Outernatia Song Contest 17

Outernatia Song Contest 17; freedom.
Dates
Semi-final date	January 8 2016
Final date	January 19 2016
Host
Host city	Nordfjord, Kimmystan
Presenter(s)	Khadja Nin; Nicole Sabouné;
Host broadcaster	KTV
Opening act	"Lifetime" performed by Nicole Sabouné
Participants
Number of entries	35
Debuting	Kitlantis ; Ruthsina (guest)
Returning	Dalmadria; Dulcet Ebullience; Hanzyuki; Polland; RC Laranjeiras; Zephyrus;
Withdrawing	Cytrus; DPR Jindalea; Irlandia; Pen Island; Rascia; Sofós; Sunetti;
Vote
Voting system	Each country's 10 favourite songs are awarded 12, 10, then 8 through to 1 points based on the votes of the population of each country. All participating countries in the semi-finals and final will have the right to cast points in the final.
Outernatia Song Contest
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The Outernatia Song Contest 17 will be the 17th edition of the Outernatia Song Contest. The contest will take place in Nordfjord, Kimmystan, following Nicole Sabouné win in the 15th edition with the song "Lifetime". The contest's Semi Finals will be held on January 8 2016 and the Final on January 19 2015 at the Nordfjord Opera House, and will be presented by Khadja Nin and Nicole Sabouné.

This edition 32 countries confirmed their participation, including the returns of Dalmadria (after a 12-editions break), Dulcet Ebullience, Hanzyuki, Polland, RC Laranjeiras and Zephyrus. Kitlantis will debut in the contest, while Rutshina will be invited as this edition's guest nation from Internatia.

Hosting Information

Location

Nordfjord

Location of the host city in Kimmystan.

On 6 December 2015, Kimmystani public broadcaster KimmiTV announced that it had chosen Nordfjord as the host city for the contest. The contest will be held held at the Nordfjord Opera House, which hosted several editions of the Kimmystanian national preselection Kimmystan NF. It has an overall capacity of approximately 18,500 people.

Nordfjord

Nordfjord is the capital city of Kimmystan and is located in the Fjorden-region in the northern part of Kimmystan. Nordfjord is an important global city and financial centre with an urban population of 2.1 million. Most of the country's embassies can be found in this city. Both the region and the city is known for it's beautiful fjords and breathtaking landscape, and in the city you can eat traditional Kimmystanian food like bacalao, fish & chips and whale meat, of which the latter is a real Kimmystanian delicatesse.

This is the first time that the city is hosting the Outernatia Song Contest, but it has previously hosted the Junior Internatia Song Contest 18.

Bidding phase

Two other cities, Huttiheita and Fettevika, were also considered as possible host city of the contest. KimmiTV requested proposals from the three cities concerning how they plan to organise the contest. Huttiheita offered to host the contest in the Huttieheita Culture Center, while Fettevika offered the Fettevika Arena as a potential venue for the contest. The bid from Fettevika came together with plans to expand and upgrade the facility and surrounding infrastructure to meet the requirements set by host broadcaster KTV. The bids from Huttiheita and Fettevika, together with the bid from Nordford to host the contest in the Nordfjord Opera House, were accepted. KTV chose the Nordfjord as the venue to stage the contest because they wanted the contest to be held in the capital city.

Presenters

The presenters Khadja Nin and Nicole Sabouné.

On December 26 2015 ^[1], KTV announced that Khadja Nin and Nicole Sabouné would be the hosts of the contest. Khadja Nin came 6th in the 13th edition while Nicole Sabouné won the 15th edition. Both presenters speak fluently English and French.

Nicole Sabouné will not only be hosting the contest, but she will also open the show with her winning hit "Lifetime" and she will also perform some other songs in the interval act of the Final. Khadja Nin will also perform her touching song "Mama" in the Semi Final 1, while KimmiTV has asked Claire de Lune to perform her beautiful entry Skipping Stones in the Semi Final 2.

Graphic design

On 8 December 2015, KimmiTV (with help from LBC Resources) released the logo for the Outernatia Song Contest 17, together with the slogan.^[2] The logo features a snowflake, a sun and a dove which represents the peaceful nation which Kimmystan is. The slogan was revealed to be "freedom." and for each nation there was made a snowflake with their national colors. The snowflakes represent that each nation in both Internatia and Outernatia are unique and different, but together we live in peace and harmony.

Tie-break rules

During the previous editions of the contest the official rules of the Internatia Song Contest were followed. Under these rules, in the event of more than one country scoring the same total number of points, a count is made of the numbers of countries who awarded points to each of the tied countries, and the one who received points from the most countries is declared the winner. This edition, however, different tie-break rules were used. The rules did not include counting the numbers of countries awarding any points to tied countries, but only the amount of maximum points (12 points) each country received was counted. This caused some controversy after the show, because under the rules of the Internatia Song Contest Ponásikwa would have received 10 points instead of 8 points from the International Jury, which means that Ponásikwa would have won. The tie-break rules were approved by the OBU, but it was announced after the show that official rules will be made for upcoming contests in order to prevent the inconsistency of tie-break rules from edition to edition. All rules of the OSC are the same as those used in the Internatia Song Contest.

Participants

This edition 32 countries confirmed their participation, including the returns of Dalmadria (after a 12-editions break), Dulcet Ebullience, Hanzyuki, Polland, RC Laranjeiras and Zephyrus. Kitlantis will debut in the contest, while Rutshina will be invited as this edition's guest nation from Internatia. Sadly Cytrus| DPR Jindalea| Irlandia| Pen Island| Rascia| Sofós| and Sunetti}} withdrew from this edition.

Invitation of Ruthsina

Kimmy TV announced that it had invited Ruthsina to participate in the contest. Although Ruthsina is officially not eligible to enter, as only Outernatian countries can take part, the Kimmystani broadcaster proposed the participation of Ruthsina as a one-off event in response to the popularity of the contest in the country.

Semifinalists

Country	Artist	Song
Alteus	Mr Little Jeans	"Oh Sailor"
Aurävaan	Gnesa	"Wilder"
Auspikitan	The Hope Arsenal	"Wake Your Soul"
Dalmadria	New Politics	"Lovers In a Song"
Darkria	KDA ft. Tinie Tempah & Kat B	"Turn The Music Louder (Rumble)"
DimkaRUS	Dima Bilan	"Ne Molchi"
Dulcet Ebullience	Cirq du Soleil	"Alegría"
Easterosia	Alt-J	"Matilda"
Folkloria	Ardak Balazhanova	"Zhelsiz tunde zharyk ai”
Frostfall	Reece Mastin	"Girls (All Around The World)"
Gandhara	Jiidesh İdirisova	"Kim Bilet"
Grolskira
Hanzyuki	Zhana Bergendorff	"Nevazmozhni Sme Sami"
Huania	Amaranthe	"Digital World"
Land of Jhe Freeh	Marjet van der Brand	"Over en Uit"
Kitlantis	Grimes	"Fresh Without Blood"
Lettuce	Tamila	"Zolim"
Lost Islands	Teräsbetoni	"Taivas lyö tulta"
Polland	Paulla & Garou	"Tyle słów na wiatr - Du Vent des Mots"
Ponásikwa	Andrew Huang	"Sylvia"
Pönö	Sigma & Rita Ora	"Coming Home"
Porielana	Tiffany Desrosiers	"Fearless"
RC Laranjeiras	Florent Mothe & Camille Lou	"Quelque chose de Magique"
Raingate	Troye Sivan	"YOUTH"
Ruthsina	12 Girls' Band	"Reel Around The Sun (From Riverdance)"
Thorway	Sys Bjerre	"Alle Mine Veninder"
Timivar	Dustin Tebbutt	"The Breach"
Trešlend	Stella Mwangi	"Lookie Lookie"
V	Illaria	"Verbovaya doschechka"
Victoria	Rachel Platten	"Stand By You"
Waticania	Of Monsters and Men	"Dirty Paws"
Zephyrus	Zaz	"Je Veux"