World Musicon Edition 2

## Countries Competing

### Debuting Countries

 Argentina,  Aruba,  Bangladesh,  Bhutan,  Brazil,  Cuba,  Denmark,  Gambia, Iceland,  Kazakhstan,  Liberia,  Madagascar,  Malta,  Mexico,  Mongolia,

 Netherlands Antilles ,  New Zealand,  Nocturnia,  Peru,  Serbia,  South Korea,

 Tanzania,  Teknetos,  Turkey,  Uganda,  Vietnam

### Withdrawing Countries

 Algeria,  Andorra,  Catalonia,  European Onion,  Italy,  Quimlandia

## Edition(s)

### Upcoming Edition

Edition 3

Following the victory of  The Netherlands in Edition 1. It was chosen by the Head of Delegations that the harbour city of Rotterdam will be the Hosts for Edition 2. Unlike edition 1 in edition 2 participation won't require an invite. Up to 80 countries could compete. On 30th of August  Aruba confirmed participation for Edition 2 making it the first Carribean nation to confirm it's participation. On the same date  Egypt confirmed debuting and various African nations including Nigeria,  Uganda,  Tanzania,  Gambia and  Madagascar confirmed interest in debuting. However participation is not yet known.  Canada originally cited withdrawal due to the HoD being inable to vote. However Canada pointed a new HoD and thus will compete next edition. All of them except Nigeria confirmed participation. A grand total of 75 Countries will participate in the second edition of World Musicon. With Edition 2 finally ended almost 1 year later.  China won the contest thus it will be held in China next year.

## Confirmed participation

* Bhutan
* Mainland China
* Hokkaido
* Indonesia
* Japan
* Mongolia
* Okinawa
* Philippines
* Siberia
* South Korea
* Tokyo

**Oceania (3)**
* Australia
* Bonin Islands
* New Zealand
* Canada
* Cuba
* Mexico
* Michigan
* United States
* Netherlands Antilles

**South America (4)**
* Argentina
* Brazil
* Peru
* Venezuela
* Belgium
* Cornwall
* Cyprus
* Denmark
* England
* Estonia
* Faroe Islands
* Finland
* Flanders
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Kazakhstan
* Limburg
* Malta
* Netherlands (hosts)
* North Brabant
* Norway
* Poland
* Rijnmond-Rotterdam
* Sápmi
* Scotland
* Serbia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Vatican City
* Ukraine
* Wales
* Morocco
* Turkey

**Fictional (4)**
* Interakia
* John Island
* Teknetos
* Nocturnia

**Others (2)**
* Esperanto Community
* LGBT Community

**Africa (5)**
* Gambia
* Liberia
* Madagascar
* Tanzania

People participating in Edition 1 could choose to keep there nations up to 29th of August. Which now is extended to the end of this edition. After a short hiatus from September to 29th of November. The contest has been restarted.

## Voting

### Semi Finals

In the Semi Finals every entity will send their top 10 based in Eurovision 1975-2015 points. So each entity sends 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points each. The top 15 with the most points will advance to the Finals. Voting on your own entity is impossible.

### Grand Final

In the Grand Final 23 Regions across the World and beyond will send their top 10 each. Voting on your own entities is possible in this round. In addition the winner of the contest and the founder of the contest will send their top 13 based on a different voting system: 50, 45, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 17, 14, 12, 10, 8 and 5 points each. These will be collected as the televote. Asides of this the rest of televote will be calculated by a jury of 100 followers popularity based on sales and popularity of the song.

* Northern Europe
* Central Europe - Kyle Carnahan
* Medditerean Europe - José Garcia Ortiz
* Balkan Nations
* Former USSR - Marco Geurts
* Canada and British Isles
* USA - Niek Van Wijk
* Central America
* Carribean
* South America
* East Asia
* Northern Africa
* Indian Peninsula
* Western Asia
* Southeast Asia - Joeri Groen
* Oceania and Antarctica - Niek Van Wijk
* Western Africa
* Eastern Africa
* Central Africa
* Southern Africa
* Fictional Countries and Extraterrestial

## Other Countries

### Reserved

* Andorra withdrawal is due to lack-of state funding to participate.
* The host from  New York (State),  Moldova,  Poland and  Tunisia have been eliminated due to ongoing fandom fightings.  New York (State) and  Poland has been replaced and a new HoD is announced.

* Antarctica
* Algeria
* Andorra
* Afghanistan
* Catalonia
* European Onion
* Italy
* Quimlandia
* Turkmenistan

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Netherlands Antilles in World Musicon consist of Bonaire, Sint-Eustasius and Saba
2. ↑ Sung in Rotterdamese dialect