Discogram International Song Contest 09

## Discogram International Song Contest

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**Discogram International Song Contest 09** also referred as **DISC09**, is the 9th edition of Discogram International Song Contest, held in Qingdao, China after W.M.L & Vicky Chen won the last edition with their song "I'm Alive".

Nineteen countries participated in the ninth edition. This edition saw the debut of  Guadeloupe,  Haiti,  Jamaica,  Macau &  Sierra Leone.  England,  Germany &  Nigeria return after 1 edition,  Sweden returned after 2 editions,  Israel return after 4 editions,  Iceland after 5 editions and  American Samoa which return after seven editions! However,  Bhutan,  Finland,  Ghana,  Indonesia,  Moldova,  Nepal,  Romania &  Russia decided to withdrew due to various reasons.

 Iceland ended up victorious after beating out  South Korea by a one point margin. This was Iceland's first victory ever since its debut in the third edition and it also managed to set its new best result ever.  Hong Kong rounded up the podium in 3rd, setting their best result ever as well. While host country,  China ended up 11th.

## Venue

**Qingdao Citizen Fitness Centre** is a stadium in Qingdao, China which was build for the 24th Games of Shandong Province. Since its completion, Qingdao Citizen Fitness Center has not only hosted the 24th Games of Shandong Province, but also hosted the national team after the games Men's and women's basketball, volleyball and so on several international events and variety of activities, also recently successfully hosted the as epidemic prevention and control under the domestic first restart the big sporting events, the Chinese men's basketball professional league 2019-2020 season (CBA) heats the second phase of 40 games, hardware facilities and events organization conditions so as to obtain the yao Ming, the chairman of the Chinese basketball association organizations such as sufficiently high praise. As the competition center with the largest construction scale, the best hardware facilities and the highest technological content in Shandong Province, in 2019, the center will be open for more than 360 days a year, with an average daily opening time of 8 hours and an open area of more than 80%, becoming the new name card of Qingdao city.

## Location

Qingdao (/tʃɪŋˈdaʊ/, also spelled Tsingtao; Chinese: 青岛, Mandarin: [tɕʰíŋtàʊ]) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means "azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) Initiative that connects Asia with Europe. It has the highest GDP of any city in the province. Administered at the sub-provincial level, Qingdao has jurisdiction over seven districts and three county-level cities (Jiaozhou, Pingdu, Laixi). As of the 2020 census, Qingdao built-up (or metro) area made of the 7 urban Districts (Shinan, Shibei, Huangdao, Laoshan, Licang, Chengyang and Jimo) was home to 7,172,451 inhabitants. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders the prefecture-level cities of Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest.

Qingdao is a major seaport and naval base, as well as a commercial and financial center. It is home to electronics multinationals such as Haier and Hisense. The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, links the main urban area of Qingdao with Huangdao district, straddling the Jiaozhou Bay sea areas. Its historic German-style architecture and Tsingtao Brewery, the second largest brewery in China are legacies of the German occupation (1898-1914).

## Results

**Grand Final**

Recap: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d0MoQtZh1A1SjU\_hy3yRi5qg6gLzbXGZ/view?usp=drivesdk

The Grand Final took place between 13 August 2022 to 28 August 2022

## Other Countries

 Italy initially planned on returning this edition however the HoD decided to withdraw.