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'''Ourvision Song Contest''' (abbreviated '''OVSC'''), was a song contest on Youtube. The contest was managed by three persons from [[Sweden]] named Kristoffer, Nikolai and Paulina, using the Youtube account [[OurVisionSongContest]]. They are the founders of the [[Contest Forums]] and [[Song Contest Wiki]]. OVSC was the first contest to use Weebly as website, to have user score, to have awards and to use Wiki tables. It was also the first contest to have a [[List of national selections|national selection]]. It is considered to be the second contest in song contest history to have been founded after [[World Music Contest]] which was created only a couple of days earlier. The contest had been using semi-finals since the 3rd edition.
   
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== Participation ==
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=== Requirements ===
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'''Ourvision Song Contest''' (abbreviated '''OVSC'''), sometimes spelled '''OurVision Song Contest''', is a song contest on Youtube. The contest is managed by 3 persons from Sweden named [[OurVisionSongContest#Kristoffer|Kristoffer]], [[OurVisionSongContest#Nikolai|Nikolai]] and [[OurVisionSongContest#Paulina|Paulina]]. They are the founders of the Contest Forums and this Wiki. OVSC was the first contest to use Weebly as website, to have user score, to have awards and to use Wikipedia tables. It was also the first contest to have a [[List of national selections|national selection]]. It is the second known contest to have been founded after [[World Music Contest]] which was created only a couple of days earlier. The contest has been using semi-finals since the 3rd edition. The number of participants in each edition has ranged from 23 (OVSC #24) to 44 (OVSC #21).
  
   
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The only requirement for participants was that they have to vote in the same semi-final as their entry is participating in as well as in the final if they would qualify for it. Those who fail to vote when they are required receives warning score which eventually leads to them being unable to submit entries to the contest. Users who were caught using multiple accounts to vote or submit entries are permanently banned from the contest.
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== Rules ==
  
   
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=== Submitting ===
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The basic rule for participants is that they have to vote in the same Semi-Final as their song is participating in as well as in the final if they would qualify for it. If they fail to do so, they will be unable to submit an entry to an upcoming edition of OVSC. Users who repeatedly fails to vote when they are obligated to do so can be suspended from further participation. Users can not vote for their own song but they can vote for their own country if someone else submitted that entry. One song can be submitted by an user for each edition. Anyone with an Youtube account that is older than 30 days is allowed to vote, not only the participants. Users who use multiple accounts to vote for their entry will be banned from the contest. Telling friends/family to vote for your entry is also cheating in OVSC.
  
   
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Users have to submit their entry through private message on Youtube only. Anyone with a Youtube account which is older than 60 days is allowed to submit an entry. Each user can submit one entry for each edition but can enter as many national selections as they want. OVSC was the first contest to give additional options when submitting an entry but nowadays these options are requirements when submitting an entry. Except for country, artist and song, submissions must also contain an image of the artist, a link to the song on Youtube, as well as the 20 seconds of the Youtube video to use in the recap video.
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== Submitting ==
  
   
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=== Voting ===
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There are several rules regarding if a song can participate or not. All the rules can be found on the OVSC forums. Some basic rules are that songs must have been released after year 2000, a rule which was introduced for the 6th edition. Cover versions which charted internationally are allowed, acapella songs are allowed and songs can not only contain music but they have to be properly constructed. Songs can not be longer than 4 minutes and 30 seconds, a rule which was introduced for the 22nd edition. In very few cases exception for these rules are made.
  
   
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The same voting system has always been used. 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points are given to ten of the participating countries. Anyone with a Youtube account which is older than 60 days is allowed to vote. Participants can not vote for their own entry but they can vote for their own country if someone else submitted that entry. The voting system may vary in national selections to OVSC.
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OVSC was the first contest to give additional options when submitting an entry to their contest. These options are now requirements as of the 22nd edition. Participants must choose the image that is displayed in the recap video as well as the 20 second time frame that will be heard in the recap. Participants must provide the country, artist, song, video link and time frame and image in the same private message.
  
   
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== Voting system ==
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== Editions ==
   
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Each edition used to be 9 days long but is nowadays following 12 days long schedule. Voting in each semi-final and in the final lasts for 3 days. There is also one day for publishing the semi-final draw, one day for publishing the semi-final qualifiers, and one day for publishing the final results. Some editions have lasted a bit longer than they should have because of inactivity from the OVSC managers.
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The same voting system is always used. 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points are to be given to 10 of the participating songs. In some [[List of national selections|national selections]] for OVSC, the voting system may be different.
  
   
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{{OVSC editions}}
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== Editions ==
  
   
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== Participants ==
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Each edition is 9 days long with a new contest starting one day after another contest has ended. Both semi-finals and the final lasts for 3 days each. The 17th edition was the first edition with a different length as it lasted for 6 days instead of 9 days with 2 days of voting for both semi-finals and the final. Also the 24th edition was reduced to 6 days instead of 9 with the reason given being there were no national selections going on. This was also the first edition of the longest break in the history of the contest which lasted for around 3 months.{{OVSC editions}}
  
   
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[[File:OVSC All countries map.png|thumb|left|400px|Countries in OVSC (Does not include Bermuda)]]
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[[File:OVSC All countries map.png|right|400px]]
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107 countries have participated in OVSC so far. There has been 23 to 44 countries competing in each edition. The first edition without any debuting country was the [[Ourvision Song Contest 20|20th edition]].
   
 
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== Winners ==
   
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{{Belgium}} became the first country to win Ourvision Song Contest. {{New Zealand}} was the first country outside of Europe to win. {{United Kingdom}} was the first country to win twice followed by {{Sweden}}, {{Ireland}}, {{France}}, {{USA}} and {{New Zealand}}.
   
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Now {{Sweden}} has won the contest in four editions and is the leading country for the amount victory so far in Ourvision Song Contest.
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Ireland was the first country to win Ourvision Song Contest. New Zealand was the first country outside of Europe to win. United Kingdom was the first country to win twice followed by Sweden, Ireland and France.
  
   
 
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| [[Enya]]
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| [[Kate Ryan]]
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| [[Amanda Jenssen]]
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| "[[Amarula Tree]]"
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''Main article: [[OVSC, Song of the Decade]]''
  
''Main article: [[OVSC, Song of the Decade]]''
   
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Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to announce a special edition. Their only special edition so far was called "OVSC, Song of the Decade". The winner of the first edition was [[Gabrielle Leithaug]] with the song "[[Ring meg]]" which finished as runner up in the [[Ourvision Song Contest 6|6th edition]]. The second winner was also a runner up. [[Aura Dione]] with the song "[[Geronimo]]" won the second special edition after having finished as runner up in the [[Ourvision Song Contest 19|19th edition]]. There are also national Song of the Decade editions. So far 4 of these have been held, two of them for [[Poland]] and both of them won by [[Sylwia Grzeszczak]] who thereby have had the best 2 polish songs accordings to voters out of 20 polish entries.
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Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to announce having a special edition. Their only special edition so far is called OVSC, Song of the Decade. The special edition is held after every 10 regular editions. The top 3 songs from each of the last 10 regular editions compete in two semi-finals followed by a final to determine the "song of the decade". Participants can also host [[OVSC, National Song of the Decade|national song of the decades]] for countries, just like they can host national selections.
   
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== National selections ==
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''Main article: [[List of OVSC national selections]]''
   
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OVSC was the first contest to have national selections. Participants can host national selections for the contest instead of submitting an entry if they want. The first national election ever held was [[MY Sound 1]], hosted by [[HafizHalwi]] for [[Malaysia]] to the [[Ourvision Song Contest 10|10th edition]] of OVSC. The record of most national selections hosted for a single edition is 14 selections held for the [[Ourvision Song Contest 24|24th edition]] of OVSC. Users can only host one national selection for each edition and can not submit a personal entry plus make a national selection for the same edition of OVSC. National selections can only be hosted for two editions in advance. The longest running national selections for OVSC is [[Danish Music Contest]] which is hosted by [[HvdstrCBfr]] for [[Denmark]].
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Ourvision Song Contest had 4 official partner contests before taking a 3 month break in March 2012. They were the [[World Music Contest]], [[Simple Song Contest]], [[Tubevision Contest]] and [[OK Song Contest]]. WMC became a partner contest already in June, 2011. SSC joined in September, TVC in October and OKSC in November. WMC became inactive by the end of 2011 and was dropped as partner contest a few months later as the host announced retirement of the contest. Also OKSC and SSC announced retirement and were removed as partner contests. TVC took a break for a while during the same time as OVSC had a break. The contest then picked up again as OVSC also came back and thereby remained a partner contest.
  
   
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== Partner contest ==
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OVSC started looking for new partner contest after their break between March and June 2012. Some candidates were the [[Globalvision Song Contest]] and the [[Amazing Music Contest]]. [[World Vision Contest]] was the first contest to apply as OVSC returned. The application was reviewed but not fully approved. OVSC announced they would follow the next edition of WVC and demanded a few improvements had to be made if the application was to be accepted. Also GSC sent a submission which was accepted after a couple of days, making them the first new partner contest of OVSC in July 2012.
 
   
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Ourvision Song Contest first grouped up with [[World Music Contest]] in June 2011 as they were the two first contests in song contest history. As several new contests were started, [[Simple Song Contest]] joined in September, [[Tubevision Contest]] in October and [[OK Song Contest]] in November. Nowadays OVSC is automatically a partner contest with every other contest of the [[Contest Union]].
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AMC have yet to submit a new application however the contest has recently returned from a break and could possibly apply in the near future as the contest starts again.
  
   
 
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== Jury ==
   
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Ourvision Song Contest have a jury. The job of the jury is to listen to all entries and rank them from the best song to the worst song. There are two members of the OVSC jury at the moment, one from [[Ukraine]] and one from [[United Kingdom]]. The jury members are adults who have followed Eurovision Song Contest for a very long time and is known to have significantly more similar taste to the split jury voting rather than the split televoting in Eurovision. The jury rankings are made public after each edition and were for a while used to draw the semi-finals before the contest started. Today the semi-finals are drawn entirely random. After a vote on the OVSC forums, users wanted the jury to give one single vote in each Semi-Final and in the Final. This has planned to start for several editions since then but have yet to take effect. OVSC switched out one jury member, one from [[Norway]] to the current from Ukraine in early 2012 to give some eastern perspective.
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Ourvision Song Contest has a two member jury. The jury members are not participants of the contest but are friends of the OVSC managers and are from [[Ukraine]] and [[United Kingdom]]. According to OVSC, the jury members are adults who have long time experience of the Eurovision Song Contest and generally have a more similar taste to the jury rather than to the televoters in ESC. The jury listens to all songs and ranks them from the best to the worst. The jury rankings are published after each edition has finished.
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OVSC was the first contest to have national selections. Participants can host national selections for the contest instead of submitting an entry if they want. There has been several national selections for the contest since OVSC #10 which was the first edition to have them. The current record is 14 national selections for the 24th edition of the contest, the first edition after the break.
  
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Hosting a national selection gives 3 points instead of the 2 which users gets when they submit an entry the regular way.
  
   
 
== Awards ==
  
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Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to give awards. In the first two editions of OVSC, more than 10 awards were given during each edition. Most of the awards were then removed because they felt unnecessary. The awards are given by the jury and is based on their jury rankings. The four awards which have been given since then are the Jury Award, Hit Award, Heart Award and Voters Award. The NS Award was introduced for the 16th edition.
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Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to give away awards. In the first two editions of OVSC, lots of awards were given during each edition. Most of the awards were then removed because they felt unnecessary. Nowadays 4 different awards are being given. They are the Jury Award, Hit Award, Heart Award and NS Award. Also, an award called the Voters Award was given away for a long period of time before it was removed.
   
 
=== Jury Award ===
  
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The Jury Award is given to the song which the jury thought deserved to win the contest. Before the jury rankings were introduced for the [[Ourvision Song Contest 6|6th edition]], the jury gave the award to the song in the final top 10 which they thought deserved to win the most.
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The Jury Award is given to the song which the jury thought deserved to win the contest. Before the jury rankings were introduced for the 5th edition, the jury gave the award to the song in the final top 10 which they thought deserved to win the most.
   
 
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The Hit Award is given to a song which is not famous worldwide. Only songs that haven't charted outside their country of origin are eligible to receive the award with some exceptions where the song charted in a neihbouring country as well. It is always given to a song which performed well both on the jury rankings and in the final itself. The original purpose of the award was to award it to a surprisingly good song which very few had heard before.
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The Hit Award is given by the OVSC managers to a song which is not already well known. The award is given to a song which was liked by both the voters and the jury. The song should only have charted in the same country it is coming from although some exceptions can be made. The award is given to promote new music in the contest.
   
 
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The Heart Award is given to a song which deserved to qualify for the final but didn't. The highest non-qualifier on the jury rankings always receives this award. Before the semi-finals were introduced for the [[Ourvision Song Contest 3|3rd edition]], any country on the bottom half of the final result could receive the award.
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The Heart Award is given to the song which the jury thought most deserved to qualify for the final but didn't. The award is given to the highest placed non-qualifier on the jury rankings. Before semi-finals were introduced for the 3rd edition, the award was given to what according to the jury was the most underrated entry in the bottom half of the final results.
   
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The NS Award, short for National Selection Award, is given to the best OVSC national selection. The award is given by the OVSC managers and was first introduced for the 16th edition. A lot of different factors are being taken into account when the recipient is going to be decided.
   
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''See also: [[List of OVSC Voters Award winners]]''
  
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The Voters Award is not given by the jury but instead by the OVSC managers. It is given to the country which users showed least signs of neighbour voting which means that the award is given towards the participating users and not the songs. Voting in the final only is looked at to determine the award. Previously both the semi-final and the final were looked at.
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The Voters Award is no longer given. It was given during every edition between the 1st edition and the 24th edition. The award was given by the OVSC managers to the country which showed least signs of neighbour voting.
   
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== User Score ==
   
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Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to have user score. It was introduced for the 3rd edition. Users get 2 points every time they submit a song or vote in OVSC. Hosting a national selection gives 3 points instead of the 2 you get from submitting an entry the regular way. Hosting a national song of the decade gives 1 point and voting in one also gives 1 point. Previously only certain national selections gave user score but nowadays users get 1 point for every third national selection they vote in. Only the 20 users with the most points are listed on the official website but anyone who is interested in their current user score can send a private message on either Youtube or the Contest Forums and ask.
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Because of the many users who only enter OVSC once or twice, users with low user score are deleted from the list every now and then unless they have recently started participating actively. The user score used to be updated rather frequently but is nowadays only updated every fifth edition.
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The NS Award, short for National Selection Award, is given to the best OVSC national selection. It is given by the OVSC managers and was introduced for the 16th edition. The most complicated national selection doesn't have to be the best one. Voting and submitting songs should be easy. A lot of different factors will be taken into account when this award is given.
  
   
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== Hall of Fame ==
   
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The OVSC Hall of Fame is a list of artists who have been talking to OVSC or have been mentioning OVSC. There are currently two members. They are [[Beatrix Ramosaj]] who joined during [[Ourvision Song Contest 3|3rd edition]] and [[Gulcin Ergul]] who joined during the [[Ourvision Song Contest 4|4th edition]]. Since the contest hasn't been advertised the way it was during the first few editions, no new artist has joined the Hall of Fame.
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Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to give user score. It was introduced for the 3rd edition together with the removal of most of the previous awards. Users gets 2 point for every time they submit a song or vote in an OVSC contest and 1 point every time they vote in certain national selections or special editions. [[MY Sound]] was the first national selection to give OVSC user score followed by [[Danish Music Contest]] and then by [[Swedish Sounds]]. It has been suggested to let all national selections give userscore.
  
   
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Beatrix Ramosaj saw a comment from OVSC on a video of her song "[[Dreams come true]]" which had been submitted by [[escAlbania1]] to the 3rd edition of OVSC. The edition had already finished when she sent a private message on Youtube to OVSC, asking what the contest was all about and if she was required to do anything. OVSC told her that the contest had ended and that she had finished in 5th place for [[Albania]] out of 24 countries. She responded that she was very happy with her placing and posted the results tables on her Facebook page. Beatrix also thanked OVSC in a Twitter post during the 9th edition for posting a thread about one of her new songs on the Contest Forums.
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OVSC have stated that anyone should be able to see their user score on their website in the future but for now only the top 20 users can be seen. Users can send a private message on Youtube and ask how many points they have if they are curious. Because of the many users who only enter OVSC once or twice, users with 10 user score or less are deleted every 3 months unless they have recently started participating actively. The userscore was often updated rather frequently but have lately been updated only once every second or third edition.
  
   
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Gulcin Ergul saw a lot of messages from her fans about OVSC. The fans had seen a comment from OVSC on the music video of her song "[[Ara Ara]]" which had been submitted by [[superXxxmausixxx]] to the 4th edition of OVSC. The final had just started when she decided to post the recap video on her Facebook page. A large number of votes from her fans were submitted but most of them could not be counted since they weren't submitted correctly. Gulcin eventually finished runner-up for [[Turkey]]. Gulcin posted the final results on Facebook. She had also earlier linked to the contests official website, making it reach a record high number of visitors in a single day.
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Two artists are currently members of the OVSC Hall of Fame. They are [[Beatrix Ramosaj]] who joined during the third edition and [[Gulcin Ergul]] who joined during the fourth edition. The Hall of Fame contains artists who have talked about OVSC or even talked to the OVSC managers.
  
   
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Beatrix Ramosaj saw a comment from OVSC on an audio video of her song "[[Dreams come true]]" which had been submitted by [[escAlbania1]] to the third edition of OVSC. The third edition had actually already finished when she sent a private message through Youtube to OVSC staff asking what the contest was all about and if she was required to do anything. OVSC told her that the contest had ended and that she had finished in 5th place for [[Albania]] out of 24 songs. She was very happy for the result and posted the result tables on her Facebook page. Beatrix also thanked OVSC in a Twitter post during the 9th edition for posting a thread about one of her new songs on their forums.
  
   
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OVSC received a copyright infringement notification on their results video of the 1st edition. The reason was that the winning song was being played for too long at the end of the video. They have uploaded over 150 videos since then without problems. OVSC claims fair use for using short parts of the songs in their videos. They consider their videos being more beneficial to the copyright owners than harmful as they are simply promoting the music for no profit. According to several comments on the Contest Forums, songs participating in OVSC and other song contests have been purchased on Itunes by participants after hearing them in a contest. OVSC once turned down a suggestion to make all songs from each edition available for free download as they saw it to be illegal.
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Gulcin Ergul saw a lot of messages from her fans about OVSC. The fans had seen a comment from OVSC on the music video of her song "[[Ara Ara]]" which had been submitted by [[superXxxmausixxx]] to the fourth edition of OVSC. The final had just started when she decided to post the recap video on her Facebook page. A big number of votes from her fans were submitted but most of them could not be counted since they weren't properly submitted. Gulcin eventually finished runner-up for [[Turkey]], close behind [[Eric Saade]]'s song "[[Hearts in the Air]]" for [[Sweden]]. Gulcin posted the final result on Facebook. She had earlier linked to OVSC's official website, causing it to reach a record high 560 unique visitors in a single day.
  
   
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Two additional videos received notifications about copyright infringement in late 2012. This involved entries from the [[Philippines]] and [[Indonesia]].
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The original video design was very standard. The first edition only had flags in the recap with annotations for country, artist and song title. In the result video there were however images of the artists as well. In the second and third edition a standard design of a black background with an image of the artist and flag was used. The text for each entry faded in and out after being added in the movie making program. For the fourth edition to the sixth edition, the text was written on the images instead. For the 7th edition and forward, one of the participating users gave OVSC a new video design and logotype for the videos for free. This design became popular but was used for quite sometime and OVSC finally decided they needed a change. For the 21st edition, after the second edtion of [[OVSC, Song of the Decade]], a new design was introduced, also this created by a participating user. The new design was slightly criticized but remains today as the design used for every edition.
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The original video design was very standard. The first edition only had flags in the recap, with Youtube annotations for additional information. In the results video, there were, however, images of the artists as well. In the second edition and forward, images of the artists and flags of the countries were always shown. For the 7th edition, one of the participating users gave OVSC a new video design and logo. This design became popular and was used all the way until the 21st edition when another user created a new design and logo. The new design didn't receive as positive reception as the first. OVSC had said that once they have a third design, they would use their three designs on rotation.
   
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It has been stated by OVSC that the design will change more often in the future. It has also been said that once they have 4 different designs they will all be used one after the other and over and over. This means that the design used from OVSC #7 to OVSC #20 will likely be seen once again.
  
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Latest revision as of 15:11, 13 May 2019

For the currently active renewed version, see Ourvision Song Contest Classic.
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Ourvision Song Contest
OVSC6

Abbrev.

OVSC

Founded

June 24, 2011

Origin

Sweden Sweden

Editions

33

Specials

3

Countries

TBC

Songs

TBC

Status

Closed

Ourvision Song Contest (abbreviated OVSC), was a song contest on Youtube. The contest was managed by three persons from Sweden named Kristoffer, Nikolai and Paulina, using the Youtube account OurVisionSongContest. They are the founders of the Contest Forums and Song Contest Wiki. OVSC was the first contest to use Weebly as website, to have user score, to have awards and to use Wiki tables. It was also the first contest to have a national selection. It is considered to be the second contest in song contest history to have been founded after World Music Contest which was created only a couple of days earlier. The contest had been using semi-finals since the 3rd edition.

Participation

Requirements

The only requirement for participants was that they have to vote in the same semi-final as their entry is participating in as well as in the final if they would qualify for it. Those who fail to vote when they are required receives warning score which eventually leads to them being unable to submit entries to the contest. Users who were caught using multiple accounts to vote or submit entries are permanently banned from the contest.

Submitting

Users have to submit their entry through private message on Youtube only. Anyone with a Youtube account which is older than 60 days is allowed to submit an entry. Each user can submit one entry for each edition but can enter as many national selections as they want. OVSC was the first contest to give additional options when submitting an entry but nowadays these options are requirements when submitting an entry. Except for country, artist and song, submissions must also contain an image of the artist, a link to the song on Youtube, as well as the 20 seconds of the Youtube video to use in the recap video.

Voting

The same voting system has always been used. 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points are given to ten of the participating countries. Anyone with a Youtube account which is older than 60 days is allowed to vote. Participants can not vote for their own entry but they can vote for their own country if someone else submitted that entry. The voting system may vary in national selections to OVSC.

Editions

Each edition used to be 9 days long but is nowadays following 12 days long schedule. Voting in each semi-final and in the final lasts for 3 days. There is also one day for publishing the semi-final draw, one day for publishing the semi-final qualifiers, and one day for publishing the final results. Some editions have lasted a bit longer than they should have because of inactivity from the OVSC managers.


OVSC editions
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33

Participants

OVSC All countries map

107 countries have participated in OVSC so far. There has been 23 to 44 countries competing in each edition. The first edition without any debuting country was the 20th edition.

Participated at least once
Never participated

Winners

Belgium Belgium became the first country to win Ourvision Song Contest. New Zealand New Zealand was the first country outside of Europe to win. United Kingdom United Kingdom was the first country to win twice followed by Sweden Sweden, Ireland Ireland, France France, USA United States and New Zealand New Zealand.

Now Sweden Sweden has won the contest in four editions and is the leading country for the amount victory so far in Ourvision Song Contest.

OVSC Country Artist Song
#1 Belgium Belgium Kate Ryan "Ella, elle l'a"
#2 Estonia Estonia Getter Jaani & Koit Toome "Valged Ööd"
#3 Germany Germany Cascada "Evacuate the Dancefloor"
#4 Sweden Sweden Eric Saade feat. J-Son "Hearts in the Air"
#5 Netherlands Netherlands Within Temptation "Angels"
#6 Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Safura "March On"
#7 Italy Italy Lady Gaga "Born This Way"
#8 Greece Greece Kalomira "This Is The Time"
#9 United Kingdom United Kingdom Jade Ewen "My Man"
#10 New Zealand New Zealand Brooke Fraser "Something in the Water"
#11 Canada Canada Avril Lavigne "What the Hell"
#12 Philippines Philippines Charice feat. Iyaz "Pyramid"
#13 United Kingdom United Kingdom Cheryl Cole "Fight for This Love"
#14 Denmark Denmark Christine Milton "Superstar"
#15 France France Sarah Riani "Intouchable"
#16 Cyprus Cyprus Nikki Ponte "Remembering The Summer Nights"
#17 Sweden Sweden Molly Sandén "Spread a little light"
#18 Poland Poland Lolita "Joli Garcon"
#19 Switzerland Switzerland Anna Rossinelli "Joker"
#20 South Korea South Korea T-ara "Cry Cry"
#21 Ireland Ireland Kelly Clarkson "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
#22 France France JoJo "Too Little Too Late"
#23 USA United States Owl City "Fireflies"
#24 Spain Spain Mirela "Nada es comparable a ti"
#25 Norway Norway Didrik Solli-Tangen "Best Kept Secret"
#26 USA United States Christina Perri "Jar of Hearts"
#27 Finland Finland Erin "Vanha nainen hunningolla"
#28 Latvia Latvia Jenny May "Es gribu vel milet"
#29 New Zealand New Zealand Natasha Bedingfield "Unwritten"
#30 Sweden Sweden Amanda Jenssen "Amarula Tree"
#31 Jordan Jordan Omar Naber "I Still Carry On"
#32 South Korea South Korea SPICA "Russian Roulette"
#33 Sweden Sweden Sarah Dawn Finer "Moving On"

Special editions

Main article: OVSC, Song of the Decade

Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to announce having a special edition. Their only special edition so far is called OVSC, Song of the Decade. The special edition is held after every 10 regular editions. The top 3 songs from each of the last 10 regular editions compete in two semi-finals followed by a final to determine the "song of the decade". Participants can also host national song of the decades for countries, just like they can host national selections.

National selections

Main article: List of OVSC national selections

OVSC was the first contest to have national selections. Participants can host national selections for the contest instead of submitting an entry if they want. The first national election ever held was MY Sound 1, hosted by HafizHalwi for Malaysia to the 10th edition of OVSC. The record of most national selections hosted for a single edition is 14 selections held for the 24th edition of OVSC. Users can only host one national selection for each edition and can not submit a personal entry plus make a national selection for the same edition of OVSC. National selections can only be hosted for two editions in advance. The longest running national selections for OVSC is Danish Music Contest which is hosted by HvdstrCBfr for Denmark.

Partner contest

Ourvision Song Contest first grouped up with World Music Contest in June 2011 as they were the two first contests in song contest history. As several new contests were started, Simple Song Contest joined in September, Tubevision Contest in October and OK Song Contest in November. Nowadays OVSC is automatically a partner contest with every other contest of the Contest Union.

Jury

Ourvision Song Contest has a two member jury. The jury members are not participants of the contest but are friends of the OVSC managers and are from Ukraine and United Kingdom. According to OVSC, the jury members are adults who have long time experience of the Eurovision Song Contest and generally have a more similar taste to the jury rather than to the televoters in ESC. The jury listens to all songs and ranks them from the best to the worst. The jury rankings are published after each edition has finished.

Awards

Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to give away awards. In the first two editions of OVSC, lots of awards were given during each edition. Most of the awards were then removed because they felt unnecessary. Nowadays 4 different awards are being given. They are the Jury Award, Hit Award, Heart Award and NS Award. Also, an award called the Voters Award was given away for a long period of time before it was removed.

Jury Award

See also: List of OVSC Jury Award winners

The Jury Award is given to the song which the jury thought deserved to win the contest. Before the jury rankings were introduced for the 5th edition, the jury gave the award to the song in the final top 10 which they thought deserved to win the most.

Hit Award

See also: List of OVSC Hit Award winners

The Hit Award is given by the OVSC managers to a song which is not already well known. The award is given to a song which was liked by both the voters and the jury. The song should only have charted in the same country it is coming from although some exceptions can be made. The award is given to promote new music in the contest.

Heart Award

See also: List of OVSC Heart Award winners

The Heart Award is given to the song which the jury thought most deserved to qualify for the final but didn't. The award is given to the highest placed non-qualifier on the jury rankings. Before semi-finals were introduced for the 3rd edition, the award was given to what according to the jury was the most underrated entry in the bottom half of the final results.

NS Award

See also: List of OVSC NS Award winners

The NS Award, short for National Selection Award, is given to the best OVSC national selection. The award is given by the OVSC managers and was first introduced for the 16th edition. A lot of different factors are being taken into account when the recipient is going to be decided.

Voters Award

See also: List of OVSC Voters Award winners

The Voters Award is no longer given. It was given during every edition between the 1st edition and the 24th edition. The award was given by the OVSC managers to the country which showed least signs of neighbour voting.

User Score

Ourvision Song Contest was the first contest to have user score. It was introduced for the 3rd edition. Users get 2 points every time they submit a song or vote in OVSC. Hosting a national selection gives 3 points instead of the 2 you get from submitting an entry the regular way. Hosting a national song of the decade gives 1 point and voting in one also gives 1 point. Previously only certain national selections gave user score but nowadays users get 1 point for every third national selection they vote in. Only the 20 users with the most points are listed on the official website but anyone who is interested in their current user score can send a private message on either Youtube or the Contest Forums and ask.

Because of the many users who only enter OVSC once or twice, users with low user score are deleted from the list every now and then unless they have recently started participating actively. The user score used to be updated rather frequently but is nowadays only updated every fifth edition.

Hall of Fame

The OVSC Hall of Fame is a list of artists who have been talking to OVSC or have been mentioning OVSC. There are currently two members. They are Beatrix Ramosaj who joined during 3rd edition and Gulcin Ergul who joined during the 4th edition. Since the contest hasn't been advertised the way it was during the first few editions, no new artist has joined the Hall of Fame.

Beatrix Ramosaj saw a comment from OVSC on a video of her song "Dreams come true" which had been submitted by escAlbania1 to the 3rd edition of OVSC. The edition had already finished when she sent a private message on Youtube to OVSC, asking what the contest was all about and if she was required to do anything. OVSC told her that the contest had ended and that she had finished in 5th place for Albania out of 24 countries. She responded that she was very happy with her placing and posted the results tables on her Facebook page. Beatrix also thanked OVSC in a Twitter post during the 9th edition for posting a thread about one of her new songs on the Contest Forums.

Gulcin Ergul saw a lot of messages from her fans about OVSC. The fans had seen a comment from OVSC on the music video of her song "Ara Ara" which had been submitted by superXxxmausixxx to the 4th edition of OVSC. The final had just started when she decided to post the recap video on her Facebook page. A large number of votes from her fans were submitted but most of them could not be counted since they weren't submitted correctly. Gulcin eventually finished runner-up for Turkey. Gulcin posted the final results on Facebook. She had also earlier linked to the contests official website, making it reach a record high number of visitors in a single day.

Videos

Copyright

OVSC received a copyright infringement notification on their results video of the 1st edition. The reason was that the winning song was being played for too long at the end of the video. They have uploaded over 150 videos since then without problems. OVSC claims fair use for using short parts of the songs in their videos. They consider their videos being more beneficial to the copyright owners than harmful as they are simply promoting the music for no profit. According to several comments on the Contest Forums, songs participating in OVSC and other song contests have been purchased on Itunes by participants after hearing them in a contest. OVSC once turned down a suggestion to make all songs from each edition available for free download as they saw it to be illegal.

Two additional videos received notifications about copyright infringement in late 2012. This involved entries from the Philippines and Indonesia.

Design

The original video design was very standard. The first edition only had flags in the recap, with Youtube annotations for additional information. In the results video, there were, however, images of the artists as well. In the second edition and forward, images of the artists and flags of the countries were always shown. For the 7th edition, one of the participating users gave OVSC a new video design and logo. This design became popular and was used all the way until the 21st edition when another user created a new design and logo. The new design didn't receive as positive reception as the first. OVSC had said that once they have a third design, they would use their three designs on rotation.

Music

The sound which was played at the start of the videos was created by the OVSC managers using a music making program. There had been attempts to bring in new sound but users have stated that they prefer to the original theme song. The original theme song for Tubevision Contest was also created by the OVSC managers.

Logos

A new official logo was introduced for the 15th edition. Participants were able to vote for their favourite out of six options on the Contest Forums.

Revival

Main article: Ourvision Song Contest Classic

In June 2015, the contest was revived under a new name: Ourvision Song Contest Classic. The contest used the same rules as the original contest. Songs used in the original contest could not be used again in the revived contest.

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