Digital Song Contest

Official Logo of the contest

## Broadcast

26 August 2020 - present

> *Most recent edition: Digital Song Contest #08 - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam*
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> *Upcoming edition: Digital Song Contest #09 - Unknown*
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 The **Digital Song Contest**, sometimes also shortened as **DGSC** is an online song contest mostly based on YouTube and Discord and is broadcasted between the members of the Digital Broadcast Union (DBU). The competition is based on the Eurovision Song Contest.

Every edition, one of the currently 60 (3rd june 2021) participating Head of Delegations get a random country from the participating countries list, that is getting updated regularly. Then they can either go with an Internal selection of the song or for a National Final, sometimes shortened as NF, where multiple songs compete for the participation in the contest. The countries get, based on their previous result, divided in either the quarter final, where the country still has to qualify to the semi finals, or directly into one of the 2 semi finals. The top 6 of the previous edition keeps their Head of Delegation and is prequalified to the Grand Final. In each semi final 10 countries qualify, meaning the Grand Final consists of 10 qualifiers from semi 1, 10 qualifiers from semi 2 and the 6 prequalified countries, making 26 participants.

So far, 7 different countries won the competition. All winning countries only won once so far. The winner with the most points is **Death of Me**, the winner of edition 2. It scored 361 points in **Brussels**, making the United States win for the first time.

## History of the Contest

On 2 July 2020, Conor K., decided to open the official discord server for the Head of Delegations that could join and to this moment, pick their 2 countries and send songs for it. The First Semi Final of the contest was broadcasted on 26th August, officially opening Digital Song Contest.
The first edition was held in the United Kingdom and its biggest city, London, that means it's the first host country, but also prequalified to the final. The other 5 big 6 members in edition 1 were randomly selected big countries, Australia, France, Germany, Italy & Spain. 50 countries took part in edition 1. The voting procedure has not changed since edition 1 and is every participating HoD awarding 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points representing the same country, as they sent the song for, to their favorites.

## Logos, Theme Arts and Slogans

### Logos

The logo was designed by ESC Estonia back in edition 1 and only received small changes during the time. The logo uses the fonts AlphaCentauri as main font for the letters and Montserrat for the text "Song Contest" and the numbers in the logo. The idea with the numbers was inspired by the binary system, but representing the current edition.

### Theme Arts

The theme arts have been created by 3 different persons over all editions. ESC Estonia made the theme arts from the start in edition 1 until edition 4, which was his last theme art. In the editions 5 to 7, the owner of the contest Conor, also known as ESCoFly made the theme arts until Danny, also known as escDänny started making them in edition 7 and they haven't stopped doing them until now.

### Slogans

The slogan is mostly related to the theme art and picked by the theme art maker, except in edition 1, when Conor, the owner wanted a special slogan. The slogan also often has a big impact on the designs for the edition. Here is a list of all slogans used so far.