Edition 2

## Participants

### Number of Participants

158 = Total Number of Participating Countries79 = Total Number of Organizers/HoDs

### Debuting Countries

 Bulgaria Mexico

 Finland

 Jejudo

 Moldova

 San Marino

 Faroe Islands

 Riga

 Poland

 Bhutan

 Dominican Republic

 Serbia

 Slovakia

 Latvia

 Puerto Rico

## Voting

### Voting System

Traditional 12, 10, 8-1 points system. 12 most favourite. 1 least favourite.

## Previous and Next

### Next Edition

Edition 3

On 23 September 2018. There were various changes from edition 1. First the maximum amount of views for borrowing artists is up to 20 million views. This rule won't be relaxed in this edition.

Second this edition won't have entrees sung by the players.

Also this edition will include the rule that everyone send two entrees if possible.

## Discontinued

On 23 of March 2019 it has been announced it has been discontinued due to lack of interests and members of leaving the group.

## Location

The Winning Country of Edition 1 is expected to host Edition 2. In case if  Antartica wins. It will be held in the country from the borrowing artist.

On 30th December 2018 it is announced that  Sápmi had won the contest giving it the right to host **Edition 2**. Currently 14 cities are having a bid whether they'll host this annual event.

The Steering Group is considering for future editions on number of participating countries and approval of newcomers to organize a country due to potentially maxing capacity of participating countries in the coming editions.

### Stage Design of the Edition

The Stage for the Grand Final will be based of Frozen-Tech Age under the Northern Arctic Sky. The Staging will mostly be on new LED screens and flooring to match the staging for every entry to make the best creativity on blending the LED background during the performance. On 13 February 2019, The Grand Final will take place at the new 80,000-seat Storsjön Stadium inÖstersund which would be the biggest venue in the Sápmi region and largest seating capacity in the Nordic region.

## Scheduling Timeline

* December 2018 to January 2019 = Confirming Countries
* January 2019 to March 2019 = National Selections & Song Reveal
* February 14 2019 = Stage Design Reveal
* Early April 2019 = Contest Preliminary Allocation Draw
* June/July = Official Contest

## Participating Countries

There were a total of 154 Countries/States/Provinces/Cities or Regions, while 72 retaining countries but different organizers.

### Changes in the Format of the Song Contest

The Number of Participating countries has exceeded to 150 nations. On January 28 2019, the Head of Steering Group has agreed to have the creation of "Continental Qualification Rounds" to allow more countries in participating but to have the host country in the main contest on having the much burden in having the overtime in the running time of the contest. On February 1 2019, the Asia-Pacific region has its own song contest as it has the most number of participating countries overall. On February 14 2019, Europe followed the format to handle its number of countries to do so. It was later speculated that the 4 automatic qualifiers would be dropped and only allow the host country to participate in the grand final, however it has not been confirmed nor denied on this ruling to be known.

 Europe
 Rest of the World

Australia, Sápmi, Netherlands, & the United Kingdom are automatic qualifiers to the Grand Final

Summary Chart of Participating Countries

The Bold Countries are Automatic Qualifiers, while the Italic Countries are participating for the first time

#### Grand Final (Automatic Qualified Countries)

  Netherlands
  Australia

## Other countries

### Free to choose again

All eglible UN Members and places on this list are eglible to compete in this edition.

Whilst list these are on the wanted list of participating countries.

* South Africa
* Malta
* Crete
* Rhodes (Greece)
* Udmurtia
* FYR Macadonia
* Kosovo
* Georgia
* Azerbaijan
* Maldives
* Afghanistan
* Iran
* India

Whilst list these have participated in Edition 1 and are free to choose again for other HoD and participants.

* South Africa
* Malta
* US Virgin Islands
* Noord-Brabant
* Northern Cyprus
* Bosnia and Hergezovina

Whilst list these countries have participated in a presiously held (un)succesfull event. It's not sure whether they'll make a debut in 2019.

* American Samoa
* Azerbaijan
* Brittany
* Brunei
* Bucharest
* Curaçao
* Egypt
* Georgia
* Ghana
* Gibraltar
* Guernsey
* India
* Iraqi Kurdistan
* Jamaica
* Jersey
* Jordan
* Liechtenstein
* Navarre
* Niue
* Noord-Holland
* Novorussia
* Mium
* Peru
* Rijnmond-Rotterdam
* Sri Lanka
* Tibet
* Trieste
* Tunisia
* Tuva
* United Arab Emirates
* Veneto
* Zuid-Holland

### Will Not Debut

While there has been a HoD invited from  Egypt. However it's unknown whether they'll debut with these countries. Despite being interested in a debut. Even so on 29 December 2019. The HoD Player that's been invited hasn't responded to anything yet.

### Potentially Widrawal

On 13 January of 2019. Team member David Svendsgaard has left the group as a team member due it's ongoing fight between other members about the transperancy of the countries and the rules. Aswell as a double reserve for an artist in the National Selection of Japan and Sweden.

Potentially seeing a withdrawal for  Sweden and  Singapore.

## References

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