Edition 3

The third edition of the Global Music Festival was back in the United Kingdom (taking place in Glasgow in the first edition) but this time taking place in England in the northern city of Newcastle. The show was hosted at the Metro Arena in Newcastle and was presented by Ant & Dec, the beloved presenting duo from Newcastle who present many of Britain's most-loved entertainment television (such as *​Britain's Got Talent* and *I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here*​). Also, Cheryl Cole was one of the presenters for the third edition, she hosted the green room working with the participants and getting their reactions through the night - also she performed as the interval act during the final with a compilation of her best singles. This edition saw 40 countries competing to win the title: Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. The power five became the power six, and this edition's power six consisted of: the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, Jamaica, France and Barbados - who all will get an automatic place in the grand final for the third edition - now the first edition to feature semi finals (exciting stuff). This edition features the second thematic edition of the Global Music Festival, however, this was the first edition where the theme was selected by its participants - the theme selected was ballads (announced by the admins on the 11 February 2017), this meant that each country could select any ballad, from any artist, from any country, giving participants more choice in the songs they can send. The third edition was won by British singer, Adele, who represented Australia with her song "Turning Tables" with a total of 113 points.

 Slogan
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Participants
 Theme
 Winner

## Participants

* Colombia
* Estonia
* Germany
* Lithuania
* Namibia
* New Zealand
* Ukraine
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Russia
* Lebanon
* Slovenia
* South Africa
* Switzerland
* United States

## Theme Poll

The themes in this poll would usually be selected by the previous three winners - however, when the poll was posted in the Facebook group there had only been one winner of the Global Music Festival. Therefore, the winner selected one theme and the other two themes were selected by the admin team for this one occassion.

 Soundtracks to Movies
 Cheesy and Novelty Songs

## Semi Final Allocation Draw

The draw for the semi finals took place on the 24 February 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 in the first four pots have all participated in past editions and received an average of their previous positions to organise them by the most successful nations (the power six [Barbados, France, Italy, Jamaica, Sweden and the United Kingdom] were not added to the pots because of their automatic places in the grand final, also Finland and Portugal were not added to the pots because both of these participants are admins and were in charge of each semi final). The countries in pot five and pot six are the debuting countries and have no result history (Russia participated in the first edition of the Global Music Festival, however, they failed to vote and were disqualified as a result - therefore, they have no result history and have been treated as a new country).

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 third 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 the 25 February 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 third edition:

  Greece
  Cuba
  Jamaica
  Belgium
  Ireland
  New Zealand
  Colombia
  Barbados
  Denmark

## Semi Final One

 Barbados,  Italy and  Jamaica voted in this 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. Canada failed to vote before the deadline and therefore were disqualified - if they had voted they would have placed thirteenth with 38 points.

## ​Semi Final Two

 France,  Sweden and the  United Kingdom voted in this semi final, following the allocations draw, as well as the countries participating in this semi final. Also, Portugal 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.

## Grand Final

The power six and the ten qualifiers from each semi final competed together in the grand final of the third edition of the Global Music Festival.