Zone Song Contest

Zone Song Contest
Also known as	Song Zone
Genre	Song contest
Created by	Z*One
Presented by	Various hosts
Theme music composer	Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Opening theme	Winner country from the previous edition
Country of origin	Spain
Language(s)	English and Spanish
Production
Running time	2019 -
Distributor	Youtube / Twitter
Broadcast
Original run	September 2019 – TBD
Status	Starting
History
Editions	7
Specials	None
Number of countries	48
Number of songs	315

The Zone Song Contest, often abbreviated to ZSC, or Song Zone is a song contest on Youtube and Twitter held among the actual members of the EBU. This song contest is based upon the existing ESC, the official executive supervisor of the contest is Z*One.

History

On 10th September of 2019, Z*One executive supervisor of the Zone Song Contest decided to open a international music contest which people can enjoy listening to new music or their favorite artists living the contest and having the option to decide the winner as if it were Eurovision.

Slogans

Since the first edition, slogans were used for the contest, in each edition the broadcaster was in charge to decide the slogan of the edition based on it, develope the contest's theme and visual design.

Edn.	Host Country	Host City	Slogan
#01	United Kingdom	London	"Flying"
#02	United Kingdom	Glasgow	"Burn The Night"
#03	Norway	Bergen	"Snøw"
#04	Netherlands	The Hague	"Shining Colors"
#05	United Kingdom	Birmingham	"Revolutions"
#06	Denmark	Copenhagen	"Cycles"
#07	Italy	Rome	"Becoming One"

Participation

Any full member of the EBU is allowed to send a song for the Zone Song Contest. Countries that are not full members can apply for becoming a debutant. The Zone Song Contest team has already accepted some countries that were not full members of the EBU at the beginnings of the ZSC. However, These countries can't make their debut until further notice.

Z*One is the responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition. A total of 47 countries have participated at least in the first edition. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

Debuting

Edn.	Country making its debut
#01	All the countries
#02	None
#03	None
#04	Kazakhstan
#05	None
#06	None
#07	None

Withdrawing

Edn.	Country withdrawing
#01	None
#02	San Marino
#03	Morocco
#04	Bosnia and Herzegovina
#05	None
#06	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Montenegro
#07	None

Returning

Edn.	Country returning
#01	None
#02	None
#03	None
#04	None
#05	Bosnia and Herzegovina
#06	None
#07	None

The 'Likey' Season

The 'Likey' season is a term often used to refer to the days "around" the contest. It usually lasts one or two months and the most national selections are held that time. Also, various events are hosted during the season like parties or press conferences, People are looking forward to these dates because the festival is only held twice a year.

Rehearsals and press conferences

Each country has two rehearsals before the contest. The rehearsals start with the semi-final countries nine days before the first semi-final. During the first two days, the rehersals for the first semi-final countries take place while during the next two days the rehearsals for the second semi-final countries take place. The second rehearsals for each country take place on the fifth and sixth days. On the seventh day, the big 6 countries have their first rehearsal taken. On the ninth day, the big 6 have their second rehearsal taken. Apart from the regular rehearsals, there are also three dress rehearsals for each show where the full show is rehearsed. The dress rehearsals for the semi-finals and the final take place in two days: twice on the day before the show (one in the afternoon and the other in the evening) and once on the day of the show. The third dress rehearsal, the one before the contest, is the show that is taken place for the jury, which means that the 50% of the result is decided before the live contest. The table shows the schedule that is used for every edition with some adjustments made for each edition.

First rehearsal

Second rehearsal

Dress rehearsal

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Show

Semi-final and final rehearsal schedule
Show	Days
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th
Semi-final 1									●
Semi-final 2											●
Final													●

After the rehearsals, the delegations of each country meets with the artistic director of the edition to preview the performance of the country. They watch the footage of the country's rehearsal, discussing about possible changes in stuff such as camera angles, lighting and choreography. Also, the Head of Delegation is able to know what special effects the performance would require and requests them from the host broadcaster. Right after this meeting, the delegation has a press conference held where members of the accredited press ask them question. The conferences are held at the same time with the rehearsals and while the first country is in the press room, the second country is already rehearsing. A printed summary of the questions and answers which emerge from the press conferences is produced by the host press office, and distributed to journalists' pigeon-holes.

Voting

The first voting system was in use actually. Countries award a set of points from 1 to 7, givin 8 then 10 and finally 12 to other songs in the competition — with the favourite song being awarded 12 points. Was mandatory for all the countries to use the mixed jury-public voting. In case of the country not being able to deliver a part of the voting, back-up juries were used to replace the missing part, which was usually the case with televoting for small countries such as Andorra or San Marino.

Edition	Points	Voting system
#01 - Present	Two sets of 12 to 1 points	Professional jury voting (50%) and popular (50%) votes separately and by each country, First the juries gives each country 1 to 12 points to their ten favorite songs, adding the televote results at the end of the night making complete the voting.

Presentation of votes

In all the editions, all the participating countries have been voting in the final, including the countries that failed to qualify from the semi-finals.

The order of the voting nations are often randomly. After the interval act is over, when all the points have been calculated, the presenter(s) of the show call upon each voting country in turn to invite them to announce the results of their vote.

Firstly, the points 1–10 are shown together and the spokesperson continues with the highest, the 12 points. The song which receives the 12 from the country is usually played.

Ties

Surely there will be many ties in the festival. In case of a tie between two or more countries, the country that received points from the most countries wins the tie. However, if the countries received points from the same number of countries, the number of 12 points is counted and if they are still tied it goes on until the tie breaks.

Winners

Edn.	Country	Performer	Song	Points
#01	United Kingdom	Alice Chater	"Hourglass"	473
#02	Norway	Hanne Mjøen	"Strangers"	552
#03	Netherlands	Miss Montreal	"Een Stap Terug"	424
#04	United Kingdom	Larkins	"Not Enough Love"	437
#05	Denmark	Drew Sycamore	"Perfect Disaster"	426
#06	Italy	Matteo Faustini	"Vorrei (La Rabbia Soffice)"	339
#07	Norway	Ruben	"Burn Down This Room"	435

Participants Top 10

The following table lists the countries that have participated in the contest. It shows how many times the country has participated in the contest and the number of top ten placing.

Country	Debut	Entries	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Top 10	Pts.
Albania	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	6
Armenia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Austria	#01	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	10
Azerbaijan	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belarus	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belgium	#01	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	14
Bosnia and Herzegovina	#01	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgaria	#01	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
Croatia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3
Cyprus	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	#01	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10
Denmark	#01	7	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	42
Estonia	#01	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	18
Finland	#01	7	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	12
France	#01	7	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	28
Georgia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4
Germany	#01	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	12
Greece	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3
Hungary	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
Iceland	#01	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	11
Ireland	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3
Israel	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Italy	#01	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12
Kazakhstan	#04	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
Lithuania	#01	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7
Malta	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Montenegro	#01	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	#01	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	#01	7	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	18
North Macedonia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norway	#01	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	16
Poland	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Portugal	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romania	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Russia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6
San Marino	#01	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Serbia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Slovakia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4
Slovenia	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spain	#01	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	9
Sweden	#01	7	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	15
Switzerland	#01	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	13
Turkey	#01	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4
Ukraine	#01	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	15
United Kingdom	#01	7	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	5	39

Ranking Of Nations

This is the ranking released after the sixth edition

Rank	Country	Total Points	+ / -
1	United Kingdom	3376	=
2	Denmark	3324	=
3	France	2887	=
4	Norway	2464	+1
5	Netherlands	2322	+1
6	Belgium	2275	-2
7	Germany	2159	+2
8	Ireland	2055	+4
9	Estonia	2014	-2
10	Sweden	2000	=
11	Finland	1932	+2
12	Ukraine	1909	-4
13	Slovakia	1796	+1
14	Iceland	1788	-3
15	Spain	1779	+2
16	Switzerland	1759	+3
17	Serbia	1700	+3
18	Austria	1652	-2
19	Lithuania	1623	+4
20	Andorra	1588	-5
21	Czech Republic	1462	-3
22	Russia	1372	-1
23	Georgia	1298	+4
24	Bulgaria	1242	+15
25	Italy	1221	+12
26	Hungary	1184	+8
27	Albania	1128	-5
28	Romania	1116	+7
29	Israel	1068	+4
30	Turkey	1055	-5
31	Latvia	1051	-7
32	Greece	1029	-6
33	Moldova	1018	-2
34	Armenia	964	-6
35	North Macedonia	939	+8
36	Poland	931	-6
37	Croatia	929	-8
38	Portugal	897	+3
39	Malta	855	+3
40	Cyprus	837	-4
41	Azerbaijan	805	-9
42	Belarus	799	+2
43	Slovenia	700	-3
44	Bosnia and Herzegovina	687	-6
45	Morocco	495	=
46	Montenegro	440	=
47	San Marino	253	=
48	Kazakhstan	165	=

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