Edition 75

The seventy-fifth edition of the **Global Music Festival** took place in Incheon, South Korea following TWICE's victory at the seventy-forth edition in Las Vegas, United States with the song "I CAN'T STOP ME". It was the second win for South Korea and the second time that the country hosted the competition. Organised by the head of delegation and host broadcaster, the contest was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, and consisted of two semi-finals which were both launched on the 02 January 2021 and a grand final which took place from the 12 January 2021. The three shows were hosted by Choi Sooyoung & Song Joong Ki.

The seventy-fifth edition of the Global Music Festival was a thematic edition. The admin team of the Global Music Festival announced the theme on the 14 November and decided to take inspiration from popular book and film trilogy "The Hunger Games" and their 75th Hunger Games (or the Quarter Quell). The 75th edition of the Global Music Festival saw past entries compete for a second time. Each participating country had a pool of their top 5 results in the competition, so far, where one entry was chosen at random by the admin team. The aim of this edition was to see whom would emerge victorious in a battle among the most successful entries from the archives of the contest.

Sixty countries participated in this edition of the contest. Five countries withdrew from edition seventy-five for different reasons: Andorra, Belize, Cyprus, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. However, five countries returned to the competition: Ireland and Gibraltar after only being absent from one edition; Barbados after a four edition absence; and Croatia after being absent for seven editions. Most significantly, Pakistan returned to the contest for the first time since the fortieth edition - after a thirty-four edition break.

The power six for this edition were South Korea, England, Slovenia, Wales, Greece and North Macedonia - these were the delegations that placed in the top six from the previous edition. Their placement in the power six means that they received an automatic place to perform in the final of this edition, while also being allowed to vote in one of the semi-finals in this edition.

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## Other Participants

* Belize
* Cyprus
* Jamaica
* Trinidad & Tobago

## Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The draw to determine the allocation of the participating countries into their respective semi-finals took place on the [DATE]. The fifty-four semi-finalists were allocated to five pots, based on the previous results of each participating country, calculated by the averages of the past results. Drawing from each pot helps to create an equal split of successful and not-so successful countries in each semi-final to give countries an equal chance of qualification. Finland and Ireland were not included in the pots because the head of delegation for these countries are on the admin team and are in charge of the second and first semi-final respectively; as a result, Finland were automatically assigned to semi-final one and Ireland was automatically assigned to semi-final two.

Also, in the semi-final allocation draw the power six nations South Korea, England, Slovenia, Wales, Greece and North Macedonia were all drawn to vote in one of the respective semi-finals. South Korea, England and Slovenia were assigned to vote in the first semi-final and Wales, Greece and North Macedonia were assigned to vote in the second semi-final.

## Semi Final One

 South Korea,  England and  Slovenia from the power six were randomly allocated to vote in this semi-final, as well as, the countries who participated in this semi-final - as always countries not in this semi-final had the choice whether they wanted to vote in this semi-final or not.  Finland were automatically assigned to this semi-final because the head of delegation for Finland is on the admin team and is the organiser for the second semi-final - this is done to allow the admins to have the uncertainty of their countries' result. Unfortunately, two countries missed the voting window and as a result were disqualified from this edition -  Zimbabwe and  Malta.

## Semi Final Two

 Wales,  Greece and  North Macedonia from the power six were randomly allocated to vote in this semi-final, as well as, the countries who participated in this semi-final - as always countries not in this semi-final had the choice whether they wanted to vote in this semi-final or not.  Ireland were automatically assigned to this semi-final because the head of delegation for Ireland is on the admin team and is the organiser for the second semi-final - this is done to allow the admins to have the uncertainty of their countries' result.

## Grand Final

Thirty countries participated in the final of this edition of the **Global Music Festival** - the power six and the twenty-four qualifiers from the two semi-finals. All participating countries were eligible to vote in the final; however, only the thirty finalists were obligated to vote! The votes of the non-qualifiers and non-participants were all combined in to the televote. However, only thirty non-qualifiers and non-participants could vote.