Edition 4

The fourth edition of the Global Music Festival will be hosted for the first time in Australia - taking place in Sydney at the Opera House. The show was hosted by the beloved LGBT couple Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres. This edition saw the debut of two more nations: Bulgaria and Kazakhstan. As well as, the return of Poland, South Africa and the United States. Unfortunately, due to being unable to vote before the deadline in the semi finals of the last edition Canada were disqualified from the last contest; as a result, Canada were forced to withdraw from this edition as the rules of the contest state. A total of 41 countries took part in this edition: Albania, Andorra, Australia (host), Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States. The power six (the top six from the previous edition) consisted of the following countries: Australia, Colombia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece and Andorra - who will all automatically qualify for the grand final of the fourth edition of the Global Music Festival. This edition did not have a theme, therefore participants were required to send songs and artists from their selected countries. Following a tense voting sequence there was a tie for first place between Estonia and Greece, however, the rules of the contest state that in the case of a tie the country who receives points from the most countries wins the tie break. After the results were presented Estonia was announced as the winner - they were represented by Uku Suviste with his song "Supernatural" - with 142 points.

 Slogan
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Participants
 Theme
 Winner

## Participants

* Kazakhstan
* South Africa
* United States
* Canada
* Germany
* Namibia

## Semi Final Allocation Draw

The draw for the semi finals took place on Wednesday 15 March 2017. One of the admins did a live stream on the Facebook group and pulled countries from a number of pots:

The pots were organised by the countries previous results in the contest. The countries received an average of their previous positions to organise them by the most successful nations (the power six [Andorra, Australia, Colombia, Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom] were not added to the pots because of their automatic places in the grand final, also Finland and Denmark were not added to the pots because both of these participants are admins and were in charge of each semi final). The debuting countries were also drawn seperately so that one was in one semi final and the other was in the second.

The allocation draw was done by choosing one country from each pot, one after the other, and each country was combined with a randomly drawn position - showing where each country would perform in each semi final.

## Odds

Odds returned for the fourth edition of the Global Music Festival and featured in both the semi finals as well as the final. The odds for the semi finals were released on Thursday 16 March 2017 by the admins in charge of their respective semi finals, below you can see the odds for the top ten in each semi final:

And, below are the odds for the favourites for the final of the fourth edition:

  United Kingdom
  Italy
  Greece
  Portugal
  New Zealand
  Estonia
  Sweden
  Trinidad & Tobago
  Cuba

## Semi Final One

 Colombia,  Greece and  Ireland voted in the semi final, following the allocation draw, as well as the countries participating in this semi final. Also, Finland was automatically placed in this semi final because the head of delegation is on the admin team and is in charge of the second semi final. Ukraine entered the contest after the deadline, however, the admin team decided to still let Ukraine enter the contest. Ukraine selected their entry after the allocation draw and were therefore added on to the end of the first semi final. After the results were announced the admin team discussed selecting a wild card entry from this semi final to progress to the final - the wild card entry was narrowed down to Albania or Bulgaria. After deliberation  Bulgaria were selected as the wildcard entry to progress to the final!

## ​Semi Final Two

 Andorra,  Australia and the  United Kingdom voted in this semi final, following the allocations draw, as well as the countries participating in this semi final. Also, Denmark was automatically placed in this semi final because the head of delegation is on the admin team and is in charge of the first semi final. After the results were announced the admin team discussed selecting a wild card entry from this semi final to progress to the final - the wild card entry was narrowed down to Austria or Denmark. After deliberation  Austria were selected as the wildcard entry to progress to the final!