Mysterious Song Contest 34

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 Winning song

**Mysterious Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Spain the 34th Edition.

The Mysterious Song Contest #34 will be the 34th edition of the annual Mysterious Song Contest Wikia. It will take place in the **Camp Nou Stadium**, located in **Barcelona**,  Spain, following the country's victory at the 33rd edition with Mirela performing "Contigo". This will be the 02nd time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 02 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **18th June 2017** and semi final 02 being **29th June 2017**. The grand final official date being the **16th July 2017**. All three live shows were hosted by Maria Isabel, Xuso Jones and Antonio Banderas.

As of **14th June 2017** Forty-four countries participated in the contest. 15 countries returned to the contest after absences, while 10 countries withdrew. Armenia had originally planned to participate, but failed to announced their entry on 12th June 2017. On 17th June they revealed they entry citing signal problems between the nation and the host country. Armenia was then put back into the second semi final.

This will be the third edition where the voting will be displayed by separating the votes into qualifiers and non qualifying countries. The votes will be rewarded with the first set revealed from the finalists, the second set will be a total score from the non - finalists. The final result would be the total of both sets of votes.

## Location

**La 1**  Spain, announced on **May 2017** that with the contest being held in  Spain that any city or arena that would like to host the contest would had seven days to apply to the broadcaster with their interest.

The following selection criteria were outlined for the selection of the host city:

* The venue must be covered with a capacity of at least 7,000 but ideally up to 10,000 attendees.
* An international press centre must be able to accommodate no less than 1,550 journalists.
* Venues must also be provided for the opening and closing ceremonies of at least 3,000 attendees.
* The host city must be able to guarantee the safety and security of participants, members of delegations and guests.
* The host city must provide a social program alongside their bid, showcasing the hospitality, originality, cultural values and identity of both the city and Australia.

     **Host City**

 Barcelona
 La Rioja
 Madrid

The **Camp Nou Stadium** in Barcelona, which has a capacity of approximately 99,000 attendees, was announced as the host venue on **9th June 2017**. This will be the Arena's 1st time hosting the contest.

## Presenters

On **14th June 2017**, **La 1** announced that **Maria Isabel** and **Xuso Jones** will be the host of the 34th contest and **Antonio Banderas** will host in the Green Room.

Spokesperson #01:-

María Isabel López Rodríguez (born 4 January 1995), known professionally as María Isabel, is a Spanish singer who won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the song "Antes Muerta que Sencilla".

Spokesperson #02:-

Jesús Segovia Pérez (born 16 June 1989), better known by his stage name Xuso Jones, is a Spanish singer and composer. He became popular through social media doing covers to other artists and sharing original songs.

Spokesperson #03:-

José Antonio Domínguez Banderas (born 10 August 1960), known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish-born American actor, director, singer, and producer. He began his acting career with a series of films by director Pedro Almodóvar

## Format

The competition will consist of 02 semi-finals and a final, a format which is being reintroduced into the contest to maximise the chances for all countries qualifying. The 10 countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 6 countries from the previous edition  Estonia,  Fiji,  Morocco,  Poland,  Turkey and the host nation  Spain.

Each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

## Participants

The following countries have confirmed their participation into the contest.

### Participant Map

**Table key**

     *The Big '6' Countries*
     *Participating Countries*
     *Withdrawing Countries*
     *Countries That Have Participated Before*

## Returning Artists

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in MSC.

* Australia Delta Goodrem [Prev. #29, #30]
* Austria ZOË [Prev. #26]
* Denmark Oh Land [Prev. #22]
* Fiji Brooke Fraser [Prev. #33]
* Jamaica Cali Y El Dandee [Prev.  Colombia #10]
* Kyrgyzstan Gulnur Satylganova [Prev. #31]
* Latvia Vitas [Prev.  Russia #27,  Russia #29]

Delta Goodrem returns for the 3rd time in MSC. Delta debuted in edition #29 where she won the contest with her song 'Wings' which to date, is the highest score in a grand final. She then returned the following edition to keep her title and finishing second.

## Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on 27th October. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists  Estonia,  Fiji,  Morocco,  Poland,  Turkey and the host nation  Spain. The countries were split into two pots which would either be semi final 1 or semi final 2. Then a random generator was used to allocate countries into the running order. The results were as follows:

It was decided that  Estonia,  Poland and  Spain would vote in semi final #01 and  Fiji,  Morocco and  Turkey would vote in semi final #02. This was to assure to make the results fair and even for all participants in the edition.

## Semi Final 1

**19 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Estonia**,  **Poland** and  **Spain** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 10 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

* Russia's Head of Delegation did not vote and therefore  Russia lost the chance to qualify into the grand final.

## Semi Final 2

**20 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Fiji**,  **Morocco** and  **Turkey** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 10 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

## Grand Final

26 Countries will create the grand final. 10 from Semi Final 1, 10 from Semi Final 2 and the automatic qualifiers  Estonia,  Fiji,  Morocco,  Poland,  Turkey and the host nation  Spain.

The draw on  Estonia,  Fiji,  Morocco,  Poland,  Turkey and the host nation  Spain position in the running order were done prior to the Semi Finals.

This was the running order for the Grand Final

### **12points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final:

## Voting & Spokespeople

This is the order of how the votes were released and the spokesperson from each country

First half of results

01. Albania Ronela Hajati

02. Croatia Barbara Kolar

03. Fiji Paulini Cururenavuli

04. Turkey Hadise

05. Austria DJ Otzi

06. US Virgin Islands R.City

07. Puerto Rico Nicky Jam

08. Japan Yoko Ono

09. Sweden Linnea Henriksson

10. Germany Vanessa Mai

11. Mexico Salma Hayek

12. Philippines Anne Curtis

13. United Kingdom Adele

Second half of results

14. Spain Manel Navarro

15. Italy Martina Colombari

16. Poland Ola Jordan

17. Romania Inna

18. Morocco Samira Said

19. South Korea Seohyun

20. Estonia Koit Toome

21. Denmark Caroline Wozniacki

22. The Netherlands Natalie Da Rose

23. Nigeria Yemi Alade

24. United States Darren Criss

25. Armenia Angela Sarafyan

26. Australia Dame Edna Everage

### Voting Grid

This is how the votes were scored in each Semi Final.

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     Qualified

Here is how the world voted in the grand final.

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