
20.  Turkey Sinem Öztürk
21.  Andorra Roberto Leal
22.  Anguilla Fiona Bruce
23.  Austria Arabella Kiesbauer
24.  Ukraine Natalia Mohylevska
25.  Ireland Dara Ó Briain
26.  The Netherlands Marijke Amado
27.  Albania Eva Murati
28.  South Korea Ji Suk-jin
29.  Denmark Camilla Ottesen
30.  Greece Zeta Makripoulia
31.  Moldova Galina Timuş

## National Selections

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

 Turkey | Türk Melodi | Ex  Gökhan Akar | 7